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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Devotions: Ps 12-14; 119:1-24; Isa 41:1-16; Eph 2:1-10; Mk 1:29-45
We’re in a troubled time, Lord—get involved and protect the needy against those who would despoil us. God’s promises are pure and sure, and we need God’s protection against the growing vileness that seeks to harm us. I will trust in YHWH and His steadfast love; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation, Lord, and I will sing to You. You have been kind and generous to me. Fools deny God’s existence; God seeks those who can become wise; let His deliverance come to us; let God restore our fortunes, and all His children will rejoice! Blessed are all who walk in God’s ways; He is my Strength and my Song; He has become my Salvation! I will survive to sing God’s praises; He has opened to me the way of righteousness. He has made Jesus the Ruler of all, Whom the authorities rejected. This is God’s day; He enables me to rejoice and be glad in it! I am protected by God’s word hidden in my heart. I delight in God’s testimony.
YHWH is the First and Last, Master of all! He is the one true living God; all other objects of worship are idols imagined and made by mortals. God will strengthen me and help me, upholding me by His righteous and mighty right hand. He makes me victorious, and I glory in my Lord!
God made me alive when I was dead in my sins—a child of wrath. But God, rich in mercy and great love, has made me alive with and in Jesus the Messiah; I am raised with Him and exalted to the heavenly places. I am saved by God’s grace, through the faith He has provided me. I am His workmanship, made in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for me to do.
Jesus visited in the home of Simon and Andrew, and healed Simon’s mother-in-law of a fever. The whole city brought their sick and demon-oppressed to Him, and Jesus healed them. He went out to pray, and when Simon sought Him out, Jesus announced He would be moving on to preach, teach, exorcise and heal in all the villages of Galilee. A leper came to Jesus and knelt: ‘If You will, You can make me clean.’ Jesus was moved with pity, touched the man, and healed him: ‘I will. Be clean!’ Jesus told the man to keep the experience quiet, but he told everyone how Jesus had healed him, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the towns and villages—yet seekers from every quarter found Him in the open country.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Right action: humility and holiness
New Guest: Most posts are devotional; those related to CAR BIZ can be found by searching for that label.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Devotions: Ps 107:33-43; 108:1-6; Mal 3:13-4:6; Jas 5:13-20; Lk 18:9-14
YHWH turns deserts to oases, and fertile cropland to wilderness; good fortune is God’s gift. God opposes the proud, but gives amazing grace to the downtrodden and needy. Let us ponder the steadfast love of the Lord. And let my own heart be steadfast in loving God and loving others and myself. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens; Your faithfulness stretches to the skies; Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your justice rolls like the ocean tide. And I will lift my voice and my heart to worship You, my King; I will find my peace in the shadow of Your wings. Let Your glory be over all the earth, and make me an instrument of Your peace.
Malachi continues to speak for God: ‘Your words have stoutly opposed Me. You ask how so: you have said it is vain to serve God; you point out how the evil and godless prosper. But listen: the Lord of hosts keeps track, and He will prosper those faithful to Him, His special treasure on the day He brings judgment. On that day, the arrogant and evil will be stubble, and judgment will consume them. For those who respect God, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in His wings, and we will break forth rejoicing. Keep Torah; follow My prophets; and let the Messiah turn your hearts to love one another, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.’
James counsels: ‘When you suffer, pray. When you are cheerful, give thanks and praise. When someone is ill, let the elders of the church pray and anoint the sick with oil in the Name of the Lord—and the prayer of faith will save the sick. The Lord will aid their recovery and forgive their sins. A believer’s righteous prayer is very powerful! Look up the prayer record of Elijah—a mortal like ourselves, whose prayers moved history and nature. Beloved, if someone strays from the truth and another brings the wanderer back from error, the sinner will be saved from error, preserved from death, and forgiven a multitude of sins.’
Jesus contrasts two worshipers in God’s temple: a Pharisee and a tax collector. The Pharisee stood near the altar and prayed “with himself”: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men,’ and he recounted his legalistic accomplishments. Meanwhile, the tax collector stood far from the altar, head cast down, beating his breast, acknowledging his sins and begging God for mercy. According to Jesus, the tax collector left the temple justified, but the Pharisee still faced condemnation: ‘for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.’
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Devotions: Ps 107:33-43; 108:1-6; Mal 3:13-4:6; Jas 5:13-20; Lk 18:9-14
YHWH turns deserts to oases, and fertile cropland to wilderness; good fortune is God’s gift. God opposes the proud, but gives amazing grace to the downtrodden and needy. Let us ponder the steadfast love of the Lord. And let my own heart be steadfast in loving God and loving others and myself. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens; Your faithfulness stretches to the skies; Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your justice rolls like the ocean tide. And I will lift my voice and my heart to worship You, my King; I will find my peace in the shadow of Your wings. Let Your glory be over all the earth, and make me an instrument of Your peace.
Malachi continues to speak for God: ‘Your words have stoutly opposed Me. You ask how so: you have said it is vain to serve God; you point out how the evil and godless prosper. But listen: the Lord of hosts keeps track, and He will prosper those faithful to Him, His special treasure on the day He brings judgment. On that day, the arrogant and evil will be stubble, and judgment will consume them. For those who respect God, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in His wings, and we will break forth rejoicing. Keep Torah; follow My prophets; and let the Messiah turn your hearts to love one another, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.’
James counsels: ‘When you suffer, pray. When you are cheerful, give thanks and praise. When someone is ill, let the elders of the church pray and anoint the sick with oil in the Name of the Lord—and the prayer of faith will save the sick. The Lord will aid their recovery and forgive their sins. A believer’s righteous prayer is very powerful! Look up the prayer record of Elijah—a mortal like ourselves, whose prayers moved history and nature. Beloved, if someone strays from the truth and another brings the wanderer back from error, the sinner will be saved from error, preserved from death, and forgiven a multitude of sins.’
Jesus contrasts two worshipers in God’s temple: a Pharisee and a tax collector. The Pharisee stood near the altar and prayed “with himself”: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men,’ and he recounted his legalistic accomplishments. Meanwhile, the tax collector stood far from the altar, head cast down, beating his breast, acknowledging his sins and begging God for mercy. According to Jesus, the tax collector left the temple justified, but the Pharisee still faced condemnation: ‘for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.’
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