99 DON'T FORGET YOUR BIBLE!

 

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DON'T FORGET YOUR BIBLE!

Today's chapter is John 1

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Today we have opportunities we had before, we can hear the word of God, remember John 1 God's Word took up residence in us but we must fill ourselves with God's Word. The Triune grows when we hear God's Word and are the Word Do.

We all experience moments or times in our lives with change or difficult times and in these days we are all affected by the situation in Ukraine with people fleeing, families broken up, large losses of killed and wounded, even children and civilians

The question is how do we handle it in the best possible way?

King David shares his life, because he learned that by turning his face to God in praise and thanksgiving - it gave him a strong and fruitful life.

Later we read in Psalm 145:5 that he also meditated on the wonderful things that God had done.

ONE GENERATION SHALL TELL
THE NEXT,
THAT YOUR WONDERFUL
WORKS ARE WITHOUT SIDE
PUBLIC SHALL TELL OF
YOUR GLORY AND POWER,
AND I WILL ALWAYS
REMEMBER YOUR WONDERS.

When we need to ponder something, the best way is for us to find the Bible, and read and study the Word of God, and then ponder the Word and let it speak to us.
We cannot read the Bible like we might read a novel, skim the pages quickly, and then we are done. It takes prayer and time to read but also to listen to what the Word says in your and my situation.

The Holy Spirit comes to our aid and makes the Word come alive!
THE LORD IS GRACIOUS
AND MERCIFUL,
HE LOVES US
WITH AN UNSTOPABLE
LOVE…

We know it well – Time is running out and we have other tasks to do. On the one hand, we want to immerse ourselves and listen to God’s voice within us, but we live in a busy time where it requires discipline to find the Bible.

When we finally manage to find the Bible, our thoughts are bombarded with all sorts of things that we need to decide on – and unfortunately we can easily fall away from our good intention of reading and studying

the Word.
It seems like everything else is more important than reading, listening and letting the Word speak to us…

THE LORD RAISES THE FALLEN AND SUPPORTS THE ONE WHO SLOWS UNDER THE BURDEN.

When we first get started, we will almost experience a thirst to read the Word again – We experience how even familiar texts suddenly become alive and useful to us:
GOD SPEAKS TO US
THROUGH HIS WORD,
EVEN TODAY!
What we get out of reading, studying and listening to the voice and guidance of the Holy Spirit surpasses everything else!

Try to find time to read the entire Psalm 145 today. Pray about it and let God’s living Word speak into your life and situation

God asks you Adam, man where are you?
Amen

98 COMMUNITY WITH GOD

 

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COMMUNITY WITH GOD

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Today's chapter is Jeremiah 24

God o Jesus is one Lord one God

Everyone wants peace. That Peace you find snug in Jesus within Him and Him in you.

God's Word is the gospel of peace just for you who are seeking true peace.

Jeremiah 24:7
Many of us have been blessed with good friends. Imagine that we never spent time with them, and instead just thought and talked about how wonderful these friends are. That would be a silly way to have friends, and not last long. Some Christians almost feel that way. They have a great knowledge of the Word, and know all the right words, but they still lack the close fellowship with God our Father and his son Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, it is possible to fill your life with spiritual activities, information and knowledge – all of which are good, but if we do not develop a true and genuine fellowship with JESUS, then something important is missing!

Look at your own life to see the truth. Do you only go to church out of duty? Do you pray arrogantly and superiorly, or do you pray from your heart? Do you have all the right words, but not the fellowship with God? Do you know better? Do we serve God with gratitude and with joy or out of duty?

The Bible tells of many who had a personal encounter with God or Jesus and which always led to life transformation: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Gideon, the Samaritan woman, Paul and many others we find in the Gospels. We do not expect, like Moses, the experience with the burning bush, but we must and must all have a personal encounter where we experience God's presence, transformation, care and fellowship with Him

If we open up to it, then as God's beloved children we can also in 2019 experience that He speaks to us, into our lives and transforms.
THEREFORE, IN HUMILITY, SURROUND YOURSELVES TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. DRAW CLOSE TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW CLOSE TO YOU. James 4:7-8
Walking close to God means devotion to God, changing priorities in your life with many things - but it is all worth it.

If you think you do not hear God's voice, be aware that God is the word. God speaks through all things, including through your siblings in Jesus. The Word Jesus became flesh and dwelt in you, it happened at your new birth John 3. The Holy Spirit lives in you.

You don't have to run from one thing to another to have a Spiritual experience, Jesus the Word is inside you
Amen

97 WE JESUS-BELIEVES ARE ALSO STRANGE!

 

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WE JESUS-BELIEVES ARE ALSO STRANGE!

Today's chapter is 1 Peter 2

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We are still in 1 Peter 2:9, which says:
“You have become a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people.”
REJOICE that you have been given GRACE to believe in JESUS ​​- and thereby are part of God's chosen race, His Royal Priesthood, God's Holy People and His own people.
But thereby you are also part of a people that the world sees as STRANGE. Not because you dress in a special way - or wear a special emblem, as for example many Jewish men do in the form of the kippah - a small round head covering.

We are STRANGE because of JESUS ​​and WHAT we BELIEVE in.
The vast majority of the world considers it STRANGE to believe in the Bible's creation account.
It is STRANGE to believe that there are only two genders, that marriage is only between a man and a woman, that the little fetus in the mother's womb is a fully-fledged human being.

It is not only STRANGE, but FOOLISH to believe that a crucified carpenter from Nazareth was the Son of God in the flesh - and that believing in Him makes me a saved, justified and forgiven person.

It is STRANGE to believe in God's election of Israel, that Jesus came to Israel the first time - and He is coming to Israel again. And it is EXTREMELY STRANGE to believe in a RAPTURE, A NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH AND NEW JERUSALEM.

It is STRANGE to talk about two men working together; but suddenly one is gone - and the other is left behind.

It is ok to talk about a Heaven; but it is STRANGE and TERRIBLE to talk about PERISHMENT AND HELL.
Why do we do it then?

Why don't we just keep it to ourselves?

Because: “THE LOVE OF CHRIST COMPELLS US!”
(2 Cor. 5:14)
Because we love our family and fellow human beings -
we want to tell them THE TRUTH -
because ONLY THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE.

96ALL POWER

 

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ALL POWER

Today's chapter is John 10

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Jesus is Lord of your situation let go do you believe in Jesus he has all power right now.

We may experience illness, anxiety, unemployment, relationship difficulties and difficult times in different ways, and it seems difficult to relate to God's words and promises, which are also valid today.
When Jesus spoke to his disciples for the last time, he said something that far exceeded anything they could have imagined:
ALL POWER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH

So Jesus did not only have great power. No, he states that he has ALL POWER, and that he has it both in heaven and on earth.

One could easily be tempted to draw the wrong conclusions from Jesus' words about his unlimited power. One might imagine that then no enemies would be allowed to touch a single hair on the head of his friends, and that no one in power would lay a hand on them.

But the account in the Acts of the Apostles about the fate of the disciples clearly shows that this was not the case. They soon came to experience both persecution and murder.
We do not experience persecution and murder, but we can experience other situations where we ask:
WHERE ARE YOU JESUS ​​WITH ALL YOUR POWER?

Did that mean that Jesus had taken too much? No, it meant that he exercised his power both then and today in a different way than we are inclined to wish.
We are also left with unanswered questions. There is so much that we think he could use his great power to change. But Jesus never promised us ready-made answers to everything we do not understand. He does not deny that God’s ways are inscrutable. But He gives us the promise that we are invited to grasp and be carried by:

"NO ONE SHALL Pluck THEM
OUT OF MY HAND." (John 10:28).

Let us grasp the words ALL POWER, which simply means ALL POWER!

It is not you who should rule/control others or your life situation

Jesus is Lord and has all power.
amen