My Daily Prayers and Readings for 4/08/2011
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The world under the sun challenges us to conform to it; to get along, to succeed and to walk according to its ways. This often makes the life of a Christian very difficult and for me clearly defines believer, from follower, from disciple. Just as Jesus made it uncomfortable for those wanting to live according to their time in Jesus’ time, Jesus in us via the Holy Spirit makes it uncomfortable for those wanting to live according to this time. This challenges us beyond the challenges we already face and forces us to act in every moment under the sun. But once Jesus is in us we no longer act on our will without knowing His will, and each decision we make we make with or without Him. And while we will never know what and how He suffered, we will feel the resentment He felted, but we are not alone, for He is always with us, when we are aware and conscious He is in us.
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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HIS RESURRECTION DESTINY
“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” Luke 24:26
Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the Risen Lord His very life.
Our Lord’s Resurrection destiny is to bring “many sons unto glory.” The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When Our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in newness of life. “I would know Him in the power of His resurrection.”
“As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.” “Holy Spirit” is the experimental name for Eternal Life working in human beings here and now. The Holy Spirit is the Deity in proceeding power Who applies the Atonement to our experience. Thank God it is gloriously and majestically true that the Holy Ghost can work in us the very nature of Jesus if we will obey Him.
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Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? Luke 5:34
If many of us are honest, the attitude of the Pharisees might feel familiar. It’s often easy to critique someone’s choice of friends or seeming lack of piety. We become indignant when others don’t follow our interpretation of what’s appropriate. When we are tempted to react like the Pharisees, we should search the Scriptures and pray, inviting the Holy Spirit to search our own hearts. We want to follow Jesus in having the spiritual wisdom to know what is truly important and honoring to God.
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Wisdom 2:1, 12-22
Psalm 34:17-21, 23
John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
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Love the poor tenderly, regarding them as your masters and yourselves as their servants. — St. John of God
< >< Today in the Word >< >
End Times: The Judgment Seat of Christ Part 2 – Listen now
Dr. Strauss focus is on Enoch and what it meant to walk with God – 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_08.mp3
For link to today’s video Reflection http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml
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< >< Other sources of inspiration on God’s Word >< >
Christianity – Faith in God and Jesus Christ
Light Source – Christian Video Broadcasts and Ministry Television Online
Moody Ministries – From the Word to Life
Today in the Word Radio Online
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