My Daily Prayers and Readings for 1/06/2011
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Yesterday’s Today in the Word Devotion addressed something that You know has been on my mind a lot lately. ‘Being a good steward means that we don’t have to obsessively try to control every detail or make plans for every contingency.’ ‘When our plans are submitted to God’s will, we acknowledge and depend upon Him as the Provider who cares for us.’ We must keep our ‘eyes on the Lord and followed His call to be generous.’ ‘The point here is not that we shouldn’t make plans—the point is not to have faith in those plans and by extension our own brilliant strategy or competent execution. Nothing is certain except that God is in control.’ ‘To be frank, we don’t even know what tomorrow will bring. Our knowledge is limited, our lives are but a vapor, and many factors could disrupt our plans.’ ‘We should plan for the future with a humble spirit—our finiteness makes speaking with certainty a prideful thing to do. To talk as if a plan has already come to pass is empty bragging.’ ‘For all of us, the bottom line is that all our plans should be made in submission to God’s will.’
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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WORSHIP
“And he pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar.” Genesis 12:8
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself, it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
Bethel is the symbol of communion with God; Ai is the symbol of the world. Abraham pitched his tent between the two. The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him. Rush is wrong every time, there is always plenty of time to worship God. Quiet days with God may be a snare. We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be. There are not three stages in spiritual life – worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God’s idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.
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