The July 2025 Refreshing Daily in God’s Word will be the last issue of the devotional. Pastor Michael Rouse retired June 29, 2025. At the present time, Mountain View Baptist Church does not have anyone to continue this ministry.
We appreciate all the support and prayers that you have given for this ministry since 2007 when it first began. We pray the devotionals have been a blessing and have brought you closer in your walk with the Lord.
In the future, the Lord may allow the devotional to return. In the meantime, we are asking for your prayers for the man that God chooses for our church.
Thank you and God bless you!
Key Verse: Verse 9 – "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
Key Words: my strength is made perfect in weakness
It is generally admitted that from one-half to three-fourths of all patients who visit a doctor have emotional, rather than physical needs.
Dr. Richard Cabot, once a noted Christian physician in the Boston area, frequently asked a group of medical students, “Gentlemen, would you like to know the cause of almost every illness?” After a short dramatic pause, he answered his own question, “It’s the wear and tear of the soul upon the body.”
Voltaire recognized this decades ago when he wrote, “Doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing.”
If we could understand the person, we could better understand his ailments.
Centuries ago Plato wrote, “The great error of our day in the treatment of the human body is that physicians separate the soul from the body.”
Yet many diseases are real, and the pain is not imagined. Even so, attitude is the key. As Theodore Farris said, “Health is precious, let nobody ever deny that, it is more precious than fine gold. But life is more than health and there are people who have not had good health who have had good lives, creative and wonderful beyond our imagination.”
When he was president of Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson suffered constantly. He prayed for healing, “not just for selfish reasons, but because I want to be the best university president possible.” As the suffering continued, he changed his prayer, “Father, if the pain is not going to be taken away, then please give me the strength to take it.” When God denied Paul’s request for healing, he promised, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (II Corinthians 12:9).
What to do:
✞Ask God to give you the attitude of Paul.
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