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Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Exploring The Bible
9. New Testament
1 Peter (AD64-65)
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Key Verses:
- 1 Peter 1:10-12
- 1 Peter 2:9-10
Peter writes to believers who are beginning to undergo suffering & persecution. So, this letter is full of encouragement. He wants them to be strong and steadfast in their faith, whatever may happen and to grow in that faith. Peter bases his exhortations on God's pre-designed plan and grace provisions which are for all believers.
Throughout, Peter stresses a hope so alive, glorious and certain, that any persecution and suffering can be endured with patience because of it.
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Saturday Mar 11, 2017
Saturday Mar 11, 2017
Part 93 - John 20:29
Encouragement
This is my favourite verse in all of scripture. 20: 29, “Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’” I find that hugely encouraging. I hope you will too.
The beloved disciple believed when he saw the empty tomb and the folded grave clothes. Mary believed when she heard a familiar voice calling her name; the disciples did when they met the Lord behind closed and locked doors; Thomas was particularly blessed when he saw the scars close up. Many Christians since then have seen some remarkable event or had a striking dream.
But many, like me, have had no such experience, no excitement or enormously compelling event has ever come their way. Are we then second-class citizens of heaven, never quite sure of our standing before the Lord? No! With this one brief sentence he puts all our fears to rest. He makes sure that we know we are, in his eyes, as good as any saint who ever lived.
Perhaps you, like me, are a rather boring, quiet, ordinary believer, who can lay claim to no wonderful experience, no amazing healing, no great gift that clearly marks you out as one of the chosen ones, - just an ordinary plodding sort of believer. So what! Love this word, “Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’” Be sure that your true basis in faith is in the written, unchanging, word of the Bible. That is a far better foundation than any experience, excitement or human based teaching.
John goes on in the last two verses of this chapter to say, “ Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” it is not clear whether this is referring to all the signs that Jesus performed throughout his ministry, the ones he has recorded, those the other Gospel-writers have recorded, and all the rest, or whether he is really referring just to the special signs Jesus did after his resurrection. Although that is much argued about, as is the question whether this was originally the end of the Gospel until John decided to add one more chapter, it doesn’t really matter. The one and only purpose of it all is that ‘by believing you may have life in his name’. make sure you do!
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Friday Mar 10, 2017
Friday Mar 10, 2017
Friday Prayers
An anonymous prayer said to come from Vanuatu
O Jesus
Be the canoe that holds me in the sea of life.
Be the steer that keeps me straight.
Be the outrigger that supports me in times of great temptation.
Let Your Spirit be my sail that carries me through each day.
Keep my body strong,
So that I can paddle steadfastly on,
In the long voyage of life.
Amen
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Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Think Spot - 6th February 2017
Charlotte Bronte - “Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrong.”
What I do know is that your conscience is the faculty which is sensitive to right and wrong, and judges your actions and attitudes. Everybody has a conscience and all are sensitive to spiritual truths, whether they are immediately aware of it or not.
According to the Bible, a clear conscience is essential for inner peace and joy, confidence in prayer, good health, effective service, .right relation-ships, effective witnessing, making right decisions, and victory in spiritual battle. A clear conscience is the inner joy and peace of spirit which results from having all personal wrongs made right with those whom a person had offended - either God or someone else.
However- many Christians carry around guilty consciences due mainly to unconfessed sins, affecting relationships with God, other people and themselves. If left unchecked, a conscience which is guilty, slowly grows 'dead', cold and silent. That is until such time that the guilt has been assuaged and put right.
If at the moment you are burdened by a guilty conscience, ask the Holy Spirit to show you clearly what is affecting your conscience. Then decide, at any cost, to clear it up in the power of the same Spirit. He will help you! Pray to the Father and ask forgiveness, (1 John 1:9), and fully accept His love and forgiveness. If there is anyone else involved, then you will also need to ask for their forgiveness (Matthew 5:23-24).
Ask the Father to help you go, and the Spirit will help you, because one of the hardest things in the world to say is: “I was wrong! Please forgive me." Your conscience can be cleansed because of what Jesus did on the cross!
Hebrews 9:14 “How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!”
Go into this week, ready to serve the living God, being confident that the Holy Spirit living within you, empowers you, is transforming you and desires that your conscience be clear. He will help you overcome if you ask!
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Friday Mar 03, 2017
Friday Mar 03, 2017
Partakers Friday Prayers
Order of Service
Come! Let us pray together!
- Opening Prayer
- Prayer for the Churches meeting this weekend around the world.
- Prayer for the world
- Time for your own prayers
- Closing prayer
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either named or anonymous, we will pray for you.
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