Daily Dose of God's Word For September 14

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-14

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

Galatians 2  

Believers, if opt to practice Favoritism, will fail miserably to build a relationship of Mutual Trust & True Respect for themselves.” 

― Santosh Thankachan

Pray 

You who prayed from the cross for your Father to forgive those who were killing you, grant us the courage to forgive those who harm us in our families, in our communities, and in our world. Help us recognize our own need to seek the forgiveness of others. Amen.  http://commonprayer.net

Daily Dose of God's Word For September 13

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-13

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

2 Corinthians 5:11-21

The pattern of the prodigal is rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. Edwin Louis Cole

Pray 

Father, When there is an opportunity to sin may you protect me from the inclination and when there is the inclination to sin may the Lord protect me from the opportunity.  Amen

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Daily Dose of God's Word For September 12th

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-12

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

1 Corinthians 9:1-18

“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” ― Richard Baxter

Pray 

Lord, stir up the remnants of your goodness in us so that together we might proclaim, “Another world is possible —  indeed, it is already here in Christ!” Amen.

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Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-11

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-11

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

Luke 14:15-24

“Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.” ― Letty M. Russell

Pray 

A Prayer for the Anniversary of 9/11

by the Rev. Jeremy Pridgeon

O God, our hope and refuge,

in our distress we come quickly to you.

Shock and horror of that tragic day have subsided,

replaced now with an emptiness,

a longing for an innocence lost.

We come remembering those who lost their lives
in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.

We are mindful of the sacrifice of public servants
who demonstrated the greatest love of all
by laying down their lives for friends.
We commit their souls to your eternal care
and celebrate their gifts to a fallen humanity.

We come remembering
and we come in hope,
not in ourselves, but in you.

As foundations we once thought secure have been shaken,
we are reminded of the illusion of security.

In commemorating this tragedy,
we give you thanks for your presence
in our time of need
and we seek to worship you in Spirit and in truth,
our guide and our guardian. Amen.

Daily Dose of God's Word For September 10th

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-10

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

1 Samuel 13:1-15

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. Joyce Meyer

Pray

Father, rebuild this house upon your rock.
For America labors in vain.
As surely as Your benevolent fingers hold together the fabric of the universe, it is by Your grace and Your grace alone that a nation in rebellion can endure.
We are a nation in rebellion.
How, then, shall we endure?
For You are just.
And Your justice demands judgment.
We have entered judgment.
This is just.
We have sown seeds of wickedness, Lord Jesus.
And for this we repent.
We confess our national sins and entreat Your forgiveness. We confess our arrogance. We confess our selfishness. We confess that we have broken – and continue to break – the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. We have rejected Your laws, embraced our own fallen impulses and called them laws. (https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2013/08/05/a-prayer-for-a-nation-in-rebellion-n1656175)

Daily Dose of God's Word For September 9th

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-9

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

Exodus 3 

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pray 

Lord, open our eyes to see that the fruit of life comes when we plant seeds of hope among those whom the world rejects. Amen.

Daily Dose of God's Word For September 8th

Daily Dose of God's Word For 9-8

Memory Verse: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Romans 10

God's salvation is available to all. This is a bold statement. We err if we hear it as anthropology, as a claim that all people are about the same, or as a maxim that "a person's a person, no matter how small" (that's not Paul, but Horton Hears a Who!). Rather, Paul makes a statement about God: God has made salvation near to all.  But someone must tell them of Jesus!

Pray 

Lord, help us not to conform to the patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Give us a new imagination so that we might live in ways that do not compute to the logic of materialism and militarism. Make us into holy nonconformists so that we might see the kingdoms of this world transformed into your glorious kingdom. Amen.