Word for Today, Mon, 28 Mar 2005: Weekly Verses
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
I really have not been able to write my own columns much at all
in recent months, nor have I even been able to get out daily
devotional messages with any regularity. It is my earnest prayer
that each of you have established your own personal relationship
with our Lord, and that you have established your own habits
regarding Bible reading, study, prayer time, and thinking about
the things of God. Moreover, it is my prayer that you have also
established your own resources. Crosswalk.com is but one of many
online resources that you can use to do your own online research.
Gospelcom.net is another really good online source. Of course,
nothing replaces having a good old fashioned and trustworthy
Bible at your study desk, your reading chair, and/or your bedside
table.
If you don't have your own personal time with God each day, if I
share nothing else with you, I urge each one of you to have a
private time with God, regardless of what you find or do not find
in your computer's Email box.
My goal in this ministry is simply to provide you with some tools
and give you some things to think about. Ultimately, each of us
will have to give an account to our gracious and loving God. If
we trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, realizing that
we desperately need Him to forgive us for the wrongs we do and
the things we neglect to do, then when we go to meet our Lord, we
will meet Him at the Judgment Seat of Christ. In that place, we
will find that all of our sins will have been washed clean. We
will then have to give an account, however, of what we have done
with the freedom we have found in Christ. On the other hand, if
we have never really completely trusted in Christ as our only
source of hope, the only One who can really save us from our own
sin, then we will face a very scary eternity. We will have to
give an account of our lives at the Great White Throne, and we
will have no defense.
Make sure that you understand what all of this means. Read your
own Bibles, and ask trustworthy people for answers. I am always
willing to talk to anyone, yet I encourage each of you to find
trustworthy Christians where you live - for accountability, for
sharing your faith, for people to talk and share with, for
friendship, and for extending your local Christian community. By
the way, all of those things are acts of obedience that you will
understand when you faithfully read God's Word, the Bible, and
apply it daily to your personal life.
These are some of the things that really matter to me.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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Weekly Verses
from Crosswalk.com
http://www.crosswalkmail.com/hejabks_birmzm.html
March 28, 2005
These verses are taken from Heartlight Daily Verse, by Phil Ware
http://www.crosswalkmail.com/ovmtpon_birmzm.html
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MONDAY
Jesus said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must
deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For
whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses
his life for me will save it.
--Luke 9:23-24
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
"I've just got to find myself." Won't ever happen. We do
not "find ourselves, our life" by pursuing it. We find it by
losing it to something or someone greater than ourselves. We
find our life be losing it to Jesus and the work of his Kingdom.
MY PRAYER...
Master and Maker of all that lives and breathes, take my life
and every breath and use it for your glory. May my words and
actions this day be pleasing to you. Through Jesus I offer you
this prayer and praise. Amen.
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TUESDAY
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came
by Christ Jesus.
--Romans 3:23-24
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
"I blew it!" Come to think of it, we've all blown it! We
don't measure up. We're not divine. We might be decent, but
decent won't do. Only the divine, the truly righteous, make it
past the grave in glory. Thank God that grace is freely given
and the price for our sin was paid by Jesus. While I "blew it"
he renewed it!
MY PRAYER...
Kind and Loving Father, thank you for being so generous with
your grace. May I be as passionate for your righteousness as
you were in redeeming me from my sin. Through Jesus I ask
this. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY
I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you... that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he
was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according
Scriptures.
--1 Corinthians 15:1-4
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
The Gospel story is pretty simple to understand. The grace
of the Gospel is glorious to receive. The sacrifice of the
Gospel is incomprehensible. The victory of the Gospel is life.
MY PRAYER...
Almighty Lord, thank you for the empty tomb and Jesus'
victory over the grave. Just as Jesus' death pardoned my sin,
his resurrection assures my future. Thank you for grace and
glory. May my life today be lived by the power of the
resurrection. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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THURSDAY
This is why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's
servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone
what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then
revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
--Romans 13:6-7
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Owe! Tax day. Not my favorite, how about yours? But where
would we be without government, order and laws? While we may
not like how the system functions today, what if we had no
system? Let's be redemptive in our living and obedient in our
citizenship.
MY PRAYER...
Holy God, I thank you that I am free in you and belong to no
man or power. Yet because I want your name to be respected, I
pledge to obey the laws of this land as long as they do not run
directly in contradiction to your will. At the same time, I
fervently pray that you heal our land. Through Jesus I pray.
Amen.
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FRIDAY
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to
love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled
the law.
--Romans 13:8
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
He paid a debt and I owe one. Thank God I don't owe the debt
for my sin, but I owe others the same love, respect and grace
with which God has treated me!
MY PRAYER...
Holy God who owns all things, I thank you for not just owning
me, but for having bought me out of slavery, sin, and death.
Please kindle love in my heart through the Holy Spirit so I will
love others as you do. In Jesus' name.
Amen.
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SATURDAY
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
--1 Corinthians 1:18
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Power! We love power. We love the sound and fury of power.
We love the ability to change things that power brings. But the
greatest power ever unleashed on this earth was the power
displayed when the Almighty God held back his power while his
Son was persecuted and murdered so we could be saved. Now
that's an awesome display of power.
MY PRAYER...
Holy and Majestic God on high, I praise you for your
incredible might and power. But I also thank you for your love,
which guides the release of that power. Thank you for knowing
that I am but dust without your sustaining Spirit. Thank you
for saving me by withholding your mighty power so I could be
pardoned by your sacrificial power. Through Jesus' mercy I
offer this prayer. Amen. ~~~~~~~~~
SUNDAY
If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,
and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
--Romans 10:9-10
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Imagine Jesus being proud of you! He said if we confess him
before others here on earth, he will speak up for us in heaven.
Confessing that Jesus is Lord is simply acknowledging the truth.
But for believers, it is more than that, since at the close of
time every knee will bow and every tongue confess his name. For
us, confessing Jesus is anticipating his triumph in which we
will share.
MY PRAYER...
Mighty God, your Son is my Lord. I love him and praise him
for his redeeming sacrifice. I thank him for his conquest of
the grave. I marvel at his sacrificial and triumphant grace.
Jesus is Lord. I know it sounds sweet in your ears so I say it
again, Jesus is my Lord. Thank you for being so great that you
would be so sacrificial. Through my Lord and Savior I offer
this thanks. Amen.
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