Meditating The Word

Today on Meditating the Word: The Resurrection of Christ, The Resurrection of the Dead, The Resurrection Body. This is Day 337. We are reading 1st Corinthians 15-16 ---- Jesus will return! Thank You that Jesus has conquered death and the grave. Death has no sting for the believer. It has no victory. The victory is in Christ Jesus. Until his return, we will watch, standing firm in the faith. We wil...

Today on Meditating the Word: Spiritual Gifts, Unity and Diversity in the Body, Love is Most Important, Tongues and Interpretation in Church, Order in Worship. This is Day 336. We are reading 1st Corinthians 12-14 ---- Father God, thank You for the gifts of Holy Spirit, and for those who allow the gifts to flow through them to build up the members of the body of Christ. We thank You that each of u...

Today on Meditating the Word: Paul's Rights as an Apostle, Use of Freedom, Need for Discipline, Warnings from Israel's History, Idol Feasts and the Lord's Supper, Believer's Freedom, Covering the Head in Worship, Abuse of the Lord's Supper. This is Day 335. We are reading 1st Corinthians 9-11 ---- Father God, some of the Apostle Paul's passages are difficult for today's women to accept. On the one...

Today on Meditating the Word: A Case of Incest, Lawsuits Among Believers, Sexual Immorality, Married Life, Change of Status, The Unmarried, Food Sacrificed to Idols. This is Day 334. We are reading 1st Corinthians 5-8 ---- Father God, give us revelation knowledge of what it truly means that our bodies are the temple of Holy Spirit. You chose to dwell in our bodies, temples made without hands. Yet,...

Today on Meditating the Word: Division in the Church, Christ Crucified is God's Power and Wisdom, God's Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit, Church and Leaders, True Apostleship. This is Day 333. We are reading 1st Corinthians 1-4 ---- Father God, Just as there were factions in Corinth, we see the same divisions in the church today. Christians saying their denomination is right and others are wrong... E...

Today on Meditating the Word: Paul in Corinth, Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos, Paul in Ephesus, the Riot in Ephesus. This is Day 332. We are reading Acts 18-19 ---- Father God, thank You for Your anointing. Thank You for giving us the authority to use the name of Jesus. That same anointing, that same authority that was on Paul is available to us today. Jesus told us to go into all the world and pre...

Today on Meditating the Word: Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Thessalonans' Faith, Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica, Paul's Longing to See the Thessalonians, Timothy's Encouraging Report, Living to Please God, Believers Who Have Died, The Day of the Lord, The Man of Lawlessness, Stand Firm, Request for Prayer, Warning Against Idleness This is Day 331. We are reading1st and 2nd Thessalonians ---- Fa...

Today on Meditating the Word: Paul and Silas in Thessalonica,  Berea, and Athens, The UnKnown God. This is Day 330. We are reading Acts 17 ---- Father God, scripture plainly states that Your creation testifies of You and that all people have been given the opportunity to know that there is one true God, and to believe. You are that God. You are not an unknown God, but You are our Abba Father, know...

Today on Meditating the Word: Paul's Concern for the Galatians, Hagar and Sarah, Freedom in Christ, Life by the Spirit, Doing Good to All, Not Circumcision but New Creation This is Day 329. We are reading Galatians 4-6 ---- Father God, as the Apostle Paul reminds us in his letter to the Galatians, we are not under the law but under grace. Thank You, Father, for Your mercy. We couldn't possibly kee...

Today on Meditating the Word: No Other Gospel, Paul Called by God, Paul Accepted by the Apostles, Paul Opposes Cephas, Faith or Works of the Law, The Law and the Promise, Children of God. This is Day 328. We are reading Galatians 1-3 ---- Father God, thank You for the blessing of the promise. We understand the law was necessary. It showed us that we were incapable of being righteous on our own. Ma...

Today on Meditating the Word: The Council at Jerusalem, the Council's Letter to Gentile Believers, Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas, Timothy Joins Paul and Silas, Paul's Vision of the Man of Macedonia, Lydia's Conversion in Philippi, Paul and Silas in Prison. This is Day 327. We are reading Acts 15-16 ---- Father God, such a lesson from Paul and Silas. They certainly had much to complain abo...

Today on Meditating the Word: Trials and Temptations, Listening and Doing,Favoritism Forbidden, Faith and Deeds, Taming the Tongue, Two Kinds of Wisdom, Submit Yourselves to God, Boasting About Tomorrow, Warning to Rich Oppressors, Patience in Suffering, The Prayer of Faith This is Day 326. We are reading James 1-5 ---- Father God, how I love the Book of James. His letter is often misunderstood an...

Today on Meditating the Word: Barnabas and Paul Sent Off, On Cyprus, In Pisidian Antioch, In Iconium, In Lystra and Derbe, The Return to Antioch in Syria. This is Day 325. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 13-14 ---- Father God, let Your Spirit fall fresh upon us. When we compare our lives with those of the Apostles and the early church, it is apparent that we have lost our fire -- our true love...

Today on Meditating the Word: Peter Explains His Actions, The Church in Antioch, Peter's Miraculous Escape From Prison, Herod's Death. This is Day 324. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 11-12 ---- Father God, in studying the lives of the Apostles and the early church, I think we do not spend enough time in prayer and communion with You. You are a mighty and wonder-working God. And You are the sa...

Today on Meditating the Word: Saul's Conversion, Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem, Aeneas and Dorcas, Cornelius Calls For Peter, Peter's Vision, Peter at Cornelius's House This is Day 323. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 9-10 ---- Father God, we are so grateful for Cornelius and his faithfulness, and for Peter, who went against all of the teachings of his upbringing to witness to Cornelius and h...

Today on Meditating the Word: Stephen's Speech to the Sanhedrin, The Stoning of Stephen, The Church Persecuted and Scattered, Philip in Samaria, Simon the Sorcerer, Philip and the Ethiopian. This is Day 322. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 7-8 ---- Father God, when we read the account of Stephen, we are amazed at his boldness in the face of death. But even more so at his humility and is abilit...

Today on Meditating the Word: Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin, The Believers Pray, Sharing of Possessions, Ananias and Sapphira, Many Are Healed, The Apostle Persecuted, The Choosing of the Seven, Stephen Seized. This is Day 321. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 4-6 ---- Father God, just as Jesus told his disciples, we see that Holy Spirit gave them the words to say. They didn't have to reh...

Today on Meditating the Word: Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven, Mathias Chosen to Replace Judas, Holy Spirit at Pentecost, Peter Addresses the Crowd, Fellowship of Believers, Peter Heals a Lame Beggar, Peter Speaks to the Onlookers. This is Day 320. We are reading Acts of the Apostles 1-3 ---- Father God, thank You for the gift of Salvation and thank You for Holy Spirit who lives in us. Thank You for th...

Today on Meditating the Word: The Empty Tomb, Jesus Has Risen, Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene, On the Road to Emmaus, Jesus Appears to His Disciples, Jesus Appears to Thomas, Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish, Jesus Reinstates Peter, The Ascension This is Day 319. We are reading Luke 24 and John 20-21 ---- Father God, How amazing it would have been to have been on the road to Emmaus and hear...

Today on Meditating the Word: Jesus Is Risen, the Guard's Report, the Great Commission. This is Day 318. We are reading Matthew 28 and Mark 16 ---- Father God, and this is our victory! Jesus died on the cross, bearing our sin, guilt and shame, the full curse laid upon him, with all it's diseases and poverty and spiritual death, but that wasn't the end of the story. He rose from the grave victoriou...

Today on Meditating the Word: Jesus is Arrested, Peter Denies Jesus, Jesus Before the High Priest and Pilate, Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified, the Crucifixion, Death and Burial of Jesus.  This is Day 317. We are reading Luke 23 and John 18-19 ---- Father God, what a picture of forgiveness. As Jesus was being wrongfully murdered, he asked You to forgive those who were responsible. How often we hold...

Today on Meditating the Word: Judas Hangs Himself, Jesus Before Pilate, the Soldiers Mock Jesus, Jesus' Crucifixion, Death and Burial, the Guard at the Tomb. This is Day 316. We are reading Matthew 27 and Mark 15 ---- Father God, as hard as it is to read the account of Jesus' torture, crucifixion and death, we know from the prophecies of the Old Testament, that it was actually far worse than these...

Today on Meditating the Word: Jesus Comforts His Disciples, the Way, the Truth and the Life, Promise of Holy Spirit, the Vine and the Branches, Hated by the World, the Work of Holy Spirit, Sorrow to Joy, Jesus Prays to be Glorified, Jesus Prays for His Disciples and for all Believers. This is Day 315. We are reading John 14-17 ---- Father God, thank You for the Gospel of John. Thank You that he re...

Today on Meditating the Word: Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus, the Last Supper, Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives, Jesus Arrested, Peter Denies Jesus, the Guards Mock Jesus, Jesus Before Pilot and Herod, Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet, Jesus Predicts His Betrayal, Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial. This is Day 314. We are reading Luke 22 and John 13 ---- Father God, it's hard for us to imagine how Juda...

Today on Meditating the Word: the Plot Against Jesus, Jesus Anointed at Bethany, The Last Supper, Jesus predicts Peter's Denial, Gethsemane, Jesus Arrested, Jesus Before the Sanhedrin, Peter Denies Jesus This is Day 313. We are reading Matthew 26 and Mark 14 ---- Father God, truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Help us to not walk in the flesh, but to surrender ourselves to You and...