How is your walk?

April 26, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

Enoch… walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him. Genesis 5:24 NLT

Today’s reading
Jude1
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1&version=NLT

Jude 1:14-15 NLT
[14] Enoch, who lived in the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, "Listen! The Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones [15] to execute judgment on the people of the world. He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

REFRAMING JESUS
JUDE 1:3-4—POINTING PEOPLE TOWARD JESUS

“Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?” Was that someone cursing the guy who stole his 4×4? Or a drunk yelling at the cops who pick him up? No, it’s Jesus talking to the Pharisees—the respectable religious leaders of his day (Matthew 23:33). We’re so used to images of a nice, kind, freshly shampooed Jesus that we forget he showed anger, too. But he did, about similar issues to what Jude writes about in his letter. Instead of showing people the way to God, the Pharisees ended up driving people away, and that made Jesus mad. Everyone is invited to the party in God’s kingdom—not just the good and the nice. Everyone is welcome—the sad, the mad, people like me, and definitely, definitely people like you.

Today’s devotion
How is my what?
Life for Leaders Daily Devotion
https://mailchi.mp/depree.org/how-is-my-what?e=1bc587c115

The language of walking as a metaphor for the Christian life comes straight from the New Testament. Later in Ephesians, for example, we’ll examine a verse that could be translated literally, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called” (4:1).

By using the verb “to walk” (peripateo in Greek), Paul refers to a pattern of life, what we might call a lifestyle.

…when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, thus receiving God’s grace through him, not only are we forgiven for our sins, but we are also welcomed into a new way of living. Our salvation is not simply a ticket to heaven in the future. It is also a passport to a new “walk” in this life, a new way of living and being, a new way of relating to God through Jesus Christ.

(…OneWalk)

Today’s worship song
All In
Matthew West
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-in/1256826332?i=1256826453

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior, I’m all in. Thank you for delivering us from walking in our transgressions and sins. Thank you for opening up to us a new way of walking. May our walk be genuine and vital. May we keep away from patterns of sin and selfishness. May we walk with you, in your strength, and for your glory, in all that we do. (…OneWalk) Amen.

Today’s prayer from today’s devotion.

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Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

April 25, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13 NLT

Today’s reading
Matthew 25
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25&version=NLT

Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids

Matthew 25:1-13 NLT
[1] “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. [2] Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. [3] The five who were foolish didn’t take enough olive oil for their lamps, [4] but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil. [5] When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. [6] “At midnight they were roused by the shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Come out and meet him!’ [7] “All the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps. [8] Then the five foolish ones asked the others, ‘Please give us some of your oil because our lamps are going out.’ [9] “But the others replied, ‘We don’t have enough for all of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.’ [10] “But while they were gone to buy oil, the bridegroom came. Then those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was locked. [11] Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, ‘Lord! Lord! Open the door for us!’ [12] “But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’ [13] “So you, too, must keep watch! For you do not know the day or hour of my return.

Today’s devotion
“Ready in Season”

My Utmost for His Highest
https://utmost.org/ready-in-season/

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Today’s worship song
Until the Whole World Hears
Casting Crowns
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/until-the-whole-world-hears/336680396?i=336680731

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior, my source. I come to You each morning to ready myself for the day. Putting on Your full armor; belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is Your word. This step by step approach assures me of all I know to be true. While giving me something to carry with me throughout the day as a reminder to stay alert and always be ready. For I know if I relax or get to comfortable, what can happen. I must stay ready; ready to do my best, ready to be a witness of Your glory, grace and mercy, and ready to die to myself. Help me be ready Jesus. Amen

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YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS

April 24, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love . . .
Ephesians 3:16–17

Today’s reading
Matthew 6
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6&version=NLT

Matthew 6:21 NLT
Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

Today’s devotion
Jesus Calling

YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS. If I am truly your Master, you will desire to please Me above all others. If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.

If I am the Master of your life, I will also be your First Love. Your serving Me is rooted and grounded in My vast, unconditional Love for you. The lower you bow down before Me, the higher I lift you up into intimate relationship with Me. The Joy of living in My Presence outshines all other pleasures. I want you to reflect My joyous Light by living in increasing intimacy with Me.

“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
—Matthew 6:24

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.”
—Revelation 2:4

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
—Psalm 16:11

Today’s worship song
Miracle
Unspoken
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/miracle-radio-version/1283890396?i=1283890829

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior, You Know what’s in my heart, Your know my thoughts and hear my cry’s. Hear my prayer today. Nothing is impossible if I believe, help my unbelief. In Jesus name I pray. Amen

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Knowing Your Limitations

April 23, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

Here is another illustration of what the Kingdom of God is like: A farmer planted seeds in a field, and then he went on with his other activities. As the days went by, the seeds sprouted and grew without the farmer’s help, because the earth produces crops on its own. Mark 4:26-28

Today’s reading
Mark 4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4&version=NLT

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

The parable of the farmer scattering seed is one of the best-known of Jesus’ teaching parables. Jesus told parables for two reasons: (1) to help us understand the heart of God; and (2) to help us understand how things work in the Kingdom of God. In this parable, he is describing the true meaning of our life: to cultivate a heart that is receptive to hearing and accepting the redemptive message of Jesus’ death and resurrection, then to live a life that produces a huge harvest that can “feed” a multitude. Our lives are intended to be a source of life-giving “nutrition” for everyone around us, and the only way we can produce that kind of fruit is to provide good soil for the “seeds” God wants to plant in us. The meaning of our life, according to Jesus, is to do whatever it takes to continually offer him “fertile soil”—to give ourselves to understanding him and his kingdom, to continuously deepen our soul by pursuing the truth about ourselves and about God, and to set aside our worries and our material ambitions so that we trust God above all.

Today’s devotion
Knowing Your Limitations

Devotional of the Day from Jesus Centered Bible App
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God’s people must recognize what they are called to do—and do it. Then they must depend upon God to do what only he can do. And he will.

Today’s worship song
Trust In You
Lauren Daigle
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/trust-in-you/971504391?i=971504532

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior. Knowing my limitations and trusting in what only You can do is key to my OneWalk with You. I must put on the full armor You provide me and stay focused on You. Praying without ceasing for me and mine, as well as those You place in my path. Help me Jesus be ready, willing and able to respond to the needs of others. Dying to myself. These things I ask in Jesus name. Amen

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The Light That Never Fails

April 22, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV)

Today’s reading
2 Corinthians 3
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians+3&version=NIV&interface=amp

2 Corinthians 3:4-6 NLT
[4] We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ. [5] It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. [6] He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

Today’s devotion
The Light That Never Fails

My Utmost for His Highest
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When “important” individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do— to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Allow nothing to keep you from looking with strong determination into the face of God regarding yourself and your doctrine.

Today’s worship song
Dear Younger Me
MercyMe
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dear-younger-me/825091802?i=825091879

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior. You are the light that never fails. You are the way and the life. So I fight to build my faith only on You. Knowing that it must be Your will, not mine. I must have more of You and less of me. For my confidence is in You, my truth. And I am at my best when You are flowing through me and we are one. How natural that feeling is. But how fragile it is. It’s so easy for lose focus and disconnect. Often without even realizing it. Help me Jesus. I love You, I’m sorry, forgive me, thank You. Amen

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Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters…, and based on, the promises of God.

April 22, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

All the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen… 2 Corinthians 1:20

Today’s reading
2 Corinthians 1
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+1&version=NLT

It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us, and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NLT

Today’s devotion
Can a Saint Falsely Accuse God?

My Utmost for His Highest
https://utmost.org/can-a-saint-falsely-accuse-god/

Jesus’ parable of the talents recorded in Matthew 25:14-30 was a warning that it is possible for us to misjudge our capacities. This parable has nothing to do with natural gifts and abilities, but relates to the gift of the Holy Spirit as He was first given at Pentecost. We must never measure our spiritual capacity on the basis of our education or our intellect; our capacity in spiritual things is measured on the basis of the promises of God. If we get less than God wants us to have, we will falsely accuse Him as the servant falsely accused his master when he said, “You expect more of me than you gave me the power to do. You demand too much of me, and I cannot stand true to you here where you have placed me.” When it is a question of God’s Almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.” Never allow the limitation of your own natural ability to enter into the matter. If we have received the Holy Spirit, God expects the work of the Holy Spirit to be exhibited in us.

The servant justified himself, while condemning his lord on every point, as if to say, “Your demand on me is way out of proportion to what you gave to me.” Have we been falsely accusing God by daring to worry after He has said, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”? (Matthew 6:33). Worrying means exactly what this servant implied— “I know your intent is to leave me unprotected and vulnerable.” A person who is lazy in the natural realm is always critical, saying, “I haven’t had a decent chance,” and someone who is lazy in the spiritual realm is critical of God. Lazy people always strike out at others in an independent way.

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God. Is God able to fulfill His promises? Our answer depends on whether or not we have received the Holy Spirit.

Today’s worship song
All My Hope
Crowder
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-my-hope/1146012240?i=1146012585

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior all my hope is in You. I know that because I have not lived up to my spiritual capacities and capabilities, I misused my gifts. As a result I have not lived up to my potential in the natural realm. But I push forward in and with my Lord Jesus Christ, knowing that You use all things for good. So I fight to stay connected to You, with an open heart and mind. Seeking Your will, not mine. Asking that You continue to bless me and mine, enlarging our territory for Your will, keeping us from evil and from causing any pain. Amen

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Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

April 20, 2018

OneWalk: Under the Sun, with the Son

Today’s Bible Verse, Reading, Devotion, Worship Song and Prayer

Today’s verse

Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. Psalm 105:4

Today’s reading
Psalm 105
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+105&version=NLT

Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done. Psalm 105:1 NLT

Today’s devotion
Seeking God Always
Life for Leaders Daily Devotion
https://mailchi.mp/depree.org/seeking-god-always?e=1bc587c115

Keep your eyes open for GOD, watch for his works; be alert for signs of his presence.” If we’re seeking God, then we are watching for him and his work each day as we go about our business. We pay attention to him from the moment we wake to the moment we close our eyes at night. We don’t look for God only in so-called “sacred” spaces, but equally in so-called “secular” places. God is present and active everywhere. We are invited to discern his presence and activity wherever we are.

Today’s worship song
Eye of the Storm
Ryan Stevenson
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eye-of-the-storm-feat-gabereal/1031338216?i=1031338572

Today’s prayer
Dear God, Abba Father, Jesus my Lord and Savior, I keep fighting to focus on You, Your Words, Your heart, Your face. Help me! When the momentum of the day tries to sweep me up into its meaningless busyness, anxiety and frustration. Causing me to lose sight of You. Help to stay connected to You. Help to see You in everything I do and say. Let Your peace reign. Let Your face shine through me. Your are my strength, Your my rock. I love You, I’m sorry, forgive me, thank You. Amen

#OneWalk #PrayWithoutCeasing #MyDailyPrayers #Jesus #ILoveYou #IAmSorry #ForgiveMe #ThankYou #LifeforLeaders #Psalm105:4

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