Signs and wonders. 6/19/15

Day 168 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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

Acts 4:23-37

The Believers Pray

23 On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:

“‘Why do the nations rage

    and the peoples plot in vain?

26 The kings of the earth rise up

    and the rulers band together

against the Lord

    and against his anointed one.[a]’[b]

27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

The Believers Share Their Possessions

32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

36 Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), 37 sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

June 19th Murmurings and reasonings

“Do all things without murmurings and reasonings.”
PHILIPPIANS 2:14 (ASV) To live a life inwardly applying the cross, do not rebel against God. You say, “What do you mean, do not rebel? I am not rebelling.” Every murmuring is a rebellion, and every reasoning is a rebellion. Murmuring and reasoning are two words that describe how we rebel against God and against the cross. Paul uses these words in the context of talking about the inward application of the cross. In Philippians 2:6-8 the Lord Jesus is presented as the pattern of one who did not rebel against God. He emptied Himself, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Then Paul applies this pattern to the believers in verses 12-14: 12 “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings.” This is the cross — to do all things without murmurings and without reasonings. This is how to inwardly apply the cross. Once I murmur or reason with the Lord’s environmental dealing with me, I nullify the cross inwardly. This is why Paul gives us a most practical handle on how to apply the cross subjectively. Simply do not murmur and do not reason, because these are the two things that manifest rebellion to God and to His arrangement.

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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