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This page was lasted updated on 06/26/2006

FELLOWSHIP MEETING:

No meetings this month.

Prayer Requests:
Pray for all officers who are in harms way.
Joanne Burns,
      I talked to Chris this week, Joanne Burns his wife had bad news. Her sarcoma had spread to her liver, her blood levels are not at a level where she can take chemo and she is having problems keeping food down. Please keep her, Chris and Emma in your prayers.
Sgt. Diana Poor,
      Cancer
Officer Robert Torres,
      Lymphoma
Officer William Baker,
      Lymphoma
Sgt. Terry Hortons' daughter, Tara
      Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Sgt. Jeff Headly,
      Leukemia
Officer Fred Brinkman,
      Melanoma
Jenny Nieboer from Michigan,
      Was in the hospital this week with a rejection episode with her new kidney. Her kidney is still working now and this rejection hopefully is behind her.

THOUGHT OF THE MONTH:

Understanding God and His character is vital to our Christian walk. Understanding how he works in his covenants is part of understanding God's character. This is explained in Jeremiah 9: 23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,
24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD .

Below is an article from O.S. Hillman that deals in this subject.

The Cost of Broken Covenants
by Os Hillman, May 31, 2006

During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. - 2 Samuel 21:1a

There was a famine in the land, and David equated that famine to the blessing or lack of blessing from God. He sought God to know why there was a famine. The Lord did not take long to answer: "It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death" (2 Sam. 21:1b). Many years earlier, when Joshua entered the Promised Land, the Israelites were tricked by the Gibeonites into believing they were travelers when they were actually enemies of Israel. The Gibeonites tricked Israel into making a peace treaty with them. It was one of the first major mistakes Israel made after entering the Promised Land. As a result of the peace treaty, the Gibeonites were kept as slaves to Israel. This was never God's intention for Israel. He had wanted Israel to destroy all their enemies, but they made an error in judgment that required that they honor a covenant with the Gibeonites.

Saul made a decision to disregard this covenant with the Gibeonites and sought to annihilate them. David sensed there was something preventing God's blessing on Israel. As a nation they had violated a covenant made before God. Now they were reaping the consequences.

There are two things we can learn from this story. First, when we make a covenant, God expects us to fulfill it. God is a covenant maker. He made one with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He made one with each of us through Jesus Christ. The Scriptures are numerous regarding the importance of honoring our commitments.

Second, God is a very longsuffering God. He gave Israel many years of grace before He exercised judgment for their sin. However, there always comes a day when God must uphold His standard of righteousness.

Are you failing to walk in God's blessing due to some failed commitment? Calamities can befall us for many reasons; sin can be one of them. In the case of Israel, David had to make things right with the Gibeonites. When he did this, God removed the famine, and Israel again was prosperous. When you feel you lack God's blessing on your life, ask the Lord if there are any past - generation sins that you may need to repent of. He may be waiting on us before He can release His blessing on our lives.

IMPORTANT FLYER

Please click HERE for a flyer that I would like to see posted around the Police Stations. If you would please print out a copy and post it. I hope to get people thinking about what their work is all about.