Word for Today, Tue, 04 Mar 2003: Weekly Verses
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
This week, I'd like to share a resource that I haven't passed
along a few weeks, the Weekly Verses, the full week of short
verses, thoughts, and prayers from the writings of Phil Ware.
This week's collection of verses carry the theme and reminder of
God's amazing love for us, an attribute not seen so clearly in
any other faith or religion. We also get a glimpse of God's
power and strength, his awesome attributes, and our appropriate
response of love, praise, and adoration, as well as our acts of
obedience and service.
I pray that each of you will grasp how wide, long, high, and deep
the love of God is (see Ephesians 3:14-21) and also what a
healthy response we may exhibit (see Philippians 4:4-9).
Dear Lord,
I thank you for Your Word, which records and demonstrates Your
great love for Your people, Your great patience as You patiently
wait for people to respond of their own will to Your call.
Wonderful, merciful Savior, I appreciate You, I love You, and I
worship You, with every part of my being.
Forgive me for those times when I forget just how much You mean
and how much I need You. You are worthy of my love and praise,
not just when it is convenient for me, but at all times. I
openly confess my need of You and earnestly seek You. Amen.
Your Brother in Christ,
Brian
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Weekly Verses
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March 3, 2003
These verses are taken from TODAY'S VERSE, by Phil Ware
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MONDAY
We love because [God] first loved us.
--1 John 4:19
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
It's all very simple. God is love. He is its origin,
example, and architect. I love because he loved me first. I
know how to love because he has demonstrated it. I can love
because he made me to have his likeness. He is the fountain,
the motivation, and the pinnacle of love. I love because he
does, first, last, and always.
MY PRAYER...
God of comfort, thank you for comforting me with your love.
Just as a child learns from parents how to do so many things, I
want to learn to love as you do: sacrificially, selflessly,
and submissively, so that others may know that they do not have
to earn your love, only receive it. In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
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TUESDAY
Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest
commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as
yourself.
--Matthew 22:37-39
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Some things are just not very complicated. Living for Jesus
can be boiled down to two principles: love God with everything
I am and have, and love others and treat them as I would like
to be treated. Not too hard to understand. I guess it's
living it that is the challenge!
MY PRAYER...
O Living and only True God. Please accept the work of my
hands, the words of my mouth, the moments of my rest, and the
love of my heart as my worship to you this day. I pray that it
is pleasing and refreshing to you. Through your only Son I
pray. Amen.
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WEDNESDAY
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and
only Son into the world that we might live through him.
--1 John 4:9
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Love is a verb. We can't say it enough. Love must not only
be spoken, but must also be shown. The beginning of love is
God. He showed his love in the most sacrificial of ways so we
could know our incredible value to him. The price of our
adoption was the emptying of heaven of its greatest treasure,
God the Son, who is our Savior.
MY PRAYER...
Loving Father, thank you for adopting me into your family.
I can never thank you enough or ever repay you for your
kindness, but please receive the service of my life today as
thanksgiving for your grace and my small way of trying to share
the love you have given me. Through my Brother and my Ransom I
pray. Amen.
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THURSDAY
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with
actions and in truth.
--1 John 3:18
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
"Talk is cheap!" "You can tell me with your words, but I'll
show it with my life." "Put your life where your mouth is." We
know the slogans, now let's live love in truth. In a world
where barter has replaced sacrificial and steadfast love, let's
go against the grain and do the truth!
MY PRAYER...
Sacrificial Father, I confess to you that at times I am
selfish. Other times my intentions are good, but my follow-
through and faithfulness are lacking. Use your Spirit to
empower and enable me to be what I hope to become, to your
glory. May your love be seen in my actions of genuine concern
today. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
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FRIDAY
God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of
power, of love, and of self-discipline.
--2 Timothy 1:7
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Power! We like that concept. When it is godly power, might
does make right, because godly power is accompanied by love and
self-discipline. These three together make a person's life
effective. Live life to its fullest: not as a closet
Christian, afraid of standing true and firm, but one who lives
by God's power, shares God's love, and displays God's virtues.
MY PRAYER...
Holy God, you are without comparison in your majesty and
might. I have no right to come into your presence, and yet you
have invited me here by your love and your grace. You are my
Rock, my Fortress, and my Strength. I depend upon your
guidance and your mercy to sustain me through my storms and to
reclaim me from my stumbles. Holy God, you are without
comparison and I worship you. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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SATURDAY
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire
besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the
strength of my heart and my portion forever.
--Psalm 73:25-26
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
What can truly fulfill and sustain us? Maybe the best way
to answer that question is by asking another: What can we keep
when our bodies are placed silently in their graves at death?
Only our relationship with God and his people last beyond the
grave. If he is what lasts, then how can we displace him for
anything that doesn't?
MY PRAYER...
Mighty Yahweh, Strength of Israel, Keeper of the Covenant
and Fulfillment Maker of every prophecy--you are my hope, my
strength, and my future. I live this day in wide-open
amazement that the Keeper of the Universe knows my name, hears
my voice, and cares for me. Thank you for being my past, my
present, and my future, the Great I Am. Through my Savior, I
pray. Amen.
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SUNDAY
He knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will
come forth as gold. My feet have closely followed his steps; I
have kept to his way without turning aside.
--Job 23:10-11
New International Version
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
How we long for this to be our true confession. We are not
yet gold, but long to be. We are not yet fully following his
steps, but are trying. We have tried not to turn aside, but we
sometimes falter. Thank God for his grace until our intentions
and desires are fulfilled!
MY PRAYER...
Magnificent Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, I confess
my sin and my inablitiy to follow your paths. Forgive me. I
commit my life to serve you in holiness and joy. Thank you for
your grace, which covers my sin, and perfect in me the
character of Jesus. Through him I pray. Amen.
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