Feed us Your Word. 2/28/15

Day 59- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.6

Mark 6:30-56

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. 33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

35 By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late. 36 Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

37 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”

They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages[a]! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

38 “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.”

When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.”

39 Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. 41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. 42 They all ate and were satisfied, 43 and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. 44 The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.

Jesus Walks on the Water
45 Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.

47 Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. 48 He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them, 49 but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, 50 because they all saw him and were terrified.

Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 51 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, 52 for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.


53 When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. 54 As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. 55 They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed



Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 28th Inner rearrangement 

“To be strengthened with might through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love.” EPHESIANS 3:16-17
The Christian life is not merely a matter of receiving Christ and knowing that we have eternal life and will go to heaven. Although none of these matters are wrong, they are short of the divine thought. God’s full thought when we receive Christ is that a new source be established within us for our entire being. This new source is our regenerated human spirit (John 3:6). Having a change of source is the most central thing in our regeneration. To have a source-change means that we no longer live to ourselves, but to God. We no longer live by the self, but by His life. What naturally follows the new birth of our spirit is a progressive transfer of source in our daily life. For this transfer, it is necessary to pass through experi- ences with the Lord in which the old source, the self, is dealt with, and the new source, our spirit, gains the ascendancy.
According to 1 Thessalonians 5:23, man’s being is composed of spirit, soul, and body. Before regeneration, although our spirit exists within us as a potentiality, it is in a dead condition (Eph. 2:1). So the source of our living is not our spirit, but our soul, composed of our mind, emotion, and will. But when the Lord enters into us, our spirit is born and we have an inner rearrangement of our being. The mind, emotion, and will are no longer to take the lead to determine our living. The leading part of our being now becomes our regenerated spirit, where we are joined to the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17). It is from this Christ-indwelt center that all the parts of our soul will find their proper place and function. Formerly, we were an independent self that did our own things, thought our own thoughts, made our own decisions. But once our center changes, all this is transformed. Christ comes in to make His home in our hearts and rearrange all our inward parts.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

Don't lack faith. 2/27/15

Day 58- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.6

Mark 6:1-29

A Prophet Without Honor

6 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph,[a] Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. 7 Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.

8 These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9 Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

12 They went out and preached that people should repent. 13 They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

John the Baptist Beheaded
14 King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known. Some were saying,[b] “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

15 Others said, “He is Elijah.”

And still others claimed, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago.”

16 But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!”

17 For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. 18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to, 20 because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled[c]; yet he liked to listen to him.

21 Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 22 When the daughter of[d] Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.

The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I’ll give it to you.” 23 And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

24 She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?”

“The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.

25 At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

26 The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. 27 So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, 28 and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother. 29 On hearing of this, John’s disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 27th Taking control of our environments

“And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on a mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.” MATTHEW 14:23
By considering all the examples of the Lord’s prayer life in the Gospels, we are deeply impressed that the Lord not only felt the need to spend time with the Father, but that He also, in His busy schedule and ministry, made time to do it. We see how the Lord took control of His environment for the sake of spending time in prayer. He compelled His disciples to go to the other side of the sea (v. 22), and He sent the crowds away in order to make time to be with the Father privately to pray.
Unless we take control of our daily schedules and environments for the sake of spending time with the Lord, our daily environments will take control of us! There is no easy, automatic way that we will fall into a habit of making time to be with the Lord. We must at times “compel” and “send away” in order to make time to be with Him. Transformation depends upon our spending time with the Lord beholding His glory. Therefore, we must cooperate with those mingled desires by taking the initiative to make the time to do it. Every effort spent in this direction will be greatly rewarded. The Lord Himself promises a reward to those who exercise themselves to make time to be with Him. He says in Matthew 6:6, “But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.”

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

Just believe. 2/26/15

Day 57 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.5

Mark 5:21-43

Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman

21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.

A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”

36 Overhearing[a] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”

37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.

After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 26th The Lord’s habits 

“And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” JOHN 8:29 Making time to be with the Father was one of the most marked features of the Lord’s life. As we read the Gospels, we see that He not only lived in the Father (John 14:10) and had continuous fellowship with the Father, but He also practiced in a regular way setting aside special time to be with the Father and pray.The following verses reveal the Lord’s own habits in spending time with the Father: “Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed” (Mark 1:35); “So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed” (Luke 5:16); “Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God” (Luke 6:12); “Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And when He had sent the multitudes away,He went upon a mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there” (Matt. 14:22-23); “And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?” (Luke 9:18); “And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening” (Luke 9:28-29); “And it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples” (Luke 11:1); “And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. . . . And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed” (Luke 22:39, 41).

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

Jesus Restores. 2/25/15

Day 56 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.5

Mark 5:1-20

Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man

They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. 7 He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” 8 For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”

9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

14 Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. 15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 16 Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man—and told about the pigs as well. 17 Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. 19 Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20 So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis[b] how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 25th Nothing outside of God 

“For to me, to live is Christ.” PHILIPPIANS 1:21
The Lord Jesus only wanted the Father’s will. Paul also only wanted what God had for him. But we so many times want something else. We want something other than what God is giving us. Because of this, the best fellowship that we can be given is “Draw a circle around yourself. Do not touch anything outside of that circle. Just deal with yourself and want God alone. Just take God. Just pursue God Himself.” This is what it means to follow the pathway of the cross. If we do not come to this point in our experience, then we will have to settle for another level of Christian life, another kind of Christian life. It is a life in which you want a little bit of God, but you also want a lot of other things. So you eventually become shallow, empty, without any weight, because you have settled for another level of Christian life. You want something else besides God.Taking the pathway of the cross and dealing with the Lord by the cross means that we do not want anything outside of God. I do not want a marriage outside of God. I do not want a happy family outside of God. I do not want finances outside of God. I do not want a good job outside of God. I do not want to be successful for the Lord outside of God. I do not want to do anything outside of God. I just want God. This was Paul’s attitude in prison in Rome. There he was — bound. If he had wanted something other than God, he could never have testified, “For to me, to live is Christ.” That means he did not want anything outside of God. So also in our own experience, it is crucial that we want nothing outside of God.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

He is the light. 2/24/14

Day 55 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.4

Mark 4:21-41

A Lamp on a Stand

21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”

24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”

33 With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. 34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.

Jesus Calms the Storm
35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

40 He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 24thThe secret of His inner life

“But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.” MATTHEW 4:4
These words, quoted by the Lord from Deuteronomy 8:3, not only reveal how He handled the devil’s attacks, but they also show us the secret of His inner life. It is clear that the strength of the Lord’s inner life was maintained by His regular feeding upon the Word. He was not living on bread alone, but on every word proceeding out through the mouth of God. If the Lord felt the need to spend time with the Father, feeding upon the Word, how much more do we need this kind of practice. The Lord Jesus was intrinsically the living Word (Gk.logvo"),yet He took time to feed on the written Word; and He could testify to the devil that this was the way He was living. He was living on every word proceeding out through the mouth of God.
Our inner life is constituted with the same inner life that was in Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul makes this clear in 1 Corinthians 6:17: “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” Our human spirit, which has been regenerated through the new birth, is mingled with the Lord Himself, who is the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). Thus, what was true of the Lord’s life in the flesh is still true of His life in resurrection as the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). Now we must come to know in our experience how our inner man needs and requires regular times to feed upon the Word (1 Pet. 2:2-3). This was one of the Lord’s secrets in maintaining His supply to live out the Father’s life, and it must become our secret as well (John 6:57).

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

Have ears to hear. 2/23/15

Day 54 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.4

Mark 4:1-20

The Parable of the Sower

4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”

9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that,

“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
    and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’[a]”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 23rd Let the Spirit prevail

“Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them.” ACTS 16:6-7
The apostles were attempting to preach the Word of God in Asia, but the Holy Spirit was forbidding them. They then attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them to do so. This means that the Spirit prevailed over the reasoning mind. For example, they could have reasoned, “Shouldn’t we go to Asia? Shouldn’t we go to Bithynia? Isn’t it right to go?” But the Spirit prevailed and forbade them. This simply means that to overthrow the stronghold of our reasoning, we must let the Spirit prevail. When we follow the Spirit, when we go along with the Spirit, then our reasoning mind can be overthrown. Then we can be in a position to catch the thoughts. One by one, we take captive every thought that comes in — even a right thought. A right thought may come, and then we surround that thought with reasons — more and more reasons. We just live by reasoning. Maybe concerning someone, you have a view, you have an opinion, you have reasons that affect the way you speak to each other and think about each other. When you speak, though what you say may be right, your self comes out. Your speaking does not taste like Christ, even though you are trying to help each other. It is because you are too enmeshed in your own thought, you are too mixed with your own view. So we have to let our spirit prevail to overthrow the reasonings in our mind.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended 

He has the all power. 2/22/15

Day 53 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Mark.3

Mark 3:20-35

Jesus Accused by His Family and by Teachers of the Law
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family[a] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”

23 So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. 27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house. 28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

30 He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”

31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 22nd  Breaking the stronghold of reasoning


“Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man’shouse.” ACTS11:12
You cannot obey the Lord and be a reasoning person. This is because a reasoning mind will always find a reason why we should not obey the Lord. What if one day the Lord in your spirit told you to do something you had never done before? What if inwardly you were restrained by the Spirit from doing what you had always done? Would this not cause your mind to reel? Would you not begin to think and reason — Why should I not do this? What reason is there behind this? Why would the Lord be speaking to me this way? But a person who knows the Lord would not question if the Spirit spoke in such a way. For example, when the Lord wanted to pour out His salvation upon the Gentiles, He told Peter to do something that he had never done before. He spoke to him to eat unclean foods (Acts 10:11-16). Later, Peter testified that what he had done in going to the Gentiles was in obedience to the Spirit, without doubting or reasoning (Acts 11:12).
It is reasoning that prevents us from obeying. We have reasons why we do not obey, reasons why we do not deal with certain things. The Spirit has been speaking for years, but we have our reason, we have our proof, we have evidence, as to why we do not obey. We can even support our disobedience with spiritual successes in other areas of our lives, in which we have touched the spirit and obeyed the Lord. We have all kinds of reasons for not obeying the Lord over the matter He has spoken about. I remember one of my first experiences of the Lord’s dealing with me over my reasonings. Specifically, He was touching me about the sermons I had prepared when I was in a denomination. These messages were all typewritten. They were even used to bring people to the Lord. They were biblical and expository. Yet the Lord told me to burn them. I discovered that with obedience, there is no room for reason. If the Lord said it, that is good enough. There does not have to be a reason, especially when the Lord is breaking the stronghold of reasoning in our lives. In our mind, we want reasons. But when He deals with us to overthrow strongholds, He does not give reasons.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eWXuUTq5s
No copyright infringement intended