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April 4, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 4/03/2011
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Here I am Lord, humbly listening, aware of my nature, trusting only in Yours, and Your Words as I feel them speaking to me, pulling me out of myself created pity pit of pride and regret, fueled by worry and anxiousness of things past; yet through faith and reason praying that ‘You will turn the “might have been” into a wonderful culture for the future’ for me and mine!
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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IF THOU HADST KNOWN!
“If thou hadst known . . . in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.” Luke 19:42
Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism; it was religious and upright, but a “whited sepulchre.”
What is it that blinds me in this “my day”? Have I a strange god – not a disgusting monster, but a disposition that rules me? More than once God has brought me face to face with the strange god and I thought I should have to yield, but I did not do it. I got through the crisis by the skin of my teeth and I find myself in the possession of the strange god still; I am blind to the things which belong to my peace. It is an appalling thing that we can be in the place where the Spirit of God should be getting at us unhinderedly, and yet increase our condemnation in God’s sight.
“If thou hadst known” – God goes direct to the heart, with the tears of Jesus behind. These words imply culpable responsibility; God holds us responsible for what we do not see. “Now they are hid from thine eyes” – because the disposition has never been yielded. The unfathomable sadness of the “might have been!” God never opens doors that have been closed. He opens other doors, but He reminds us that there are doors which we have shut, doors which need never have been shut, imaginations which need never have been sullied. Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the “might have been” into a wonderful culture for the future.
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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:11
Thanks to the Internet, you, too, can share in the joy of seeing the “Hallelujah Chorus” at Macy’s. Video of the event in today’s illustration has proved immensely popular online. To watch (and perhaps even sing along), go to http://www.youtube.com and search for Macy’s Philadelphia Hallelujah Chorus. As we approach the celebration of Easter and the commemoration of Jesus’ death and resurrection, this beautiful music is particularly appropriate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU
< >< Today’s Mass Readings >< >
1 Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-13
Psalm 23:1-6
Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
< >< Today’s Video Reflection >< >
The love of worldly possessions is a sort of bird line, which entangles the soul, and prevents it flying to God. — St. Augustine
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_04_03.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
just1word.com
YouVersion.com
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Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
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April 4, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 4/02/2011
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I think hard about keeping You and mine above all, in that order, but need Your help in dying to the ways under the sun by which I walked for so long, and are the fiery arrows of the evil one as he tries to take me back into darkness out of You light through worry and anxiousness.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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THE GLORY THAT EXCELS
“The Lord . . . hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight.” Acts 9:17
When Paul received his sight, he received spiritually an insight into the Person of Jesus Christ, and the whole of his subsequent life and preaching was nothing but Jesus Christ – “I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” No attraction was ever allowed to hold the mind and soul of Paul save the face of Jesus Christ.
We have to learn to maintain an unimpaired state of character up to the last notch revealed in the vision of Jesus Christ.
The abiding characteristic of a spiritual man is the interpretation of the Lord Jesus Christ to himself, and the interpretation to others of the purposes of God. The one concentrated passion of the life is Jesus Christ. Whenever you meet this note in a man, you feel he is a man after God’s own heart.
Never allow anything to deflect you from insight into Jesus Christ. It is the test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you.
“Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus,
I’ve lost sight of all beside,
So enchained my spirit’s vision,
Gazing on the Crucified.”
< >< Today in the Word Devotion >< >
You will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him. Luke 1:76
God is in the business of changing lives. Sometimes the change is lightning-quick; sometimes, as in Zechariah’s case, it takes more time. The result is always a deepened faith and a hunger for the glory of God. The question becomes, then, in what ways is God transforming your heart? He loves you no less than He loved Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Joseph. And though we stand at a distance in time from the Christmas story, we are equally in need of the Savior.
< >< Today’s Mass Readings >< >
Hosea 6:1-6
Psalm 51:3-4, 18-21
Luke 18:9-14
< >< Today’s Video Reflection >< >
The soul united to God and transformed in him draws from within God a divine breath, much like the most high God himself. And God, abiding in the soul, breathes forth the life of the soul as its exemplar. This I take to be what Paul meant when he said: because you are children of God, God has sent to the Spirit of his Son into your heart’s crying, Abba, Father; this is what takes place in those who have achieved perfection. — St. John of the Cross
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_04_02.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
just1word.com
YouVersion.com
< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
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April 4, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 4/01/2011
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‘God does not require of us extraordinary things’ but to worship Him in all things, at all times, in all we do; to be hearty to all, with all, no matter when, no matter how.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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HEARTINESS V. HEARTLESSNESS TOWARDS OTHERS
“It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us.” “The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints.” Romans 8:34, 27
Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors – that Christ “ever liveth to make intercession;” that the Holy Spirit “maketh intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a vital relationship to our fellow men that we do the work of intercession as the Spirit-taught children of God? Begin with the circumstances we are in – our homes, our business, our country, the present crisis as it touches us and others – are these things crushing us? Are they badgering us out of the presence of God and leaving us no time for worship? Then let us call a halt, and get into such living relationship with God that our relationship to others may be maintained on the line of intercession whereby God works His marvels.
Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, consequently we get so burdened with persons and with difficulties that we do not worship God, we do not intercede. If once the burden and the pressure come upon us and we are not in the worshipping attitude, it will produce not only hardness toward God but despair in our own souls. God continually introduces us to people for whom we have no affinity, and unless we are worshipping God, the most natural thing to do is to treat them heartlessly, to give them a text like the jab of a spear, or leave them with a rapped-out counsel of God and go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to Our Lord.
Are we in the direct line of the intercession of our Lord and of the Holy Spirit?
< >< Today in the Word Devotion >< >
The holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35
Despite a life of obedience in priestly ministry, Zechariah responded to the angel’s announcement of John’s birth with fear and doubt. By contrast, Mary, an inexperienced and untested young woman, responded to the even more incredible announcement of her virgin conception with humble trust. The quality of her humility and faith is seen in verses 46 through 55, a passage known as the Magnificat. Pray these words of adoration to God in your own prayer time today.
< >< Today’s Mass Readings >< >
Hosea 14:2-10
Psalm 81:6-11, 14, 17
Mark 12:28-34
< >< Today’s Video Reflection >< >
God does not require of us extraordinary things. — The Cure of Ars
< >< Today in the Word >< >
End Times: Events That Follow The Rapture – Listen now
Dr. Walvoord’s focus is on the events that follow the Rapture – Program Notes & Quotes
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_04_01.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
just1word.com
YouVersion.com
< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
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April 3, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 3/31/2011
< >< My Prayer >< >
Humbled before You, again You show Your presence in what You put before me and where You place me. I only need to take care to stay aware, ready and humble identified with and in Jesus Christ and Him alone, dead to myself.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
< >< My Utmost for His Highest >< >
HEEDFULNESS V. HYPOCRISY IN OURSELVES
“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him Life for them that sin not unto death.” 1 John 5:16
If we are not heedful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other folks are failing, and we turn our discernment into the gibe of criticism instead of into intercession on their behalf. The revelation is made to us not through the acuteness of our minds, but by the direct penetration of the Spirit of God, and if we are not heedful of the source of the revelation, we will become criticizing centres and forget that God says – “. . . he shall ask, and He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.” Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
One of the subtlest burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them, and as we intercede on His line, God says He will give us “life for them that sin not unto death.” It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.
Is Jesus Christ seeing of the travail of His soul in us? He cannot unless we are so identified with Himself that we are roused up to get His view about the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so whole-heartedly that Jesus Christ will be abundantly satisfied with us as intercessors.
< >< Today in the Word Devotion >< >
Remember me with favor, my God. Nehemiah 13:31
Twice in this passage Nehemiah prayed for God to remember him (vv. 22, 31). This was evidence of God’s faithfulness and ability to judge his heart and deeds accurately. Are we more concerned with what God thinks of us or what others think of us? As we conclude our study of Ezra and Nehemiah, spend time in prayer and reflection on your heart for the things of God. By His grace and power, resolve to serve the Lord and others with joy and commitment.
< >< Today’s Mass Readings >< >
Jeremiah 7:23-28
Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9
Luke 11:14-23
< >< Today’s Video Reflection >< >
He who does not give up prayer cannot possibly continue to offend God Habitually. Either he will give up prayer, or he will stop sinning. — St. Alphonsus Liguori
< >< Today in the Word >< >
End Times: The Rapture, Part 2 – Listen now
Dr. John Walvoord continues talking about the way in which the Rapture will happen – Program Notes & Quotes
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_03_31.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
just1word.com
YouVersion.com
< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
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April 3, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 3/30/2011
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Help me to become one ‘who worships You and who lives in holy relationship to You’; help me to ‘get into the real work of intercession’ through and in prayer, ‘and remember it is a work, a work that taxes my every power; but a work which has no snare.’ Help me to realize that even when I am threatened, attacked or insulted to intercede in prayer for my attacker through conscious awareness of Your presence and the power of ‘worship and intercession’.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
< >< My Utmost for His Highest >< >
HOLINESS V. HARDNESS Towards GOD
“And He . . . wondered that there was no intercessor.” Isaiah 59:16
The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer. It sounds right to say that we pray; we read books on prayer which tell us that prayer is beneficial, that our minds are quieted and our souls uplifted when we pray; but Isaiah implies that God is amazed at such thoughts of prayer.
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Too often instead of worshipping God, we construct statements as to how prayer works. Are we worshipping or are we in dispute with God – “I don’t see how You are going to do it.” This is a sure sign that we are not worshipping. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
Are we so worshipping God that we rouse ourselves up to lay hold on Him so that we may be brought into contact with His mind about the ones for whom we pray? Are we living in a holy relationship to God, or are we hard and dogmatic?
“But there is no one interceding properly” – then be that one yourself, be the one who worships God and who lives in holy relationship to Him. Get into the real work of intercession, and remember it is a work, a work that taxes every power; but a work which has no snare. Preaching the gospel has a snare; intercessory prayer has none.
< >< Today in the Word Devotion >< >
LORD, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells. Psalm 26:8
Scripture is honest with us about the reality of the spiritual life. A great high point of fellowship with God might be followed by a drift away from our commitment to serve Him. Do you have a sustained passion for the work of God, or have you grown complacent about things in your life that contradict a life of faith? If you resemble Eliashib, who let Tobiah into the temple, repent and return to your commitment to the Lord. Pray to have Nehemiah’s zeal for the things of God.
< >< Today’s Mass Readings >< >
Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9
Psalm 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20
Matthew 5:17-19
< >< Today’s Video Reflection >< >
Nothing but self-will can separate us from God. — St. Alphonsus Liguori
< >< Today in the Word >< >
End Times: The Rapture – Listen now
John Walvoord begins talking about the Rapture and what it will entail – Program Notes & Quotes
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_03_26.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
just1word.com
YouVersion.com
< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
< >< One Walk – Continuity in Change >< >
See what I’m thinking, listening and reading visit www.RichardAngulo.com follow me on Twitter @richardangulo
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April 3, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 3/29/2011
< >< My Prayer >< >
Help me stay ready, be expecting, to reach higher, to be spiritually real and to truly be ready to die to myself in all things through my conscious connection with You in my one walk with Jesus.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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OUR LORD’S SURPRISE VISITS
“Be ye therefore ready also.” Luke 12:40
The great need for the Christian worker is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not easy, no matter what our experience is. The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn. That is the one great need, not the facing our belief, or our creed, the question whether we are of any use, but to face Him.
Jesus rarely comes where we expect Him; He appears where we least expect Him, and always in the most illogical connections. The only way a worker can keep true to God is by being ready for the Lord’s surprise visits. It is not service that matters, but intense spiritual reality, expecting Jesus Christ at every turn. This will give our life the attitude of child-wonder which He wants it to have. If we are going to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
If you are “looking off unto Jesus,” avoiding the call of the religious age you live in, and setting your heart on what He wants, on thinking on His line – you will be called unpractical and dreamy; but when He appears in the burden and the heat of the day, you will be the only one who is ready. Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
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God had given them great joy. Nehemiah 12:43
If you have breath in your body, you have reason to praise the Lord! Take some time today to praise Him with music. You might choose to gather with friends or family to sing or play musical instruments. Or you could listen to some praise music throughout the day, whether at work, home, or in your car. Thank the Lord for the works He has completed in your life, and thank Him for “every good and perfect gift” (James 1:17).
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Daniel 3:25, 34-43
Psalm 25:4-9
Matthew 18:21-35
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Earthly life is a pilgrimage, and as such it is full of temptations. But our spiritual growth is worked out in temptation. By experiencing temptations, we know ourselves. By fighting them we have a chance to become winners. By overcoming them, we are crowned victors. Lord, you are our physician, healing the ills of all. — St. Augustine
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End Times: Events Before the 2nd Coming – Part 3 – Listen now
Dr. Walvoord focuses on the 2nd Coming of Christ and the comfort it is to believers – Program Notes & Quotes
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
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Sermon Index
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April 3, 2011
My Daily Prayers and Readings for 3/28/2011
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As with everyday the is much to be thankful for and there is much to pray for; some days in giving thanks I feel much more appreciative for all my blessings than others, just as some days I feel the need to pray continually much more than others. Yet one thing remains, my conscious focus on You and my hope that each thought of thankfulness and prayer, each blessing and each name that I lift up to You, will be according to You will and purpose; and that in some way my conscious focus on You will be visible and cause others to bring their conscious focus onto You as well.
Abba Father in the name of Christ Jesus who lives within me through the Holy Spirit I pray that You create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me, for my one walk in and with Jesus today. Asking that You bless me and mine in fulfillment of Your will and keep us from evil and pain; and if we get nothing else done this day, let us spend it loving You and others as You love us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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ISN’T THERE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING?
“Let us go into Judea. His disciples say unto Him . . . Goest Thou thither again?” John 11:7-8
I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to say that therefore He was mistaken in what He said. It is never right to think that my obedience to a word of God will bring dishonour to Jesus. The only thing that will bring dishonour is not obeying Him. To put my view of His honour in place of what He is plainly impelling me to do is never right, although it may arise from a real desire to prevent Him being put to open shame. I know when the proposition comes from God because of its quiet persistence: When I have to weigh the pros and cons, and doubt and debate come in, I am bringing in an element that is not of God, and I come to the conclusion that the suggestion was not a right one. Many of us are loyal to our notions of Jesus Christ, but how many of us are loyal to Him? Loyalty to Jesus means I have to step out where I do not see anything (cf. Matt. 14:29); loyalty to my notions means that I clear the ground first by my intelligence. Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
Are you debating whether to take a step in faith in Jesus or to wait until you can see how to do the thing yourself? Obey Him with glad reckless joy. When He says something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a conception of His honour which is not His honour. Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him? Are you loyal to what He says, or are you trying to compromise with conceptions which never came from Him? “Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.”
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Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. Numbers 33:53
The praise and worship of the Lord on Sunday is an important part of our spiritual obedience. But God also cares about how we’re living from Monday through Saturday. The details might not seem glamorous or spiritually significant, but every part of our lives, from how we conduct ourselves at work to our attitudes toward our family members to how we organize our finances, matters to God.
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2 Kings 5:1-5
Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4
Luke 4:24-30
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Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in sight of all the peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel. — Simeon at the presentation of Jesus (Lk 2:29-32)
< >< Today in the Word >< >
End Times: Events Before the 2nd Coming: Part 2 – Listen now
Dr. Walvoord continues talking about the Great Tribulation and the judgments – Program Notes & Quotes
< >< Online Sources for Devotion Scripture References & Daily Mass Readings >< >
Link to Devotion Scriptures unless noted from New International Version BibleGateway.com
Links for today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible or
Links for today’s readings from EWTN using the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For audio link to today’s readings from USCCB using the New American Bible click:
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/11_03_28.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
< >< Bible Online >< >
BibleGateway.com
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YouVersion.com
< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
EWTN
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Moody Radio Online
Sermon Index
Today in the Word Radio Online
Today in the Word
Today in the Word Devotional
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