Orange Moon Tuesday, October 27, 2026 “Wonders Without Number”

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Wonders Without Number”

   “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen” (John 21:25).

    How little in real terms do we know of the earthly lifetime and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Apostle John tells us that countless volumes of our Savior’s doings would not suffice in telling all.  We are given what we need to know, but left with relatively little awareness of “wonders without number” performed in a brief span of several decades (Job 9:10).

    The same truth speaks to God’s doings in our lives.  What has He done?  What is He doing?  What will He do?  The perpetual actions of an infinite Lord affirmed by Scripture assure us that our Heavenly Father could not begin to reveal more than the merest measure of His working to fulfill in each of our lives “the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Ephesians 3:11).  Indeed, in times when it seems little transpires, we would likely be overwhelmed if our Father gave more than a glimpse of His doings on behalf of the glory of Christ, our best interests, and the needs of others He blesses through us.  “God… worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:3; 11).

   Find the believer most apparently stilled by by circumstance, condition, and situation.  We would doubtless be amazed if the Lord opened our eyes to see the wonders He performs in His child’s heart and life.  Let us make this personal in our own consideration of the past, present, and future.  The great fact of our lives has always been the presence, involvement, and working of God.  “In Him we live and move and have our being” declared the Apostle Paul to even those who did not know the Lord Jesus (Acts 17:25).  God’s Scripturally stated working in all things tells us that we actually know so very little of His doings.  We just know that He is doing them “beyond number.”  This is enough for now to guide and enable us in a lifetime wherein “we walk by faith, not by sight” (II Corinthians 5:7).  We may see relatively little of the doings of His hand.  Scripture, however, bears clear and unmistakable witness to the devotion of our Father’s heart that assures us of the promise precious to every believer…

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

(Romans 8:28-29)

Weekly Memory Verse

    We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

(II Corinthians 4:7)

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Orange Moon Wednesday, October 28, 2026 “Prayers For a Friend, By a Friend”

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Prayers For a Friend, By a Friend”

   Through the years, I have shared thoughts with you on this date regarding my first best friend.  Bruce and I knew each other as little boys for about five years before he moved away to another neighborhood.  I saw him only once after that, and do not know what became of him.  However, I pray for him on this day each year, remembering his birthday because it precedes mine by a day (we loved that as kids because it meant concurrent celebrations and birthday parties each year!).

    The thought occurs to me on this day of what a marvelous gift God gives to born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to intercede for others.  As we frequently suggest in these messages, prayer must be viewed as a gift, a privilege, and an “I get to” before we rightly accept it as a responsibility and matter of obedience to God.  Indeed, the infinite, eternal Lord of all things calls finite creatures such as ourselves into loving communion with Himself, to the degree “the prayer of the upright is His delight” (Proverbs 15:8).  Moreover, for even the simplest offering, a sacrifice had to be offered, the immeasurable measure of which we will never begin to fully know…

    “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith” (Hebrews 10:19-22).

    My attendance at the throne of grace each year for Bruce (and for every prayer) required the attendance of the Lord Jesus at Calvary and its bloody cross of agony, sorrow, forsakenness, and death.   

A trail of Blood marks the path

leading to the throne,

where God receives the trusting heart

approaching by His Son.

Without the cross, there could not be

this access freely known.

Without such sorrow, pain, and loss,

we'd have nowhere to go.

Yes, every prayer flows to the Throne

on flood tides of Christ's blood.

We come with grateful, trusting hope,

in wonder of such love…

A trail of Blood marks the path leading to the Throne.

    

   I likely have thought of this on October 28th each year, in my prayers for Bruce.  It will be my focus this year as I pray for my first best friend, as based on the person and merits of our eternally best Friend.  What a gift indeed, that God calls us to Himself  by the price of blood, and of untold other aspects of His beloved Son’s sacrifice.  In this holy and solemn light, I will pray for a friend today, as made possible by a Friend.  

“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”

(Ephesians 2:13)

Weekly Memory Verse

    We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

(II Corinthians 4:7)

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