Thursday, November 29, 2012

Daily Prayer_November 29, 2012

The Word of God for wisdom:

Proverbs 28:23 (HCSB)
23 One who rebukes a person will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

The Word of God for encouragement:

Psalm 119:169-170 (HCSB)
169
Let my cry reach You, LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.
170 Let my plea reach You; rescue me according to Your promise.

The Word of God for encouragement:

1 John 1:1-4 (HCSB)
1
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have observed and have touched with our hands, concerning the Word of life—
2
that life was revealed, and we have seen it and we testify and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us—
3
what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that you may have fellowship along with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
4 We are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

My observation:

Today we begin our walk through the letter of 1 John. This is a book that would take more than five days to grasp the depth of the message that John declares in his writing.

I love the purpose for which he writes; in verse one he writes that we might have life, and in verse four he writes that we might have joy.

This life and this joy is something that the world has nothing to offer that would come close to what God offers to his beloved children.

What the world offers is incomplete, and temporary. Think about it. Everything that you can see with your eyes, and touch with your hands is perishing. Moses, one of the heroes of faith in Hebrews recognized this truth.

Hebrews 11:24-25 (HCSB)
24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter
25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.

Let's embrace the writings of John, and the life and the joy that God has for his people who know him, and have an abiding fellowship with him.

1 John 1:7 (HCSB)
7 But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

My prayer:

Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I praise and thank you for the privileges that we enjoy because we are children of God.

Father God, I thank you for eternal life, and for the fellowship that we enjoy daily as we walk in the life and the light of Jesus, our Savior.

Father, by faith in God, help and empower your people to enthrone Jesus as Lord over all of our life. Keep me and all of your people in the path that leads to complete joy. In Jesus name, Amen.

1 John 1:9 (HCSB)
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.



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Psalm 130:5-6 (HCSB)
5 I wait for Yahweh; I wait and put my hope in His word.
6 I wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning— more than watchmen for the morning.
 

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