Jesus Fellowship: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Power was coming from Him. 3/31/15

Day 90 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 6:1-26

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

6 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2 Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” 5 Then Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

6 On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. 7 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. 8 But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in front of everyone.” So he got up and stood there.

9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

10 He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was completely restored. 11 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

The Twelve Apostles
12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13 When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Blessings and Woes
17 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 31st The cross is in the Spirit

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” ROMANS 8:13
Ihave no existence apart from Christ. I am in Him. I am in the beloved One. I do not have a history outside of Him. I dare not consider myself outside of Him, not even a millimeter outside. Everything that is true of Him is true of me. Hallelujah! I relate to myself in the realm of the Spirit of Christ. I can now by that Spirit put to death the deeds, or practices, of the body. I am no longer left to myself to handle those practices.
If however we do not remain in our union with Christ (Rom. 8:9- 11), and we instead indulge in the practices and conversation of the flesh, eventually not only will we be relating to ourselves from our flesh, but we will also be relating to others in the same way. In other words, when we do not exercise ourselves to remain in the realm of the Spirit, we are left to the realm of the flesh and the self. In this realm there is no capacity to receive ourselves or one another. But through many failures in the realm of the flesh, we learn to quickly get to the Spirit. We learn to quickly get through all the mire of thoughts and feelings. We go directly to our spirit-union with Christ. We do not solve problems. We are not concerned about answers. We do not stay on that level. We go directly to Jesus. Satan wants to have long, drawn-out conversations. He likes to talk things out, to reach a compromise — whatever allows him room to live in us, nullifying the cross. That is his realm. But God’s realm is the realm of the Spirit where the cross is. You always know when you are in the reality of the cross, because the cross is always quick. It works fast. If what you are doing is prolonged, if you yourself are trying to live a crucified life, it is probably not the cross. The cross is in the Spirit, and when you touch the Spirit, there is a quick cutting off of the flesh. It just happens. A quick circumcision of the flesh takes place. When we identify with Christ’s death in the Spirit, we will live.

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Jesus is amazing! 3/30/15

Day 89 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 5:17-39

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”

21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Jesus Questioned About Fasting
33 They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”

36 He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 30th Him, not ourselves

“And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” REVELATION 22:1
The Lord is working in our lives to make Himself our source. Why are we passing through all kinds of experiences and various environments? They are designed by God to bring us into Himself as our source. So what we are going through right now is another step toward the goal of working a realization into our consciousness that our life is God Himself. When God reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, He produced a relationship that makes Him, not ourselves, the source of our lives. This entire universe is destined to be consummated in God as the source of all things. The pure river of water of life is “proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” As God’s eternal habitation, the holy city, New Jerusalem, is fully supplied with God as the source. The river of water of life proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. The source of supply is the Triune God flowing out and watering every part of the city. This vision of the consummation of all God’s work in eternity future unveils Him as the unique source of the universe. To be redeemed and regenerated is to be ushered into the realm of the new creation, where God begins a process in which experientially the old things start to pass out of our lives. The old things are related to our self as our point of reference. We lived out of our own impulses, our own choices, our own thoughts. But now we begin to live by revelation, that is, by what God has revealed to us in His Word. It is when we live by revelation that God becomes our source. He reveals to us the purpose of our human life. We no longer take man’s views and concepts as the basis of our human existence. Revelation unveils to us God’s eternal purpose. This revelation causes us to be persons who are living to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Jesus heals. 3/29/15

Day 88 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 5:1-16

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

5 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”

5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.

Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.[b] When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

14 Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 29th Reschedule your life

“And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.” GALATIANS 5:24
Every consecrated person is a crucified person. He is crucified to the flesh with its passions and lusts. When we are conse- crated, it means we apply specific crucifyings to the specific pas- sions and the specific lusts. We inwardly apply the cross to those emotions in our being, those movements within us — the evil desires, the passions, the sinful stirrings, the unclean thoughts, the evil imaginations — the whole realm that Paul talks about in Galatians 5. In this way our being is drastically dealt with by the cross. We need to inwardly and specifically apply the cross to any evil passion that is toward some person or some thing. Apply the cross specifically to every individual lust that rises up within you. Those who are of Christ Jesus know that they do not belong to themselves. They are consecrated freshly: “Lord, I am Yours today. My mind is Yours today. My ears are Yours today.” With this fresh consecration, you have consecrated the flesh with its passions and lusts to be crucified. This implies fellowship with the Lord. In my time with the Lord every morning I am freshly consecrating — “Lord, today I give You myself. I love to touch You this morning, to have fellowship with You.” Today is a new day. We need to apply the cross today. So we need to have an up-to-date, fresh consecration and fresh fellowship with the Lord. There is a way to live a life inwardly applying the cross. It is by being a person who is in the freshness of consecration and fellowship

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Jesus drives out demons. 3/28/15

Day 87 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 4:31-44

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit
31 Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 32 They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.

33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, 34 “Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

35 “Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.

36 All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” 37 And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.

Jesus Heals Many
38 Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. 39 So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

40 At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. 41 Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

42 At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. 43 But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.” 44 And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 28th Reschedule your life

“But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” MATTHEW 6:6
With the eyes of our heart and with our spirit, we can cultivate our beholding of the Lord with songs, with the Word, and with prayer. This is the way to enjoy and behold the glory of the Lord passing before our spiritual vision. We need to nurture this kind of spiritual exercise. We have our home life, our family life, our school life, and our work life. We meet people, we talk to people, we are occupied daily with many things. Although we have this kind of life outwardly, we also need to preserve a secret life in a private room with the door shut, spending time with the Lord. Here there is no one else but ourself and the Lord. Here we can behold His glory by praying, by singing, and by reading the Word. Spending time with the Lord is revolutionary in our experience. We may think our need is a little more gritting of our teeth to say, “Lord, this time I am going to make it through as a victorious believer.” This kind of resolution, no matter how sincere, is nothing but our own energy and effort. Actually, we only need one thing — time with the Lord in a private place. Take the initiative and reschedule your life to go along with that still small voice within you that is prodding you to spend time with the Lord. And then just position your heart before the glory of the Lord. Simply expose yourself to this transforming element. Do not worry about what is not yet under His feet (Heb. 2:8-9). We see Jesus! Just let the Lord’s Person and work pass before your eyes. You can behold Him because you are in the cleft of the rock, in the crucified One. You are under the precious blood. So you and I can enjoy all that the Lord is. Then we will be transformed into the same image from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18).
Find a hymnal and sing, making melody in your heart to the Lord. Take the verses of the Bible and pray with them. At other times just open yourself to the Lord and tell Him you love Him. Get acquainted with the blood of the Lamb in the book of Revelation and how everyone is singing about it in the heavens (Rev. 5:9-12; 7:9- 14; 12:10-11; 14:2-4). Join in with the heavens and sing about His precious blood. Speak to the Lord about His wonderful Person and work. Your beholding and enjoying of Him in this kind of way will become your transformation. Oh, may the Lord give us such a personal, secret, and intimate life with Him. Then we will be solid, then we will grow, then the devil will be defeated, then we will discover that the Lord will take us up into His own intercessory life to carry out His purpose and His plan. All of this issues from our spending time daily with the Lord and letting the glory of His Person and work pass before us.

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Serve Jesus only. 3/27/15

Day 86 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 4:1-30

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness
4 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted[a] by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[b]”

5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7 If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’[c]”

9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you
to guard you carefully;
11 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[d]”
12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[e]”

13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[f]
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.

23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[g] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 27th Grace is guaranteed

“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” 1 JOHN 5:20
Grace and supply are reigning through righteousness. God’s righteousness is the basic factor for our being qualified to be fully supplied. No one can touch this basic factor. Satan cannot touch it. The ones bringing a charge against God’s elect cannot touch it. Our feeble thoughts cannot touch it. Even our present defeat cannot touch it. If righteousness is guaranteed, then grace is guaranteed. We can tell the Lord, “Lord, whether You love me or not, whether You feel good about me or not, You have to forgive me because Christ died a righteous death on the cross.” God is now obligated to forgive sinful man for the sake of Jesus Christ the Righteous. Now grace can reign over us through righteousness. If we feel under-supplied, then we simply need to come back to our position of looking to Him so grace can reign. Grace reigning through righteousness is unto something. It is unto eternal life (Rom.5:21).God being man’s source is all wrapped up with eternal life, and we know that the substance of eternal life is a Person — a Person who has become our source. Grace reigns through righteousness unto life. Because righteousness has done its work, and grace has done its work, we are brought into eternal life which is God Himself.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Baptized with the Holy Spirit. 3/26/15

Day 85 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Luke 3

John the Baptist Prepares the Way
3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.
5 Every valley shall be filled in,
every mountain and hill made low.
The crooked roads shall become straight,
the rough ways smooth.
6 And all people will see God’s salvation.’”[a]
7 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 9 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

10 “What should we do then?” the crowd asked.

11 John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”

12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

13 “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.

14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”

He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”

15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. 16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with[b] water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 18 And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.

19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, 20 Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus
21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,

the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, the son of Melki,

the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,

the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,

the son of Naggai, 26 the son of Maath,

the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,

the son of Josek, the son of Joda,

27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,

the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,

the son of Neri, 28 the son of Melki,

the son of Addi, the son of Cosam,

the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer,

the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon,

the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,

the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna,

the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse,

the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,

the son of Salmon,[d] the son of Nahshon,

33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram,[e]

the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,

the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob,

the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,

the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu,

the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,

the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan,

the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,

the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,

the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,

the son of Kenan, 38 the son of Enosh,

the son of Seth, the son of Adam,

the son of God.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 26th Unconditional kind of love

“As it is written, Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
ROMANS 9:13
The objects of God’s love are simply those He has chosen to love. Jacob was the object of God’s love regardless of his condition — regardless of his rebellion, his conniving, his deceiving. Despite all that, the Lord followed him as “the hound of heaven.” Wherever Jacob went, the Lord was there alluring him, seeking him, winning him. This is an example of God’s love toward His people, and it is absolutely an unconditional kind of love. In the same way, there are no conditions to meet in the book of Hosea. Gomer, symbolizing God’s people, has forgotten the Lord. She has gone to idols. Because this is her state, the Lord says that He will bring her to the wilderness and speak to her heart tenderly. He will do things in order to allure and win her. Then in Hosea 2:19-20 the Lord says, 19 “I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and judgment, in lovingkindness and mercy; 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the LORD.” Though His people are in a rebellious condition, the Lord says, “I will betroth you to Me forever.” This definitely tells us that He has plans for them — plans for a future marriage and union with Him. He is going to betroth; He is going to enter into a contract, a pledge, like a covenant, to love and to win them. Here we see the nature of God’s love. Each time His love is revealed, it is toward ones in a rebellious condition, a fallen condition, a sinful condition — conditions that merit absolutely nothing, that deserve nothing but judgment and hell. But all the while, God keeps coming and revealing Himself.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.

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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.
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