15 Monday Feb 2016
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As many times as I have read Luke 10:18, this time it game me chills, He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Jesus knows exactly what Satan’s fate will be. Let us all take comfort, especially when this crazy world seems to be falling apart around us, that Jesus Christ is victorious both now and forever more.
14 Sunday Feb 2016
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Hope everyone has a great day of reflection and worship. This is a great day to catch up on reading and spending time with family and friends.
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13 Saturday Feb 2016
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Too often we question why bad things happen to good people. In John 9:1-3 Jesus answers this question for His disciples, 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so the work of God might be displayed in his life.” Good and bad will happen to us all. In the light of eternity, these are temporary circumstances. We must all remember that God does not make bad things happen, but He sometimes allows it. When it does, we can choose to allow it to tear us down and everyone around us or we can use it to bring Him glory. The permanent good is coming, it just won’t be in this lifetime.
12 Friday Feb 2016
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In today’s reading, Jesus’ interaction with the accused adulteress and religious leaders showed His true purpose in coming to earth: grace. John 8:10-11 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” When Jesus provides grace, He doesn’t give us a free license to sin, He gives us freedom from the consequences of sin. After he provides grace, just like He did for the woman, He expects repentance and a changed life.
11 Thursday Feb 2016
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The Messiah is the only one who could give us salvation. John 7:37 says, On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” When He said “come to me and drink”, He was referring to the many themes in the Bible where it talks about the Messiah’s life-giving blessings. Because of His promise to give the Holy Spirit to all who believed, Jesus was claiming to be the only one who could actually do this; the Messiah. Jesus gave everyone, the religious leaders and common people alike, the ability to accept Him for who He really was. It is sad to know many rejected Him out of pride and selfish ambition. Let us all humble ourselves to believe the truth no matter what the ultimate circumstances.
10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Jesus recognized spiritual immaturity in some of His disciples, and yet he used a child to describe how we should become. Matthew 18:3 says, And he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus doesn’t want us to become childish. Instead he wants us to be childlike with sincere and humble hearts.
09 Tuesday Feb 2016
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It is never a question of Jesus’ ability to do anything, it is a question of will. When the man asked Jesus to heal his son, he asked Jesus “if you can’. In Mark 9:23 Jesus replies to the man, “‘If you can’?” Jesus said. “Everything is possible for him who believes.” Jesus can do anything, without exception. But we must always remember it has to be a part of God’s will. We must look to be within the will of God and then we will see if the desires of our heart lines up with His.
08 Monday Feb 2016
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In today’s reading Matthew 17:22-23 stood out to me because of the Disciple’s limited understanding of why Jesus came, 22 When the disciples came together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. 23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the disciples were filled with grief. The disciples were upset because they did not want Jesus to be betrayed or to suffer, but they missed the bugger picture of the resurrection. Jesus came to earth for one reason and that was to save us. Jesus did this in the most difficult of circumstances, but He did it anyway because He loved us all so much.
07 Sunday Feb 2016
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Hope everyone has a great day of reflection and worship. This is a great day to catch up on reading and spending time with family and friends.
Be thinking about Lent this week, which starts this Wednesday, February 10th and runs until Easter Sunday, March 27th. While some would argue there is no direct Biblical basis for Lent, I have found it to be a great way of making more room for God by giving something up for 40 days and allowing something much better in my life. This is just something to consider and by no means a directive.
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06 Saturday Feb 2016
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When we choose to follow Jesus, we must be singularly minded on Him. Luke 9:62 says, Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of God.” You cannot move forward in a relationship with God and worry about what you left behind.
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