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2019 Daily Devo 10.1.19

By October 1, 2019October 3rd, 2019Daily Devotional

Week 39 Day 2

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I. Prayer to enter the Lord’s presence:

Be still for a moment. “Lord, I give the day that is now past to you.  It is yours.  I give the day that is to come to you; help me to see where you are working and to join you there.  Speak to me during these moments.  I commit them and myself to you.”

 II. Prayer of Confession:

“Lord, you are faithful to forgive me and cleanse me of my sin when I confess it to you.  I confess my sin(s) of ______________.  Thank you for forgiveness.” (1 John 1:9)

III. Prayer of Thanksgiving:

Choose to be thankful, speak out loud of what God has done.
“Thank you, Father, for _________________.  Fill my heart and my mouth with gratitude throughout this day.”

IV. Scripture Reflection

Read

Heb. 3:7-19   So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,  do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,  where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’  So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.  15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?  And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?  So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

Reflect

“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.”  “See to it” is a proactive directive to take responsibility for your own heart. Heart in Scripture is the human command post.  It is the thinking, choosing you…not merely the feeling you. To “see to it” that your thoughts and then your life choices don’t fall into disbelief indicates that God has given us both the responsibility and the ability to ensure this doesn’t happen.  We are not merely leaves tossed about by wind and waves…he has given us power to live lives intentionally pointed his direction. We will fail to reach perfection in this life of faith but we need not and must not fail to live our lives pointing consistently in his direction.  

Respond

Have you blamed others for things you are responsible for?  Have you judged others for not doing enough to help you? Have you had thoughts of self-pity…falling into moods of feeling sorry for yourself?  Perhaps you have good reason for these things or at least you believe you do. But you have better reason to “see to it” that your heart goes in a different direction.  Locate these “self-pity” thoughts and submit them to “see to it” thoughts. Take all rogue thoughts captive to Christ.

V. Prayer for others:

Pray specifically for the concerns of your life and the lives of others. 

VI. Prayer of commitment:

Lord God, I commit to love you with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my strength and with all my mind and to love my neighbor as myself.  Empower me today to love you and others with everything that I am.”  (Luke 10:27)

This Month’s Scripture Memory:

Colossians 3:12-14
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

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