dW 08.01.11

scripture

 

Proverbs 24:16
For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

 

En Espanol, Proverbios 24:16

 

insight

 

Why did the writer use the number seven?  Seven is the number used in the Bible to indicate completion.  What application does this have for us?

 

thought

 

A mature believer is someone that stands back when they get knocked down, asks for forgiveness, and continues on in grace.

 

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dW 07.15.11

scripture

 

Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

 

En Espanol, Éxodo 20:8-11

quote

 

The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word 'remember,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God Wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?
D. L. Moody

 

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dW 07.14.11

scripture

 

1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

 

En Espanol, 1 Juan 2:15-17

 

quote

 

The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth…But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.
Robert Savage

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dW 07.12.11

scripture

 

Obadiah 1:3-4
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?' Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.

 

En Espanol, Abdías 1:3-4

 

quote

 

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas Kempis

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dW 07.07.11

scripture

Jeremiah 29:11-13
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

En Espanol, Jeremías 29:11-13

 

quote

 

He who seeks finds.
-Jesus

 

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dW 07.06.11

scripture

Phillipians 3:8-11
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

En Espanol, Filipenses 3:8-11

 

quote

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
John Stott

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dW 07.05.11

scripture

Matthew 28:16-20
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

En Espanol, Mateo 28:16-20

 

quote

"Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him  whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

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dW 06.30.11

scripture

Matthew 7:7-11
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

En Espanol, Mateo 7:7-11

 

thought

Oh, how God loves for us to come to Him with childlike faith and say, "Daddy, it is broken. Can you please fix it?"

quote

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood

dW 06.28.11

scripture

Jonah 1:1-5
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me." However, Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the LORD's presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the LORD's presence. Then the LORD hurled a violent wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break apart. The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

En Espanol, Jonas 1:1-5

thought

Take a look at the description of Jonah's departure from God. He went from the presence of God down to Joppa, down into the ship, down into the sea, and down into the belly of the great fish. Rebellion toward God always takes us from His presence and down, down, down.  I have heard it said before that "Sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you are willing to pay".

quote

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth

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dW 06.24.11

note

Hola Hermanos!  I just got back from two weeks in San Salvador, El Salvador.  I had the privilege of going with a team in January for a week full of evangelism.  I liked it so much that I came home and said to my wife, "We need to go down there as a family to check this out."  "Well, we need to send off for the baby's passport then," was her response.  We had a great trip.  Here is a dW inspired by a devotional we heard one morning before we set out for the day.

scripture

1 Samuel 14:6-7
Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, "Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few." "Do all that you have in mind," his armor-bearer said. "Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul."

En Espanol, 1 Samuel 14:6-7

thought

Jonathan said, "Perhaps the Lord will act on our behalf".  Jonathan had no idea if God would act on their behalf.  He did not wait for God to send a big flashing sign that said to go and do this.  He simply stepped out in faith and God rewarded his faith.  If you continue reading this story of Jonathan's unauthorized (he did so without telling his father, King Saul) attack on the Philistines, then you will read that God did indeed act on their behalf.

 

So often we want a guarantee of an outcome agreeable to ourselves before we are willing to move.  We want to have an exit strategy in place so that in case things don't work out, we can bail without negative consequence.  However, this is not faith.

 

quote

The grandeur of the arch of heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a single visible column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything discernible by the carnal eye.
Charles Spurgeon