Welcome to (Day 4) of the second Week of
“The International Prayer Teleconference” to all 50 States in the USA and beyond.
Our theme this week is, "In Full
Commitment"
To recapitulate the message of yesterday, we
learned three remedies of a successful Christian life in the Lord.
Necessity of doing our Best
Because He has called His children to be a sanctified agent for Him, He has employ you to work out his noble purposes as His witnesses.” [Isaiah
43:10.]
Christian Temperance
Men have polluted the soul-temple, and God
calls upon them to awake, and to strive with all their might to win back their
God-given manhood. It is impossible for a man to present his
body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, while continuing to indulge
habits that are depriving him of physical, mental, and moral vigor.
Let us Pray:
(Today's Message: What Will It Take)
Luke 14:26-27
The question was asked one day to a group of
Bible students. Are you fully committed to your Bible studies and your
walk with the Lord? These questions cause all the boys to stop and think. This
question should cause all of us to stop and think today. Commitment is a
popular word in religious circles. But don't forget that commitment is a
two-edged sword. When you commit yourself to God, 1. You commit yourself to
obey Him and Him alone. 2. With commitment comes responsibility.
In the world today
there are many people who say that they are followers of God. But are they?
They are willing to commit themselves to Him, but that's as far as it goes.
They would tell you to your face that they did not church to church to be
responsible.
Our Commitment to Jesus
Although the word commitment does not appear in the Bible, Jesus reveals our
commitment to His disciples and us by put a test out to all. "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate
his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his
own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross
and come after Me cannot be My disciple" (who would dear read these
plain, close words of our Saviour, and pass them by unheeded?
Who would look at these words from Jesus
doubtfully, and turn away, saying, These are hard sayings; who can obey
them? "Did not our Saviour know that many
would not obey his requirements? Did he who so loved us as to give his life for
us, leave us any requirements or conditions of salvation which we could not
obey? Oh, no, all his requirements are reasonable and just, and we can obey
them."
"Hate referred to in Luke 14:26,
means a less degree of love. We are to have supreme love to God, and our
friends are to be loved secondarily. Our love for husband, wife, brother,
sisters, father, or mother, must be inferior to our love to God. Our love for
these dear relatives must not be blind and selfish, and cause us to forget God.
When these ties of relationship lead us to prefer their favor by disregarding
the truth, we love them more than we love Jesus, and are not worthy of
him.
In that fearful time when we need an arm to
protect and shield us, stronger than any human arm, stronger than the arm of
father, brother, or husband, and shall call upon him that is mighty to save, he
will not hear us. He will bid us to lean upon those whom we preferred before
him, whom we loved above him, whom we would not forsake for him. He will say,
Let them deliver you, let them save you. I gave you proof of my love.
I left the glory of my Father, and all my
majesty and splendor, and came into a world cursed with sin and pollution. For
your sakes I became poor that you through my poverty might be made rich. I bore
insult and mockery, and died a shameful death upon the cross, to save you from
hopeless misery and death. Yet this did not excite your love enough to obey me,
and lead you to prefer my favor above the favor of earthly friends, who have
given you but feeble proofs of their love. I know you not; depart from
me."
"God will test and prove his people. One
sacred truth after another will be brought to bear upon their hearts, close and
cutting, until their faith will be purified and tried like gold, until all
their dross will be purged away, and Jesus will present them unto his Father
without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. We must overcome through trials
and sufferings, as Jesus overcame. We must not shun the cross or the suffering
part of religion.
The language of the heart should be, Let me know the
fellowship of the sufferings of Christ. Let me suffer with him that I may reign
with him." God was committed to the angelic host
when there was disruption in heaven. When this disruption and corruption continued
on earth God was still committed to the plan of redemption.
When the question was asked, "How long
shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of
desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under
foot?" In Daniel 8:14 the answer comes,
"And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
Today Jesus is standing at the door of your
heart. Why not let him come in. May this be your prayer today. "Into my
heart, into my heart, Come into my heart, Lord
Jesus; Come in today, come in to stay; Come into my heart, Lord
Jesus."
You can pray along with us from your
home from 5:30 am to 6:15 am Eastern Standard
Time.
If you live in Bermuda the time
is 6:30 am. to 7:15 am, or if you live in London England the time
is 10:30 am to 11:15 am.
Please note the time for the Time Zone of
your state or country
Telephone: 605-475-5900
Access code: 274-267
If you like to read today's devotional. Go my
blog, Garden Ministry at:
Why not call in and make your request know
and pray with us in the morning.
Chaplain Kevin Santucci
Song of the Day: He's Waiting - Andrae
Crouch and Linda McCrary
I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all
men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For
this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; “Who will have all
men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Timothy 2:1-4
(KJV)
Welcome to (Day 4) of the second Week of
“The International Prayer Teleconference” to all 50 States in the USA and beyond.
Our theme this week is, "In Full Commitment"
Our theme this week is, "In Full Commitment"
To recapitulate the message of yesterday, we learned three remedies of a successful Christian life in the Lord.
Necessity of doing our Best
Because He has called His children to be a sanctified agent for Him, He has employ you to work out his noble purposes as His witnesses.” [Isaiah
43:10.]
Christian Temperance
Christian Temperance
Men have polluted the soul-temple, and God
calls upon them to awake, and to strive with all their might to win back their
God-given manhood. It is impossible for a man to present his
body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, while continuing to indulge
habits that are depriving him of physical, mental, and moral vigor.
Let us Pray:
Let us Pray:
(Today's Message: What Will It Take)
Luke 14:26-27
"If any man come to me,
and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and
sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And
whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
disciple."
The question was asked one day to a group of
Bible students. Are you fully committed to your Bible studies and your
walk with the Lord? These questions cause all the boys to stop and think. This
question should cause all of us to stop and think today. Commitment is a
popular word in religious circles. But don't forget that commitment is a
two-edged sword. When you commit yourself to God, 1. You commit yourself to
obey Him and Him alone. 2. With commitment comes responsibility.
In the world today
there are many people who say that they are followers of God. But are they?
They are willing to commit themselves to Him, but that's as far as it goes.
They would tell you to your face that they did not church to church to be
responsible.
If that's the case,
what is Commitment to God?
Is it doing what you
want, whenever you want to do it? In simplest terms, a commitment is a pledged.
Our Commitment to Jesus
Our Commitment to Jesus
Although the word commitment does not appear in the Bible, Jesus reveals our
commitment to His disciples and us by put a test out to all. "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate
his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his
own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross
and come after Me cannot be My disciple" (who would dear read these
plain, close words of our Saviour, and pass them by unheeded?
Who would look at these words from Jesus
doubtfully, and turn away, saying, These are hard sayings; who can obey
them? "Did not our Saviour know that many
would not obey his requirements? Did he who so loved us as to give his life for
us, leave us any requirements or conditions of salvation which we could not
obey? Oh, no, all his requirements are reasonable and just, and we can obey
them."
"Hate referred to in Luke 14:26, means a less degree of love. We are to have supreme love to God, and our friends are to be loved secondarily. Our love for husband, wife, brother, sisters, father, or mother, must be inferior to our love to God. Our love for these dear relatives must not be blind and selfish, and cause us to forget God. When these ties of relationship lead us to prefer their favor by disregarding the truth, we love them more than we love Jesus, and are not worthy of him.
"Hate referred to in Luke 14:26, means a less degree of love. We are to have supreme love to God, and our friends are to be loved secondarily. Our love for husband, wife, brother, sisters, father, or mother, must be inferior to our love to God. Our love for these dear relatives must not be blind and selfish, and cause us to forget God. When these ties of relationship lead us to prefer their favor by disregarding the truth, we love them more than we love Jesus, and are not worthy of him.
In that fearful time when we need an arm to protect and shield us, stronger than any human arm, stronger than the arm of father, brother, or husband, and shall call upon him that is mighty to save, he will not hear us. He will bid us to lean upon those whom we preferred before him, whom we loved above him, whom we would not forsake for him. He will say, Let them deliver you, let them save you. I gave you proof of my love.
I left the glory of my Father, and all my
majesty and splendor, and came into a world cursed with sin and pollution. For
your sakes I became poor that you through my poverty might be made rich. I bore
insult and mockery, and died a shameful death upon the cross, to save you from
hopeless misery and death. Yet this did not excite your love enough to obey me,
and lead you to prefer my favor above the favor of earthly friends, who have
given you but feeble proofs of their love. I know you not; depart from
me."
"God will test and prove his people. One
sacred truth after another will be brought to bear upon their hearts, close and
cutting, until their faith will be purified and tried like gold, until all
their dross will be purged away, and Jesus will present them unto his Father
without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. We must overcome through trials
and sufferings, as Jesus overcame. We must not shun the cross or the suffering
part of religion.
The language of the heart should be, Let me know the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ. Let me suffer with him that I may reign with him." God was committed to the angelic host when there was disruption in heaven. When this disruption and corruption continued on earth God was still committed to the plan of redemption.
When the question was asked, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" In Daniel 8:14 the answer comes, "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
The language of the heart should be, Let me know the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ. Let me suffer with him that I may reign with him." God was committed to the angelic host when there was disruption in heaven. When this disruption and corruption continued on earth God was still committed to the plan of redemption.
When the question was asked, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" In Daniel 8:14 the answer comes, "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
Today Jesus is standing at the door of your
heart. Why not let him come in. May this be your prayer today. "Into my
heart, into my heart, Come into my heart, Lord
Jesus; Come in today, come in to stay; Come into my heart, Lord
Jesus."
If you are an early riser, why not call in to
the international prayer teleconference from Anywhere in the world
and share your prayer request.
You can pray along with us from your home from 5:30 am to 6:15 am Eastern Standard Time.
You can pray along with us from your home from 5:30 am to 6:15 am Eastern Standard Time.
If you live in Bermuda the time
is 6:30 am. to 7:15 am, or if you live in London England the time
is 10:30 am to 11:15 am.
Please note the time for the Time Zone of
your state or country
Telephone: 605-475-5900
Access code: 274-267
If you like to read today's devotional. Go my
blog, Garden Ministry at:
Why not call in and make your request know
and pray with us in the morning.
Chaplain Kevin Santucci
Song of the Day: He's Waiting - Andrae
Crouch and Linda McCrary
I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all
men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For
this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; “Who will have all
men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Timothy 2:1-4
(KJV)