Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage followers of Jesus Christ to have daily time in which they intimately connect with the Lord Jesus. It includes an aspect of praise to God, some of how I sense the Lord speaking to me, and then a topic for prayer. My hope is that this blog will help you in three ways;

1. A balanced spiritual diet of Scripture reading - Using the lectionary readings for the day, this will give you a balance of passages from the Psalms, the Old Testament, the New Testament Epistles and the Gospels.Don't feel obliged to read all the passages ... unless you have the time and the inclination!

2. An example of Spiritual Journaling - I have committed to write this daily post, not for teaching purposes but as my daily spiritual journal, sharing what I hear from the Lord and how I experience Him with me each day.

3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a discipler. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a group of 2 or 3 people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online disciple to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey, trusting that you will in time, offer yourself to others.

So let us start this journey with Jesus our Lord . . . click here for today's readings

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Do you understand what you have been given?

Praise: A Faithful God. "I praise you because 'your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies' (Ps. 36:5) and 'great is your faithfulness'" (Lam 3:23)

Scripture: "Now we have received .. the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God." (1 Cor 2:12) I often find myself living on a very 'natural' level, all too self-centered and too restricted to what I think I am able to achieve. This is why I need to keep reading Scripture, especially something like what is shown to us in this verse. The very Spirit who plumbs the depths of God, who knows what no man has ever conceived of or imagined, has been given to us by God so that we might be centered upon Christ and live on a different plane.

For Paul, it was worked out through weakness and fear amongst the sophists of Corinth, who were no match for the wisdom of God. It needed a demonstration of the Spirit's power, not Paul's oratory. Does my life "need" this also?? What will it take to see people I know become Christ-followers? Nothing less than the power of the Holy Spirit. But do I see that this is what has been given to me, in Christ Jesus? Am I sufficiently released from the limitations or shackles of mere human ability and desire? Will God even remain faithful to his word and his promises? I believe so, I must believe so. I sense that the stakes are being raised ... or maybe they have always been there and I am only truly seeing things more clearly now.

Prayer: Pray that joyful gratitude would characterize our community, and flow out in ministry to others. Let us sing, making melody in our hearts to the Lord.
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