today read:
Acts
chapters 21 – 28
c21, v14 NLT
*Sometimes you want something so much for yourself, a family member, or a friend that you press to make it happen, not realizing that you may be imposing your own will and wisdom on the situation. There comes a time when we realize how willful we really are, and we seek in a fresh way God’s will for ourselves or for those we love. One of our most difficult tasks in this life is to relinquish someone we love to God’s will and care, but this is the most loving act we can offer.
*The Touchpoint Bible copyright 1996 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Carol Stream Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Notes copyright 1996 by V. Gilbert Beers and Ronald A. Beers. All rights reserved.
I am sharing these “key words” to help you get into shape for the race you have been called by God to run. For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. (Romans 11:29)
Jesus IS Lord:
The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart, because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For man believes with his heart and so is justified (just as though he had never sinned), and he confesses with his lips and so is saved. (Romans 10:8-10)
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. So we know and believe the love of God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him. (1 John 4:13-16)
And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. (1 John 5:14-15)
We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God (Jesus) keeps him and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. (1 John 5:18-21)
We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. What shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him. In all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, not things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:26-39)
The name above ALL names:
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11)
Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which passes all understanding will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:4-8)
The Word is a sword.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrews 4:12-13)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:16-17)
All scripture is inspired (breathed) by God and profitable for teaching for reproof, for correction, and for training to righteousness that the man (or woman) of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
We are guarded by angels
Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. Give heed to him and harken to his voice, do not rebel against him. (Exodus 23_20-21)
Are they (angels) not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation? (Hebrews 1:14)
We are healed by His stripes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; By his wounds you have been healed.
Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5)
today read:
Gospel of Luke
chapters 21 – 28
Gospel of John
chapters 1 – 7
Jn c1, v35-41 NLT
It is a simple yet disarming question: “What do you want?” John the Baptist told two of his disciples (Andrew and, most likely, John or Philip) that Jesus was the “Lamb of God,” and suddenly they turned around and followed him! Jesus caught them up short, asking bluntly, “What do you want?” It was a perfectly timed, well-placed question. The two men were obviously seeking something, but what? Were they looking for fame, power, truth, adventure, or just an interesting way to spend an afternoon? Seeking and following Christ first requires a confession of our motivation and desires. How would you respond if Jesus suddenly turned and asked, “What do you want?” *
*The Touchpoint Bible copyright 1996 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Carol Stream Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Notes copyright 1996 by V. Gilbert Beers and Ronald A. Beers. All rights reserved.
- FAVOR & PEACE & GRACE – God’s favor for His Children – The Lord’s favor gives you peace - we can rejoice in his favor when circumstances say we have nothing to rejoice about.
The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Numbers 6:25–26
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
2 Peter 1:2–3
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5
For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield.
Psalm 5:12
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 23:5–6
And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight,
Genesis 39:3–4
You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
Job 10:12
What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
Psalm 8:4–6
Who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:4–5
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
John 17:22–23
So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46–47
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3
… For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
Romans 5:15
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:14
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Ephesians 1:3
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Ephesians 1:7–8
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4–7
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 2:16–17
And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:14
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savoir toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:4–7
