HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2023

Post on 24 October, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

Sep­tem­ber 25, 2023
#725 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber, 2022 (a year ago) “Let all who take refuge in the Lord rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread Your pro­tec­tion over them, so that those who love Your name may exult in You. For You bless the right­eous, O Lord, You cov­er them with favor as with a shield.” (Psalm 5:11–12). I asked my Stephen Min­istry group if that meant that we, as Chris­tians, got spe­cial favors from the Lord, as opposed to unbe­liev­ers. The response I got was that the real gift was the aware­ness of His pres­ence what­ev­er you expe­ri­enced. I think that is very true. But I also think it’s a relationship–I am becom­ing more aware that He is always help­ing me out.

Sep­tem­ber 26, 2023
Good ol’ Golf Tuesday…
#726 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July, 2023 God wants rela­tion­ships, not golf friend­ships. Rela­tion­ships are built on know­ing each oth­er, not how far I hit my sev­en iron (a pal­try 120 yards, sad to say). Rela­tion­ships have to be built. We senior golfers are all on the same march, and we all know where it ends. God and fam­i­ly come way first, but real friends bring you laugh­ter and hap­pi­ness and usu­al­ly not much stress. I con­sid­er myself blessed by the peo­ple God has cho­sen to put around me at this stage of my life. We are build­ing rela­tion­ships as we march along.

Sep­tem­ber 27, 2023
#727 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Feb­ru­ary, 2023 This from my qui­et time: “We need only to think for a moment what faith is. Is it not the con­fes­sion of noth­ing­ness and help­less­ness, the sur­ren­der and the want­i­ng to let God work? Is it not in itself the most hum­bling thing there can be–the accep­tance of our place as depen­dents, who can claim or get or do noth­ing but what grace bestows? Humil­i­ty is sim­ply the dis­po­si­tion that pre­pares the soul for liv­ing on trust.” –Andrew Murray

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2023
#728 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July, 2023 “Blessed are the peace­mak­ers…” To be able to repair a rift, large or small, is a won­der­ful spir­i­tu­al gift–I wish I had it. I know of sev­er­al rela­tion­ships that need peacemaking.

Sep­tem­ber 29, 2023
#729 HOW I SPOKE TO GOD TODAY
May, 2023 (did you catch the difference?)…Evening prayer: Lord, there is noth­ing but eager­ness and expec­ta­tion as I think about what You have had to say to me today. Tru­ly the great­est writ­ing project ever. I thank You for the priv­i­lege. Open my ears to hear, open my heart to receive, open my soul to be healed. I love You, Jesus.

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2023
#730 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July, 2023 State of grace. The real­iza­tion hov­ers around the edges of my con­scious­ness: I am liv­ing in a state of grace. God is per­fect­ly sat­is­fied with me, not because of what I have done for Him, but because I believe what He has done for me. This state of grace is per­pet­u­al; I only have to open my heart to accept it.

Octo­ber 1, 2023
Fam­i­ly Sun­day com­ing from Spain…
#731 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 25, 2023 Grace upon grace. Today my son Nate and I went off on our own to explore Mala­ga while the oth­ers rest­ed. Just as on my road trip with Beth or play­ing golf with Zack, one on one time with a grown child is as pre­cious as time gets for an old man like me. “Every good thing giv­en and every per­fect gift is from above, com­ing down from the Father of lights…” (James 1:17)#

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