Word for Today, Mon, 8 Jan 2001: Making Time?
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
If you are anything like me at all, you find that you'd like to
do many things, but simply do not have enough time to do them
all. That may be true when it comes to reading and absorbing the
stuff I send out, too. That's OK, I can appreciate that. If you
like the stuff that gets sent out, but only occasionally have
time to read it all, may I suggest this one?
It has very short verses for each day of the week, then a short,
one paragraph meditation for each day of the week. It is not the
only way to do things, but if time is short, and meditation,
scripture, and prayer are important to you, this might be one
option. Print this out and look at the message for each day
before you go to bed... then it will be the last thing on your
mind when you go to bed, and the first thing when you get up.
Remember to think about the Lord every day, read His Word and
pray every day, even if you don't have a lot of spare time. It
is time well spent, arguably time best spent.
God bless each of you!
Dear God,
I can never give You enough honor, praise, and credit for all that You do.
But I confess, Lord, that I do have difficulty prioritizing my time and
giving You the first place in my life that You deserve. Please help me
to seek You first, in spite of the tyranny that often occupies the events
of my life. You will always be my first love. May it be so in the things
that I do as well. But help me, I am weak and so prone to be affected by
the things around me. I need Your Spirit, alive and at work in everything
that I think, do, and say. Amen.
Brother Brian
Subject: Weekly Verses from Crosswalk.com
To:<masinick@yahoo.com>
From: Crosswalk.com <newsletters@crosswalk.com>
Weekly Verses
from Crosswalk.com
http://www.crosswalk.com
1/8/00
These verses are taken from TODAY'S VERSE, by Phil Ware
< devotionals.crosswalk.com/TodaysVerse >
We hope they're a blessing to your week!
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MONDAY
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone,
the new has come!
--2 Corinthians 5:17
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
We all like "do-overs" or second chances. God does much
better than that! He allows us to become new again. Being the
"God of new things" he can even make us new. Beyond forgiveness,
beyond cleansing, he makes us holy through Jesus. Let's use the
opportunity of a New Year as a springboard to living a life
fresh and new and alive to God!
MY PRAYER...
O LORD, thank you for a New Year and a fresh start. Please
give me wisdom and strength to serve you with integrity and
faithfulness in this coming year. I pray that your work be done
in my life as I offer myself, my plans, and my future to you. I
pray this through Jesus, my intercessor and Lord. Amen.
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TUESDAY
Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of
wisdom.
--Psalms 90:12
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
So often we look up and time has passed us by. The things we
promised ourselves we'd accomplish and the deeds we told others
we'd do get left undone. Before we know it, days have become
weeks, and weeks months, and months years. We find ourselves
unable to do what we once assumed we could do any time we want.
We must ask the Spirit of God to help us see and seize the
opportunities the LORD places in our path.
MY PRAYER...
Father, I confess that so often I leave undone what needs to
be done. Please help me see your plans in each of my days and
live in a way which not only honors you, but also blesses those
you want me to reach. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY
The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
It teaches us to say 'No' to ungodliness and worldly passions,
and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this
present age.
--Titus 2:11-12
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
In a world that has no absolutes, in a world in search of
moral standards, salvation by the costly grace of God beckons us
to change our lifestyle in response to God's grace. Anyone who
receives grace and refuses to pursue righteousness demonstrates
his/her ignorance or hardness of heart. In our day, in our time,
to be saved means to pursue righteousness -- not so that we may
earn our salvation, but so that God's saving grace will not be
fruitless in us.
MY PRAYER...
Holy Father, I confess that I live in a confusing time. Satan
is always distorting the distinction between right and wrong,
good and evil, moral and immoral. Because you have been so
gracious with me, may my life today reflect the righteousness
you gave me through Jesus. "May the words of my mouth and the
thoughts of my heart, be pleasing in your sight, my Rock and my
Redeemer." Through Jesus, my atoning sacrifice I pray. Amen.
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THURSDAY
[God] has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the
Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.
--Micah 6:8
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
God's desires for us are not hard to discern. He wants to
bless us with salvation. The incredible gift of his Son is
powerful testimony to this truth. But salvation from sin and
death is not something he wants to happen in our lives only
once. He wants our lives to daily reflect his salvation and to
share it with others. We should act justly and pursue mercy in
our relationships, and honor him with our worship from a humble
heart.
MY PRAYER...
Almighty and compassionate Father, as I embrace this New
Year, help my eyes see what your heart sees. Teach me to hate
sin and be merciful to the repentant. Teach me to know truth
and act fairly, while hating abuse and exploitation. Through
your Spirit, stir me to reflect on the great distance between
your holy majesty and my inconsistent character. Make me more
your child, I pray, in Jesus name. Amen.
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FRIDAY
Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage
the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless.
--Isaiah 1:16-17
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Do you find it easy to replace service to those in need with
religious rituals? I know I do! But God wants us to not get so
caught up in talking about him and celebrating his deeds, that
we forget we're supposed to care for others like he does.
Whether it is Jesus defining his ministry in Luke 4:18-19 or
James talking about the kind of piety that pleases God
(1:26-27), we must realize true faith is treating others as God
would. Today's verse defines what God does and asks us to live
the same.
MY PRAYER...
O Great God of all comfort, open my eyes today to see those
who need your love and give me the attentiveness, time, and
compassion to serve them. May Jesus' work be seen in my life
today. Amen.
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SATURDAY
Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope
fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is
revealed.
--1 Peter 1:13
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
When Jesus came the first time, he came to reveal God (John
1:18). As wonderful, powerful, and gracious as he was in his
earthly ministry, it did not fully reveal Jesus our Lord. Our
hope is tied to his return. When he comes this time, he won't
come to reveal God, but to reveal himself -- the conquering
Lord, the Rider on the white horse. Every knee will bow. And
we will see him as he really and fully is, Immanuel in power and
grace. With this as our hope, we can be ready for active
service to our king as people who live their lives under his
leadership and control.
MY PRAYER...
O Almighty God, I long for the day when I get to see Jesus
face to face coming with the angels in power. Until that time,
fasten my heart in hope to the glory Jesus will share with me on
that day, and please empower me to live as one who knows that
victory is mine in Jesus. Jesus, through your powerful name I
pray. Amen.
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SUNDAY
Be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live a life of
love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a
fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
--Ephesians 5:1-2
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. If we are to
sincerely flatter God by being like him, imitation may be the
most costly form of flattery as well. You see, love for God is
never something that occurs just in our minds or our hearts.
Love is something we do for another -- it is action. John said
in 1 John 4 that we must love in both our deeds and our words.
Love means to give ourselves up -- what we want, our rights, our
desires -- to honor God and serve others. This is a kind of
love that can change the world, or a marriage, or a family.
MY PRAYER...
Abba Father, I will never fully understand how you could love
me so much that you would allow your son to die for me as my
sacrifice. Please help me love others sacrificially. I know
the power to do this is not within me, so please pour your love
into my heart so that I may share that love with others. Through
Jesus, my brother and my sacrifice, I pray. Amen.
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