Blessings that come Silently in the Night

Yesterday's Discipleship Devotional addressed the importance of trusting God for full restoration. Today, I would like to follow up that discussion with an example. In just a few months (August 2026), LifePoint will be hiring additional staff and recruiting volunteers ranging from social media marketing to music/worship leaders and child/youth workers. We are trusting God for full/expanded restoration by believing that what we do not have is already available. We're working diligently while trusting that God will provide the results with interest. 

We are not waiting for August to come and go before we take action. Our preparations for August include expanding our Advisory Board for Church Planting, as evidenced by actively recruiting new board members. What board skills do you now possess and have been waiting for the opportunity to display? Here's your opportunity to be considered for board placement. But first, it's important to understand what LifePoint believes in and is committed to. LifePoint believes in cross-cultural worship and discipleship, so we have room ranging from college-age students to seasoned and retired professionals. As like our congregational goals, we want our board to properly represent the communities in which we serve. If that's a good and godly fit for you, I'm personally inviting you to contact us expressing your desire to be considered for board placement.  

As you prepare for what God has in store for you today, remember the words of Faith Baldwin who wrote, "What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles - miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred.

All this makes me realize that miracles are everyday things. Not only the sudden, great good fortune, wafting in on a new wind from the sky. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. 

Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn't know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle."