“Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;”
Titus 1:1-3 ESV
PAUL, A SERVANT OF GOD AND APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST – FormerAtheist58
He Leadeth Me – T4G Live
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Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.
Philemon 1:8-10 ESV
MAKING A RESPECTFUL APPEAL – FormerAtheist58
Lovingkindness – Getty
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 38. (Bonus Day: Colossians 1)
This summer our Shelby County TN LifeWise leadership team read Lead with Prayer by Skoog, Greer, and Doolittle. They wrote, “This modern practice of outsourcing prayer to staff or volunteers while we pursue other obligations and opportunities of leadership is largely a deception among Western Christians that keeps us from becoming prayer leaders. Jesus never taught this, the disciples modeled the opposite, and there is no historic church leader who endorsed the idea of delegating prayer only to those deemed most fit for the role of intercessor.” Amen.
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Colossians 1:9-12 ESV
Friends, Paul didn’t delegate prayer to someone else. Paul LEAD with prayer. So did Jesus. Let’s follow their example.
Please pray for your family and for your own walk with the Lord. Please pray for your church and your community. Please pray for me, for LifeWise Academy chapters across America, and for the gospel to increase and bear fruit.
Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 35, Lamentations 3
Another “coffee mug” verse that is so much richer when you read it in context. The Lord’s mercies are indeed unending – even in the darkest valleys.
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:22-27 ESV
Great is Thy Faithfulness – FormerAtheist58
Great is Thy Faithfulness – Stephen McWhirter
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 33-34, Lamentations 1-2
Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.
Lamentations 2:14 ESV
Truth: The wages of sin is death.
Truth: The gift of God is eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.
Truth: You’re a great sinner.
Truth: Jesus is a great Savior.
Truth: Heaven is a wonderful place
Truth: Not everyone is going there.
Truth: God is so holy, no man could survive in His presence.
Truth: The blood of Jesus, fully God-fully man, perfect and powerful, is sufficient to cover all our sins, by God’s grace through our faith
Believe the whole truth. Tell the whole truth.
False Teachings Mislead and Deceive – FormerAtheist58
Holy, Holy, Holy – Hymns of Grace
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 32, Jeremiah 51-52
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51:15 ESV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:18-23 ESV
Creation Clearly Displays God’s Power and Wisdom – FormerAtheist58
Rise with the Sun – City Alight
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In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:4 ESV
Join me as I chase some rabbits today, looking at 9 different New Testament passages about SEEK.
What are Jesus, the World, and You Seeking? – FormerAtheist58
Seek Ye First – Choir
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 30, Jeremiah 48-49
For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken …
We have heard of the pride of Moab — he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 48:7a, 29 ESV
Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
1 Peter 5:5b-6 ESV
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:3-11 ESV
God Opposes the Proud but Gives Grace to the Humble – FormerAtheist58
Is He Worthy? – Andrew Peterson – Highrock Church
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