Terrific Tuesday Devotional… Dear Calvary Christian Church Family and Friends, I ask your prayers as this evening I will be given an opportunity to share my salvation testimony with the Gideon’s International. gideons.org/ It will be a joy to share with the organization that placed a bible within my reach when I was desperately lost and undone by sin, gripped by drug addiction and a youthful life of crime. My hope is that those who serve the Gideon’s today will be encouraged to keep up the good work of publishing God’s word. In Sunday’s message I pointed out the joy that comes from following Christ. 1. A disciple or student will be like his master Luk 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. We call this the disciple’s path to perfection. Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. One of the lead benefits of a Christ follower is the path to becoming more like Jesus. It is meant to be a daily life enhancing experience. Once we have decided to come after Christ we and deny ourselves by taking up the cross we are able to begin following him. In the denial of ourselves and selfish interests we experience the transforming power of the Holy Spirit to carry the cross. This is not a onetime happening like being saved. It is a perpetual ongoing experience of the sustaining power that come to those who will follow. The more we deny ourselves the more discover and experience the power of the Spirit and the life in Christ in us. CONTINUING IN THE WORD BIBLE STUDY – 1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: TUESDAY PRAYER GUIDE - PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM! OSWALD CHAMBERS DEVOTIONAL - Is There Good in Temptation? No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man . . . —1 Corinthians 10:13 The word temptation has come to mean something bad to us today, but we tend to use the word in the wrong way. Temptation itself is not sin; it is something we are bound to face simply by virtue of being human. Not to be tempted would mean that we were already so shameful that we would be beneath contempt. Yet many of us suffer from temptations we should never have to suffer, simply because we have refused to allow God to lift us to a higher level where we would face temptations of another kind. A person’s inner nature, what he possesses in the inner, spiritual part of his being, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the true nature of the person being tempted and reveals the possibilities of his nature. Every person actually determines or sets the level of his own temptation, because temptation will come to him in accordance with the level of his controlling, inner nature. Temptation comes to me, suggesting a possible shortcut to the realization of my highest goal— it does not direct me toward what I understand to be evil, but toward what I understand to be good. Temptation is something that confuses me for a while, and I don’t know whether something is right or wrong. When I yield to it, I have made lust a god, and the temptation itself becomes the proof that it was only my own fear that prevented me from falling into the sin earlier. Temptation is not something we can escape; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else–what you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations–He sustains us in the midst of them (see Hebrews 2:18 and Hebrews 4:15-16). Bible in One Year: Proverbs 27-29; 2 Corinthians 10 Have a great prayer time and a Terrific Tuesday! Pastor MichaEl
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:07:20 +0000
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