Patty Matula

Love God, Husband (Vietnam,RiverBoat, PurpleHeart), Family and Country 🇺🇸Pro Life; Character and Honesty Matters.

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@ascripturedlife Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Good morning Jamie ~ Have a blessed day 🌼💛

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@ascripturedlife Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Jamie Trunnel @ascripturedlife]

Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Psalms 86:11

[Jamie Trunnel @ascripturedlife]

May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace.
Numbers 6:24-26

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@BeachcatTt Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Michelle @BeachcatTt]

2⃣Corinthians9⃣Bible Study

The Collection for Christians in Jerusalem

1Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, 2for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. 3But I am sendinga the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. 4Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident. 5So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the giftb you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.c

The Cheerful Giver

6The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifullyd will also reap bountifully. 7Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiencye in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9As it is written,

“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.”
10He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 13By their approval of this service, theyf will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, 14while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. 15Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@BeachcatTt Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Michelle @BeachcatTt]

July 23, 2026
#VerseOfTheDay
Romans 8:28-30

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@BeachcatTt Good Morning Michelle ~ have a blessed day 🌼💛

[Michelle @BeachcatTt]

Good morning🕊️may today bring you the peace you so strongly seek

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@Angelmom337 Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Good Morning Brenda 🌹🇺🇸

[Angelmom337 @Angelmom337]

Happy Thursday, family!!

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@Imcg_2 @elliesangelwing Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[♥️Allie🇺🇸 @Imcg_2]

Let’s keep praying for each other. God hears us.🙏🏻

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Mathew 7:7 ✝️ KJV

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing , ye shall receive.
Mathew 21:22 ✝️ KJV

[Patty Matula @PattyMatula]

@MMcLaughlinsong Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Good Morning Melissa 🌺❤️

[Melissa A. McLaughlin @MMcLaughlinsong]

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:1

[Coleen Guzman @gypsyOTR]

When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer."
~Mark 9:28-29

In Mark 6, Jesus had sent the disciples out two by two to proclaim the need for repentance. He had given them not only specific instructions but also “authority over the unclean spirits” (Mark 6:7). Because of this, they had developed a great track record: “They cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them” (v 13).

Considering their previous success in the ministry that Jesus had given them, it’s easy to see why the disciples were surprised and confused when their efforts to help a boy with an evil spirit proved futile, until Jesus arrived and stepped in to restore him (Mark 9:14-27). Perhaps in asking, “Why could we not cast it out?” the disciples expected Jesus to give them some sort of secret knowledge. Sometimes that is what we too believe, misunderstanding Jesus’ reply as saying that a very special ability or ministry is needed. But that is not the case. Jesus is simply reminding His disciples, and us, of this: You didn’t succeed because you forgot to do something very important: you didn’t pray.

In their success, the disciples had gotten comfortable. They had lost track of the fact that it was only because of God’s immense mercy and power that they could do anything. They were still in Christ’s company, yet they were already forgetting. They needed a reminder.

Sometimes we need to be reminded as well. To imagine that God’s power is simply at our disposal and under our control is tantamount to unbelief; it’s trusting in ourselves rather than trusting in God. Prayer, by contrast, is ultimately aligning our will with God’s. It acknowledges that God must work wonders because we ourselves can’t. And until we rely on God’s grace, we’re unable to intervene in anyone’s circumstances and make an eternal difference.

There are many reasons why we don’t pray. We don’t think we have to. We don’t want to. We overestimate our own abilities. Each is an absolute presumption on our part. When we try to do things on our own, we will often find ourselves failing miserably. So the next time you’re tempted to figure something out yourself, or to assume that God’s power will bring you through because it did last time (and that “next time” is likely to be today!), consider what the disciples had forgotten and what Jesus reminded them of: pray to the one who has all the power, showers us with mercy, and deserves all the glory. For when you pray and watch what God does, you discover that He does far more than you had even dared ask or thought to imagine (Ephesians 3:20).

~Alistair Begg

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@gypsyOTR Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Coleen Guzman @gypsyOTR]

"Behold the man!"
~John 19:5

If there be one place where our Lord Jesus most fully becomes the joy and comfort of His people, it is where He plunged deepest into the depths of woe. Come, gracious souls, and behold the Man in the garden of Gethsemane; behold His heart so brimming with love that He cannot hold it in—so full of sorrow that it must find expression. Behold the bloody sweat as it distills from every pore of His body and falls upon the ground. Behold the Man as they drive the nails into His hands and feet. Look up, repenting sinners, and see the sorrowful image of your suffering Lord. Consider Him as the ruby drops stand on the thorn-crown and adorn with priceless gems the diadem of the King of Misery. Behold the Man when all His bones are out of joint, and He is poured out like water and brought into the dust of death; God has forsaken Him, and hell surrounds Him.

Look and see, was there ever sorrow like His sorrow that is done unto Him? All passersby pause and look upon this spectacle of grief, a wonder to men and angels, an unparalleled phenomenon. Behold the Emperor of Woe who had no equal or rival in His agonies! Gaze upon Him, you mourners, for if there is no consolation in a crucified Christ there is no joy in earth or heaven. If in the ransom price of His blood there is no hope, there is no joy in the harps of heaven, and the right hand of God shall know no pleasures forevermore.

We need only sit more continually at the cross to be less troubled with our doubts and woes. We need only see His sorrows, and our sorrows we shall be ashamed to mention; we need only to gaze into His wounds and heal our own. If we would live properly, it must be by the contemplation of His death; if we would rise to dignity, it must be by considering His humiliation and His sorrow.

~C.H. Spurgeon

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@ElRoiShalom Amen...amen! 🙏🏻🇺🇸