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

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

What's your Good News?

Praise: The Burden Bearer. "Praise be to the Lord, to God [my] Savior, who daily bears [my] burdens" (Psalm 68:19)

Scripture: "Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand" This morning I found myself asking, 'have I all too easily domesticated the gospel (good news), somehow making it safer'? I know that Jesus born of the virgin, crucified, buried and raised by the Father according to the Scriptures was the heart of Paul's gospel and is reflected in our creeds. But do we make enough of Jesus' life and how he proclaimed and demonstrated a new reality with the coming of the Kingdom?

What made this truly good news, something worth singing and shouting about, was that something of heaven was now invading earth. Personified in Jesus, but also demonstrating God's compassion, his power over all the works of darkness (healing, deliverance, raising the dead), his desire for renewed intimacy and friendship with his children and the true miracle of changed lives - men and women desiring and empowered to love God and one another more consistently. It is this Kingdom that excited and called me many years ago and the message has not changed. I know I have changed, but not always for the good sadly.

Lord, let your will be done here on earth (and in me) as it is in heaven.

Prayer: Pray that we will be a people who are generous and cheerful in their financial giving to those in need. Cry out to see the floodgates of heaven open and so much blessing poured out that we will not have room to contain it. Pray for breakthrough and rejoice in God's abundance.
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