The message today was this (and is also the first devotional for this week.) 

Matthew 17:14-21

14 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

17 “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

It is a fasting week and that message was to illiterate the need for fasting to make a better connection with God. We are of a generation that is a faithless and perverse meaning too connected to the world. I have prayed to see what God wants me to give up because I don’t know that I can do a fast for five days because I expend a lot of energy at work. We’ll see what the answer is…

I feel down some stairs at church today. I was wearing three inch semi chunky heeled boots today and I slipped on the stairs and went down left shoulder first and i hit my face on the stair. Before I realized what had happened i heard gasps from the people around me. I am lucky that there are no bruises on my face or my shoulder (just on my knee) and I didn’t break anything. So God was with me. I got home and the adrenaline wore off and now I feel the jolt of the fall.

I met the pastor for the first time today. He told me this :

Psalm 68:5

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
    is God in his holy dwelling.

As I AM A WIDOW.