Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Signs Of Awakening Activating the Church for the Harvest
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Good Morning Sunday 12.12.2010
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Thanks Pat
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"This... is how you should pray." Matthew 6:9
Understanding the Lord's prayer
When you pray "Our Father in heaven" it establishes the basis of your relationship with God. He's not just your Creator, He is your Father.
You can create something and not be related to it, but if you father it
- it will always be yours. Today you can come to God with the assurance that you're His. You can call Him Abba, a term of endearment which means Daddy (see Romans 8:15)
"Hallowed be your name" means He is more than just your Father, He is your God.
He is worthy of your love but He demands your respect. How should we approach God? With our complaints, our demands and our wish list? No.
Gratitude and praise gets God's attention every time!
"Your kingdom come," releases God's power. "Your will be done,"
releases His purpose. "Give us today our daily bread," releases His provisions. The things you lack and long for begin to flow into your life because now you have accessed His power, discovered His purpose for you and you are walking in it.
"Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors." It's easier to forgive when you recall the things God has forgiven you for, and realize that your enemies can't stop Him from blessing you.
Remembering God's goodness to you will give you the grace to forgive others, and even understand them!
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" means we enter each day prepared for battle, promised victory, and protected against all of Satan's attacks.
And that's why Jesus said, "This... is how you should pray.
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"Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name." Psalm 100:4.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Proverb 11
Proverbs 11 (Amplified Bible)
Proverbs 11
1A FALSE balance and unrighteous dealings are extremely offensive and shamefully sinful to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.(A) 2When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also, but with the humble (those who are lowly, who have been pruned or chiseled by trial, and renounce self) are skillful and godly Wisdom and soundness.3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the willful contrariness and crookedness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
4Riches provide no security in any day of wrath and judgment, but righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) delivers from death.(B)
5The righteousness of the blameless shall rectify and make plain their way and keep it straight, but the wicked shall fall by their own wickedness.
6The righteousness of the upright [their rectitude in every area and relation] shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity and greedy desire.
7When the wicked man dies, his hope [for the future] perishes; and the expectation of the godless comes to nothing.
8The [uncompromisingly] righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.
9With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge and superior discernment shall the righteous be delivered.
10When it goes well with the [uncompromisingly] righteous, the city rejoices, but when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
11By the blessing of the influence of the upright and God's favor [because of them] the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
12He who belittles and despises his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding keeps silent.
13He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy and faithful in spirit keeps the matter hidden.
14Where no wise guidance is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
15He who becomes security for an outsider shall smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure [from its penalties].
16A gracious and good woman wins honor [for her husband], and violent men win riches but [a]a woman who hates righteousness is a throne of dishonor for him.
17The merciful, kind, and generous man benefits himself [for his deeds return to bless him], but he who is cruel and callous [to the wants of others] brings on himself retribution.
18The wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) shall have a sure reward [permanent and satisfying].(C)
19He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death.
20They who are willfully contrary in heart are extremely disgusting and shamefully vile in the eyes of the Lord, but such as are blameless and wholehearted in their ways are His delight!
21Assuredly [I pledge it] the wicked shall not go unpunished, but the multitude of the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be delivered.
22As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion.
23The desire of the [consistently] righteous brings only good, but the expectation of the wicked brings wrath.
24There are those who [generously] scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due, but it results only in want.
25The liberal person shall be enriched, and he who waters shall himself be watered.(D)
26The people curse him who holds back grain [when the public needs it], but a blessing [from God and man] is upon the head of him who sells it.
27He who diligently seeks good seeks [God's] favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come upon him.
28He who leans on, trusts in, and is confident in his riches shall fall, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall flourish like a green bough.
29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
30The fruit of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives [for God, as a fisher of men--he gathers and receives them for eternity].(E)
31Behold, the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be recompensed on earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner! And [b]if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and wicked?(F)
Footnotes:
- Proverbs 11:16 The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) so reads at this point.
- Proverbs 11:31 The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) so reads at this point.
Psalm 110
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Psalm 110 (Amplified Bible)
Psalm 110
A Psalm of David.
1THE LORD (God) says to my Lord (the Messiah), Sit at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool.(A) 2The Lord will send forth from Zion the scepter of Your strength; rule, then, in the midst of Your foes.(B)3Your people will offer themselves willingly in the day of Your power, in the beauty of holiness and in holy array out of the womb of the morning; to You [will spring forth] Your young men, who are as the dew.
4The Lord has sworn and will not revoke or change it: You are a priest forever, after the manner and order of Melchizedek.(C)
5The Lord at Your right hand will shatter kings in the day of His indignation.
6He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] upon the nations; He will fill the valleys with the dead bodies, He will crush the [chief] heads over lands many and far extended.(D)
7He will drink of the brook by the way; therefore will He lift up His head [triumphantly].
Friday, December 10, 2010
Psalm 114 and 115
Psalm 114-115 (The Message)
Psalm 114
Judah became holy land for him,
Israel the place of holy rule.
Sea took one look and ran the other way;
River Jordan turned around and ran off.
The mountains turned playful and skipped like rams,
the hills frolicked like spring lambs.
What's wrong with you, Sea, that you ran away?
and you, River Jordan, that you turned and ran off?
And mountains, why did you skip like rams?
and you, hills, frolic like spring lambs?
Tremble, Earth! You're in the Lord's presence!
in the presence of Jacob's God.
He turned the rock into a pool of cool water,
turned flint into fresh spring water.
Psalm 115
Do it on account of your merciful love,
do it on account of your faithful ways.
Do it so none of the nations can say,
"Where now, oh where is their God?"
3-8 Our God is in heaven
doing whatever he wants to do.
Their gods are metal and wood,
handmade in a basement shop:
Carved mouths that can't talk,
painted eyes that can't see,
Tin ears that can't hear,
molded noses that can't smell,
Hands that can't grasp, feet that can't walk or run,
throats that never utter a sound.
Those who make them have become just like them,
have become just like the gods they trust.
4-9 God is higher than anything and anyone,
outshining everything you can see in the skies.
Who can compare with God, our God,
so majestically enthroned,
Surveying his magnificent
heavens and earth?
He picks up the poor from out of the dirt,
rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash,
Seats them among the honored guests,
a place of honor among the brightest and best.
He gives childless couples a family,
gives them joy as the parents of children.
Hallelujah!
9-11 But you, Israel: put your trust in God!
—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
Clan of Aaron, trust in God!
—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
You who fear God, trust in God!
—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!
12-16 O God, remember us and bless us,
bless the families of Israel and Aaron.
And let God bless all who fear God—
bless the small, bless the great.
Oh, let God enlarge your families—
giving growth to you, growth to your children.
May you be blessed by God,
by God, who made heaven and earth.
The heaven of heavens is for God,
but he put us in charge of the earth.
17-18 Dead people can't praise God—
not a word to be heard from those buried in the ground.
But we bless God, oh yes—
we bless him now, we bless him always!
Hallelujah!
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