Thank you Jesus 7/8/15

Day187 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

Today's Song: All to Jesus I Surrender
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https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Acts.15

Acts 15: 1-21 

Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad. 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.

5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”

6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me. 14 Simon[a] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:

16 “‘After this I will return
    and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
    and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
    even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’[b]—
18     things known from long ago.[c]
19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

July 8th
"But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings." Hebrews 10:32
In 1989 there was an earthquake in the San Francisco area during a World Series baseball game. The 75,000 people in the stadium felt the shaking of the earthquake. This had an immediate effect upon their excited feelings about the game. The earthquake had the ability to automatically cause the fans and many of the baseball players to lose their sense of value for a baseball game. Seemingly, nothing could subdue the excitement of a World Series game; but the earthquake had the ability to do it. It had the effect of causing baseball not to seem so important after all. That is what vision does. It has an automatic ability to quickly sort out what is important in our lives in contrast to the fleeting and passing lusts of the world. Vision brings with it an infused ability that directs and controls our daily life and carries us through all our trials and problems.
We may be struggling in our Christian life, going through many cycles of victory and defeat. We are trying to live a crucified life, trying to overcome a besetting sin, trying to get deliverance from the power of lust that defeats us again and again. We endeavor, but to no avail. What is the problem? Why this endless string of defeats? It is because we are lacking a dimension in our lives that God intended every believer to have. That dimension is vision. We need vision! Vision gives us the ability to drop so many things, and it brings victory where there was no victory. Our problems are often due to having no vision. We do not have revelation. Nothing has attracted us. Nothing has caused us to drop things. It seems that nothing has the ability to effectively win our hearts and produce absolute consecration. However, when you see something that attracts you, that thing or object has an ability and a power in it to control and direct you. Vision in the Christian life will bring us through the hard times. It will bring us through disappointments and all kinds of difficulties. It has an ability

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