Living from Acceptance, Not for Acceptance Fresh Manna by Pastor Tim Burt

Fresh Manna with Pastor Tim Burt    A Note from Pastor Tim Greetings and thank you for reading. I pray that Fresh Manna is a blessing to you and helps you launch your day in the Lord. If you are blessed by what you read, please share it with a friend. There is a link in this box and  at the bottom of each devotional that says:  "Forward this email to a friend." Click on it, and put in their email and it will go to them. Thanks in advance for sharing! God bless you and thanks again for reading! Forward this email to a friend Living from Acceptance, Not for Acceptance July 17, 2026 by Timothy Burt When I gave my life to Jesus Christ in 1977, I was twenty-four years old. That means I had spent twenty-four years training my mind to think like the world. Looking back, that's a sobering thought. Old ways of thinking don't disappear overnight. They have to be replaced with God's truth. One thing happened almost immediately after I surrendered my life to Christ. I developed an insatiable hunger for God's Word. I couldn't get enough of it. The more I read, the more I wanted to know Him. Yet while so much of Scripture filled me with hope, some passages left me feeling deeply condemned. One of those passages was Proverbs 6:16-19. It says, "There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him..." followed by a list that included pride, lying, evil intentions, and sowing discord. As a young believer, I knew those things described much of my old life. Even worse, I was still battling some of those attitudes and thought patterns. The enemy quickly twisted God's Word into a weapon against me. "God hates these things." "You still struggle with these things." "So God must hate you." Those accusations tormented me. I knew Jesus loved me because I had heard it preached, but I struggled to believe He could truly love someone who still wrestled with sinful thoughts and attitudes. I feared that God knew everything about me and must surely be disappointed or disgusted. Thankfully, God didn't leave me there. Over time He began to teach me something that completely changed my life. He wasn't condemning me. He was transforming me. He hated those sins because they destroy intimacy with Him, damage our lives, and wound the people around us. But His hatred of sin was never the same as hatred toward His redeemed children. Then the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to one of the greatest truths in all of Scripture. Romans 3:22-24 (NIV) says, "This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." Those verses became life to me. I finally understood that my righteousness wasn't something I earned by performing well. It wasn't based on having perfect thoughts, perfect motives, or a perfect attitude. God declared me righteous because I had placed my faith in Jesus Christ. My standing with Him rested on Christ's perfection, not my own. That revelation changed the way I fought my battles. Instead of beating myself up every time I failed, I learned to run to God instead of away from Him. When I sinned, I repented. When I stumbled, I got back up. When the enemy accused me, I answered him with God's Word instead of agreeing with his lies. Was I still changing? Absolutely. There were still areas where my thinking needed to be renewed. Sometimes my attitudes weren't Christlike. Sometimes selfish motives surfaced. Sometimes sinful thoughts tried to invade my mind. But I was no longer fighting for God's acceptance. I was fighting from God's acceptance. What a difference that makes. Grace didn't give me permission to stay the same. It gave me the confidence to keep growing. Knowing I was loved made me want to become more like Jesus, not less. Today, decades later, I can honestly say my mind is no longer the battlefield it once was. The torment of wondering whether God loves me is gone. The fear of never measuring up has been replaced by confidence in His grace. God's love, His righteousness, His presence, and His promises have become the foundation upon which I stand. Am I still being transformed? Every day. Will I continue pursuing Christlikeness? As long as I live. But I no longer walk under the crushing weight of condemnation. I walk in the joy of knowing that I have been made righteous through faith in Jesus Christ. From that secure place, He continues His beautiful work of changing me from the inside out. That freedom is available to every believer who will embrace God's gift of righteousness instead of believing the enemy's accusations. Romans 4:8 (TLB): "Yes, what joy there is for anyone whose sins are no longer counted against him by the Lord." Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You that my righteousness is not based on my performance but on the finished work of Jesus Christ. Help me reject every voice of condemnation and embrace the truth of Your grace. Continue transforming my heart and renewing my mind so that my life reflects Your goodness more each day. Thank You for loving me even while You are changing me. May I walk confidently in Your righteousness and joyfully live for Your glory. In Jesus' name, amen. ‍ ‍ Forward this email to a friend Support This Work © 2026 Tim Burt Ministries. All rights reserved. Change email address You’re receiving this email because you opted in at timburt.org.

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God, Do You Really Even Care? Fresh Manna by Pastor Tim Burt

Fresh Manna with Pastor Tim Burt    A Note from Pastor Tim Greetings and thank you for reading. I pray that Fresh Manna is a blessing to you and helps you launch your day in the Lord. If you are blessed by what you read, please share it with a friend. There is a link in this box and  at the bottom of each devotional that says:  "Forward this email to a friend." Click on it, and put in their email and it will go to them. Thanks in advance for sharing! God bless you and thanks again for reading! Forward this email to a friend God, Do You Really Even Care?  July 15, 20206 by Timothy Burt John the Baptist had spent his entire life preparing the way for Jesus. He boldly preached repentance, baptized multitudes, and fearlessly confronted sin—even when it cost him his freedom. He had no doubt who Jesus was. He had seen the Holy Spirit descend upon Him like a dove. He had heard the Father’s voice from heaven declaring Jesus to be His beloved Son. He even pointed others to Him, saying, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” Yet there came a day when John found himself sitting in Herod’s prison. The walls were cold. The future looked hopeless. Every passing day made it more apparent that he might never walk out alive. It was in that lonely, painful place that John sent two of his disciples to ask Jesus a question that has surprised believers for centuries: “Are You the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?” (Luke 7:19 NLT) Why would the man who introduced Jesus to the world suddenly ask such a question? I  don’t believe John had suddenly abandoned his faith. Rather, I believe he was experiencing what many sincere believers have faced throughout history. His circumstances had become so dark that they challenged his understanding of what God was doing. The Messiah had come, yet John remained in prison. The Kingdom of God was advancing, yet injustice still seemed to win. His expectations and his reality no longer seemed to fit together. Perhaps you’ve experienced something similar. Maybe it came after losing someone you deeply loved. Maybe it followed a devastating diagnosis, a broken marriage, a financial collapse, or years of praying for something that never seemed to happen. In those moments, a quiet question can surface that you never expected to ask. “God, do you really even care?" Not because you want to reject Christ. Not because you’ve stopped believing. But because pain has a way of asking questions that comfort never does. One of the enemy’s oldest strategies is to whisper doubt into the hearts of God’s people during seasons of suffering. He wants us to interpret God’s character through our circumstances instead of interpreting our circumstances through God’s character. What I love most about John’s story is not that he had a difficult question. It’s what he did with it. He took his question to Jesus. John didn’t become bitter. He didn’t walk away from God. He didn’t publicly denounce the One he had faithfully proclaimed. Instead, he sent his question directly to the Savior. Jesus’ response is just as beautiful. He didn’t rebuke John for asking. He didn’t shame him by saying, “After everything you’ve seen, how could you doubt?” Instead, Jesus pointed John back to the evidence. “Go back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard—the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.” (Luke 7:22 NLT) In other words, Jesus was saying, “John, don’t judge Me by your prison. Judge Me by My faithfulness.” Perhaps one of the greatest lessons we learn as we mature in Christ is that our lives are not ultimately about us. They are about Him. God loves us deeply and cares about every detail of our lives, but His purposes are infinitely larger than our personal comfort or even our understanding. From the beginning of creation until Christ returns, God has been accomplishing one magnificent plan—the redemption of mankind. His heart has always been that people would know Him and receive His gift of eternal life. The apostle Paul reminds us that God “wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4 NLT). Everything He does ultimately serves that eternal purpose. John the Baptist understood this better than most. Long before his imprisonment, he said of Jesus, “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.” Those weren’t merely beautiful words. They were the conviction of a man who knew his life existed to point others to Christ. When John found himself sitting in prison, he couldn’t yet see how his suffering fit into God’s larger story. Neither could his disciples. But God knew exactly what He was doing. The same is true for us. There are seasons when our prayers don’t seem to be answered the way we hoped. There are disappointments we cannot explain and hardships we would never have chosen. In those moments, we’re tempted to evaluate God’s faithfulness by whether life is unfolding according to our plans. Faith calls us to see something bigger. Our Heavenly Father is weaving together a story far greater than the chapter we’re living today. He sees every life He is drawing to Himself, every heart He is preparing, every prayer He is answering in ways we cannot yet see, and every circumstance He is using for eternal purposes. That doesn’t mean we stop believing God for His best. We should continue praying boldly, trusting Him for healing, restoration, provision, wisdom, and breakthrough. Jesus encouraged us to ask, seek, and knock. But mature faith also learns to pray, “Father, even when I cannot understand what You’re doing, I trust that You do. My life belongs to You. Accomplish Your will and purpose through me.” Faith isn’t believing that God is writing my story the way I would. Faith is trusting that He’s writing His story through mine.  When we remember that God’s story is bigger than our own, our questions begin to lose their power. We may not understand every chapter, but we know the Author. And because we know Him, we can trust that one day every unanswered question will be answered by His perfect wisdom, His unfailing love, and His eternal purposes. God is good. God loves and cares for you! Proverbs 3:5–6 (NLT) “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.” Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You that Your plans are always greater than I can see. When life’s trials leave me with questions, help me bring them to You instead of allowing doubt to pull me away from You. Teach me to trust not only in Your promises but also in Your perfect purposes. Help me remember that my life is part of Your much greater story of redeeming the world through Jesus Christ. Strengthen my faith to believe You for Your very best while resting in the confidence that You know exactly what You are doing. May my life bring glory to You and point others to Christ, no matter what season I find myself in. In Jesus’ name, amen. ‍ ‍ Forward this email to a friend Support This Work © 2026 Tim Burt Ministries. All rights reserved. Change email address You’re receiving this email because you opted in at timburt.org.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Death-Ray=Mirrors in Space brought to you by ‘The Sunlight Company’ Hazel Archer-Ginsberg Jul 15   READ IN APP   Were you the kind of kid that used a magnifying glass to concentrate the sunlight into a laser beam - maybe to start a fire or burn up some ants? Maybe some of those kids grew up & said, hey let’s start a Death-ray corporation - we can call it Reflect Orbital - & brand ourelf as, ‘The Sunlight Company’. Well golly gee Beavis, the American dream can come true, cause guess what? The FCC = Federal Communications Commission, has just given Reflect Orbital the go-ahead to test a giant space mirror in our collective etheric Earth-orbit. The Sunlight Company plans to put up more than 50,000 satellites reflecting sunlight back to Earth - despite opposition from astronomers, The CSE =, Center for Space Environmentalism & the public, amid real safety concerns – which good grief Charlie Brown, can cause huge disruption to ecosystems - affecting all life, including humanity. The RAS = Royal Astronomical Society put out a notice of alarm calling ‘The Sunlight Company’ & ‘Starlink’ a catastrophic threat to astronomy observation. The founder & CEO of Reflect Orbital is a former SpaceX engineer who built a fusion reactor in high school. There is a rival connection to Elon Musk’s SpaceX which wants to launch one million satellites creating a toxic web-cage around the earth to power AI data centers. For 1 thing, the chain of this sky junk is visible to the naked eye - producing such a glare that it is blocking out our ability to see the planets & stars in our night sky. Reflect Orbital plans to use a huge constellation of space mirrors to reflect sunlight to Earth at night. Their planned 50,000 mirrors would make the night sky 3-4X’s brighter - Each beam would be 4X’s brighter than the Full Moon & would also contaminate areas outside the beam. Dr. Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director at the RAS, said, “These diabolical projects would not only have a disastrous impact on the science of astronomy, they would also hinder the right of every living being on Earth. That is unacceptable. The stars above are a valued part of our human heritage … deploying more than one million exceptionally bright satellites, and a fake sun, would utterly destroy this.” Besides the obvious impact on astronomical observations, damaging the night sky threatens to collapse nocturnal ecosystems, impacting human circadian rhythms as well - & like really, what else could possibly go wrong when a corporation has a series of mega-magnifying glasses in hand - are we the ants? Despite their ‘greenwashing’ claims, is this really just an undated version of the Archimedes’ Death Ray - The legend, according to the historical accounts of Lucian & Anthemius, tells us that in 214 BC, a Roman fleet was laying siege to Syracuse, the jewel of ancient Sicily - so the brilliant mathematician Archimedes devises a weapon so advanced that it seemed like magic to those who witness it. Using an series of polished bronze mirrors, he focuses the sun’s rays into concentrated beams which become capable of destroying the Roman ships by setting them on fire with a death ray from the parabolic reflection of the mirrors. Ironically the vehicle of ‘The Sunlight Company’’s first satelite is named after Eärendil from Lord of the Rings, an epic novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, set in Middle-earth, following the quest to destroy the One Ring. Eärendil, is a Half-elf who carries the “Star-glass” light down to the earth by becoming the “evening star”. In the Reflect Orbital version of the story is this heroic character being twisted to legitimize their cooperate purposes - is their ‘evening star’ in reality actually subsumed by Sauron – a mask for an unredeemed Lucifer hiding in the dark - trading the light of hope for a death-ray? The Temple of the Sun-god Helios at Rhodes featured massive mirrors which could ignite their ceremonial fires - lit to honor the benevolent Solar Deity. Could Reflect Orbitals ‘Sunlight Company’ be conducting an antithesis to devotion – setting up instead an evil scientism fostering the adversarial forces of the sun-demon whose goal is to ‘splinter the light’ – cultivating destructive impulses & anti-spiritual tendencies – which violate the etheric realm & affect the human astral body, promoting negative traits - hindering spiritual development - working to burn away the possibility of the Divine evolution of humanity - opposing The Christ - the True Sun-Spirit of Love - & the true Wisdom of Sophia..? How can we reclaim Space in Time? ~hag Share 15 July 2026 - “Speaking with the Stars” To honor & foster the Christian Community of Southeast Wisconsin, we gather for ‘Devotional Services’ in-between Priest Visits. All are welcome to join 26 July 2026 Please arrive by 10:15 am so that we can be ready to begin promptly at 10:30 am– when the Consecration of the Human Being is being celebrated all over the country Potluck social time after At the ‘Spirit Lodge’ in Elkhorn WI. RSVP Hazel@CogRite.com Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to Cognitive Ritual: Confessions of a Modern Rosicrucian - with every $ going to support Zinniker Farm Upgrade to paid The Cognitive Ritual is a Free Will Offering to All worlds. Please Share freely Share Cognitive Ritual ~hag Greetings Friend, you currently a free subscriber to Cognitive Ritual. Thank you for receiving my workings freely offered. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. 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