The Lord is my Strength
"The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like
the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights." -
Habakkuk 3:19
Concerned about the disintegration of the home and the
increased divorce rate, James Dobson, at the time a
little-known psychologist of a southern California
university hospital, wrote a book in the early '70s in
support of corporal punishment entitle "Dare to Discipline."
The popularity of the controversial volume caught the eye of
TV talk show guru Phil Donahue. He invited Dobson to appear
on his Chicago-based show in 1978. Donahue made the Ph.D. in
child development look like a child. Dobson readily admits
his performance on Donahue's show was his worst ever. He
left the set feeling like a failure. But Dobson's despair
was short-lived.
The next day he sought out a 65-year-old advertising agent
in a Chicago suburb to discuss the possibility of a national
radio program. Doug Mains invited Dobson to his one-man
studio in Wheaton, where Dr. James Dobson proceeded to
record the pilot broadcast of "Focus on the Family."
What has developed from a disastrous television appearance
is nothing short of mind-boggling. "Focus on the Family" is
heard on more than 6,000 stations around the world. The 10
magazines Focus publishes reach 2.3 million families each
month.
Give your plans to the Lord and let Him direct them. Today
in prayer, allow Christ to be your strength and follow Him
no matter where He leads.
"I have learned that we can control where we allow things
that we can't understand to fall. They either fall between
us and God, and we become angry. Or we allow these things to
fall outside of us and press us in closer to God." - Steven
Curtis Chapman
God's Word: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present
help in trouble." - Psalm 46:1
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2004, Devotional E-Mail
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