Today's Verse : 1 John 4:20

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February 13, 2009

VERSE:
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a
liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,
cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

-- 1 John 4:20
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THOUGHT:
"O how I love Jesus!" we sing. Jesus responds by asking how well
we are doing with loving our brothers and sisters! We can't love
God if we can't love those around us.

PRAYER:
Forgive me, dear Father, for the times I have harbored pettiness
in my heart or been unforgiving to those who needed me to be
gracious and merciful. I recognize that when I am unloving to my
brothers and sisters in Christ, I am unloving to you. Please bless
me as I work to reconcile some Christian relationships that have
not gone well recently. Help these mended friendships to bring
glory to you and vitality to your church. In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : 1 John 4:20

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February 13, 2009

VERSE:
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he
love God whom he hath not seen?

-- 1 John 4:20
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THOUGHT:
"O how I love Jesus!" we sing. Jesus responds by asking how well
we are doing with loving our brothers and sisters! We can't love
God if we can't love those around us.

PRAYER:
Forgive me, dear Father, for the times I have harbored pettiness
in my heart or been unforgiving to those who needed me to be
gracious and merciful. I recognize that when I am unloving to my
brothers and sisters in Christ, I am unloving to you. Please bless
me as I work to reconcile some Christian relationships that have
not gone well recently. Help these mended friendships to bring
glory to you and vitality to your church. In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.

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Daily Wisdom NIV : Proverbs 16:3

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Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

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Daily Wisdom KJV : Proverbs 16:3

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Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be
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Proverbs 16:3, King James Version
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Where is Your Bread Buttered?

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Then Jesus declared, �I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.� John 6:35 NIV

Jesus was very specific in this promise. To say that Jesus �declared� is a much stronger statement than to say Jesus �said� something. When Jesus declared this commitment to His people, it was a declaration of not only who He is, but what a difference He makes in the life of those who love Him.

I know the economy is struggling, but even still most of us do not know personally what it feels like to wonder who would pay for the next meal. However, I can honestly say that since Jesus came into my life, I have never really been hungry and never been thirsty.

Oh, sure, there have been some difficult days. And, I have missed a lunch or two which caused my stomach growl. But, I must confess from deep within my heart that my God has never forsaken me. I have never been deserted. While outwardly I may ha ve appeared to be lacking, inwardly I was becoming stronger every day.

If Jesus is your Bread of Life, you can be assured your spirit will never be empty. Jesus will be all you need to survive.

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Love Path 911: Desire & Lovemaking, by Joe Beam

Special Note:
Each week, Joe Beam is answering questions submitted by Heartlight.org
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Question:

I am a 46 yr old male going on 11 yrs of marriage. I do not have a
strong sexual drive. What should I look into to help pick up my
desire and drive? I have a great wife who has way more drive then I
do. -- T. B.

According to the Bible, the female has sexual needs (1 Corinthians
7:2-5). It isn't just the wife who is commanded to fulfill marital duty
to the husband, but also the husband to the wife. It isn't just her
body that belongs to him but also his body that belongs to her. Kudos
to you for understanding this and wanting to please her.

You ask what you should "look into" to help increase desire.
Interestingly, there are a few aphrodisiacs validated by research.
However, before guiding you to herbs and medicines, I suggest you try
another approach first. It really makes no difference whether a
person's desire is strong, if that person can become adequately aroused
(physically, mentally, and emotionally) and can reach climax. In other
words, you don't have to want to make love to have a good lovemaking
experience. Pursuing the fulfillment of your wife's sexual needs is a
wonderful act of love, especially when you don't have the sexual desire
to do so.

Remember these words from the apostle Paul to early believers in
Ephesus?

* "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Ephesians 5:21).

Be creative in planning and execution.

* "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and
gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25).

As you recall from Jesus' pleading in the garden, he did not desire the
cross, but he gave the greatest act of love ever known by doing it
because we needed it (Mark 14:36). I'm not comparing your making love
to your wife as equal to Jesus' sacrifice, but it is in the spirit of
his selfless love.

Plan regular lovemaking sessions -- 2 to 3 times a week is best -- and
make them happen whether you feel desire or not. Be creative in
planning and execution, and you likely will discover that your desire
will increase on its own. (My book Becoming One may help.)

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If you have a question about love and relationships, send them to me at
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* Developing Intimacy
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200004/20000430_intimacy.html
* Marriage Saver
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Morning & Evening -- 2 Corinthians 1:5 and John 14:16

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MORNING:

"For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also aboundeth by Christ."
-- 2 Corinthians 1:5

There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of
scales-in this side he puts his people's trials, and in that he puts
their consolations. When the scale of trial is nearly empty, you will
always find the scale of consolation in nearly the same condition; and
when the scale of trials is full, you will find the scale of
consolation just as heavy. When the black clouds gather most, the light
is the more brightly revealed to us. When the night lowers and the
tempest is coming on, the Heavenly Captain is always closest to his
crew. It is a blessed thing, that when we are most cast down, then it
is that we are most lifted up by the consolations of the Spirit. One
reason is, because trials make more room for consolation. Great hearts
can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the
reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. God
comes into our heart-he finds it full-he begins to break our comforts
and to make it empty; then there is more room for grace. The humbler a
man lies, the more comfort he will always have, because he will be more
fitted to receive it. Another reason why we are often most happy in our
troubles, is this-then we have the closest dealings with God. When the
barn is full, man can live without God: when the purse is bursting with
gold, we try to do without so much prayer. But once take our gourds
away, and we want our God; once cleanse the idols out of the house,
then we are compelled to honour Jehovah. "Out of the depths have I
cried unto thee, O Lord." There is no cry so good as that which comes
from the bottom of the mountains; no prayer half so hearty as that
which comes up from the depths of the soul, through deep trials and
afflictions. Hence they bring us to God, and we are happier; for
nearness to God is happiness. Come, troubled believer, fret not over
your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

EVENING:

"He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you for ever."
-- John 14:16

Great Father revealed himself to believers of old before the coming of
his Son, and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as the God
Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in his own proper
person, was the delight of his people's eyes. At the time of the
Redeemer's ascension, the Holy Spirit became the head of the present
dispensation, and his power was gloriously manifested in and after
Pentecost. He remains at this hour the present Immanuel-God with us,
dwelling in and with his people, quickening, guiding, and ruling in
their midst. Is his presence recognized as it ought to be? We cannot
control his working; he is most sovereign in all his operations, but
are we sufficiently anxious to obtain his help, or sufficiently
watchful lest we provoke him to withdraw his aid? Without him we can do
nothing, but by his almighty energy the most extraordinary results can
be produced: everything depends upon his manifesting or concealing his
power. Do we always look up to him both for our inner life and our
outward service with the respectful dependence which is fitting? Do we
not too often run before his call and act independently of his aid? Let
us humble ourselves this evening for past neglects, and now entreat the
heavenly dew to rest upon us, the sacred oil to anoint us, the
celestial flame to burn within us. The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift,
he abides with the saints. We have but to seek him aright, and he will
be found of us. He is jealous, but he is pitiful; if he leaves in
anger, he returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, he does not weary
of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

Sin has been hammering my heart
Unto a hardness, void of love,
Let supplying grace to cross his art
Drop from above.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "Must I Listen?"

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MUST I LISTEN?

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us and we will
hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Exodus 20:19
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We do not consciously disobey God, we simply do not heed Him. God has
given us His commands; there they are, but we do not pay any
attention to them, not because of wilful disobedience but because we
do not love and respect Him. "If ye love Me, ye will keep My
commandments." When once we realize that we have been "disrespecting"
God all the time, we are covered with shame and humiliation because
we have not heeded Him.

"Speak thou with us...but let not God speak with us." We show how
little we love God by preferring to listen to His servants only. We
like to listen to personal testimonies, but we do not desire that God
Himself should speak to us. Why are we so terrified lest God should
speak to us? Because we know that if God does speak, either the thing
must be done or we must tell God we will not obey Him. If it is only
the servant's voice we hear, we feel it is not imperative, we can
say, "Well, that is simply your own idea, though I don't deny it is
probably God's truth."

Am I putting God in the humiliating position of having treated me as
a child of His whilst all the time I have been ignoring Him? When I
do hear Him, the humiliation I have put on Him comes back on me -
"Lord, why was I so dull and so obstinate?" This is always the result
when once we do hear God. The real delight of hearing Him is tempered
with shame in having been so long in hearing Him.

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Praying with Paul : "Israel's Unbelief"

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ISRAEL'S UNBELIEF

Romans 10:18-11:16
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Dear Father,

How sorry I am that the people you chose, the nation of Israel,
has spurned your Messiah and turned away in unbelief. But how
thankful I am that because of their unbelief you have sent your
message to Gentiles so that we can be adopted into the family of
Abraham, grafted as wild shoots into the natural olive tree.

I rejoice that even today you have redeemed in Christ thousands of
Abraham's natural descendants for your kingdom.

I rejoice that I share with them the blessings you gave. Thank you
that we are one family.

In the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.

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WJD! -- Pure Hearts -- Matthew 5:8

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Pure Hearts

"What great blessings there are for the people that are pure
in their thinking! They will be with God."

-- Matthew 5:8 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
"Purer in heart, O God, help me to be ..." That's the powerful line of
Fannie Davison's old hymn. This is also an amazingly pervasive theme in
Scripture, whether articulated by the prophets, the psalmists, the
wisdom teachers, Jesus, or the apostles. A clean heart is the signal of
God's coming new age and is mandatory for true, authentic worship. Much
of human life is tainted by duplicity and deception. Pure motives and
an unspoiled heart are of utmost importance if we are to live the life
of the Kingdom Family. For those who are pure in heart, going to be
with God is not a far journey, for they have sought to live with him
everyday. It is simply the fulfillment of an ongoing passion to keep
their hearts close to the Father's home.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
O gracious and holy LORD, I know my heart can be deceptive and
self-serving. But through your Holy Spirit, cleanse my heart, make your
home there, and let your influence live there until I come home to be
with you. I want my life to show forth my allegiance to you, so help me
as I seek to guard my heart from impurity, duplicity, and selfishness.
Help me, O God, as I try to be pure in heart. Thank you, in the name of
Jesus, your pure and perfect sacrifice. Amen.

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