Word 4 2Day
The ways of God are without fault. The Lord’s words are pure. He is a shield to those who trust him. Psalms 18:30 ‘Trust and obey, don’t rust and decay’. have a blessed day.
The power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord supports those who do right. The Lord watches over the lives of the innocent, and their reward will last forever. They will not be ashamed when trouble comes. They will be full in times of hunger. Psalms 37:17-19
The Lord saves good people; he is their strength in times of trouble. The Lord helps them and saves them; he saves them from the wicked, because they trust in him for protection. Psalms 37:39-40 If you are troubled today, reach out to Jesus and He will take your burdens. Jesus endured the cross on calvary for each one of us. Let us reflect and let Jesus direct your path. God has a wonderful plan for each one of us. HE IS WAITING AT THE DOOR FOR YOU. The plans He has for you are for good and not to harm you. Every Blessing this eastertime.
The Lord said, “If your faith were the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Dig yourself up and plant yourself in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” Luke 17:6 Share the promises of Jesus today. He loves you with unconditional love, a love that surpasses all understanding.
The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to those who seek him. It is good to wait quietly for the Lord to serve. Lamentations 3:25-26 If you are struggling with issues in your life today, claim this woderful promise from God’s living Word which is as active today. Start speaking His word into your circumstances and see God work on your behalf. Be sure to give Him all the praise. Share the love of Jesus with friends and loved ones.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. Psalms 9:9-10 May the Lord Bless you today. |
The everlasting God is your place of safety, and his arms will hold you up forever. He will force your enemy out ahead of you, saying “Destroy the enemy!” Deuteronomy 33:27
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Galatians 5:14-15
Please pass it on, share the love of Jesus today.
Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful for words. 2 Corinthians 9:15 God’s free gift of salvation is for everyone, Jesus Christ did not endure the agony of the cross for us to be good, but, that we may spend eternity with Him in Heaven. Time is running out guys, Make today your day to give your life and heart to Jesus. Please share the love of Jesus with friends and loved ones today.
The Lord hears good people when they cry out to him, and he saves them from all their troubles. Psalms 34:17
Some friends may ruin you, but a real friend will become more loyal than a brother. Proverbs 18:24
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PROVERBS 4:14-27
Fatherly advice on the importance of wisdom.
14) Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men.
15) Avoid it do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
16) For they cannot sleep until they do evil; they are robbed of slumber until they make someone fall.
17) They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
18) The path of the righteous is the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
19) But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
20) My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words.
21) Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart.
22) for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.
23) Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
24) Put away perversityfrom your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25) Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you.
26) Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm.
27) Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Please share the wisdom of God with friends and loved ones.
PROVERBS 4:1-13
Fatherly advice on the importance of wisdom.
1) Listen, my sons, to a fathers instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
2) I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.
3) When I was a boy in my father’s house, still tender, and an only child of my mother,
4) he taught me and said, lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will live.
5) Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them.
6) Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
7) Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
Esteem her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you.
9) She will set a garland of grace on your head and present you with a crown of splendor.
10) Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
11) I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths.
12) When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble.
13) Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.
Please share the wisdom and love of Jesus Christ, who gave His life for each on of us.
PROVERBS 3:19-35
19) By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;
20) by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.
21) My son, preserve sound judgement and discernment, do not let them out of your sight;
22) they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.
23) Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble;
24) when you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down your sleep will be sweet.
25) Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
26) for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.
27) Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act.
28) Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow”-when you now have it with you.
29) Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.
30) Do not accuse a man for no reason-when he has done you no harm.
31) Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways,
32) for the Lord detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence.
33) The Lords curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
34) He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.
35) The wise inherit honor, but fools he holds up to shame.
PROVERBS
Wisdom brings blessings 3:1-18
1) My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
2) for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.
3) Lwt love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
4) Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
5) Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
6) in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
7) Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
9) Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops;
10) then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
11) My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke,
12) because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
13) Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding,
14) for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
15) She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
16) Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
17) Her ways are pleasent ways, and all her paths are peace.
18) She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessesd.
PROVERBS (2:1-22)
1) My son, if you receive my Words, and treasure my commands within you,
2) So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3) Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding,
4) If you seek her as silver, and search for her as hidden treasures;
5) Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6) For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding;
7) He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of his saints.
9) Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
10) When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.
11) Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you.
12) To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things.
13) From those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14) Who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15) Whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths;
16) To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words,
17) Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
18) For her house leads down to death, and her path to the dead;
19) None who go to her return, nor do they regain the path of life–
20) So you may walk in the way of goodness, and keep to the paths of righteousness.
21) For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22) But the wicked will be cut of from the earth, and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
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PROVERBS
Warning against rejecting wisdom (1:20-33).
20) Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
21) At the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
22) How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? how long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
23) If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
24) But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
25) Since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
26) I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-
27) When calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
28) Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
29) Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord,
30) Since they would not accept my advice ans spurned my rebuke,
31) They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
32) For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
33) But whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.
PROVERBS
Warning against enticement of sinners (1:8-19).
Listen my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
9) They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
10) My son, if sinners entice you, do not give into them.
11) If they say, come along with us; let’s lie in wait for someone’s blood, let’s waylay some harmless soul;
12) Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13) We will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our house with plunder;
14) Throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse”-
15) My son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
16) For their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
17) How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
18) These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
19) Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotton gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
As Christians we need to take the Living Word of God and put it into action in our daily lives!
Be Blessed in Jesus name.
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PROVERBS
Proverbs of Solomon: Attaining wisdom (1:1-7)
1) The proverbs of Solomon son of David, King of Israel;
2) For attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
3) For aquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
4) For giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young-
5) Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-
6) For understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
May the Lord Bless you today with His living Word which brings life to the hearer.
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Moses said to the children of Israel, “Why are you disobeying the Lord’s command? This will not succeed!”(Numbers 14:41-43).
Israel was defeated because they rejected the voice of God and followed their own self-will. Instead of going forward to take possession of the land as God commanded them, they rebelled. They refused to listen. They refused to follow God into the Promised Land, but chose instead to follow their own will and go back to Egypt. This was the height of their rebellion against God. They chose their will above God’s will. They rejecred Him as the supreme authority of their lives.
If you are disobeying God’s command, you will not succeed. You will fail…..guaranteed.
Make this declaration: “God has planned no failures for me. I will obey His commands and succeed in all I do.”
Word 4 2 Day
A temple not made with hands
Lord Jesus, You are above us – reigning. We believe it. That is what gives us serenity to achieve……..
Lord Jesus, You are before us – directing. We believe it. That is what gives us courage to go on………..
So we dedicate ourselves. And we bless you.
Lord Jesus, You are beneath us. We believe it. When we slip, You catch us.
When we kick you in the face, You just serve us.
And when we pack in and fall right down,
You come further down just to be beside us.
In awe we thank thee.
Lord Jesus, You are within each of us,Our hope of Glory,
Of being complete, We believe it…..
We are your temple not made with hands, We are your body.
If every wall should crumble, and every church decay, We are your habitation.
Nearer are you than breathing, closer than hands and feet.
Ours are the eyes with which you, in the mystery, look out in compassion on the world……
Take us ‘outside the camp’, Lord. Outside holiness.
Out to where soldiers gamble, and thieves curse,
and nations clash at the cross-roads of the world……
George F MacLeod (1895 – 1991)
Dear Lord you have set before us a great hope that your kingdom will come on earth, and have taught us to pray for its coming: make us ever ready to thank you for the signs of its dawning, and to pray and work for the perfect day when your will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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Word 4 2Day
Micah 4:6-7
“I will round up the hurt and the homeless, everyone I have bruised or banished. I will transform the battered into a company of the elite, I will make a strong nation out of the long lost”.
If you are hurting today, go to God’s Living Word in the Bible. God’s book is given for our transformation, while other books are written for information.
Jesus longs to have a relationship with you, He loves you with an everlasting love and showed this by taking your sin and mine and nailing it to the cross with His life’s blood.
Be blessed today.
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Word 4 2Day
The Prayer of Jabez
“Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory,
that your hand would be with with me, and that you would keep me from evil,
that I may not cause pain!”
And God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles 4:10
If God granted Jabez what he requested, He can do the same for you because God never changes, He is the same today and forever.
So why not pray this prayer from your heart, in Jesus name, and believe that God will grant your request.
Word 4 2Day
The Season of Advent Anticipation and Hope
Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the Western tradition. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, which is the Sunday nearest November 30, this year (2011) Advent Sunday shall begin on Sunday 27 November, and end on Christmas Eve (Dec 24). If Christmas Eve is a Sunday, it is counted as the fourth Sunday of Advent, with Christmas Eve beginning at sundown.
What is Advent?
The definition of Advent is: The beginning of the Liturgical Year and the four Sundays before Christmas.
A time of preparing and waiting for the Adventus Domini – Coming of the Lord.
The Word Advent means “Coming or Arrival”.
We include the children at this time by taking part in the services, opening the doors of their Advent Calendars to relate the Christmas story.
The focus of the entire season is the:
1. Celebration of the Birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ in the First Advent.
2. And the anticipation of the return of Christ the King in the Second Advent.
John 1: 1- 14 is a beautiful illustration of ”The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us”
John 1:1-14 (NLT)
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through Him. The Word gave life to everything that was created,* and his life brought life to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.*
God sent a man, John the Baptist,* to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. But to all who believed and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn – not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
So the Word became human* and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.* And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only son.
Summary
Verse 13 is marked by a Spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing.There is a yearning for deliverance from the evils of this world first expressed by the Israelite slaves in Egypt as they cried out from their bitter expression. It is the cry of those who have experienced bitter pains of injustice in a world under the curse of sin, and yet who have the wonderful Hope of deliverance by a God who has heard the cries of the oppressed slaves and brought deliverance. (Jesus is our Light and Hope).
Until Jesus returns at His second coming, only then shall we be free from the curse of sin in the world, when the King of Kings will rule with peace, justice and righteousness. We must hold onto that truth no matter what we are going through.
Verse 14 tells us “The Word became flesh and lived among us”. We have seen His Glory, the Glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of Grace and truth.
We have much to celebrate as we await the birth of the WORD BECOME FLESH THIS CHRISTMAS.
Jesus is our hope, our peace, our love, our light, our deliverer, our saviour, our redeemer who loves us with an everlasting love, who died that we may be FREE from the bondages of sin and suffering.
The Spirit of Advent is also expressed in the parable of the bridesmaids who are anxiously awaiting the coming of the bridegroom. Read Mathew 25: 1-13.
Summary
In this parable there is a profound joy at the bridegroom’s expected coming. and yet a warning of the need for preparation echo’s through the parable.
We must do our bit, to prepare and be ready for the coming of our Lord. We can to easily get caught up in the things of the world and Jesus may be given a thought oe indeed no thought at all.
Only through Jesus can we be renewed, restored, revived and redeemed.
Advent Reflection
In our lives today Jesus is our only Hope. I believe that those who have suffered and still Hope, understand far more about God and about life than those who have not.
Maybe that is what Hope is about? A way to live, not just to survive, a way to live authentically amidst all the problems of life with a faith that continues to see possibility when there is no present evidence of it, just because God is God.
That is the wonder of Advent.
Advent is a season of Hope. Hope in the Light of the World – Jesus (John 1: 1-5).
Let us Pray
Thank you Lord for the Hope we know we have in you. You are the Light of the World. The one who has come and will come again.
Let us always keep your Light in our hearts until the “Day of the Lord” comes. I ask that your presence goes with each one of us each day. May we know the sweet fragrance of your love in our daily lives. In Jesus name. Amen.
When you feel as if God has left you, read God’s promise to you in…………….
Psalm 9:10
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
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Recalling God’s Provision
Scripture reading: Psalm 42:1-11
Take time today to look at your life and recall the mighty provision of God in spiritual and physical deliverance in your own life. Begin with your salvation. Stop for a moment and think what God has saved you from and the transformation that has come into your life since you have known Jesus as your personal savior.
Make this declaration: “My faith stands in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. He knows my future. He holds my today and tomorrow in His hands”.
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