God day and rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. As I face this day I realize that sometimes the Lord will sit you down in unusual ways in order for you to regain your focus. I believe I just went through this the past few days. My question for all of you is how’s your spiritual focus so far this year?
Today’s Prayer
Father, though disaster is everywhere and winter storms and floods engulf the country, though the weather patterns around the world can’t really be explained, unemployment still exists in our world and brave men everywhere tremble, yet I will rejoice that You are the God of our salvation. Even though Your ways are not our ways, we can trust You. Help us to stand on Your Word, to meet the test, and to discover once more that You are indeed faithful. In the matchless name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
Let’s eat.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
John 14:15-31
15 “If you love me, obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. 19 Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. 20 When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”
22 Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?” 23 Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. 24 Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. 25 I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. 26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. 27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. 28 Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am. 29 I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe. 30 “I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me, 31 but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.
Quote of the Day
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
WITH HOPE AND FAITH
REV. ELDER G E STERRETT
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