Quote from Forum Archives on November 13, 2000, 5:53 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

What things are your priorities? How much time do you spend
doing them? Are they important to you? Is spending time with
the Creator of all things important to you? More important than
what? Less important than anything? Something to think about.

Here are a few short messages that might be useful if you think
God is important, but you still struggle to find enough time to
set aside. At least these will give you something to think about
each day. There is a brief message for each day of the week,
which includes a thought, a short scripture, and a prayer.

For those of you who have your own time set apart with God,
perhaps these are unnecessary. But for those of you who find
difficulty having a quiet time and setting aside time to pray,
perhaps these could offer some structure until you are able to
allow God to help you with your time and priorities. In any
case, I think these are good, sound, short messages, and I pray
that they may be useful to some of you.

Brother Brian

Subject: Weekly Verses from Crosswalk.com
From: Crosswalk.com <newsletters@crosswalk.com>

Weekly Verses
from Crosswalk.com
www.crosswalk.com
11/13/00

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

He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his
good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into
effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment - to
bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one
head, even Christ.

--Ephesians 1:9-10
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Jesus is Lord! God's plan was purposed in Christ. It
centered on Christ coming at the right time. God's plan was to
bring unity in Christ by making him Lord of all! What's more,
this plan that brings our salvation brings God great pleasure.
God is the only saving God and Jesus is both our Savior and
Lord. So the real issue we face today is this: What area of
our lives, our hearts, our secrets, our sin, our rebellion,
have we not submitted to his lordship?

MY PRAYER...
O Precious Father, I know my heart can be deceitful. At
times I can even fool myself. But when I kneel in your
presence and am convicted by your Word, I find myself reminded
of the areas I have not yet fully submitted to your control and
Jesus' lordship. Please, dear Father, use the Holy Spirit to
gently show and convict of my self-deception so that I may be
wholly lost in your will. Through Jesus, Lord of lords, I
pray. Amen.

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TUESDAY

I urge, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in
authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all
godliness and holiness.
--1 Timothy 2:1-2
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
God wants us to be a praying people. But more than that,
God wants us to pray for people. The blessing of that kind of
prayerful life is that we get to live peaceful and quiet lives
full of godliness and holiness. So pray, dear friend in Jesus,
pray as if world peace depends upon it, because it does!

MY PRAYER...
Majestic and Holy God, your greatness is beyond my mind to
grasp but your grace reaches me and teaches in a new way each
day. Forgive me when my prayer life has not been passionate.
Forgive me for letting my prayers focus only on what is wrong.
Use your Spirit, O God, to ignite a hunger in my soul so that I
come to find satisfaction only in you and your presence.
Through Jesus Christ and the intercession of the Holy Spirit, I
pray. Amen.

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WEDNESDAY

If serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve.... As for me and my
household, we will serve the Lord.

--Joshua 24:15
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
While we can't speak for everyone in our family, we can
commit to what everyone in our family should desire: We will
serve the Lord!

MY PRAYER...
Give me wisdom, O tender Shepherd, on how to lead my family
to love you more. Please bless my parents, and thank you for
their faith. Please give me courage and sensitivity so that I
can effectively share your truth with my children. O God,
please bless those parents who are seeking to raise godly
children who will someday marry the children you've given me.
I want my house to be a place where you are known, appreciated,
honored, and loved. Through Jesus I ask it. Amen.

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THURSDAY

'Come now, let us reason together,' says the Lord. 'Though
your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.'

--Isaiah 1:18
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Nothing stains quite like sin. It not only leaves a stain
in our heart but a residue in our minds. But God's grace is
shown in that he doesn't just forgive our sins, he doesn't just
forget our sins, he banishes them. They are gone. The stain
is removed, the guilt is taken away. We are clean by his
grace.

MY PRAYER...
O the joy your grace gives me! I can never thank you or
praise you enough for rerouting my life so that it will end,
and begin again, in you. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.

~~~~~~~~~

FRIDAY

God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things
beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, 'Fall on the
earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'

--Job 37:5-6
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Isn't that a beautiful phrase! "God's voice thunders in
marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding."
Rather than spending a lot of time talking or thinking about
how marvelous God is, let's praise him in prayer.

MY PRAYER...
Holy, Righteous, and Eternal God, You alone are truly and
fully holy. I cannot comprehend the distant outskirts of your
ways. But I love you. You are so far beyond me on my best
days, I can't quite understand why you would pay such a cost to
redeem someone like me. But, Dear God, I thank you. In Jesus
name. Amen.
~~~~~~~~~

SATURDAY

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone
loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For
everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust
of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does - comes
not from the Father but from the world.

--1 John 2:15-16
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
Love for things, especially temporary ones, can sure get us
in trouble. Even worse, we can begin to think they will make
us happy or fill the empty places in our hearts. But if we
really place our hopes and dreams in our Abba Father, we are
attached to eternity, and what we need most is always with us!

MY PRAYER...
Give me wisdom, Holy God, to invest in you and things that
matter. I confess to you that my eyes and my heart are often
distracted by the glitzy stuff that is temporary. By your
Spirit, O Father, stir my heart to yearn for you. Through
Jesus I pray, amen.

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SUNDAY

Since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying
for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his
will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

--Colossians 1:9
New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY'S VERSE...
In a world where we can feel so isolated and alone at times,
it is so important for us to know that someone is praying for
us and for our spiritual needs. As I think of the thousands
who are a part of the Today's Verse ministry, I cannot help but
pray that each of them, that you, are blessed by knowing that
you share a spiritual journey with people all over the world,
and that today, we will praying for each other. And of course
there can be no better prayer than the one that Paul prayed for
the Colossian friends he had never met -- "I ask God to fill
you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom
and understanding." Let's pray that for each other today.

MY PRAYER...
Oh precious and divine Father, today I pray for the other
believers who come before you and seek to live for you. I pray
especially for those who share the Today's Verse journey with
me. Even though we live all over the world and have all sorts
of needs, we all know that our deepest need is to know and live
your will and to be confident that we are known and loved by
you. Please fill all of us with the knowledge of your will
through Spirit-led wisdom and understanding. We want to know
you, honor you, serve you, and ultimately see you face-to-face.
Through our older brother Jesus, we pray. Amen.
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