Sunday 5/15/16
(John 16:5-16)
Much like yesterday, we’re dealing with God being the answer to our handicap. Just like a blind person accepting a seeing eye dog, and accepting that they need someone who has vision, the Holy Spirit can be our seeing eye dog, and lead us to the right paths, we just have to admit that we’re blind and that we need Him.
But when he – the Spirit of truth – comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak from Himself, but whatever He hear He will speak, and He will proclaim to you the things to come.
- John 15:13
Monday 5/16/16
(1 Chronicles 22)
When we do things, sometimes we can get away with running at 90%. But we should always be doing everything as if we were doing these thing for God, and God always knows when we’re not giving 100%. This is really convicting for me because there are definitely times where I think, “that’s good enough.” But the truth is that there’s more that I could do. And the truth is that God can see my accepting a subpar performance from myself and others (Col 3:23).
Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed. -1 Chron 22:13
Tuesday 5/17/16
(Psalms 130)
Forgiveness is powerful and it takes a powerful person to forgive. With so much sin in the hearts and minds of most people, how powerful must God be to have forgiven us, if we just accept His forgiveness? Do we have the proper fear of the Lord, or do we see His forgiveness as weakness? I’m asking this honestly. Oftentimes we view forgiveness as weakness. Search your heart and make sure you’re not looking at it this way because, if you are, you may be viewing it as weakness for God, too.
If you, O Yah, should keep track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with You is forgiveness, so that You may be feared. -Psalms 130:3-4
Wednesday 5/18/16
(John 10:14-30)
The Bible tells us that we are like sheep, but how much like sheep are we? Do we follow the sheep around us or do we listen patiently for our Shepherd’s voice? How well do we know our Shepherd’s voice? Have we spent time listening to it so that, in times of trouble, we know instantly which is the voice of the Shepherd and which is the voice of the wolf?
I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. -John 10:14-15
Thursday 5/19/16
(Matthew 6:9-13)
Sometimes I’m struck by how uninspired my prayer life is, compared to what it should be. How often do I even say a prayer of thanksgiving for the food that I eat? Growing up we said a prayer before every meal but as I’ve gotten older this practice has gone away. Is it that I now work for my money and the food that it buys so I am not thankful for the food I have because I feel that I’ve earned it? I want to make a concerted effort to give thanks for my food over the coming days.
Give us today our daily bread -Matthew 6:11
Friday 5/20/16
(Joshua 2:1-14)
In Jericho, Rahab was in awe of the great power of Yahweh because of the stories of His greatness that she had heard. And because of that God was able to win a victory over one of the most fortified cities in the Levant. Have you told any stories of God’s greatness today? You just may be the person who helps break down a wall in a person’s world.
For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, who you utterly destroyed, We heard this, and our hearts melted, and no courage was left in anyone because of your presence. For Yahweh your God is God in the heavens above and the earth below.
- Joshua 2:10-11
Saturday 5/21/16
(Luke 23:32-43)
How much do we believe in Jesus? Are we willing to die with Him? The truth is that as soon as we accepted Him as our Lord and Savior, we were supposed to let our self die and live from that moment forward as a new creation, created by the only one who has every created new creations (Galatians 2:20).
And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!” And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.”
(John 16:5-16)
Much like yesterday, we’re dealing with God being the answer to our handicap. Just like a blind person accepting a seeing eye dog, and accepting that they need someone who has vision, the Holy Spirit can be our seeing eye dog, and lead us to the right paths, we just have to admit that we’re blind and that we need Him.
But when he – the Spirit of truth – comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak from Himself, but whatever He hear He will speak, and He will proclaim to you the things to come.
- John 15:13
Monday 5/16/16
(1 Chronicles 22)
When we do things, sometimes we can get away with running at 90%. But we should always be doing everything as if we were doing these thing for God, and God always knows when we’re not giving 100%. This is really convicting for me because there are definitely times where I think, “that’s good enough.” But the truth is that there’s more that I could do. And the truth is that God can see my accepting a subpar performance from myself and others (Col 3:23).
Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed. -1 Chron 22:13
Tuesday 5/17/16
(Psalms 130)
Forgiveness is powerful and it takes a powerful person to forgive. With so much sin in the hearts and minds of most people, how powerful must God be to have forgiven us, if we just accept His forgiveness? Do we have the proper fear of the Lord, or do we see His forgiveness as weakness? I’m asking this honestly. Oftentimes we view forgiveness as weakness. Search your heart and make sure you’re not looking at it this way because, if you are, you may be viewing it as weakness for God, too.
If you, O Yah, should keep track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with You is forgiveness, so that You may be feared. -Psalms 130:3-4
Wednesday 5/18/16
(John 10:14-30)
The Bible tells us that we are like sheep, but how much like sheep are we? Do we follow the sheep around us or do we listen patiently for our Shepherd’s voice? How well do we know our Shepherd’s voice? Have we spent time listening to it so that, in times of trouble, we know instantly which is the voice of the Shepherd and which is the voice of the wolf?
I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. -John 10:14-15
Thursday 5/19/16
(Matthew 6:9-13)
Sometimes I’m struck by how uninspired my prayer life is, compared to what it should be. How often do I even say a prayer of thanksgiving for the food that I eat? Growing up we said a prayer before every meal but as I’ve gotten older this practice has gone away. Is it that I now work for my money and the food that it buys so I am not thankful for the food I have because I feel that I’ve earned it? I want to make a concerted effort to give thanks for my food over the coming days.
Give us today our daily bread -Matthew 6:11
Friday 5/20/16
(Joshua 2:1-14)
In Jericho, Rahab was in awe of the great power of Yahweh because of the stories of His greatness that she had heard. And because of that God was able to win a victory over one of the most fortified cities in the Levant. Have you told any stories of God’s greatness today? You just may be the person who helps break down a wall in a person’s world.
For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, who you utterly destroyed, We heard this, and our hearts melted, and no courage was left in anyone because of your presence. For Yahweh your God is God in the heavens above and the earth below.
- Joshua 2:10-11
Saturday 5/21/16
(Luke 23:32-43)
How much do we believe in Jesus? Are we willing to die with Him? The truth is that as soon as we accepted Him as our Lord and Savior, we were supposed to let our self die and live from that moment forward as a new creation, created by the only one who has every created new creations (Galatians 2:20).
And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!” And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.”
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