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Upcoming Sermons & Devotional Message
March Sermons 2026
3-15 - Betrayed in a Garden
Genesis 2:15-17 + 3:1-6 , John 18:1-6
3-22 - Rooster Memories
John 18:15-18 , John 18:25-27
3-29 - A Crown of Thorns
Isaiah 53:1-10 , John 19: 1-7
Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.
Some Thoughts on Depending on God
Relatively speaking, God didn't take a great deal of time to get His people out of Egypt after 400 years in bondage—but it would take 40 years to get Egypt out of them. They wandered through the wilderness for 40 years, traveling from watering hole to watering hole and learning to depend on God’s faithfulness to provide for and protect them.
One way God taught them dependence on Him was through the gift of manna—which became their daily bread. Exodus chapter 16 reads:
“The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey” (Exodus 16:31).
After God led His people out of Egypt, He fed them with bread from heaven—all the way to the Promised Land. As they slept, enough bread would come down each night for the following day. The people called the bread manna, which in Hebrew sounds like, “What is it?” (Exodus 16:15). They received instructions to only gather enough for one day—except on Friday when they could collect enough for two days so they could rest on the Sabbath. They were learning to depend on and trust God.
Jesus drew on this story to teach an important lesson about Himself. He said,
“I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die….Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (John 6:48-51).
God provides food for temporal life, and also for eternal life. Jesus is the Bread from Heaven who gives eternal life to all who feast on Him through faith. We can depend on Him. This is another way of describing what it means to believe in Him.
Choose to depend on God today, my friends!