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 – John 1: 35-51
·
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 – John 2: 1-12
·
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
Jesus the Word
of God
What immediately arrests our attention in
these first five verses is the title given to Jesus: the ‘Word’ (Logos) of God. It is a title which
conveys the idea of revelation. ‘Logos means not only the spoken word, but the
thought expressed by the spoken word; it is the spoken word as expressive of
thought’. Just as word utters thought, so does Christ utter God. He is the Word
of God made visible as well as audible. God has spoken to us in the person of
his Son.
The prologue ends with the words, ‘No one
has ever seen God; but God’s only Son, he who is nearest to the Father’s heart,
he has made him known.’ Later in the Gospel Jesus makes the same claim for
himself. He is ‘the image of the invisible God’. Hence the story of Jesus in
this Gospel is the truth about God. ‘It is the word “God” translated into human
terms and spelt out in human words and acts. All that mortal men can take in
about the nature of the unseen God is ours in Jesus Christ’.
The main emphasis in this Gospel is on
the deity of Christ. At the time it was written—near the end of the first
century—there were those in the Church who questioned
this truth. They taught that while Jesus was a divine being, like God, he was not truly one with God.
This was the view that later developed into the Arian heresy. At the same time
there were others who, while holding fast to the Godhead of Jesus, had doubts
about the reality of his manhood. These were the Gnostics who taught that he
was not truly and fully human: he only appeared
to be such.
The Gospel of John has the answer to both
these errors. It affirms that Jesus is the eternal Word who nevertheless became
flesh; and it makes clear that the
flesh of Jesus was real flesh, with all its limitations and weakness.
Frank
Colquhoun, Four Portraits of Jesus, p. 52, 55 (1984)
Sunday, October
6, 2019
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 – John 1: 35-42
·
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 – John 1: 43-51
·
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 – John 2: 1-4
·
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 Clapman 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 – John 2: 5-8
·
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 – John 2: 9-12
·
Meditate
on this passage in the Bible.
Write – Journal what God taught you today.
Close – with prayer. Go with God into your day
today.