My Master and Lord said we should daily take up the cross and deny ourselves

My Master and Lord said we should daily take up the cross and deny ourselves
Not my will but you will be done my God.
May my thoughts be your thoughts.
Not what I want done, but what you want done.
Not my words but your words
Not where I want to go, but where you want to go.
Let me to be an example of  your love and compassion.
Help us to love those who seem unlovable.
Grant we will daily shine your light in dark places.
May our lives be fruitful and souls won into your kingdom.
We know our God that you are without sin and man is sinful by nature. 
May we show you the reverence you deserve.
May we humbly confess our sins to you, so you will cleanse us of sin and unrighteousness.
Through your mighty name our Savior, Jesus. Amen

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PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Father we lift our leaders and those who tirelessly devote their lives to serving the body and church of 
Jesus Christ.
We ask that you would give them the wisdom, knowledge, grace and strength to lead your people.
Meet the needs and especially bless their families in Jesus Name we pray. AMEN! 
 Heavenly father we thank you for all leaders and preachers in the body of Christ in this land and in Your World throughout which You have created, who have given their lives to serve you. We pray you will guide them and us to be bold through the power of the Holy Spirit, that we will fearlessly speak the whole truth of Your Word. That your will be done and your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

James 5:16  Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. 

(2 Peter 3:18)
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.  Amen!

So let me ask you again, "How are you feeling today?" Why don't you cast your cares on Jesus? He cares for you and hates what the enemy is doing in your life (1 Peter 5:7). Understand that He is not some cosmic, distant God that has left you to your own devises, but one who cares for you deeply. So deeply that He showed you the greatest of love by laying His life down for you (John 15:13). So today come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace to help you in your time of need. There is no need to fear, God is with you, what can man do to you (Psalm 118:7). He is not angry or mad at you. His anger is toward the devil who robs and torments His children. See More here Jeff Lay

A Time To Laugh with Joyce Meyer

A Time To Laugh with Joyce Meyer

Ps 126:2  We laughed, we sang, we couldn't believe our good fortune. We were the talk of the nations-- "GOD was wonderful to them!"
Ps 126:3  GOD was wonderful to us; we are one happy people.
Ps 126:4  And now, GOD, do it again-- bring rains to our drought-stricken lives
Ps 126:5  So those who planted their crops in despair will shout hurrahs at the harvest,
Ps 126:6  So those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing. 

Those constantly seeking to be stronger in God, will be blessed by God in all that they do.

Ps 150:6  Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah! 

Ps 150:1  Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; 

Ps 150:2  Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; 

Ps150:3   Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; 

Ps 150:4  Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; 

Ps 150:5  Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. 

Ps 150:6  Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah! 

2 Chronicles 26:5 

"keep seeking God and staying humble and always giving glory to God"

He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

 (About Uzziah who was made king at age 16 years and reigned in Jerusalem for 52 years.)

Here in this text we have a very important lesson: Those constantly seeking to be stronger in God, will be blessed by God in all that they do.

When all goes well for you most of the time it is called prospering. Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. Self and our ego can take over. That is what happened to king Uzziah, he considered he was equal to God. His pride took over. He transgressed against the LORD his God by entering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

The priest Azariah, and 80 other priests stopped the King and told him to leave the sanctuary, it was only the priests who were descended from Aaron who were allowed to burn incense at the altar (Numbers 16:40). Instead of admitting he was wrong, King Uzziah got very angry with the priests, and while he standing there leprosy came upon his forehead in front of all the priests, and they pushed him out. The Lord had punished him for his sin.

The consequence was that King Uzziah spent the rest of his days as a leper. The lessons for us is that we should finish as we started, keep seeking God and staying humble and always giving glory to God.

Prayer: Thank you our God and Father for showing us that we must keep seeking and not give up, that your will be done and your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Take Heart Believer with (OUR GOD) and His Promises to You!

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psalm 42:11) Gracious Father, thank You for being my ever-present help in my time of need. You lift my countenance and fill my heart with everlasting delight and tranquility. Your greatness is unsearchable! Your love so unfathomable! May Your Name be lifted on high and praised forevermore!

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endures for ever. (Psalm 119:160) Never doubt, O people of the Lord, the veracity of His word for it bears His own mark and will ever reveal His plan for your redemption. Every assurance is granted you in His word and can be relied upon without fail! Rejoice in His abounding grace and unceasing truth! He is the way. He is the truth. He is your life. And He is your very soul's blood! Rejoice in Him! Sing, "Hallelujah!" and praise His name forever!

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18) From the moment we placed our faith in Christ, He began to transform us into His loving and gracious nature! What a joy it is to be one of His children! We are transformed from glory to glory into His marvelous image.

 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. (Psalm 121:4)

Take heart O believer in the Lord your God who never slumbers and never rests!  Always will He hear you and always does His eye watch over your steps. Naught will take Him by surprise and nothing occurs outside His knowing. He knows intimately the desires of your heart and the difficulties of your life. Trust Him to seek the best for you and praise His name for His goodness!  MORE PROMISES

Should not be unequally yoked.

12th November Back to the Bible daily by disciple John

Deut 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

What would happen if two animals of very different size were put to work with a plough, I can only imagine that because they are so different it would be impossible to plough a straight furrow. If I as a Christian asked a non-committed Christian to join me in Christian work it would not succeed as the uncommitted will always be saying and doing the wrong thing.

If a Holy Spirit filled church Pastor had a organist who was unsaved then the worship would not glorify God and the Church could fail. If an evangelist goes out to reap a harvest where the sowing was done by an unsaved person then the harvest will fail. If a strong Spirit filled Christian marries a unsaved person knowing that the scripture says in 2Corinthians 6:14 that we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, then that marriage can flounder.

This is a spiritual truth that we must grasp because it applies just as much today as it did 2000 years ago. Many Christians have started business partnerships with unbelievers and regretted that mistake over and over. Man might be able to fool man, but man can never fool God. Gal 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Deuteronomy 22:10

An ox and an ass - Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things. Wesley says about Deut 22:10.


Odd mixtures are here forbidden, Deu_22:9, Deu_22:10. Much of this we met with before, Lev_19:19. There appears not any thing at all of moral evil in these things, and therefore we now make no conscience of sowing wheat and rye together, ploughing with horses and oxen together, and of wearing linsey-woolsey garments; but hereby is forbidden either, 1. A conformity to some idolatrous customs of the heathen. Or, 2. That which is contrary to the plainness and purity of an Israelite. They must not gratify their own vanity and curiosity by putting those things together which the Creator in infinite wisdom had made asunder: they must not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, nor mingle themselves with the unclean, as an ox with an ass. Nor must their profession and appearance in the world be motley, or party-coloured, but all of a piece, all of a kind.
Henry.

Prayer: Thank you Heavenly father for reminding us again of how you want your children to behave in this world. May your will be done your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Satisfying an Eternal Thirst - With Living Waters

John 4:1-54 (See Page Christ in Samaria)

Contents: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The indwelling Spirit. The nobleman’s son healed.
Characters: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, nobleman, his son.
Conclusion: Jesus Christ is the gift of God, the richest token of God’s love, the source and fountain of those living waters, the graces of the Holy Spirit which satisfy the thirsting soul and make a life overflowing with goodness. Those who come face to face with their own helplessness and sin and give their hearts to Him will be the recipients of these living waters.
Key Word: Living water, Joh_4:10.
Strong Verses: Joh_4:10, Joh_4:14, Joh_4:23, Joh_4:24.
Striking Facts: Joh_4:29. The divine knowledge of Jesus proves His omniscience. Jesus knows the thoughts, words and actions of all the children of men, and by the power of His Words is still revealing to men the secret sins of their hearts.

John 4:1-14

 Satisfying an Eternal Thirst

Joh_4:1-14

Our Lord had no wish to precipitate the conflict with the Pharisee party, until He had finished His ministry to the people. He was the last and greatest of the prophets, as well as the world’s Redeemer. He therefore withdrew from the metropolis. Here is another must, Joh_4:4. There were three in the previous chapter and there are two in this. It was not necessary for Jesus to go through Samaria except for the purpose of mercy to one soul. Jacob’s well is still visible, at the entrance of the green valley up which Sychar lay. Thus, that is, as a tired man would sit. It was noon. The time when women usually drew water was in the evening, but there were special reasons why this woman came by herself. The love of God overleaps narrow restrictions of sex, and sect, and nationality. Two conditions, Joh_4:10, precede our reception of God’s best gifts: we must know, and we must ask.
The living water is not a stagnant pond or well, but leaps up from a hidden spring. The woman keeps referring to the well, Jesus to the spring in the well. That alone can satisfy. Not the word, but the spirit in the word. Not the rite, but the grace it symbolizes. Joh_4:13 might serve as the inscription on all places of worldly amusement. Ponder that word become, Joh_4:14. You first drink for your own need, then you help to meet the need of others.