Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on life all
around you.
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
God’s Hope in your life.
Worship –
and give thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 1: 1-26
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.
SUNDAY
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – Talk with God
about church and worship today at WLCF.
·
Petition – Ask God to
help you worship Him today.
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 2: 1-36
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close
– with prayer. Go with God into your
day today.
Youth Time Alone with God
All other religions teach us that we find God at the top of a
ladder, which we climb by laws, by rules, by self-purification, by disciplines,
by slogans. Only the Christian faith teaches that God finds us where we are—at
the lowest rung of the ladder—as sinners. There we are saved “by grace”.
The Jewish faith teaches us that God loves the righteous and
loves them because they are righteous. It is like the attitudes shown by a
mother who says to her child: “Mother wont’ love you if you are naughty.” So
the child tries to earn the mother’s love by being “good.” But the love manifested
by both the mother and the child are in that case pure eros. The mother’s love
is based on the quality of goodness, and, in turn, the child is good in order
to earn her love.
In the parable of the prodigal son, the elder son represents
the attitude of the law and the younger son represented the gospel attitude. By
all the rules of the law the elder brother had right on his side: “I never
disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry
with my friends”—I earned your love and yet you never gave it. “But when this
son of yours [not “my brother’!] came who has devoured your living with
harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!”—it is unfair in irreligious. And
according to the law of the elder brother was right. God loves the righteous
and metes out to them special treatment. And if He didn’t the righteous would
have a right to complain. That was the righteousness of the law. And it was
eros—I gave you this, you give me that!
That father showed agape—pure agape. He met the son where he
was—at the bottom rung of the ladder, at the place of his sin and degradation.
And then the father proceeded to create by his agape what wasn’t there:
forgiveness and reconciliation, a sense of self-respect—the ring, robe, and
shoes: the restored fellowship—they ate and drank; the wiped-out sadness—they
began to be merry. Above all, the restored sonship. The eros of the elder
brother could never have produced that—only agape could and did.
E. Stanley Jones, Christian
Maturity, p. 132 (1957)
Sunday, July 15, 2018
DAILY TIME ALONE WITH
GOD
Select a day to fast
from something unto the Lord.
Be sure to practice – A
Day of Sabbath (Rest).
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on those who
need salvation.
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
Your Purity before God.
Worship – and give
thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Acts 1: 1-11
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on the need to
grow and become like Jesus.
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
The
Presence of God in your life.
Worship –
and give thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 1:
12-26
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on those who
need healing.
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
The Passion of God in
your life.
Worship –
and give thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 2: 1-13
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.
THURSDAY
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on the missionaries
all over the world – Jeff & Barb Chapman in Japan
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
The
Power of God in your life.
Worship –
and give thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 2: 14-21
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.
FRIDAY
Quiet – yourself before
God (2-4 minutes).
Prayer –
·
Confession – Confess
your sins to God. Ask Him to forgive you
and take away all sin from you.
·
Intercession – Pray for
other people’s needs and lives.
·
Focus – on giving thanks
for Creation.
·
Petition – Talk with God
about your life and needs.
God’s
Freedom in your life.
Worship –
and give thanks to God for everything (be specific).
Bible Adventure –
·
Read and think and
imagine – Christmas – Acts 2: 22-36
·
Meditate on this passage
in the Bible.
Write –
Journal what God taught you today.
Close –
with prayer. Go with God into your day today.