Category: Uncategorized

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 35/100)

Father, we trust You with the work You are doing in our lives and in the lives of the men and women we minister to. When the unexplainable happens, when the tough things come, and when there is more brokenness than healing, we acknowledge Your sovereignty and love. We pray for all our Army ministries because we know there is pain and struggles among those we help to follow Jesus. Give them the trust and stamina to see Your hand in it all. We pray for the soldiers at Camp Merrill (Staff: Bob and Mary Foster)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Getting Worse Before it Gets Better

“Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me? “Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”” (Exodus 5:22–23)

When I was a brand new follower of Jesus, I believed in a very prevalent theology, “Come to Jesus and it will all be better.” Within a month. I had slipped a disc in my back, lost the confidence of my men at work, and totaled my car. I knew the Christian life wouldn’t be a bed of roses, but come on! Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. But this is all in God’s plan to mold us and shape us into the men or women we were meant to be. He is also doing a work around us in others. Moses must have thought that God gave him a raw deal, but His glory would soon be revealed and Moses vindicated. Be patient. Hang in there. The Father has your best interest at heart and in the end, it will be better.

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 37/100)

Father, create circumstances in our lives that will reveal Your power. Give us testimonies that demonstrate our intimate interaction with the One who has created all things so that men and women will believe our report about Jesus. We pray for the soldiers at Fort Knox (Staff: Keith and Andrea Bester, Lance and Dorothy Platt, Jim and Rachel Webster)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (21.1-25)

Jesus manifested Himself again 1

He created a past circumstance of catching fish to reveal Himself to the disciples 4-7

He called His disciples (grown men) children 5

He commands them to cast the net on the other side of the boat 6

He caused a miraculous catch of fish 6

He made breakfast for the disciples 9-12

He manifested Himself at least three times to the disciples after His resurrection 14

He asks Simon Peter three times if he loved Him 15-17

He told Peter to tend His sheep 15

He told Peter to shepherd His sheep 16

He told Peter to tend His sheep 17

He predicted Peter’s elderly years and death 18-19

He re-issues His command to Peter, “Follow Me” 19

He doesn’t let Peter deflect Him from the main point 20-22

He could be the subject of writing that the world could not contain 25

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 19/100)

Lord, help us to believe even though we do not see. By the power of Your Holy Spirit guide us to those who would follow You and would walk by faith and not by sight. We pray for the men and women at Fort Hood (Staff: Art and Robin Allen, Kurt and Julia Diederich, Scott and Jean Grant, Mike and Christy Runey, Lauris and Rhonda Shepherd)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (20.19-31)

Jesus passed through locked doors 19

He says peace be with you 19

He proved His identity by His wounds 20

He says peace be with you again 21

He reminds them that as the Father sent Him, He is sending them 21

He breathed on them the Holy Spirit 22

He gave them the rights for absolution of sins 23

He visited the disciples again in His resurrected body eight days later 26

He again passed through shut doors 26

He again says peace be with you 26

He bids Thomas to test His wounds as evidence to His identity 27

He is call God by Thomas and He doesn’t refute the claim 28

He puts a premium on belief with out sight 29

He performed many more signs then recorded in the Gospel of John 30

He is the Christ, the Son of God 31

His name gives life 31

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 26/100)

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 29/100)

Lord Jesus, thank you for Your sovereign death on the cross to cover all our sins with Your blood. Help us to respond to this great gift by being disciples who live their lives in the open, freely proclaiming your love, power, and lordship. We pray for Fort Eustis that many soldiers would come to these same conclusions about Jesus (Staff: Laurin and Marilyn White)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (19.23-42)

He was crucified by soldiers 23

His garments were gambled for by the soldiers fulfilling Scripture 23-25

His mother and other women witnessed His death 25

He gave care of His mother to a disciple He loved (John) 26-27

He continued to fulfill Scripture in His death 28

He was given sour wine to drink 28-29

He knew when He had completed all that He was meant to do 30

He died on the cross 30

He was not in “control” of the next fulfilled prophecy 31-37

His legs were not broken 33

His side was pierced through with a spear 34

His disciple witnessed this 35

He was the recipient of circumstantial fulfillment of the Scriptures 36-37

He had secret disciples 38

His body was buried by His secret disciple (Joseph of Arimathea) 38

His other secret disciple, Nicodemus, brought the burial spices 39

He was buried according to the custom of the Jews 40

He was buried in a new tomb on the Jewish day of preparation 41-42

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 35/100)

Father help us to remember our cruelty to You when you visited us in the form of Your Son and cause us to repent of our rebellion toward you and men. Help us and the men and women we minister to fully embrace the gift of grace You offer us through Your sacrifice on the cross. Lord we ask that You reveal these powerful truths to the men and women of Fort Campbell (Staff: James and Monica Carter, Mike and Liz Chong, Joe and Mercy Ebuen, Noel and Cary Nelson, Victor and Natasha Padilla)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (19.1-22)

Jesus was scourged by His own creation (Romans) 1

He was tortured by His own creation (Romans) 2-3

He was mocked by His own creation (Romans) 2-3, 5

He was found not guilty (Romans) 4

He was seen a man 5

His crucifixion was demanded by the Jews 6

He claimed to be the Son of God (and indeed He is) 7

He scared Pilate 8

He didn’t answer some of Pilate’s questions 9

He knew that what was happening was by the authority of God 11

He was hated by the Jews who demanded His death 12

He was called a King by Pilate in a sarcastic way 14

He was finally handed over to the Roman soldiers for crucifixion 16

He carried His cross to Golgotha 17

He was crucified between to men 18

He was labeled the King of the Jews by Pilate 19

He was not claimed as the King by the Jews 21

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 34/100)

Lord protect us from denying you in any form. Help us to be people of truth. And we pray for the men and women stationed at Fort Bragg (Staff: Dennis and Shirley Abell, Sue Alspach, Dave and Marilyn Coffield, Doug and Kim Cote, Ben and Betts Kayser, David and Karen Linquist, Alonzo and Dana Murray, John and Jess Snyder)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (18.19-40)

Jesus was questioned by the High Priest Annas 19

He spoke His message openly 20

He had many witnesses to what He said and did 21

He was struck by His own creation 22

He was struck for a statement of truth 23

He was sent to another high priest named Caiaphas 24

He had predicted Peter’s denial 25-27

He was sent the Romans (Pilate) 28

He predicted the kind of death He would die 32

He asked questions when being questioned 34

His Kingdom is not of the this world 36

He is a King 37

He was born to testify of the truth 37

He was found “not guilty” by the Romans 38

His life was traded by the Jews for a robber 40

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 29/100)

Pray that God would give a place to retreat and that we would spend time with Him there

Pray that we would have the level of confidence and commitment to do the Father’s will no matter what the cost.

Pray for Fort Bliss (Staff: Rusty and Eleanor Bean Stephanie Ruwet, Allan and Tiffany Taylor)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (18.1-18)

Jesus went to the garden before He was betrayed 1

He had been to this garden often with His disciples 2

He knew “all things that were coming upon Him” (how He would be captured and killed) 4

He was brave and introduced Himself to His killers 4-5

He instilled fear in His captors 6

He practically forced himself on His killers 7-8

He protected His disciples by requesting their release 8

He fulfilled Scripture by protecting His disciples 9

He rebuked Peter for defending Him and assured him He could protect Himself 11

He was determined to do the Father’s will 11

He was arrested and taken before the High Priest (a company of Roman and Jewish authorities) 12-14

He was prophesied over as a Savior by a man who unwittingly sacrifice Him for the people 14

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 33/100)

Pray for perfect unity among our staff and laborers for the sake of our testimony

Pray that we would love others the way He loved us

Pray for Fort Benning (Shawn and Marie Hatch, Eric and Robin Kennedy, Jim and Rolinda McKnight, Michael Owens, Chuck and Debbie Wood)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (17.20-26)

Jesus prayed for the generations of disciples 20

He prayed for the unity of all believers 21

He wanted the whole world to believe 21

He wanted them to be unified in His glory 22

He prayed for perfect unity 23

He loved the disciples as the Father loved Him 23

He wants us to be with Him 24

He wants us to see His glory 24

He existed with the Father before the foundation of the world 24

He knew the Father 25

He was sent by the Father 25

He made the Father’s name known to the disciples 26

He wants to be in us 26

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved

Praying for Our Army Work (Yesterday’s Prayer Warriors: 25/100)

Pray that we would glorify the Father by accomplishing the work He gave us to do

Pray that we would be one as He and the Father are one

Pray for those in the DC area (Staff: Roger and Danielle Cotton, Dale and Shanna Shrader)

Click Here if you Prayed Today

Jesus in the Gospel of John (17.1-19)

Jesus prayed to the Father 1

He asked to be glorified 1

He has authority over all flesh 2

He gives eternal life 2

He was sent by the only true God 3

He and the Father are eternal life 3

He glorified God on earth 4

He accomplished the work the Father gave Him to do 4

He had glory with the Father before the creation of the world 5

He mad the name of God known to the men the Father gave Him 6

He received everything from the Father 7

He gave His disciples the Word of God 8

He was sent from God 8

He interceded on behalf of the disciples 9

He owns all things and is glorified in them 10

He is with the Father 11

He is one with the Father 11

He protected the disciples in the name of God 12

He gave His full joy to them with His words 13

He gave them God’s Word 14

He is not of the world 14

He didn’t ask the Father to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one 15

He is not of the world 16

He asked the Father to sanctify them in truth 17

He sent His disciples into the world 18

He sanctified Himself in truth 19

Click Here to Recieve Chuck’s Devotional by Email

Please leave me your feedback by clicking on “comments” below.

© 2008, 2009 Following Jesus by Chuck Wood All Rights Reserved