ENJOY JUNE / June Afternoon

This is a devotion and music video
 focusing on God's love for us 
in that, according to 1 Timothy 6:17, 
He gives us richly all things to enjoy

ENJOY JUNE
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from Ecclesiastes 12:13; 1 Timothy 6:17)

The blueberries are harvesting.  You can go right down the road and handpick them.  Bogue Sound watermelons are ripening on the vine right here in eastern North Carolina, the best watermelon in the country.  Silver Queen corn is brought in from the fields and sold at the corner fruit stand.  It only lasts for a few weeks but there is no sweeter corn in the world.  And tomatoes are growing on vines in back yard buckets.  School’s out; hurricane season has begun, the baseball fields are full of kids and if you sit on the front porch, you might hear the sound of the ice cream truck turning the corner in the neighborhood.  It is June everywhere you look! 

I overheard a conversation in a beauty shop one time.  A young woman who was strikingly beautiful and intelligent and a newlywed and had recently given her heart to God was telling another woman that she felt she had no purpose in life.  She said she was searching to see what she was to do with her life.  I wasn’t supposed to be listening but if she had asked me, I would have told her she could find her answer in the writings of Solomon:

“All has been heard and the end of the matter is this:

Fear God – revere and worship Him 

and keep His commandments,

For this is the whole of man 

- the full, original purpose of his creation,

the object of God’s providence, 

the root of character,  

the foundation of all happiness,

 the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances 

and conditions under the sun

and the whole duty of man.”

Today, Solomon might say it like this:

After all is said and done, the end of the matter is this:

Glorify God by acknowledging His presence; enjoy Him and His creation. 

Life is meant to be enjoyed with laughing, dancing, love and peace.

A wise person can sort out life’s complexities and still balance the joys with the sorrow, the calm with the pain and the peace with the battle.

A wise person knows the foundation of all happiness and respects God and His creation. 

Father, I look around me on this June afternoon, and I am reminded to enjoy your creation.  Thank you for the change of seasons, the process of seed time and harvest and the remarkable beauty of Your divine design.  Enjoying your presence inspires me to walk in love.  I understand and know this is my entire purpose in life.

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Devotion Authored by RebeccaAnnCooley 

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JUNE AFTERNOON

Devotion:  Enjoy June!

(Adapted from 1 Timothy 6:17)

Verse 1

Where to go on a hot summer day 

Where to go, where to get away

Let's just stay home 

And sit in the shade on this June afternoon

Chorus  

It's a June afternoon (repeat)

Sitting in the shade, 

Holding hands and smelling sweet perfume 

On this June afternoon 

Verse 2

The fan is roaring in the open window 

Watermelon juice is dripping down little chins

The water is fine, 

Come on and jump in 

On this June afternoon

Bridge

I can't paint a better picture 

Than the one before my eyes

My little wife and all my babies 

Happy, content enjoying life

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Words And Music by KentCliffordCooley 

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THE MASTER’S LIST / My Way or the Highway

This is the 7^th of 7 devotions with the theme

From 1 Corinthians 13:5

"Love Does Not Insist On It's Own Way”

THE MASTER’S LIST

by

Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from Proverbs 18:13; James 1:19;1 Corinthians 13:5)

Rebellion can show its ugly head in many different facets in our lives. It can be very subtle and undergirded or it can be ‘in your face’ defiance. At either extreme, rebellion is an act or attitude against authority. When you do the opposite of what you are asked to do, it is rebellion. When you don’t do something you are asked to do, it is rebellion. When you argue and insist on your own way, it is rebellion. The Bible says that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. That means the devil is very involved in it.

As an Honor School student, seeking to make the Master’s List, it is our assignment to stand against the enemy's ploys and expose and remove rebellion from our own hearts and the hearts of our children.

Father, I look inside and examine my own heart and I rid myself of any and all rebellion. With this old hymn, I pray,

Let Thy goodness, 
like a fetter bind my wand'ring heart to Thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; 
prone to leave the God I love.

Here's my heart, O take and seal it, 
seal it for Thy courts above.

Father, I give you permission to expose rebellion in my heart and to make me repel it far from me. I do not want rebellion hidden in the crevices of my heart and left to grow in my personality. Thank you for teaching and training me to recognize rebellion first in me and remove it.

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Devotion authored by RebeccaAnnCooley

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MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

Devotion: The Masters List

(Adapted from Proverbs 18:13; James 1:19; John 13:34; 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Verse 1:

Should I say, 

“Lord here’s my list, would You come and bless it?

Or should I pray, “Not my will but Yours;

I will go where ever You send me?

Chorus 1:

It’s my way or the highway

That’s not love, that’s not love

It’s God’s way, not my way

That is when I begin to Love the Lord

That is when I love the Lord

With all my heart and mind and strength

Verse 2:

Should I say to my friends,

“You’ve got to do it my way?”

Or should I ask,

“Got any ideas that you’d like to send me?”

Chorus 2:

It’s my way or the highway

That’s not love, that’s not love

How about you, what would you like to do?

That is when I begin to love my neighbor

That is when I begin to love them even as myself

Bridge:

I won’t insist on my own way,

Not with the Lord, not with my neighbor

But I will yield to the Lord today,

“Lord have Your way and let others have their say

I’ll let others have their say

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WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

TOUGH LOVE / The Path of Least Resistance

This is the 6^th of 7 devotions with the theme

From 1 Corinthians 13:5

"Love Does Not Insist On It’s Own Way”

TOUGH LOVE
by
Rebecca Cooley

(Adapted from John 2:14; 1 Corinthians 5:3-5; Proverbs 5:7-8; 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Paul received a report of a believer in the Corinthian church who was committing sin. The report had to do with him living in sin with his stepmother. He was still coming to church and still acting like a "Christian" but his heart was far from God.

Paul's correction was a strong rebuke. He said that the church should be mourning in sorrow and shame over the sin of this one man. And he instructed the Corinthian church to remove the man from their fellowship. In fact, Paul told them to call a meeting of the church and to throw this man out and hand him over to satan so that his sinful nature would be destroyed and he himself would be saved on the day that the Lord returns. What would our fellowship of believers do today for correction of the same sin?

Paul knew that tough love, a strong rebuke, and a strong discipline was the only thing that would reach this man. He knew that the man had to have a renewal of the fear of God so that he would recognize and acknowledge his sin and turn his heart back toward God. I believe most of our churches today need a greater awareness of the seriousness of sin and a renewal of the fear of God. When sin shows its ugly head in the way of disrespect, dishonor, disobedience or just blatant sin, are we taking sin seriously? Are we willing to practice tough love? Are we willing to, with love, be tough on others and even tougher on ourselves? I will ask myself these questions. Would you also ask yourself these same questions?

1. If there is unrepented sin in my life and am I taking it seriously enough?

2. Am I willing to judge myself so that I will not be judged

on the day that the Lord returns?

Correction is improvement, adjustment, or the modification of a behavior or action. Correction is also discipline, chastisement and rebuke. Jesus corrected people when he walked on the earth. He walked into the temple and overturned the money changers' tables. It was not a soft correction. He didn't say, "Okay . . . , ya'll know better than this." No, he gave them a strong rebuke. The root of Jesus' correction was, and still is always grounded in love. We need to speak the truth strongly, grounded in love.

Father, search my heart for any uncleanness, any disrespect, and anything that is not pleasing to you and purge it from me. Father, I receive the blessing of Proverbs 4:8, "I have a wreath of gracefulness and a crown of beauty and glory on my head." I receive wisdom to give correction when it is needed and wisdom will exalt and promote me because I am exalting and promoting you.

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Devotion Authored by RebeccaAnnCooley

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THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE

Devotion: Tough Love

(Adapted from John 2:14; 1 Corinthians 5:3-5; Proverbs 5:7-8; 1 Corinthians 13:5)

Verse:

There are two roads to choose

Wide is the path that leads to destruction

There are two roads for you

Straight and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life

Chorus:

Going down the path of least resistance

Headed the wrong way in my insistence

Downward bound, I did it my own way

(Repeat)

Bridge:

So you say, “I did it my own way”

As if it were something to brag about

So you scoff at the straight and narrow way

Full speed ahead to destruction

Ending:

Turn around and don’t stay on the wrong way

Turn around / Don’t look back /

Come join the redeemed on the narrow path

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WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

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