My Inbox of Daily Inspirations: 01/22/09

Today's Verse : 2 Corinthians 12:9

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January 23, 2009

VERSE:
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power
is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more
gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

-- 2 Corinthians 12:9
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THOUGHT:
While other preachers in Paul's day were parading around their
credentials, Paul refused to get into a bragging contest to prove
he was the most impressive of Jesus' disciples. Even though he had
the religious education and Jewish pedigree to silence his rivals,
he preferred to acknowledge the areas of his weakness where God had
triumphed over his own limitations. Let's be careful today about
examining and determining the ministry-worth of someone based on
his or her resume. Instead, let's look for people in whom God's
grace has triumphed.

PRAYER:
Almighty and loving Father, thank you for sustaining and
enabling me to serve you in ways I would never have dreamed of
doing. Please help me serve you faithfully as I depend upon your
grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : 2 Corinthians 12:9

January 23, 2009

VERSE:
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I
rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me.

-- 2 Corinthians 12:9
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Daily Wisdom NIV : Proverbs 16:31

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Daily Wisdom KJV : Proverbs 16:31

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
righteousness.

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Mustard Seed Thoughts: Brag Time

Brag Time

By: Ron Edmondson Mustard Seed Thoughts

Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out! Tell others He has saved you from your enemies. Psalm 107:2 NLT

Has God done something great in your life? Well, what are you waiting for? Let others hear about it!

Are you still breathing? Tell someone. Has your mother been healed? Let someone know. Do you no longer have those headaches? Brag about it! Did the money somehow �just show up�? Give God the glory!

Are you less angry than you once were? Thank God, publicly. Has your marriage been restored? Spread the good news! Do the angels know your name written in Gloryland? Shout for joy!

God is worthy to be honored. He has and is doing great things! He wants to know you appreciate Him. He wants to hear your praise!

I used to pray with an old preacher friend. Occasionally, he would begin by saying, �Lord, I know how you love your Son, and I know how I love mine. I know how it feels when someone brags on my son, so I want to brag on yours. Now, let me brag on Jesus!� Then he would recite all the wonderful things Jesus has done in his life.

Maybe you and I need to brag on Jesus today! He has been good to us, very good!

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Daily Heartlight -- January 22, 2009

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The Problem with Commitments, by Rubel Shelly

City officials in Bullhead City, Arizona, are in hot water with that
town's military veterans over an "eternal" flame. The question seems to
be whether to make the flame "eternal" or only "occasional." And I am
sensitive to both sides here. On the one side is the principle of honor
where honor is due; on the other is the matter of fiscal responsibility
in these challenging days. Here's the story, according to the Mohave
Valley Daily News of January 10, 2009.

With great fanfare last Veterans Day, the flame was ignited for the
Medal of Honor Memorial at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Park. An
agreement between Bullhead City and Veterans United -- a veterans group
that had worked to design, build, and pay for the memorial -- called
for the city to maintain the park and the new memorial. The perpetual
flame was one of the most distinctive features.

But last week the eternal flame sat cold and dark. The first month's
gas bill for $961.17 had come to the city in December. After deciding
to leave the eternal flame on through the holidays, it was turned off
last Monday as a cost-cutting measure. The city manager explained that
the perpetual flame might have to be only an occasional flame -- set
ablaze only for special events such as Veterans Day, the Fourth of
July, and Memorial Day. The uproar began. "It's an 'eternal' flame,"
said one spokesman for Veterans United. "That's just not proper." Said
another: "You just don't shut off a 'perpetual' flame!" "But at this
point," said the city manager, "we don't have any money budgeted, you
know, a thousand dollars a month, to pay for that eternal flame." Said
the mayor: "You know, under the present financial circumstances, we're
very careful on how we're spending our money."

So now they're negotiating. Veterans insist figures for the gas expense
were projected in discussions all along. At least one city official
says he didn't think the city understood they had to pay the gas bill.
I hope they work it out satisfactorily. City officials in Bullhead
City, Arizona, are in hot water with that town's military veterans over
an "eternal" flame.

So now they're negotiating.

When I read the story, I thought immediately of a dozen -- no, a
"bazillion" -- other situations that parallel it. Businesses have
cranked up without a workable business plan or adequate capitalization.
Crazy-in-love kids have gotten married with no clue of what adult
responsibilities for work, education, mortgage, auto insurance, and the
like would entail -- much less kids of their own. People have made
emotional decisions to get baptized or to commit to a missions project
and were not ready to live up to the commitment.

It was Jesus who gave this counsel to some who were thinking about
joining his band of disciples: "Don't begin until you first count the
cost" (Luke 14:25-33, my summary of his words).

As the perpetual-versus-occasional flame illustrates, it is sound
advice. It spares embarrassment later. It keeps a good thing from
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Morning & Evening -- Ezekiel 15:2 and Job 1:9

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

MORNING:

"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than
a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"
-- Ezekiel 15:2

These words are for the humbling of God's people; they are called God's
vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by God's
goodness, have become fruitful, having been planted in a good soil; the
Lord hath trained them upon the walls of the sanctuary, and they bring
forth fruit to his glory; but what are they without their God? What are
they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting
fruitfulness in them? O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that
thou hast no ground for it. Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to
make thee proud. The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God;
and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders thee a debtor.
Consider thine origin; look back to what thou wast. Consider what thou
wouldst have been but for divine grace. Look upon thyself as thou art
now. Doth not thy conscience reproach thee? Do not thy thousand
wanderings stand before thee, and tell thee that thou art unworthy to
be called his son? And if he hath made thee anything, art thou not
taught thereby that it is grace which hath made thee to differ? Great
believer, thou wouldst have been a great sinner if God had not made
thee to differ. O thou who art valiant for truth, thou wouldst have
been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon thee.
Therefore, be not proud, though thou hast a large estate-a wide domain
of grace, thou hadst not once a single thing to call thine own except
thy sin and misery. Oh! strange infatuation, that thou, who hast
borrowed everything, shouldst think of exalting thyself; a poor
dependent pensioner upon the bounty of thy Saviour, one who hath a life
which dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Fie
on thee, O silly heart!

EVENING:

"Doth Job fear God for nought?"
-- Job 1:9

This was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of
old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be
asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because he
prospers them; but if things went ill with them, they would give up all
their boasted faith in God. If they can clearly see that since the time
of their supposed conversion the world has gone prosperously with them,
then they will love God in their poor carnal way; but if they endure
adversity, they rebel against the Lord. Their love is the love of the
table, not of the host; a love to the cupboard, not to the master of
the house. As for the true Christian, he expects to have his reward in
the next life, and to endure hardness in this. The promise of the old
covenant is adversity. Remember Christ's words-"Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit"-What? "He purgeth it, that it may bring forth
fruit." If you bring forth fruit, you will have to endure affliction.
"Alas!" you say, "that is a terrible prospect." But this affliction
works out such precious results, that the Christian who is the subject
of it must learn to rejoice in tribulations, because as his
tribulations abound, so his consolations abound by Christ Jesus. Rest
assured, if you are a child of God, you will be no stranger to the rod.
Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the fire. Fear not,
but rather rejoice that such fruitful times are in store for you, for
in them you will be weaned from earth and made meet for heaven; you
will be delivered from clinging to the present, and made to long for
those eternal things which are so soon to be revealed to you. When you
feel that as regards the present you do serve God for nought, you will
then rejoice in the infinite reward of the future.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "What Am I Looking At?"

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January 22, 2009

WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?

Look unto Me, and be ye saved.

Isaiah 14:22
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Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He
says - Look unto Me, and be saved. The great difficulty spiritually
is to concentrate on God, and it is His blessings that make it
difficult. Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings
are apt to make us look elsewhere. The teaching of the Sermon on the
Mount is, in effect - Narrow all your interests until the attitude of
mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. "Look unto
Me."

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be,
and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration
on God. There is no salvation in this way, it is not simple enough.
"Look unto Me" and - not "you will be saved," but "you are saved."
The very thing we look for, we shall find if we will concentrate on
Him. We get preoccupied and sulky with God, while all the time He is
saying - "Look up and be saved." The difficulties and trials - the
casting about in our minds as to what we shall do this summer, or
to-morrow, all vanish when we look to God.

Rouse yourself up and look to God. Build your hope on Him. No matter
if there are a hundred and one things that press, resolutely exclude
them all and look to Him. "Look unto Me," and salvation is, the
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ACQUITTED

Romans 5:12-17
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Dear Father, creator of good and righter of wrongs,

You created a good and wonderful environment for mankind. But for
our first mother and father it was not enough. Sin came into the
world through them, and death through sin, and so death spread to
all, because all sinned.

Your free gift was not like the trespass. It was greater! If many
died through one man's trespass, how much more will your grace
abound! How much more will that free gift abound for the masses of
mankind in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ!

Thank you that in him we receive all the more abundantly from your
grace! How grateful we are for receiving the free gift of
righteousness to reign in our lives!

Thank you, Father in heaven. In the name of Jesus, our Savior and
Justifier, I offer this thanks and praise for your wonderful grace.
Amen.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

By Me?

At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan River.
Jesus came to John and wanted John to baptize him. But John
tried to say that he was not good enough to baptize Jesus.
John said, "Why do you come to me to be baptized? I should be
baptized by you!"

-- Matthew 3:13-14 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Can you imagine John's surprise when Jesus wanted to be baptized by
him? "I'm not worthy..." "I need to be baptized by you..." But, even
when God shows us a way that may seem strange to us, He has a plan and
it works beautifully if we will all do our part. So often, God's great
leaders had to walk much of their journey alone because no one dared to
help them. Discipleship is not just about great leaders, but also about
loyal followers -- followers of Jesus who do their part when given the
opportunity and followers who dare to imagine that God wants to use
them in mighty ways for his Kingdom.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
O Great Giver of Gifts, thank you for giving me a part to play in your
work of salvation. Help me to never underestimate the importance of
what you have called me to do to serve you, nor devalue the abilities
you have given me to use in your service. I want to fulfill your plans
for my life and ministry, so please give me the courage and boldness to
seize the opportunities to serve you that you place before me. In
Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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