trACker number399 Wake up! Strengthen What Remains

trACker number399

The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track

GodTracker is online at www.godtracker.co.uk 

Contact: dudley@godtracker.co.uk

11 May 2012 

  

Dear God Tracker

Wake up! Strengthen What Remains

With bloodied sweat on his brow, Jesus made his way the few paces back to his friends who he’d ask to join him in prayer in the olive grove. He’d been travailing before the Father for an hour. It was well past midnight and he knew that he would soon be arrested, tried, convicted and crucified for crimes he’d never committed. "Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?" he asked Peter. "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

Peter and his two friends had sat down a stone’s throw away from Jesus and watched him pray. They knew that something auspicious was about to take place but fatigue had overtaken them. Sadly they could not keep their eyes open at this late hour, leaving Jesus to face the cup of God, alone.

Many years later, the risen and ascended Jesus appeared to one of these three in a vision on the Isle of Patmos. Before he revealed to John what would come at the end of all time, Jesus gave John instructions to the churches of Asia Minor. To the church in Sardis he said, “Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.”

As we track God’s purposes we often become blasé about his commands and instructions. We become so familiar with prayer, worship and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that we fall asleep in our complacency. The danger of this is that we miss the blessings of God and open ourselves to the arrest of the enemy. Let’s open ourselves rather to God’s word. And God’s word to us today is to “Wake up! Strengthen what remains.”

God-tracking is staying alert.

Blessings

Dudley

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Our hope is that, by sharing experiences in tracking the will of God, we will draw closer to him and discover the awesome value of walking with God. Let us know what you think by e-mailing dudley@godtracker.co.uk God knows the plans he has for you. So go ahead and track them!

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What is trACker?

GodTracker and trACker owe their origins to an international Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, OnTrack. Although OnTrack went off-air in 2005, trACker has continued to help people to track God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.

You can now hear Dudley Anderson on UCB UK

Saturdays from 00:00 to 05:00 GMT and Sundays from 06:00 to 12:00 GMT

Listen to UCB UK on DAB, Sky channel 0125 or online at http://ucbmedia.co.uk

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VoW

Verse of the Week

Ephesians 5:13-14

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

Quote of the Week

A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.

“And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?” --- Richard Baxter

 

Don’t Give-up, Look-up!

Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!

My Salvation Is Nearer Than I Think

Romans 13:11

The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Pray

“Dear God, I am sorry for my slumber. I apologise and repent of becoming complacent about your things like worship, prayer and fellowship. You have saved me by the blood of Jesus and I have been taking this for granted. I am sorry, O Lord. I stir myself awake now. I rouse myself to enjoy every moment with you as though it was the moment I first asked Jesus into my life. Help me to celebrate every living moment in the freshness of the hope that you will meet my needs and lead me in my daily walk. I believe that you are coming soon, Lord Jesus, and my salvation is nearer than I think. Praise God. Amen.”

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trACker number382 Be Glorious In Your Dying

trACker number382

The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track

GodTracker is online at www.godtracker.co.uk 

11 November 2011 

  

Dear God Tracker

Be Glorious In Your Dying

Squealing children run through the brightly coloured autumnal fall beneath the regal oak as, caressingly, it sighs upon their heads leaf after leaf of orange, red and yellow. Arms stretched wide the tree resigns to its destiny to be as though dead for the next five months. It’s been a good summer. Birds have nested and young have fledged. The sun has streamed upon its majesty in the glow of green but now, now the tree is dying, dying to its former brilliance and yet, somehow glorious in its dying. Beneath the surface it survives and strengthens. Slowly with every passing day of winter its ancient roots take hold, bravely extending deeper and deeper into the earth so that at the next season of green, it will be more secure to boldly reach from glory to glory.

God Tracker, the scripture says, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me,” (Galatians 2:20) and, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness,” (1 Peter 2:24). Like that oak tree that appears to die when the autumn comes, so we appear to die when we surrender to Christ. You see, we all have that old sinful nature to deal with by dying to self in the promise that we will live in Christ.

Sometimes, though, we are called to go a little further than this. Sometimes God requires that we lay down our dreams or desires for him, too. Sometimes it’s for our good that we surrender ambitions and even relationships before we can know God’s fresh new life. Like that oak tree surrendering its leaves in autumn only to regain many more vibrant green ones in the spring, maybe God is suggesting that you let go that which you hold close to your heart only to find it again, in his time. And like that magnificent oak in autumn you too can be glorious in your dying.

God-tracking is dying to self.

Blessings

Dudley

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GodTracker is now also available as a blog. Check out: http://godtracker.blogspot.com/

Our hope is that, by sharing experiences in tracking the will of God, we will draw closer to him and discover the awesome value of walking with God. Let us know what you think by e-mailing dudley@godtracker.co.uk God knows the plans he has for you. So go ahead and track them!

GodTracker now on Facebook 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46298024089

What is trACker?

GodTracker and trACker owe their origins to an international Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, OnTrack. Although OnTrack went off-air in 2005, trACker has continued to help people to track God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.

You can now hear Dudley Anderson on UCB UK

Saturdays from 00:00 to 05:00 GMT and Sundays from 06:00 to 12:00 GMT

Listen to UCB UK on DAB, Sky channel 0125 or online at http://ucbmedia.co.uk

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VoW

Verse of the Week

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Quote of the Week

A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.

“Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.”  --- Max Lucado

Don’t Give-up, Look-up!

Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!

Beside Your Quiet Waters

Psalm 23:2-3

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.  He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Pray

“O dear Lord, I realise that I can’t hold onto these things in my life by my own strength. I know that I need to lay them all down for you. Forgive me for living my life tight-fisted. I choose to open my hand and let them go. If they’re from you they will return but if they are not then I am pleased to let them go. Lord, I only want what is from you and what is best for me and my loved ones. Help me to die to self that I may live for you. Like a tree in autumn, I want to lose my old leaves to make space for new green ones that will come in spring. From now on, O Lord, lead me only beside your quiet waters. Amen.”

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