Monday, June 29
Choose This Day
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16
Recommended Reading
Romans 13:13-14
Every child grows up learning to play the “Follow the Leader” game. Unknown to children, it’s really an instinctive tendency on the part of humans. As much as we might not like to admit it, we are all followers of something or someone.
As his logical, deductive mind did so often, the apostle Paul boiled down the “following” tendency into two major categories: We can follow the flesh (energized by Satan, the enemy of God) or we can follow the Spirit of God. To follow one means we are not following the other (for example, see Luke 16:13). And we are never in the “neutral” zone where we are not following one or the other. From the point in life at which we develop the conscious ability to make moral and spiritual choices, we are in a following mode. The “flesh,” in Paul’s terminology, is our natural (fallen) human instincts, oriented to self-serving and self-gratification. That’s what we follow if we are not following the leading of the Holy Spirit. The only way not to follow and carry out the desires of the flesh is to follow and carry out the desires of the Spirit.
Live in the choosing mode today, and choose wisely: Follow the Spirit of God.
The wisdom of the flesh is always exclaiming against the mysteries of God.
John Calvin
Read-Thru-the-Bible
Psalms 136:1 - 140:13
Monday, June 29, 2009
Todays Prayer
Today's prayer June 29, 2009 in the year of our Lord
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7
Good Morning Lord
Dear Lord, You are great and greatly to be praised. Oh, how I wish that everyone would praise you and give you first priority in their lives. This world would be a better place...and individual lives would be so much better, so much happier. I am so burdened for those who or unemployed, underemployed, or not able to work. They try to exist on what little they have. Some of them receive help from charities and government programs; others scrape here and there to earn a little; others have nothing. I pray today that you will lift up these people. I pray that you will encourage them and guide them and show them the way. I pray that you will meet their EVERY need--whether for deliverance from sin, sickness, or something that holds them down--for a job or career and financial needs--for shelter--for medical care--for counseling--for friendship--whatever they truly need. For some there greatest need is to find a purpose and a feeling of worth. I pray that they will lift up their eyes to you, from whence comes their help and their salvation. Please have mercy and help them today. Please show me what I can do today to help them and enable me to do so. Please intervene. And may you receive all the glory and praise for great things you will do and are doing. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen. <><
Live Simply. Love Generously. Care Deeply. Speak Kindly. Leave the Rest to God.
" All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God." Romans 8:14
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7
Good Morning Lord
Dear Lord, You are great and greatly to be praised. Oh, how I wish that everyone would praise you and give you first priority in their lives. This world would be a better place...and individual lives would be so much better, so much happier. I am so burdened for those who or unemployed, underemployed, or not able to work. They try to exist on what little they have. Some of them receive help from charities and government programs; others scrape here and there to earn a little; others have nothing. I pray today that you will lift up these people. I pray that you will encourage them and guide them and show them the way. I pray that you will meet their EVERY need--whether for deliverance from sin, sickness, or something that holds them down--for a job or career and financial needs--for shelter--for medical care--for counseling--for friendship--whatever they truly need. For some there greatest need is to find a purpose and a feeling of worth. I pray that they will lift up their eyes to you, from whence comes their help and their salvation. Please have mercy and help them today. Please show me what I can do today to help them and enable me to do so. Please intervene. And may you receive all the glory and praise for great things you will do and are doing. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen. <><
Live Simply. Love Generously. Care Deeply. Speak Kindly. Leave the Rest to God.
" All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God." Romans 8:14
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