This Month's Memory Verse: Psalm 105:1-4 & 41-45

 

Previous Memory Verses:

2016
January - 1 Peter 1:3-9; 13-16 (NIV)
February - Eph. 2:10; 20-21; 3:16, 20
March - Isaiah 53
April - Deuteronomy 28:1-14 & Galations 3:13
May - Psalm 105:1-4 & 41-45

2015
January -Hebrews 1:1-4
February - Hebrews 2:1-4
March - Phil 2:1-8
April - Hebrews 10: 
May - Hebrews 9:11-14
June - Hebrews 12:1-3, 12-14
July - Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29
August - Hebrews 13:1-2, 5-6, 20-21
September - Psalms 149:1-9
October - Colossians 1:15-20
November - Ephesians 1:17-23
December - 1 Thesselonians 3:12-5:24 (Excerpts): May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other...May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones...make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Live in peace with each other...Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus...May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

Year In the Word - One Year Bible Reading Plan

Plan a regular time and location to best engage your Power in the WORD each day. The daily reading is planned to lead you through the entire bible in a year. Plan for approximatley 15 minutes of reading time each day, more or less depending on your reading style. It is helpful to keep your appointment with your Bible in a consistent, quiet, location. The portions are assigned a chronological order in which they likely occurred as written and may give you fresh insight into God's working to bring about His desire in His people and in the nations. Realize every word is alive and working to bring about good things for you as you go along.


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If you desire to go deeper here are some guidelines you may use:

1.    Underline or highlight key words or phrases. Review your markings to see what God is teaching you.
2.    Identify the main idea behind the passage you've read. 
3.    Consider the "who, what, why, when, where, or how" occurring in the passage & write down your thoughts.
4.    Write out the passage in your words & read it aloud, listening for the encouragment the Holy Spirit has for you.
5.    Personalize it! How will receiving the meaning behind the message enrich and empower my life? 
6.    Commit to 1 or 2 other disciples eager to periodcially discuss & pray over the discoveries and victories you are receiving from the WORD. 
7.    Join in conversation by sharing your thoughts below.

Proverbs 4:20 My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 Every scripture inspired of God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness so that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

Luke 1:37  For no word from God shall be void of power.

 
1/4/2015
Job 1-4 In the first 3 chapters of Genesis God creates all good—especially the human race for which all else is made. He hands it over to the first family. Weirdly, humans pull away from God and hook up with a cunning...
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Pastor Bonnie (Guest) 01/05/2015 16:37
Answers to the big questions!
Job got it right! He understands there is only ONE answer for all he is suffering, everything he fears, and all that is out-of-whack with his world & his connection personally to God. Before Isaiah, Gabriel, or John the Baptist, Job said the only answer for suffering, evil, injustice, sickness, rejection from God & man, and dealing with Job's enemy & accuser is SOMEONE WHO WOULD STAND BEFORE GOD ON JOB'S BEHALF!

Job 9:33 "If only there were someone to mediate between us,
someone to bring us together,
34 someone to remove God’s rod from me,
so that his terror would frighten me no more.
35 Then I would speak up without fear of him,
but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Job's answer was on the way: Enter Jesus in human flesh, the God-man, the Divine Yes of the Father!
Man's Advocate & the adversary's Adversary.
"God sends his Son—here lies the only remedy. It is not enough to give man a new philosophy or a better religion. A Man comes to men.... The Incarnation, the words and acts of Jesus, his death on the cross,... Here is God made man." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Rejoice that Job's dilemma 'as it stood then' has been healed. There are no more "if only's"! There IS Someone....
Edward Albert (Guest) 01/08/2015 17:29
It's so good to know that Job was looking for the Mediator, finally I understand God was showing Job that mankind needs the Mediator, Jesus the Messiah. I am interested to know the bible version used to quote Job9:33-35, it expresses well the role of the Mediator.
Pastor Bonnie (Guest) 01/23/2015 03:28
Some amazing messages for the heart in the reading this week. Here are a few things that went straight to mine:
Who God loves: Before the Law Abraham "kept all Gods laws"
Gen 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” The Law of righteousness was in Abe's heart before it was ever written down on stone! And he passed it on to his sons (the reason God chose him in earlier chapters). Did you notice that men gave offerings from Adam onward but Abraham began the tithe way before Moses. That says something to the heart that argues against New Covenant tithing being exempt because we've passed from Moses' law. The law of righteousness was conceived in Abraham our father of faith and fulfilled in Christ's exchange.
Jacob followed his grandfather's example: Gen 28: Jacob's vow "I will give You a tenth of all" when he had nothing but a rock! And God surely made him rich.

God loved Jacob because of his heart attitude;
Jacob revered the birthright and honored his father and mother (it shows a humility & instinctive honor expressed in obedience) Gen 27 "Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing." At the same time he obeyed his mother according to the word of the Lord.

Contrast: Esau despised his birthright (a costly free gift given him that he didn't earn & did not revere)
Gen 25: Esau said, “I am about to die(was just hungry); of what use is a birthright to me?” So he swore and sold his birthright to Jacob. And Esau "ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright." Satisfied his flesh and went his own way! Frightening pride of heart and led about by his passions. Neither did he honor his parents:
Gen 26: When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

The story becomes a repeat of Cain and Able. Esau hated his brother and swore to kill him over events Essu brought on himself.

And look:
Gen 28 Isaac blesses Jacob the second time! Obviously the dramatic difference in the two sons response causes Isaac to bless Jacob again (though he has just told Esau there is no blessing left!)
In another strange twist Esau makes a half gesture or perhaps a defiant move and married again after Isaac commands Jacob concerning his marriage.
For "when he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother."
Some things to "ponder in our hearts."
Enjoy the reading. See you for Hebrews tonight!


Pastor Bonnie (Guest) 01/27/2015 10:40
The Lord was with him…

It's tempting to assume that good times mean God is with us and bad times mean we’re missing it somewhere.

This week’s reading is a great encouragement of insight into the ways of God as He builds us into those He sets up for a testimony to Himself.

Genesis 39: The Lord was with Joseph so that:
a. he prospered as a slave;
b. he was successful in everything he did while a slave;
c. he found favor in the eyes of his master;
d. he promoted from slave to personal attendant.

Notice how God used His servant as the servant of another:
a. God’s blessing came on the house where he served;
b. God’s blessing came on everything his employer owned
c. And it meant greater responsibility for Joseph.

God had still more in mind. That more would come through false accusations that would suddenly strip Joseph of all the honor he had earned and send him to prison!

In prison:
a. The Lord was with him;
b. God showed Joseph kindness by granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
c. The warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners. (Do you suppose Joseph treated them differently than he might have had he not been through suffering as a prisoner?)
d. Joseph was made responsible for all that was done there.
e. The warden had such confidence in Joseph’s character and faithfulness he didn’t even come in to check on what Joseph was doing
f. Because the Lord was with Joseph, success came on whatever he did.

God’s covenant with Abraham was this: “Fear not I am your shield and exceeding great reward.”

Jesus words “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Philippians 2 tells us that in Jesus the way up is down:
“have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

Preach the gospel.... without words if necessary!

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