God's way is better. 6/20/15

Day 169 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Acts 5:1-21

Ananias and Sapphira

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

7 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

The Apostles Heal Many

12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. 15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. 16 Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.

The Apostles Persecuted

17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. 18 They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. 19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. 20 “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”

21 At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.

When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

June 20th God’s ways with us

“Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.” EXODUS 15:23
Consider the experience of the children of Israel in the wilder- ness. God arranged everything. He brought them to Marah, where there was bitter water (Exo. 15:23). That means God’s ways came in. God showed His acts to the children of Israel, but His ways to Moses (Psa. 103:7). Moses knew God’s ways. God’s ways with me are how He treats me. He treats me with my spouse. He treats me with my children. He treats me with in-laws. He treats me with a family. This is how God has treated me. These are God’s ways in my life. For me to murmur when God is treating me a certain way is an outright rebellion against God and His ways with me. To do or say things expressing my dissatisfaction, expressing what I do not like, is murmuring. Murmuring is just expressing my complaint, maybe even under my breath. Speaking in this way is rebellion. We have to realize that every murmur is a rebellion and also an escape from the cross. Reasoning is intellectual rebellion, the rebellion in our mind. God does not give reasons. God just does what He wants to. In the book of Job, Job eventually saw that God is God, and He does what He wants to do in the way He wants to do it, and there is nothing to say. So when we begin to reason and question why an environment is happening, why something is the way it is, that is rebellion in our mind toward the Lord. We have to see that to live a life inwardly applying the cross, you just do not rebel. To not rebel means to do everything without murmuring and without reasoning. You lose your speaking, you lose your reasoning mind, and you are left with your spirit. Praise the Lord! By applying the cross, you are left with your spirit to enjoy God and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.
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