When: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, June 27, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words of Jesus
"Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’ "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it." And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
Matthew 7: 21 – 29
Those who wage war against the truth are powerless to win; rather they wound themselves, like those who kick against spikes.
— St John Chrysostom
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful that You wakened my spirit being to feel Your presence, I am humbled more each day by how much I have yet to feel, learn and apply. Since creation, whether 4000 or 4 billion years ago, only You know the truths that await us all, only You know the truths that give reason, only You know the truths behind good and evil, and only You know and understand the fallen nature of man. While I feel You have taught me while man cannot help but seek knowledge, thinking knowledge will give him what he needs, but only You can do that. For only in You can one find pure goodness and absent You there can be no lasting goodness because of man’s fallen nature and the corruptive effect knowledge has on the human being in feeding the darkness within which is self centered. I feel this is not to say that man is not meant to learn and evolve, always improving from one generation to the next; but only in the Spirit, through Jesus will we see the light, for You are the light, and in You there is no darkness for darkness can only be where You are not. Thus knowledge that does not have You as its source and purpose can never be all that it is meant to be, and do all that it is meant to do because absent You the corruptive forces of darkness will always prevail. Thus we live and walk under the sun in constant conflict within and we must accept and prepare ourselves to fight the fight, to run a good race, finding comfort, rest and what we need only in You. For just as I can never be counted on in all things to fill the needs of anyone else even those I love, so too I cannot count on anyone, but You to fill my needs. For only in You, through Jesus in the Spirit can bring me to my knees at the foot of the Cross, humbling me to the point of emptiness so that I can rise filled with Jesus teachings on faith, hope and love; and it is to the foot of the Cross that I must go whenever I seek to know or do anything but Your will or allow anything but You be my source and purpose for what I seek to learn and do. O Lord keep me humble, as much as it hurts in every way, bring back to the foot of the Cross whenever I begin to seek or fill myself with anything but You. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
Revolution: Finding Vibrant Faith Beyond the Walls of the Sanctuary (Unabridged) – World-renowned pollster George Barna has the numbers, and they indicate a revolution is already taking place within the Church: one that will impact every believer in America. For leaders working for positive change in the church, and for believers struggling to find a spiritual community and worship experience that resonates, Revolution is here. Are you ready?
Heaven Is Real: Lessons on Earthly Joy – from the Man Who Spent 90 Minutes in Heaven (Unabridged) – On January 18th 1989, Don Piper died in a car accident. Ninety minutes later, after a preacher prayed over him, Piper came back to life with an extraordinary story. He’d been to heaven. So began the phenomenon of 90 Minutes in Heaven.
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