Thought for Today: Friday September 12
Someone once said that, before our prayers can mean anything to YHVH, they must first mean something to us. Mindlessly repeating a prayer, we memorised in childhood, or vaguely asking YHVH to bless everyone, everywhere – that is not authentic prayer. Prayer is speaking to YHVH about the deepest concerns of our hearts… YHVH delights in the prayers of His children --- prayers that express our love for Him, prayers that shares our deepest burdens with Him. Do not pray casually or thoughtlessly, but “come boldly to the Throne of Grace, that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16)
Charlie Kirk was a man after God's own heart!
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This is inspiring! He is a model for who we should be after Christ!
A #chiasm in #deuteronomy 26:1-2 becomes a parallelism in v1-4, which becomes another parallelism in v3-10.
That third structure (v3-10) tells of how we are to declare the faithfulness of God back to him. God is faithful to keep His covenants and He wants us to tell Him that we know it.
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A kind man does his own soul good, but a cruel man harms his own flesh.
#proverbs 11:17
An egotistical man is often cruel in his selfishness, but that same cruelty sabotages his relationships and destroys his name.
A kind man might not get his way in the short term, but he gains the love of those around him and a good, honorable name that will outlive him.
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WORD FOR TODAY “a house divided”: Luk 11:17 But He knew their thoughts and said to them, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls.
WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 23:9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Templars were often thought morbid by those outside because of their seeming obsession with death and dying. Even one of the brotherhood’s most common greetings called to mind mortality. The Knights and Sergeants and many Chaplains traditionally greeted one another with “Hodie Rex” and a response of “Cras Cinis”. A King Today. Corpse Tomorrow.
The one thing we all have in common is the coming day we kick the bucket, and though we are distracted from that fact by deadlines and daily duties, the truth is we are mortal every moment and must remember it.
We don’t even all have life in common, but death we do. Some live only a moment. Some 100 years. Some 31. Some are healthy. Some are sick. But in the end we all become dust. And whatever we believed about what awaited us thereafter doesn’t matter, because whatever really does await us hereafter is what will have actually arived.
None of that can be changed or affected in any way. All that can possibly be done can only be done now. Today.
The Calvarian view of life is to say every day that Today is the day we will die. Again not to be morbid but to be ready. It may not literally be today. It may be tomorrow or the next day or next week or next year or 20 or 30 or 50 years from now, but all that time will go by in a blink however much it is, and the day of our demise will arrive. And on that day it will be Today.
Did you learn all you could? Did you implement all you learned? Did you bless and better everything you encountered along The Way? Did you protect the helpless and provide hope for the broken abx healing for the hurt? Did you speak truth? Did you fight for evil? Did you repent your missteps? Did you forgive the missteps of others?
Now is the time because now is all there is…and truly maybe all there ever is.
Repent Today. Today Return to YHWH. Because now or 50 years from now, Today is the Day we go to the Grave.
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As theUnited States and the world remember the tragic events twenty four years ago in New York and Washington DC, we also think about yesterday and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Political violence and terrorism are manifestations of Evil. Some try to blame the weapons used, other the people involved or the nations they represent, very few lay the blame on the hate that grows within the souls of those who choose to follow an unholy spirit. Galatians 5:22 — 23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” What Paul calls the fruit of the spirit is the physical manifestation or the result of following the words of our Creator. All evil acts are the result of following the unholy spirits who rebel against the Creator.