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WJD! -- Waiting Before Witnessing -- Mark 9:9-10

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Waiting Before Witnessing


Jesus and the followers were walking back down the mountain.
Jesus commanded the followers, "Don't tell any person about
the things you saw on the mountain. Wait until after the Son
of Man rises from death. Then you can tell people what you
saw." So the followers obeyed Jesus and said nothing about
what they saw. But they discussed what Jesus meant about
rising from death.

-- Mark 9:9-10 (ERV)


KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus didn't want his three key followers telling others about what had
happened on the mountain when he spoke with Moses and Elijah. Why?
There are many reasons. First, they did not yet fully understand what
had happened. Second, they didn't understand what lay ahead for Jesus
-- his death and resurrection. Third, no one would believe them, much
less understand that Jesus was superior to Moses and Elijah. Fourth,
those who followed Jesus based on this kind of testimony would have
been looking only for a "special effects" Jesus rather than the servant
Messiah he chose to be. They needed to wait and let God fully reveal
who Jesus is and then they could share with others what they had seen
and heard.


TODAY'S PRAYER:
O Father, help me share Jesus properly with others. I want my friends
and loved ones to know of his saving grace, his awesome power, and his
ultimate triumph over sin and death. Help me know how and when to share
these things. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Today's Verse : Matthew 6:6

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June 6, 2008


VERSE:
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to
your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done
in secret, will reward you.
-- Matthew 6:6

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THOUGHT:
Prayer is an incredible invitation from God to share with him
what is on our hearts. Even when we don't have words to say, he
helps us through his Spirit in those moments. This incredibly
intimate conversation, sustained by the very precious Spirit of God
within us, must never be debased by crass showmanship or pride.
Prayer is not done to prove our piety, but to deepen our
relationship with Almighty God!

PRAYER:
Abba Father, thank you so much for the incredible gift of
prayer. Thank you for listening to both my words and my heart.
Thank you for being near and not far off. Forgive me when I don't
call upon you as often as I should, or when I take your gracious
listening ear for granted. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Matthew 6:6

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June 6, 2008

VERSE:
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when
thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and
thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
-- Matthew 6:6

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THOUGHT:
Prayer is an incredible invitation from God to share with him
what is on our hearts. Even when we don't have words to say, he
helps us through his Spirit in those moments. This incredibly
intimate conversation, sustained by the very precious Spirit of God
within us, must never be debased by crass showmanship or pride.
Prayer is not done to prove our piety, but to deepen our
relationship with Almighty God!

PRAYER:
Abba Father, thank you so much for the incredible gift of
prayer. Thank you for listening to both my words and my heart.
Thank you for being near and not far off. Forgive me when I don't
call upon you as often as I should, or when I take your gracious
listening ear for granted. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Daily Wisdom NIV : James 1:2-3

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Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of
many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith
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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.

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Stop Signs, by Ann Voskamp


I think it was because my window was rolled down a few inches that he
bothered to yell at me.

Otherwise, he might have just left it at that disgusted frown and shake
of his head. But his driver's window was cranked down, too. We both
were looking for the relief of breezes from that sun blazing down. So
when we turned north off the 4th line, down at Knapp's corner, our
dusty van barely paused there at the intersection. He didn't even have
to lean over when he hollered at me. "There's a stop sign there, you
know!"

Color, shame, floods my cheeks. But before I can nod, mumble an
apology, he and his diesel pick-up rumble off. "That wasn't very nice
of him. You had stopped, Mom." Joshua's passenger seat defense tries to
soothe. "Why did that man yell that?" Hope turns back after the truck's
dust cloud, looking for answers.

Flustered, I carefully scan to the west, then east, then west again,
before creeping forward through the intersection. And then manage a
feeble explanation. "He was concerned I wasn't going to brake in time.
That I hadn't seen the stop sign. It scared him. And that's fair."

The wind blows through our open windows, our hair. In the rush of
spring, I wonder if each of us replays his words again, the scene,
reading his anger as fear. But maybe they don't, their young faces
silently watching the meadow slip close to the road with its petticoat
of white trilliums. Maybe it's just me thinking about stop signs nearly
missed.

I'm like that. Always rushing, hardly braking in time, off again. In a
hurry. So much to be done. Or so I think.

What hard stops in my life have I been driving through -- or hardly
pausing for?

How often am I mindfully slowing to intersect my time with God? Early,
throughout, and late. Or do I barely make meaningful time at anytime in
my day to commune in lingering, unhurried ways with God? Some days,
yes. Some days, no. There are too many rolling stops.

So I'll stop and linger long.

The meadow retreats and waving fields of greening wheat lap up along
the roadside. The children, hands pointing and voices sure, debate
whether that farmer is planting corn way off in a field on the horizon,
or if he's drilling in beans. And it's just me thinking about stop
signs nearly missed and slowing to meet with God.

I'm listening to the prophet in a pick-up: There are stop signs here,
you know. So I'll stop and linger long in prayer.

To avoid life crashes.

Lord, if life is crashing ... have I been running stop signs?

Today, it's all speeding by so fast, I simply have to stop and pray.

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Morning & Evening -- Genesis 7:16 and 1 John 4:8

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MORNING:

"The Lord shut him in."
-- Genesis 7:16

Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love.
The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which
lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus
was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the
multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair
with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in.
Noah was shut in with his God. "Come thou into the ark," was the Lord's
invitation, by which he clearly showed that he himself intended to
dwell in the ark with his servant and his family. Thus all the chosen
dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in the same
circle which contains God in the Trinity of his persons, Father, Son,
and Spirit. Let us never be inattentive to that gracious call, "Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee,
and hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation
be overpast." Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods
did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on his way.
Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was rest and peace.
Without Christ we perish, but in Christ Jesus there is perfect safety.
Noah was so shut in that he could not even desire to come out, and
those who are in Christ Jesus are in him for ever. They shall go no
more out for ever, for eternal faithfulness has shut them in, and
infernal malice cannot drag them out. The Prince of the house of David
shutteth and no man openeth; and when once in the last days as Master
of the house he shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for
mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that
same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish for
ever. Lord, shut me in by thy grace.

EVENING:

"He that loveth not knoweth not God."
-- 1&nbsp;John 4:8

The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of
Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First,
faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the
apostle, "Christ loved me and gave himself for me." Then love gives the
countersign, and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in
return. "We love him because he first loved us." In those grand old
ages, which are the heroic period of the Christian religion, this
double mark was clearly to be seen in all believers in Jesus; they were
men who knew the love of Christ, and rested upon it as a man leaneth
upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. The love which they felt
towards the Lord was not a quiet emotion which they hid within
themselves in the secret chamber of their souls, and which they only
spake of in their private assemblies when they met on the first day of
the week, and sang hymns in honour of Christ Jesus the crucified, but
it was a passion with them of such a vehement and all-consuming energy,
that it was visible in all their actions, spoke in their common talk,
and looked out of their eyes even in their commonest glances. Love to
Jesus was a flame which fed upon the core and heart of their being;
and, therefore, from its own force burned its way into the outer man,
and shone there. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark
of all genuine Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's
love they dared much, and because of their love to Christ they did
much, and it is the same now. The children of God are ruled in their
inmost powers by love-the love of Christ constraineth them; they
rejoice that divine love is set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in
their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by
force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart, fervently.
My reader, do you love him? Ere you sleep give an honest answer to a
weighty question!


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GOD'S SAY-SO

He hath said ... so that we may boldly say ...

Hebrews 8:5-6

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My say-so is to be built on God's say-so. God says - "I will never
leave thee," then I can with good courage say - "The Lord is my
helper, I will not fear - " I will not be haunted by apprehension.
This does not mean that I will not be tempted to fear, but I will
remember God's say-so. I will be full of courage, like a child
"bucking himself up" to reach the standard his father wants. Faith in
many a one falters when the apprehensions come, they forget the
meaning of God's say-so, forget to take a deep breath spiritually.
The only way to get the dread taken out of us is to listen to God's
say-so.

What are you dreading? You are not a coward about it, you are going
to face it, but there is a feeling of dread. When there is nothing
and no one to help you, say - "But the Lord is my Helper, this
second, in my present outlook." Are you learning to say things after
listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's
word fit in? Get hold of the Father's say-so, and then say with good
courage - "I will not fear." It does not matter what evil or wrong
may be in the way, He has said - "I will never leave thee."

Frailty is another thing that gets in between God's say-so and ours.
When we realize how feeble we are in facing difficulties, the
difficulties become like giants, we become like grasshoppers, and God
becomes a nonentity. Remember God's say-so - "I will in no wise fail
you." Have we learned to sing after hearing God's key-note? Are we
always possessed with the courage to say - "The Lord is my helper,"
or are we succumbing?

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