Starting memory work in Philippians & I can’t think of a more fitting prayer for Christ’s church right now than Paul’s:
“And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment so that you may approve the things that are superior & may be
pure and blameless in the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.” One of the things I love about praying the prayers that are in Scripture is that they were breathed by God himself. So often we don’t
know exactly how to pray in a given situation then we come upon an inspired intercession like this one & it encompasses so much of what we desire for our loved ones, for the church, our neighbors & ourselves. I believe in the power of Scripture. I believe in the power of prayer.
And I believe that nothing’s more potent than putting those two things together. Do not let go of the spiritual disciplines. Nothing replaces them. I cannot plead with you strongly enough to resist going to social media in the morning before you have gone to prayer and Scripture.
Ours is an era of rampant deception, seduction, disinformation. Pray or fall prey to it. Study or stoop to it. Let the 1st words you hear each day be God’s & the 1st words He hears from you be prayer. If it’s too late for Satan to claim a soul, he’ll settle for clouding the mind.

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15 Nov
Thank the Lord, fellow Jesus-followers, if you have a pastor who chooses God’s approval over yours, who loves Christ, his congregation & you enough to be willing to offend you or go against the doctrines & traditions of men to preach what is in step with the truth of the gospel.
For the love of God, don’t pack up & leave in a huff. Go to your knees & thank God for that pastor. If you are always comfortable with your pastor’s preaching, if he always stays within your preferred perimeters & nothing ever changes, you don’t have a pastor. You have a puppet.
If your financial giving to your church is according to whether or not your pastor stays within your pet subjects and preferred perimeters, if you threaten to take your big wallet somewhere else if he doesn’t behave better, you are not giving. You are bribing.
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13 Nov
Genesis 16. Hagar. “The angel of the Lord found her by a spring in the wilderness...’Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?’ She replied, ‘I’m running away...’”

God knew where she was yet He “found” her.
God knew why she’d run yet He asked her.
God engaged Hagar. He knew everything that had happened to her but He wanted her to tell it to Him in her own words. The psalmist pens God’s welcome this way: “Trust in Him...pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. (62) A pent-up heart knows no intimacy with God.
It is the poured-out heart that draws near to God. Maybe this is foreign to you. Maybe you don’t grasp how a God who already knows your story could still want to hear it from you. He wants a relationship with you & relationships aren’t 1-sided. Maybe you’re ashamed of your story.
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12 Nov
We have the best story. No novelist could match it. No poet could pen it. No cinematographer could capture it. The brightest human mind couldn’t conceive it. By God’s life-saving grace, I’ve spent 40 years in the Scriptures, 37 of them intensely. Nearly obsessively and still I’m
captivated by the brilliance of it, the cohesiveness of it from 1st to last, the patient unfolding of it, the drama, the mystery, the beauty against the gore. How it would look like all was lost THEN GOD. I’m in Genesis in my daily Bible reading. Today, the pivotal 15th chapter.
“Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield. Your very great reward.” Oh yes He is.

He lets Abram freely speak his bafflement over what on earth the Lord is doing with him. Then the text says the Lord “took him outside” (I love that) “and said, ‘Look at the sky & count the stars
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10 Nov
If it helps anyone today, Jesus said, Take up your cross & follow me, not Take up your Twitter & get people to follow you. So you lost followers. This is social media. Not the meaning of life. “Are [we] now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or [are we] trying to please man?”
Fellow leaders, there’s this little game some folks will play. They’ll inflate what you once meant to them so that, when they tell you how disappointed they are in you now, you’ll have further to drop.

“I ADORED you and now I have lost ALL respect for you.”

For starters,...
Nobody has any busy adoring any of us. Adoration is for God. He alone can handle it. Anybody who adores us can in one single instant abhor us.

We are all going to mess up. Misspeak. Say too much. And disappoint people. And we’re all going to have to get over it. Start today.
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23 Oct
Jonah 1-2 today. Word of the Lord comes to Jonah: “GET UP! Go to Nineveh.” Next verse: “So Jonah GOT UP (way to hop to it, bro!) to flee to Tarshish (bro, wrong way!) from the Lord’s presence (um, tough gig).” Gets on a ship. Furious squall. Sailors: “GET UP! Call to your god!”
1. Sometimes God says GET UP & GO.
2. So we get up & flee.
3. A lot of running from God is running from obedience. I mean, we want to do things for God and all but not THAT thing. We want to work with people we like. People like us.
4. The thing about winds & waves is they obey.
One of the best parts of chapter 1 is when Jonah, having confessed to causing the storm, says to the sailors, “Pick me up & throw me in.” Dude, you could jump in. Jonah’s obviously holding on for dear life because they’re unable to bring themselves to do it. So they try rowing.
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21 Oct
Finished the book of Amos this morning in my reading. I was reminded how powerful, by God’s grace and providence, intercession can be! Ch 7 - The Lord showed Amos the judgment He was about to bring. Amos cried out, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is...
so small?” THEN “The Lord relented concerning this. ‘It will not happen,’ He said.” The Lord AGAIN shows Amos a call for judgment. “Then I said, ‘Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he’s so small?’ The Lord relented concerning this. ‘This will not happen either.’”
When the rebellion refuses to relent after numerous warnings, God does ultimately bring calamitous consequences but God heard & honored Amos’s prayers & delayed judgment & significant suffering. Satan is enormously invested in you continuing to think your prayers don’t matter.
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