Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Luke 10

I’m loving reading the advent devotional in “From Creation to Christ” along with a daily reading of a chapter of Luke. Hope it blesses you, too. Here’s an excerpt from today’s, Day 10, devotional.

Has anyone ever broken a promise to you? Have you ever broken a promise you made to someone else? Unfortunately, we, as humans, sometimes break our promises. Sometimes something unexpected
happens, so we can’t keep a promise we made.

But God is not like us. God will always keep His promises. God never gets sick. God is never too tired. God is all-powerful and all-knowing, so He never makes a promise He can’t keep. As Numbers 23:19 says, “God is not man that He should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken,
and will he not fulfill it?” We can always trust God. Always.

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Faith is believing that what God says is true, even when you can’t see it (Hebrews 11:1). God had helped His people again and again – passing over their firstborn sons, rescuing them from Egypt through the Red Sea, giving them manna from Heaven – yet the people doubted God’s power and God’s goodness. Because of their lack of faith, God made them wander in the desert for forty years before they could enter the Promised Land.

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Luke 10:1-2 ESV — After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Heavenly Father, Thank You for bringing me into Your kingdom, for bringing me out of the dark and into the light, for breathing life into my dead bones. Thank You for every one of the laborers that You have sent out into the harvest. We lift up Ryan and Chelsea and their daughters and Moses and Esther and their sons serving in Asia, Ryan and Chelsea and their children serving in Africa, Gabor and Edina and Dorsey and Renee serving in the U.S., Ray and Leah and Spencer and Patti serving in Mexico, Tom and Brenda serving in France, Srinivas and Sujatha serving in India, and the whole host of those who have dedicated their lives to making disciples of all nations. I pray that You will raise up more, millions more, laborers – men, women, and children – to work in the fields, preparing soil, scattering seed, tending young seedlings, and bringing in the ripe clusters of grapes. Provide what they need financially, physically, and spiritually. Give them wisdom. Give them strength. Give them peace and joy and hope and endurance. Help them to abide in You that they might bear much fruit. Make us one of them and one with them, and help us to remember them each day in our prayers. By faith in Your promises we pray. Amen.