Word for Today SUPPLEMENT: Weekly Verses from Phil Ware at Crosswalk.com
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
I like to send these out to you whenever I get a hold of them,
with the hope that they will be a useful source of encouragement
to some of you. I managed to receive these on Monday this week,
so they can be useful right away.
The theme of the messages this week is love - the love of God,
the definition of love, as God sees it, the gift of love, as God
has expressed it to us, our response to Him, as we recognize the
extent of His love for us, how that love can and ought to affect
us and others, and some final assurances that nothing can
separate us from the love of God, the love shown through Christ.
Brother Brian
Subject: Weekly Verses from Crosswalk.com
From: Crosswalk.com <newsletters@crosswalk.com>
Weekly Verses
from Crosswalk.com
http://www.crosswalk.com
2/19/01
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
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
--I Corinthians 13:6-7
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Always love - pretty tall order and pretty tough stuff. Only God
is "always." But then Christians are fueled to a always love
through the Holy Spirit! Check out the promised source of
"always" love in Romans 5:5.
MY PRAYER...
Sweet and Glorious God on High, I humble myself before you,
recognizing your boundless power to love, the incredible need
for love in the lives of those around me, and my limited ability
to love. Please pour your Holy Spirit into my heart and fill me
with the power to love as you do, always. In Jesus' sweet name I
pray. Amen.
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TUESDAY
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
life.
--John 3:16
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Did you know the Bible doesn't just say, "God loves you?"
Now don't let me confuse you, it does say God loves us many
times, but each time it does, it shows us that love as well.
God loved us so much time he didn't just say I love you with a
valentine, he showed he loved us by sending his Son!
MY PRAYER...
Loving and almighty God, thank you for loving me. Thank you
for both saying it and showing it. Please know, dear Father, I
love you, too! Accept my words and actions today as a testimony
to my love. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved
you , so you must love one another. By this all men will know
that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
--John 13:34-35
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
How do you recognize Jesus' followers? How do you find
Christians? Jesus said they love each other just as he loved
the disciples. In the immediate context, this means he is
willing to give sacrificially and extravagantly by dying for
them on the cross, and he is also willing to love selflessly and
practically by washing their feet. His ministry reveals he also
will do almost anything in between extravagant and practical.
Imagine if we all read the Gospels, and committed to love each
other in the same way Jesus showed his love to his disciples!
MY PRAYER...
Father of Compassion and God of all grace, I thank you for
teaching me to love through the example of Jesus. May my words
and actions reflect some resemblance of his love toward your
people today. Through Christ, my Great Example, I pray. Amen.
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THURSDAY
This is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us and
sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
--I John 4:11
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
He loved us first! He offered his Son to save us regardless
of our decision to believe or ignore his grace. We are given the
ability to accept or reject the death of his Son as the
sacrifice for our sins. The only condition, as 1 John 2:1-2
emphasizes, is that we realize that he died for everyone else in
the world, too!
MY PRAYER...
Precious King, God Almighty, why you should love me and send
Jesus to die for me I will never fully understand. Thank you for
your love. Thank you for your sacrifice for my sins. Thank you,
Jesus, for coming to save me. I pray in your name and by your
intercession. Amen.
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FRIDAY
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love
one another.
--I John 3:10
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
The original message - love one another. The enduring message
- love one another. The most convicting message - love one
another. The most difficult message - love one another. I'm
reminded of the little verse: To dwell above with saints we
love, O that will be glory. But to dwell below with saints we
know, now that's another story. But it's the story we're called
to write!
MY PRAYER...
Loving Father, I commit to you that I will intentionally show
my love for your children this week in what I do and say. I do
this, trusting your grace to empower me to do more than I would
do on my own. Through Jesus my Savior I pray. Amen.
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SATURDAY
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or
hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or sword? No, in
all these things we are more than conquerors through him who
loved us.
--Romans 8:35-37
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Conquerors! We win!! When you open up the final book of the
Bible, Revelation, that is the message - Christians win because
Jesus is the one true conqueror. No matter how the battle is
going for you right now, remember that in the end, we win!
MY PRAYER...
El Shaddai, God Almighty, thank you for securing the ultimate
victory for me by raising Jesus from the dead. I know he is
coming with victory on the day you have determined, but I pray
that I may live victoriously for you until that day. Through
Jesus my conquering King I pray. Amen.
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SUNDAY
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither present nor the future, nor powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is ours in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
--Romans 8:38-39
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Separation is something we fear whether it's from a child, a
parent, a sibling, a spouse, a friend, or from God. Because
Jesus bore the separation from God, becoming and going to the
cross, we can know we won't have to ever be separated from God's
love.
MY PRAYER...
Great Father of all peoples, thank you for loving me. Thank
you for giving me the promise that nothing can separate me from
your love. Please fill me with your Spirit and make me more
aware of your accompanying presence in my life today. I pray in
Jesus name. Amen.
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