Be ready! 2/3/15

Day 34 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Matt.22

Matthew 22:1-22

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 2nd Perfection in the divine realm 

“But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”1 John 2:27 The fact that you do not need anyone to teach you indicates that there is an inward tutor, an inward Person, who is teaching you. The anointing is teaching us concerning all things. When we are oriented to the anointing and we touch the Lord by praying and calling on Him and get to God, there is a kind of surveillance going on in our being. Things get sorted out. You get divided: “That is my mind. That is my flesh. That is coming from my self.” There is a dividing of soul and spirit. Then you can side with the Lord and stand with Him, even over against your self. You can be most objective about your self. You can so easily look at your wife and say, “Dear, I’m a wretch. I don’t know how you could be married to me. I don’t know how you could live for so many years with such a nature as mine". You can talk this way with inner glee because you are not one with that old nature. You are one with Christ, and you are a partaker of Him. Consider what would happen on this earth if all of us as believers would live by the anointing. This does not mean that we would be perfect, in the sense of what we think perfection is. Perfection in the divine realm is our getting to God. It means that we touch His life in the midst of all our imperfection. That is what perfection is. It is living by the anointing and simply getting to God in the midst of what we pass through, even with our imperfections.

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

Kyle, Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

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