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Philippians 2
1So if there is any
encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in
the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
May I look to Christ seeking His example to love and care for people as
He does. He came and gave Himself so His people could be satisfied in
Him so may I in return truly and humbly love others by striving with
all my efforts to point them to the Lord Jesus that He would indeed be
precious to them.
I also added some pictures.
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Jeremiah 31
31"Behold, the days are
coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not
like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant
that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 33But
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I
will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall
be my people. 34And no
longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying,
'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to
the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and
I will remember their sin no more."
Jeremiah 32
36"Now therefore thus says
the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, 'It
is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and
by pestilence': 37Behold, I
will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my
anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to
this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. 38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39I
will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever,
for their own good and the good of their children after them. 40I
will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away
from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts,
that they may not turn from me. 41I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
Romans 8
26Likewise the Spirit
helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we
ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep
for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because[f] the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,[g] for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For
those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers. 30And those whom
he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also
justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
God's Everlasting Love
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[h] against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who
is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who
was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding
for us.[i] 35Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36As it is written,
"For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Thess. 5
16Rejoice always, 17pray without ceasing, 18give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Phil. 4
10I rejoiced in the Lord
greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You
were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12I
know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every
circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger,
abundance and need. 13I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Psalm 16
1Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you."
3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.[b]
4The sorrows of those who run after[c] another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.
6The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
7I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.[d]
8I have set the LORD always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being[e] rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
10For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
or let your holy one see corruption.[f]
11You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 37
4Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 25
4Make me to know your ways, O LORD;
teach me your paths.
5Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
Oh, that I would see the Lord's great love for His children (in particular myself) in that He
will never cease doing them (me) good as He works to conform them (me) to the image
of His Son. However, sometimes the good and best thing is to
withhold an otherwise great gift. To be content with however the Lord chooses to
deal should be our aim. May, I continue to find my ultimate joy and
satisfaction in the Lord Jesus as I live to glorify him in every
area of my life by the power of His Holy Spirit. As I awake each
morning may my pray be come
Lord Jesus.
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Isaiah 55:1-5
1) "Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2) Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3) Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
4) Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
5) Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
Hosea 2:14-23
14"Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
15And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor[e] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. 16"And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.' 17For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. 18And
I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the
field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground.
And I will abolish[f] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 19And
I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in
righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.
21"And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,[g]
23and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy,[h]
and I will say to Not My People,[i] 'You are my people';
and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
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Ezekiel 16
The LORD's Faithless Bride
1 Again the word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
3 and
say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth
are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your
mother a Hittite.
4 And as
for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor
were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor
wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No
eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for
you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on
the day that you were born.
6 "And
when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you
in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'
7 I
made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became
tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your
hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
8 "When
I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for
love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your
nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you,
declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
10 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[a]
11 And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
13 Thus
you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine
linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and
oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
14 And
your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it
was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares
the Lord GOD.
15 "But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore[b] because of your renown and lavished your whorings[c] on any passerby; your beauty[d] became his.
16 You
took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and
on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[e]
17 You
also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I
had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them
played the whore.
18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
19 Also
my bread that I gave you--I fed you with fine flour and oil and
honey--you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was,
declares the Lord GOD.
20 And
you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and
these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so
small a matter
21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And
in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the
days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your
blood.
23 "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD),
24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
25 At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself[f] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
26 You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold,
therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your
allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the
daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
28 You
played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not
satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not
satisfied.
29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
30 "How lovesick is your heart,[g] declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
31 building
your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty
place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you
scorned payment.
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
33 Men
give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your
lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
34 So you were different from
other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore,
and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you
were different.
35 "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus
says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness
uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your
abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you
gave to them,
37 therefore,
behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all
those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you
from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may
see all your nakedness.
38 And
I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are
judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 And
I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your
vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you
of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and
bare.
40 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
41 And
they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight
of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall
also give payment no more. 42 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
43 Because
you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me
with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds
upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness
in addition to all your abominations?
44 "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
45 You
are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her
children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their
husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father
an Amorite.
46 And your
elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of
you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom
with her daughters.
47 Not
only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations;
within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your
ways.
48 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
49 Behold,
this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had
pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor
and needy.
50 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
51 Samaria
has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations
than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the
abominations that you have committed.
52 Bear
your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your
sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than
they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and
bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
53 "I
will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her
daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will
restore your own fortunes in their midst, 54 that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
55 As
for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former
state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
57 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria[h] and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. 58You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.
The LORD's Everlasting Covenant
59 "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
60 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
61 Then
you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters,
both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters,
but not on account of[i] the covenant with you.
62 I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,
63 that
you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again
because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done,
declares the Lord GOD."
Today is a great day. Our sin is so great and horrid, however, our
Savior is even great. When we look to Christ we see what a wretched
estate we are in, but we should not linger in thinking of this estate
for we should fly to Christ alone who is full of grace and is our only
hope and joy.
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