Jesus Fellowship: I want to be ready. 10/22/15

Day 294

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1 Timothy 2

Pray for All People

2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man[a] Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. 11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

A dependent life October 22nd

“Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” JAMES 4:17
Sin in the context of James 4 means independent action. This is what sin is — independent action. From the beginning, the real source of all sin has been man acting independently of God. In this chapter, James is talking about those who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit” (v. 13). To those James says, “Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that” (v. 15). “If the Lord wills” is not merely a religious saying. It means we live a dependent life about everything.

Then in verse 16 James says, “But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.” What is this boasting, this arrogance? It is being independent in our moves, in our daily life. He continues in verse 17, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” What is the good here? The good here is dependence upon God. I am going to the store dependent upon God. I am going to fellowship with the saints dependent upon God. To live independently is to live presumptuously and sinfully. Perhaps we have never considered sin in this way. But this is the basic definition of sin — independence from God. Every sin is traced back to our independence. So the way to be delivered from our sinning is not to act independently. How can we do this? Such a life issues from spending time with the Lord to have thorough fellowship with Him. We need to nurture and cultivate our dependent relationship with the Lord.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana, Ariel, Georgie, Wes, and Zoe.