Dr. Scott Ferrell

Dear Friends,

Thank you all for your presence last night and for your continued faithfulness even during the summer months.  I know many of you are out of town or else you’d be here on Wednesdays!  Please know that we’re praying for your safe return.  As I read this morning’s devotional, I was reminded of the words we sang last night.  Our love song to God this Sunday is, simply, “Amazed”.  The honesty and transparency of this great song speaks right to the heart of God and His amazing love for us and all the world.  I thank all of you who volunteered to sing at the prison on Sept. 21^st.  Together, we will indeed draw others out of darkness and into the Light.  Peace and Love, Scott

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I Have Loved You with an everlasting Love.  Before time began, I knew you.  For years you swam around in a sea of meaninglessness, searching for Love, hoping for hope.  All that time I was pursuing you, aching to embrace you in My compassionate arms.
When time was right, I revealed Myself to you.  I lifted you out of that sea of despair and set you down on a firm foundation.  Sometimes you felt naked-exposed to the revealing Light of My Presence.  I wrapped an ermine robe around you: My robe of righteousness.  I sang you a Love song, whose beginning and end are veiled in eternity.  I infused meaning into your mind and harmony into your heart.  Join Me in singing My Song.  Together we will draw others out of darkness into My marvelous Light.

Jeremiah 31:3  ³ The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. 

Isaiah 61:10 ¹⁰ I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

1 Peter 2:9 (NASB) ⁹But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;  

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,

I love the phrase “transforming trials into blessings”.  Only through our faith in God and Christ Jesus, is this possible!  Read on for inspiration and be blessed in your walk with our Savior.  Hugs, Scott

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Let Me Help You get through this day.  There are many possible paths to travel between your getting up in the morning and your lying down at night.  Stay alert to the many choice-points along the way, being continually aware of My Presence.  You will get through this day one way or the other.  One way is to moan and groan, stumbling along with shuffling feet.  This will get you to the end of the day eventually, but there is a better way.  You can choose to walk with Me along the path of Peace, leaning on Me as much as you need.  There will still be difficulties along the way, but you can face them confidently in My strength.  Thank Me for each problem you encounter, and watch to see how I transform trials into blessings.

1 Corinthians 10:10 ¹⁰And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. 

Luke 1:79 ⁷⁹to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,

Thank you all for your amazing service yesterday during worship and at the concert at St. John’s Lutheran.  The tremendous outpouring of love from the congregation was humbling to say the least.  I thank God for each and every one of you and the gifts you so willingly share for the Glory of God.  You’re the tops!  May God Bless you now and always.  Peace, Scott

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Trust Me and don’t be afraid, for I am your Strength and Song.  Do not let fear dissipate your energy.  Instead, invest your energy in trusting Me and singing My Song.  The battle for control of your mind is fierce, and years of worry have made you vulnerable to the enemy.  Therefore, you need to be vigilant in guarding your thoughts.  Do not despise this weakness in yourself, since I am using it to draw you closer to Me.  Your constant need for Me creates an intimacy that is well worth all the effort.  You are not alone in this struggle for your mind.  My Spirit living within you is ever ready to help in this striving.  Ask Him to control your mind; He will bless you with Life and Peace.

Isaiah 12:2  ² Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”

Romans 8:6 ⁶The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your presence last night and for you continued faithfulness.  God is at work all around us.  Can you feel it?  Can you sense it?  Can you see it?  Sometimes we miss it because we are preoccupied with other things.  Worry veils the Spirit at work in us and around us.  Don’t worry.  Trust God.  Read on dearly beloved.  Hugs, Scott

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I Am All Around You, like a cocoon of Light.  My Presence with you is a promise, independent of your awareness of Me.  Many things can block this awareness, but the major culprit is worry.  My children tend to accept worry as an inescapable fact of life.  However, worry is a form of unbelief; it is anathema to Me.

Who is in charge of your life?  If it is you, then you have good reason to worry.  But if it is I, then worry is both unnecessary and counterproductive.  When you start to feel anxious about something, relinquish the situation to Me.  Back off a bit, redirecting your focus to Me.  I will either take care of the problem Myself or show you how to handle it.  In this world you will have problems, but you need not lose sight of Me. 

Luke 12:22-31 ²²Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. ²³Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. ²⁴Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! ²⁵Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ²⁶Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? ²⁷“Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ²⁸If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! ²⁹And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. ³⁰For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. ³¹But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

John 16:33  ³³ “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young