The Lord is with you. 3/21/15

Day 80 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Luke.1

Luke 1:21-38

21 Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.

23 When his time of service was completed, he returned home. 24 After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. 25 “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”

The Birth of Jesus Foretold
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”

38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

March 21st  Looking at yourself in His light 

“For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” PSALM 36:9 James says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” Then immediately he adds, “Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8). The religious way of understanding these verses is that first you cleanse your hands and try to purify your heart. You try to make things seem right, according to your thought. Then you draw near to God, as though you are the savior and the one who cleans yourself up — as though you are the one qualified to know the duplicity in your heart and to know when your heart is divided, as though you can do the work yourself. You think that after you have done what you could, then you can draw near to God. But James does not say it that way. He says to come as you are and draw near to God. As the well known hymn says, come just the way you are, without one plea, but that His blood was shed for you. Blood has been shed. You can come the way you are, and God will draw near to you. Then you get in the light: “In Your light we see light” (Psa. 36:9). In God’s light your hands are dirty, and you say, “O Lord, look at the dirt on my hands.” And yet, when you are looking at your hands, you are not looking at them with yourself as the point of reference. You are looking at yourself in His light. And in His light the blood is cleansing. You can weep and you can repent and you can shed tears. And all the time that you are weeping and repenting and shedding tears, it is not at all ascetic or religious. You are actually participating in the grace of God.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Ariel, Ariana, Cookie, Cy, Daina, David Turner, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Mia, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Paul and Iyana, Robert, Peace for -Shirley and family, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.

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.
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