Daily Dose For February 22

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 39 Psalms 53

God has created each of us with a thirst that only He can quench. French philosopher Pascal called it a God-shaped vacuum in our hearts that only He can fill. Or as Augustine put it, "Our souls are restless until they find their rest in Thee." Man is perpetually seeking. To whatever degree we don't know the unseen and eternal realm; we seek answers in the seen and temporal. We look for eternal answers among temporal things. But we discover that they cannot provide them.  Dan Stone The Rest of the Gospel. Pg. 31.

O God, great and wonderful,

who has created the heavens,

dwelling in their light and beauty;

Who has made the earth,

revealing yourself in every flower that opens.

Let not my eyes be blind to you,

neither let my heart be dead,

but teach me to praise you,

even as the lark which offers her song at daybreak.

Hamilton-Poore, Sam, ed. Earth's Gospel A Guide to Prayer for God's Creation. First ed. Nashville, Tennessee: Upper Room Books, 2008. 78.

Daily Dose For February 21

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 37-38 Psalms 52

God's stern hatred of evil is a necessary part of His love for man.  Robert Mounce Revelation Pg. 128

Lord, Help us submit to your ways or righteousness and mercy, let your Holy Spirit plow our hearts  with conviction so we can be a fertile field for you.  .  In Jesus Name Amen 

Willie the Duck Commander Devotional  Jan 18 Howard Books New York New York 2013

Daily Dose For February 20

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 35-36 Psalms 51

Prophets...declare what God will do and what God requires. They speak the truth that people often do not want to hear. This rubs against the grain of a culture that treats religion as a consumer item. Those who adjust the Word of God to meet market trends, assuming the consumer is always right, are simply peddlers (2 Cor. 2:17). Those who come to religion assuming that the chief goal of God is to glorify humankind and asking, "What will it all get me?" receive only spiritual chaff.  David Garland Luke Pg. 208

Father  Help me come to my senses And return home Amen   Roger Miller

Daily Dose For February 19

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 34 Psalms 50

"...nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secrets in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!"
 On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Draw us ever closer into your community, Father, son, and Holy Spirit, that we might love one another and work with one another in ways that Mirror your care and unending love.  Amen   Roger Miller

Daily Dose For February 18

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 32-33 Psalms 49

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. Covetousness makes us the slaves of the devil. John Calvin

Lord, help us distinguish between the love that keeps merely human affection in the center of things and the love you bore in your sacrificial life, death, and resurrection. Amen. (commonprayer.net)

Daily Dose For February 17

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 30-31 Psalms 48

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.

Father, open my heart toward others and toward you. Break down and melt within me the resistance that I erect against others. Make me to be of one heart and one mind with others in the body, generous in giving, glad to participate in anything that advances this marvelous work going on in the midst of a world which is rapidly drifting into darkness and emptiness and coldness. Thank you, Lord, for the warmth of your Spirit, and for your power and your grace among your people. Ray Stedman

Daily Dose For February 16

Memory Verse Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

Exodus 28-29 Psalms 47

When people cast fear to the wind and spend themselves and risk their lives and fortune in the cause of God's truth, and in love for other people, then God is revealed for who He really is: infinitely valuable and satisfying - so much so that His people don't need the fleeting pleasures of sin in order to be content.  John Piper Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, p. 120.


A PRAYER FOR A NEW WEEK
A new week is knocking at the door,
while last week is still sprawled out on my couch.
Piles of stuff clutter home and heart and mind.
Lord, it feels like there is never enough.
Never enough time to rest, to think;
Time to play, to breathe.
To get it done.
To be.
Lord, it feels like I’m never enough.
Never enough for family, for work;
For friends.
For me.
For You.
I’m in a race I never wanted to run,
a race I don’t know how to quit.
Help me slow my pace, God.
Help me match my breathing to Yours.
Help me thank last week for her gifts and lessons,
and welcome this week for her possibilities.
I don’t need to be enough.
I just need to be Yours.
I don’t need to be enough.
I just need to be Yours.
- Melissa Hatfield