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Comment by Jolene on April 5, 2011 at 4:07am

Psalm 34:1-10 (The Message)

 

Psalm 34

 ¹ I bless God every chance I get; my lungs expand with his praise.

 ² I live and breathe God;
   if things aren't going well, hear this and be happy:

 ³ Join me in spreading the news;
   together let's get the word out.

 ⁴ God met me more than halfway,
   he freed me from my anxious fears.

 ⁵ Look at him; give him your warmest smile.
   Never hide your feelings from him.

 ⁶ When I was desperate, I called out,
   and God got me out of a tight spot.

 ⁷ God's angel sets up a circle
   of protection around us while we pray.

 ⁸ Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see—
         how good God is.
   Blessed are you who run to him.

 ⁹ Worship God if you want the best;
   worship opens doors to all his goodness.

 ¹⁰ Young lions on the prowl get hungry,
   but God-seekers are full of God.

Dear Lord help us savor you, enjoy every moment with you. Help us fill our lives with you, and know what goodness is Amen

Comment by Jolene on April 4, 2011 at 3:33am

2 Timothy 2:1-7 (The Message)

 

2 Timothy 2

Doing Your Best for God

 ^1-7So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!— to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn't get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It's the diligent farmer who gets the produce. Think it over. God will make it all plain.

Dear Lord help us to set our sights on heavenly treasures and not all that glitters and distracts us on earth. Amen

Comment by Jolene on April 3, 2011 at 6:16am

1 Corinthians 11:27-29 (The Message)

 

 ^27-28Anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Master irreverently is like part of the crowd that jeered and spit on him at his death. Is that the kind of "remembrance" you want to be part of? Examine your motives, test your heart, come to this meal in holy awe.

 ^29-32If you give no thought (or worse, don't care) about the broken body of the Master when you eat and drink, you're running the risk of serious consequences. That's why so many of you even now are listless and sick, and others have gone to an early grave. If we get this straight now, we won't have to be straightened out later on. Better to be confronted by the Master now than to face a fiery confrontation later.

 

 

Dear Lord make my heart clean for you, help my mind be focused on your will not mine. Amen

Comment by Jolene on April 1, 2011 at 4:15am

Hebrews 5:12-6:2 (The Message)

 

Re-Crucifying Jesus

 ^11-14I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you've picked up this bad habit of not listening. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one—baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God's ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.

Hebrews 6

 ^1-3So come on, let's leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on "salvation by self-help" and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we'll stay true to all that. But there's so much more. Let's get on with it!

Do you ever wonder what we are really capable of, because we are made in God's image, can we do miracles too? Dear Lord help us to be our full adult person and not just babes in you. Amen

Comment by Jolene on March 31, 2011 at 4:40am

John 14:1-10 (The Message)

 

John 14

The Road

 ^1-4 "Don't let this throw you. You trust God, don't you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father's home. If that weren't so, would I have told you that I'm on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I'm on my way to get your room ready, I'll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I'm taking."

 ⁵Thomas said, "Master, we have no idea where you're going. How do you expect us to know the road?"

 ^6-7Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You've even seen him!"

 ⁸Philip said, "Master, show us the Father; then we'll be content."

 ^9-10"You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, 'Where is the Father?' Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

 

Dear Lord as we start our day let us make you the center of it. You are our path and our light. You guide us and protect us. We praise your name Amen

Comment by Jolene on March 30, 2011 at 4:36am

1 Samuel 12:19-25 (The Message)

 

 ¹⁹ Then all the people begged Samuel, "Pray to your God for us, your servants. Pray that we won't die! On top of all our other sins, we've piled on one more—asking for a king!"

 ^20-22 Samuel said to them, "Don't be fearful. It's true that you have done something very wrong. All the same, don't turn your back on God. Worship and serve him heart and soul! Don't chase after ghost-gods. There's nothing to them. They can't help you. They're nothing but ghost-gods! God, simply because of who he is, is not going to walk off and leave his people. God took delight in making you into his very own people.

 ^23-25 "And neither will I walk off and leave you. That would be a sin against God! I'm staying right here at my post praying for you and teaching you the good and right way to live. But I beg of you, fear God and worship him honestly and heartily. You've seen how greatly he has worked among you! Be warned: If you live badly, both you and your king will be thrown out."

 

Dear Lord help us all to not live badly. Help us to follow your word and not get caught up in all the worldly things. You have provided us with a map and a support system, a forgiving God and a eaferness to please. Amen

Comment by Jolene on March 29, 2011 at 4:48am

Judges 7:24-8:3 (The Message)

 

 ²⁴ Gideon then sent messengers through all the hill country of Ephraim, urging them, "Come down against Midian! Capture the fords of the Jordan at Beth Barah."

 ²⁵ So all the men of Ephraim rallied and captured the fords of the Jordan at Beth Barah. They also captured the two Midianite commanders Oreb (Raven) and Zeeb (Wolf). They killed Oreb at Raven Rock; Zeeb they killed at Wolf Winepress. And they pressed the pursuit of Midian. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.

Judges 8

 ¹ Then the Ephraimites said to Gideon, "Why did you leave us out of this, not calling us when you went to fight Midian?" They were indignant and let him know it.

 ^2-3 But Gideon replied, "What have I done compared to you? Why, even the gleanings of Ephraim are superior to the vintage of Abiezer. God gave you Midian's commanders, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I done compared with you?"

    When they heard this, they calmed down and cooled off.

 

Dear Lord Life does not change people, people change people in how we react in how we respond. With a kind word and the turning of a cheek we can change the world. Amen

Comment by Jolene on March 28, 2011 at 5:34am

Philippians 2

He Took on the Status of a Slave

 ^1-4If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

 ^5-8Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.

 ^9-11Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.

 

Dear Lord help us to be humble to be giving to be selfless like you. That is so opposite of how the world teaches and such a hard lesson to learn. Help us stay humble like you. Amen

Comment by Jolene on March 27, 2011 at 4:33am

Jeremiah 23:25-32 (The Message)

 

 ^25-27"I know what they're saying, all these prophets who preach lies using me as their text, saying 'I had this dream! I had this dream!' How long do I have to put up with this? Do these prophets give two cents about me as they preach their lies and spew out their grandiose delusions? They swap dreams with one another, feed on each other's delusive dreams, trying to distract my people from me just as their ancestors were distracted by the no-god Baal.

 ^28-29"You prophets who do nothing but dream—
   go ahead and tell your silly dreams.
But you prophets who have a message from me—
   tell it truly and faithfully.
What does straw have in common with wheat?
   Nothing else is like God's Decree.
Isn't my Message like fire?" God's Decree.
   "Isn't it like a sledgehammer busting a rock?

 ^30-31"I've had it with the 'prophets' who get all their sermons secondhand from each other. Yes, I've had it with them. They make up stuff and then pretend it's a real sermon.

 ³²"Oh yes, I've had it with the prophets who preach the lies they dream up, spreading them all over the country, ruining the lives of my people with their cheap and reckless lies.

   "I never sent these prophets, never authorized a single one of them. They do nothing for this people—nothing!" God's Decree.

 

I had the chance yesterday to hear a wonderful christian speaker along with 670 plus woman in my town. The one resounding message she gave was read the bible. She said she is on a book tour for the Bible. It has become a great habit for me I read it daily as did my mother. There is so much knowledge healing and power in those pages. Please start a possitive habit today and read a verse or two. You will be amazed how they seep into your everyday life.

Comment by Jolene on March 26, 2011 at 4:40am

2 Corinthians 2:14-17 (The Message)

 

An Open Door

 ^12-14When I arrived in Troas to proclaim the Message of the Messiah, I found the place wide open: God had opened the door; all I had to do was walk through it. But when I didn't find Titus waiting for me with news of your condition, I couldn't relax. Worried about you, I left and came on to Macedonia province looking for Titus and a reassuring word on you. And I got it, thank God!

 ^14-16In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade. Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ. Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance. Because of Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by those on the way of salvation—an aroma redolent with life. But those on the way to destruction treat us more like the stench from a rotting corpse.

 ^16-17This is a terrific responsibility. Is anyone competent to take it on? No— but at least we don't take God's Word, water it down, and then take it to the streets to sell it cheap. We stand in Christ's presence when we speak; God looks us in the face. We get what we say straight from God and say it as honestly as we can.

 

Lord help me take your word, except your word and share your word the way you want us too. Amen

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