[S] Luke 10:20 --
Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."
[O] Jesus empowered his disciples to carry out supernatural miracles on their mission trips. What an amazing sight it must have been for sure. However, Jesus charges them not to rejoice (and trust) in these supernatural powers but foremost rejoice knowing that we are considered as God's children.
[A] As I take part in God's ministry, I desire to see God's unparalleled power in our midst and when God graciously invites me to witness Him in action, that is pure awesomeness. However, I must be careful not to lean on that too much forgetting what really matters -- being in God's family in the first place. This is the gospel message and I need to be renewed in it daily to remind myself and rejoice that God saved me from this dying world.
[P] Dear Jesus, may Your commands to these disciples be a lesson for me to follow daily -- to rejoice in Your saving grace before anything else. Thank You for what You have done for me at the Cross. In Your name. Amen.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
God is Watching Over Me
[S] Exodus 2:25 --
25 God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.
[O] God watches over us, His people, and takes note of our needs. When the Israelites who once entered Egypt on good terms have found themselves under severe persecution of the new Egyptian regime. They may have lacked the right leader to look out for them or something but they were definitely being under a strong bondage such that they were so busy making bricks that they lost track of accomplishing God's will.
[A] What is the will of God for my life? I may not have figured it all out but am I going to Him first to get His instructions on how to live for Him rather than being under the bondage of this world's busy-ness? I feel that I'm repeating the same cycle now. Especially while my mind is engulfed in trying to resolve some conflict at work. I need to turn to this passage and claim that because I need to be assured that God is watching over me.
[P] Dear Father, may Your will be done through this less-than-normal son of Yours not because I do things so well but because You are watching over me. In Jesus' name. Amen.
25 God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.
[O] God watches over us, His people, and takes note of our needs. When the Israelites who once entered Egypt on good terms have found themselves under severe persecution of the new Egyptian regime. They may have lacked the right leader to look out for them or something but they were definitely being under a strong bondage such that they were so busy making bricks that they lost track of accomplishing God's will.
[A] What is the will of God for my life? I may not have figured it all out but am I going to Him first to get His instructions on how to live for Him rather than being under the bondage of this world's busy-ness? I feel that I'm repeating the same cycle now. Especially while my mind is engulfed in trying to resolve some conflict at work. I need to turn to this passage and claim that because I need to be assured that God is watching over me.
[P] Dear Father, may Your will be done through this less-than-normal son of Yours not because I do things so well but because You are watching over me. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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