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Friday Mar 11, 2016
Friday Mar 11, 2016
Partakers Friday Prayers!
11th March 2016
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Prayers for the Persecuted Church
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Sovereign God, we worship you and acknowledge that you know all of those who suffer in your name because they follow you. We remember those who are imprisoned for their faith and ask that they would join with the Apostle Paul to see that even though they remain captive, their chains have furthered the gospel, not frustrated it. May they inspire and embolden their fellow believers to speak the word of God more courageously and fearlessly. Amen
God of all comfort, for those who are tortured both in body and mind, give them the grace to endure and to see their suffering as part of following in Christ’s footsteps. Merciful God, for those asked to pay the ultimate price; who are martyred because of their love for you, may they truly know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Amen
Father God, for those who are widowed and orphaned may they know the comfort that comes from your promised presence even when they walk through the valley. May they be strengthened by your Spirit, enabling them to rejoice with the psalmist as they proclaim that the LORD will not abandon them in death. Amen
Heavenly Father, we ask that you would make us ever mindful of our brothers and sisters around the world who need us to stand with them as they suffer in your name. Teach us what it means to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony; we pray that we would not love our lives so much as to shrink from death.
We ask these things O Father, through the name of Your Son, Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us. Amen
God of all comfort, for those who are tortured both in body and mind, give them the grace to endure and to see their suffering as part of following in Christ’s footsteps. Merciful God, for those asked to pay the ultimate price; who are martyred because of their love for you, may they truly know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Amen
Father God, for those who are widowed and orphaned may they know the comfort that comes from your promised presence even when they walk through the valley. May they be strengthened by your Spirit, enabling them to rejoice with the psalmist as they proclaim that the LORD will not abandon them in death. Amen
Heavenly Father, we ask that you would make us ever mindful of our brothers and sisters around the world who need us to stand with them as they suffer in your name. Teach us what it means to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony; we pray that we would not love our lives so much as to shrink from death.
We ask these things O Father, through the name of Your Son, Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us. Amen
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Thursday Mar 10, 2016
Thursday Mar 10, 2016
Easter 2016
Part 4: Who was Jesus?
I AM The Good Shepherd
John 10:7-11 & 14-15: Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I AM the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Easter 2016
Part 3: Who was Jesus?
I AM The Light Of The World
John 8:12 - Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I AM the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
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Tuesday Mar 08, 2016
Tuesday Mar 08, 2016
Easter 2016
Part 2: Who was Jesus? I AM The Bread of Life
John 6:35, 48, and 51: Jesus said: "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; this bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
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Monday Mar 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Easter 2016
Part 1: Who was Jesus? The I AM 01
Exodus 3:13-14: Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'
Isaiah 41:4: “Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD -with the first of them and with the last—I am he”
John 8:58: “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “Before Abraham was, I AM”.
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Saturday Mar 05, 2016
Saturday Mar 05, 2016
Gems in the Gospel of John
Part 23: John 5:25 & 28
Now and then
Part 23: John 5:25 & 28
Now and then
These verses appear at first glance to be about us – our chances to cross over from death to life but the true focus is on Jesus.
Here they are: verse 25 says, “Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.”
And verse 28 says, “a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. The first of these verse is about a time and the time is now; the second is about a time and the time is sometime in the future.
Two things are in common between these two verses:
1. It is fundamentally important to hear the voice of Jesus
2. Those that do, will live.
Bearing in mind those two similarities let’s look at them in more detail and see what the differences are.
The first of them starts with ‘very truly’, which is literally ‘Amen, amen’ and it means ‘I am going to say something particularly important so listen closely … ‘; so listen we must!
It goes on to talk about the dead – who will hear his voice now, which is a bit of a puzzle. To make any sense at all it must mean those who are spiritually dead but physically alive. So it is of direct relevance to us. If we hear the voice of Jesus, here and now, we have crossed over from death to life. John is using the word ‘life’, as he does elsewhere, to mean a full, proper, well lived life, not the shabby imitation of proper living that so many people strive after with drink, or drugs, or excitement, or ever new experiences and, of course, lots of money. John has already told us “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind” (John 1: 4); he will go on to remind us that Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14: 6); later he calls Jesus the ‘Word of life’ (1 John 1: 1) .
We, you and I, if we have believed in the Father God by hearing the voice of Jesus, have been given the supreme gift of eternal life. WOW! This is not something that we shall be presented with once we die physically; it is something we have and should be enjoying right now. Are you? We are back to the idea of membership of the Kingdom, something we have been given the passport to and are to enjoy even now.
And now to our second verse: number 28. Here it is again, together with the following verse: “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.”
We are clearly into the future now. The Greek that the NIV has translated as ‘will rise to live’ actually uses the word for resurrection so should more literally be ‘come forth to a resurrection to life’ and similarly ‘to death’ in the following phrase. There was a growing expectation amongst the Jews of those days of a resurrection based on passages like this from Ezekiel 37, “the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. … I will open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live.” But what they expected was a general resurrection; not that one man would be resurrected ahead of everyone else as Jesus was. The other thing they very definitely did not expect was that this would happen, ‘when all who are in their graves will hear his voice’; the voice of Jesus that is.
All this must be enormously encouraging for us, and also enormously challenging because it tells us that we shall at that final day be judged by what we have done since we set out to follow Jesus – good or evil. But that is not the purpose of these verses, which is to explain more about the supreme position of Jesus. He is now the touchstone of all those who would seek a new and much better way of living. He is the one who will eventually have the responsibility of sorting out those who have done good from those who have not.
What exactly happens to those who have received the gift of grace but have subsequently failed to live up to what should follow from that is never made completely clear in the Bible. C.S. Lewis, in his pictorial representation of the moment of final judgment, has it that all who could not meet the eyes of the Christ figure – disappeared into his huge black shadow and were never seen again. He adds ‘I don’t know what became of them’ and that is probably as good a way of looking at it as any.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. He is the giver of life now and the judge of the ages later, ‘that in everything he might have the supremacy.’
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Friday Mar 04, 2016
Friday Mar 04, 2016
Partakers Friday Prayers!
4th March 2016
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Prayer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
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O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray
And to concentrate my thoughts on you;
I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness,
But with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not leave me;
I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways,
But you know the way for me.
Restore me to liberty,
And enable me to live now
That I may answer before you and before men.
Lord whatever this day may bring,
Your name be praised.
Amen
Help me to pray
And to concentrate my thoughts on you;
I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness,
But with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not leave me;
I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways,
But you know the way for me.
Restore me to liberty,
And enable me to live now
That I may answer before you and before men.
Lord whatever this day may bring,
Your name be praised.
Amen
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