My Inbox of Daily Inspirations: 01/21/08

Today's Verse : Colossians 1:22

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January 22, 2008

VERSE:
Once you were alienated from God ... but now he has reconciled
you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in
his sight, without blemish and free from accusation.
-- Colossians 1:22

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THOUGHT:
"Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven!" You've probably seen
this bumper sticker or something similar. In one sense this is
absolutely true. But, from God's point of view, Christians ARE
perfect. That's the incredible message Paul gives the Colossians.
Because of Jesus' sacrifice, God does not see our imperfections. He
sees us through Christ's perfection. Look at these concepts and
marvel! Look at how God views you and give thanks! Be humbled by
God's grace to us in Jesus and rejoice! Holy, without blemish, and
free from accusation -- there's nothing left to say but
"Hallelujah!"

PRAYER:
Father, thank you for providing the sacrifice that makes me
clean. Thank you for seeing my worth through the perfection of
Jesus and his sacrifice. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for paying off my
debt to sin and for sharing your perfection with me. May my life
today, and everyday, more closely resemble the perfection you have
given me by your grace. In the name of my Savior Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Colossians 1:22

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January 22, 2008

VERSE:
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
-- Colossians 1:22

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Daily Wisdom NIV : Proverbs 24:3

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Daily Wisdom KJV : Proverbs 24:3

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Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is
established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with
all precious and pleasant riches.

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Mustard Seed Thoughts: The Boat Story One

The Boat Story One

By: Ron Edmondson Mustard Seed Thoughts

That day when evening came, He said to His disciples, "Let us go over to the other side." Mark 4:35 NIV

This week we will look at a very familiar passage of Scripture. I hope we glean new insight into who God is, who Christ is, and who we are as we relate to these insights.

Notice the verse says that Jesus said �to His disciples�. We need to understand what a disciple is. A disciple is one who is learning. A disciple is a student. A disciple follows after a person so they learn from that person. Jesus� disciples were attempting to learn from Christ, so that they might be like Christ, and might make Him known to others.

The point here is that these were Jesus� disciples. In the short-term, Jesus had to teach them much about the Kingdom of God. He had to prepare them for His eventual physical absence from their daily lives. They were the ones that Jesus was counting on to introduce the gospel to a lost world. Jesus wanted to �disciple� them into bein g men of God.

So, with that in mind, Jesus invites His students to �go over to the other side�, even though I am thoroughly convinced He knew a storm was coming. I love that phrase, �other side�, because it speaks to the heart of what Jesus was trying to do with the disciples, and what He wants to do in the life of you and me today. Jesus wants us to �go to the other side.� He wants us to leave our lives of sin and shame, and come into His Holy presence. He wants us to give up our worries and our fears and join Him in abundant joy and peace. Jesus wants us to disciple us to the �other side� in our Christian walk. Sometimes that requires us to go through the storms of life.

Are you tired of living a part-time Christian life? Do you feel really close to God when everything is going well, or when you are in church on Sunday morning, but when Monday gets here, you think: �where�s the faith?� Are you ready to go over to other side? Are you ready to really join ranks with Jesus, and get into His boat?

To be His disciple, sometimes we have to get into the boat, yes, even at night, and, yes, even though we are heading into a furious storm.

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Daily Heartlight -- January 21, 2008

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My Deliverer, by Phil Ware

One of the most moving collections of songs for me is "The Jesus
Record," by Rich Mullins. Several of Rich's friends had to come in and
help complete the album because of his untimely death several years
ago. The other morning, I awoke to the tune of one of the most powerful
songs in this collection, a tune I hadn't heard in months. The song is
entitled "My Deliverer." I wasn't sure why this song was so firmly
implanted in my heart at the time, but it was very much with me all
that morning. Was this the prompting of the Holy Spirit or did
something from my dreams bring this to my conscious thought? I wasn't
sure, so I listened to the song to see if something clicked inside me.
Mullin's song begins with these words:

Joseph took his wife and her child,
And they went to Africa
To escape the rage of a deadly king.
There along the banks of the Nile,
Jesus listened to the song
That the captive children used to sing.
They were singin' ...

At this point in the song, in the most haunting of voices, a group of
children begin singing beautifully, yet longingly:

My Deliverer is coming,
My Deliverer is standing by ...

As soon as I heard the song, it all clicked! I knew why it was there.
The word "Africa" and the phrase "My Deliverer is coming ..." helped me
make the immediate connection.

Many of you know that, Lord willing, I will be going to Uganda, Africa,
in February with Compassion International. Having sponsored a child and
seeing this precious young boy's heart in his letters, I don't have to
imagine children singing, "My Deliverer is coming ..." His love for
Jesus and his tender prayers for us and his concern for his
grandparents melts my heart. I know he believes Jesus is his Deliverer.
I know our family wants to keep that hope alive. What's more, I know
there are literally hundreds of thousands of children who are begging
for the Deliverer to come and help them so they can go to school and
have enough to eat and hold on to a glimmer of hope for the future.

As is the case for nearly all of us when we were children, to believe
in the ultimate Deliverer, we had to experience a more touchable
"deliverer." For most of us, this deliverer was a parent or
grandparent. They protected and nurtured us and helped us meet Jesus.

Yet for many children -- and I'm not just talking about children in
third world countries now -- their parents are not in a place to
function in the role of deliverer, or they have chosen not to function
in that role. Yes, Jesus can still be their great Deliverer even if
those closest to them do not share him with them, but it much less
likely. Over the last decade and more, studies have repeatedly revealed
that about 85% of people who come to faith in Jesus do so before they
are 18 years old. In other words, if we don't help them come to faith,
the likelihood of their ever doing so is small. We are called to be the
deliverers for those who have none so they can still know their real
Deliverer, their ultimate Deliverer is coming.

In a Psalm requesting God to arise and scatter his enemies, David calls
on us all to praise God with these words (Psalm 68:4-6 TNIV).

Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,
extol him who rides on the clouds;
rejoice before him -- his name is the Lord.
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing ...

I don't know about you, but I want children who have very little
opportunity to experience the hope and promise of the Great Deliverer
to be given that opportunity. I want to be part of the Great Deliverer
being a Father to the fatherless and placing the lonely into families.
I don't want poverty, where a child is born, or the lack of parents to
be the cause of a child missing out on hope and never knowing about
Jesus. "But what can I do in the face of so many children worldwide in
deep need?"

Of course, this is the very valid question we all ask. I'm hoping you
have some suggestions to this to go with the few I list below. The main
thing is that we don't just feel overwhelmed and do nothing. Let's find
something to do and make a difference:

Let's make a difference!

* Love your children and grandchildren, praying that you can show
them Jesus as their ultimate deliverer.

* Personally support, and encourage your church to support, orphan
homes, foster care, and services for pregnant women and adoptive
parents.

* Demand firm justice in sentencing on child predators and abusers
from your lawmakers and protection for the children who have
suffered from violence and neglect.

* Be an advocate for children in your community: no matter your
political persuasion, demand that we think about children and our
elderly as we make public policy and spend our public dollars.

* Volunteer at a local public school as a mentor or tutor or coach
for a child, or be a part of Big Brothers, Big Sisters -- this is
especially important after your children are grown.

* And, of course, closest to my heart right now, please prayerfully
consider being a sponsor with Compassion International to help
provide the basics of necessities and the hope of Jesus for a child
in need: http://www.compassion.com

I'd love to hear your ideas on my blog on other ways to help us be a
deliverer for children in need so they can ultimately find the great
Deliverer. Let me hear from you:
http://blogs.heartlight.org/phil/?p=198

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RELATED LINKS:
* Compassion at Christmas

http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200712/20071211_compassionxmas.html
* Pincushion

http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200801/20080114_pincushion.html
* The Power of One Dedicated Woman

http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200005/20000528_sisterstone.html
* Southern Hills Church of Christ

http://www.southernhillschurch.org

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Morning & Evening -- Romans 11:26 and Judges 15:18

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Monday, January 21, 2008

MORNING:

"And so all Israel shall be saved."
-- Romans 11:26

Then Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel
were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last
of God's Israel had safely planted his foot on the other side the
flood. That done, immediately the floods dissolved into their proper
place again, but not till then. Part of that song was, "Thou in thy
mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed." In the last
time, when the elect shall sing the song of Moses, the servant of God,
and of the Lamb, it shall be the boast of Jesus, "Of all whom thou hast
given me, I have lost none." In heaven there shall not be a vacant
throne.

"For all the chosen race
Shall meet around the throne,
Shall bless the conduct of his grace,
And make his glories known."

As many as God hath chosen, as many as Christ hath redeemed, as many as
the Spirit hath called, as many as believe in Jesus, shall safely cross
the dividing sea. We are not all safely landed yet:

"Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now."

The vanguard of the army has already reached the shore. We are marching
through the depths; we are at this day following hard after our Leader
into the heart of the sea. Let us be of good cheer: the rear-guard
shall soon be where the vanguard already is; the last of the chosen
ones shall soon have crossed the sea, and then shall be heard the song
of triumph, when all are secure. But oh! if one were absent-oh! if one
of his chosen family should be cast away-it would make an everlasting
discord in the song of the redeemed, and cut the strings of the harps
of paradise, so that music could never be extorted from them.

EVENING:

"He was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, thou
hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy
servant: and now shall I die for thirst?"
-- Judges 15:18

Samson was thirsty and ready to die. The difficulty was totally
different from any which the hero had met before. Merely to get thirst
assuaged is nothing like so great a matter as to be delivered from a
thousand Philistines! but when the thirst was upon him, Samson felt
that little present difficulty more weighty than the great past
difficulty out of which he had so specially been delivered. It is very
usual for God's people, when they have enjoyed a great deliverance, to
find a little trouble too much for them. Samson slays a thousand
Philistines, and piles them up in heaps, and then faints for a little
water! Jacob wrestles with God at Peniel, and overcomes Omnipotence
itself, and then goes "halting on his thigh!" Strange that there must
be a shrinking of the sinew whenever we win the day. As if the Lord
must teach us our littleness, our nothingness, in order to keep us
within bounds. Samson boasted right loudly when he said, "I have slain
a thousand men." His boastful throat soon grew hoarse with thirst, and
he betook himself to prayer. God has many ways of humbling his people.
Dear child of God, if after great mercy you are laid very low, your
case is not an unusual one. When David had mounted the throne of
Israel, he said, "I am this day weak, though anointed king." You must
expect to feel weakest when you are enjoying your greatest triumph. If
God has wrought for you great deliverances in the past, your present
difficulty is only like Samson's thirst, and the Lord will not let you
faint, nor suffer the daughter of the uncircumcised to triumph over
you. The road of sorrow is the road to heaven, but there are wells of
refreshing water all along the route. So, tried brother, cheer your
heart with Samson's words, and rest assured that God will deliver you
ere long.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "Recall What God Remembers"

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RECALL WHAT GOD REMEMBERS

I remember ... the kindness of thy youth.

Jeremiah 2:2

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Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only
expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that
cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going
hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what
God prizes. It is a great thing to think that Jesus Christ has need
of me - "Give Me to drink." How much kindness have I shown Him this
past week? Have I been kind to His reputation in my life?

God is saying to His people - You are not in love with Me now, but I
remember the time when you were - "I remember...the love of thine
espousals." Am I as full of the extravagance of love to Jesus Christ
as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my
devotion to Him? Does He find me recalling the time when I did not
care for anything but Himself? Am I there now, or have I become wise
over loving Him? Am I so in love with Him that I take no account of
where I go? or am I watching for the respect due to me; weighing how
much service I ought to give?

If, as I recall what God remembers about me, I find He is not what He
used to be to me, let it produce shame and humiliation, because that
shame will bring the godly sorrow that works repentance.

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MY NEED

Romans 5:6-11

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Dear Father, gracious God,

Thank you, dear Father, that while we were helpless, Christ our
Savior died for the ungodly. You showed your love for us in that
while we were yet sinners Christ your Son died for us.

Since therefore we are justified by Christ's blood, much more
shall we be saved by him from your wrath! For if while we were
enemies we were reconciled to you by the death of your Son, much
more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life!

Let his life be lived in my life and the life of every one of your
people! Not only so, but I now find so much joy in you as my God,
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
our reconciliation.

Thank you for your free and wonderful gift! Thank you for being my
God!

By the authority of Christ and in his name I pray. Amen.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Power Unlimited

Jesus healed many people that had different kinds of
sicknesses. Jesus also forced many demons to leave people.
But Jesus would not allow the demons to speak, because the
demons knew who he was.

-- Mark 1:34 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus' power was not limited. As the Son of God, he had power over all
different kinds of diseases and he had power over all different kinds
of demons. The demons knew who Jesus was so Jesus wouldn't let them
speak. He would reveal his identity, not his enemies. He would define
what it meant to be the Christ, the Son of God, not Satan and his
demonic hordes. So Jesus healed diseases and he ordered demons around
and refused to let them have any kind of power. His power could not,
and cannot, be limited by his opposition. He has the power.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
Loving and righteous Father, it is comforting for me to know that Jesus
has power over all demonic power. I ask now that he use that power in
several people about whom I am concerned. I fear that they have
succumbed to temptation and have made themselves vulnerable to the
influence of the evil one because of their association with evil
people, harmfully addictive chemicals, out of control greed, or
uncontrollable lust. Father, I want to pray for several of these folks
by name ... Bless them and empower them. I ask this in the mighty name
of Jesus Christ, your Son and my Savior. Amen.

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