Word for Today, Fri, 18 Nov 2005: Weekly Verses
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
Here is this week's collection of Weekly Verses,
thoughts, and prayers from Phil Ware's collection at
http://www.heartlight.org.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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Weekly Verses November 14, 2005
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Monday
Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for
the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to
death in the body but made alive by the Spirit. --1
Peter 3:18 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Having stood over the open graves of friends, family
members, and strangers, I know the appearance and feel
of death's finality and our human frailty. But Christ's
death is that great reminder that death is a matter of
perspective and faith. I believe God raised Jesus from
the dead and that he is the first fruits of those of us
who believe in him. He is alive, not just in Spirit,
but in bodily form and so we will also be!
MY PRAYER...
Almighty God, thank you for the gifts of your grace,
Spirit, forgiveness and life. Most of all, thanks for
the gift of your Son, who brought life and immortality
to me through your salvation. While I have no great
desire to die, I know I can look through death to you
and your victory in me through Jesus. Please give me
the courage to live for you every day until that day
you take me home. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.
Tuesday
Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your
commands are my delight. --Psalm 119:143 New
International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
This verse is hard for me, because I know I am so
blessed. Trouble and distress do not seem to be a part
of my vocabulary right now. But I know in many places
in the world, this statement is true of Christians who
are under attack and live under the threat of
persecution and death. But their love for God and their
commitment to obedience is greater than Satan's threats
because God's will is their delight.
MY PRAYER...
Majestic and holy God, I ask you to bless and liberate
your church that is under persecution. But Father, I
ask that if deliverance is not what is coming, I pray
for my brothers and sisters and myself, that we may be
found faithful in death before surrendering to
compromise. Please strengthen our faith: we believe but
help our unbelief. Empower us through your Spirit to be
obedient: forgive us when we fall. Most of all, deliver
us without fault into your glorious presence. In Jesus
we find our salvation and assurance. Amen.
Wednesday
Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your
law. --Psalm 119:18 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
>From our perspective of grace, having been liberated
from law-keeping as a means of justification and
righteousness, this is a very fitting prayer. We can
look around our world and see the anarchy and brutality
when there is no principle of law undergirding the soul
of a society. God's law provided so many wonderful
blessings, and can still bless us today if we will let
it. But the greatest blessing of the O.T. Law is Jesus,
in whom all of God's promises find their fulfillment.
MY PRAYER...
Holy Father, thank you for your righteousness. Knowing
that you will dispense justice and settle all injustice
when you judge the earth gives me comfort because I
know that through Jesus, you see me as righteous. My
prayer today is that I can live in a way that brings
honor to you and reflects the character of your Son
when he walked this earth. Through him I pray. Amen.
Thursday
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my
path. Psalm 119:105 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
God's promises, God's Scripture, help us find our way
in a pluralistic world of competing voices and lights
our path in these times so given to cynicism and
despair. What great grace we have to know God's will in
our own words!
MY PRAYER...
Loving Father, thank you for giving me your truth in
Scripture. To know that you love me enough to
communicate in language I can read is truly awe
inspiring to me. Make my heart hunger for your truth
revealed in your Word. I want to grow to be a righteous
and gracious child in your family. With love through my
older brother I pray. Amen.
Friday
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
John 17:17 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
God's promises, God's Scripture, and God's clearest
message of all, his Son, are truth. But only the last
of these is truth, grace, deliverer, friend, Lord,
Savior, brother, Redeemer...
MY PRAYER...
O God, give me a holy passion to know your truth and
live it in both word and deed. Make my life a
reflection of your Word, who both proclaimed and lived
your truth. In him I pray. Amen.
Saturday
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of
the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the
seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the
Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
--Psalm 1:1-2 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
I get to choose which sources of information I feed my
mind. But this privilege and freedom is also a
responsibility. God longs to bless me, but that
blessing remains dormant until my heart delights in
knowing and doing his will.
MY PRAYER...
Wondrous Creator, just as you fashioned such a
beautiful world and put me together in my mother's
womb, I also ask that you create in me a desire to know
your truth and an insight into how to live that truth.
I know your Holy Spirit is in me to help me in this
journey, but I want so much to please you and bless you
because of all the ways you have blessed me. In Jesus
name I pray. Amen.
Sunday
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout
aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before
him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and
song. --Psalm 95:1-2 New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Joy knows no better explanation than laughter and song.
We sing to the Lord because we are joyful! Our music is
not inhibited or held back, but exuberant and as full
of sound as it is of heart. Thanksgiving brings us into
the Father's presence and it is our joy at being saved
that leads us to sing.
MY PRAYER...
O most wonderful and glorious God, thank you so much
for saving me from sin, death, law, and futility. Thank
you for saving me and giving me the assurance, through
your Holy Spirit, that I can come before you with
exuberant and overflowing joy. Your love and grace have
not only given me hope but have made me your child.
Hear my heart and be blessed by my songs of praise.
Through Jesus I pray and because of Jesus I will shout
your praise forever and ever. Amen.
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