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* "In a "get rich fast", do anything to get over society, these words are really important:
'Show me LORD, how to be perfectly still before you and wait patiently for You in everything I do. I rebuke all irritation and worry when others succeed without having You personally in their lives. I will not be discouraged by wicked schemes that are carried out.'
I will not give up on God because he never, ever gives up on me."
*"I Love it! Thank you for your consistency!
Love, D"
THANK YOU ALL FOR SHARING! XOXO
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Prayer: LORD, help me!!! I need your help. I cannot be ok with sin. Forgive me for giving into temptation. Forgive me LORD for allowing how this world thinks and acts, come before Your ways. Father God, Your Word, Your Ways, Your commands, Your plan are in no way old, outdated, or irrelevant. Your Word does not adjust itself to the time and our ways. Your Word that applied the day You formed the earth, to Jesus' birth and death- remains the same and as powerful today. Forgive us LORD, for Your people are choosing to follow their own (not Yours) destiny based upon the popular consensus. It is scary, LORD, how we all pick and choose what parts of God's word we will apply in our lives, and which parts we completely ignore. I can't ask You enough to forgive us and correct us LORD. You've chosen each one of us for a time such as this. By Your mighty Spirit, stir our hearts to get in complete agreement of Your Will for our lives, this earth, the events happening in this world and eternity. Let us never forget, Whom is in control of it all and has the victory. No matter what we see, LORD, You have the victory. I pray Your people live in obedience with the confidence of Your victory in their lives. I pray that we each live in honor of You and not ourselves. I pray that we choose not to conform to the popular ideas and hold fast to the Truth. I pray that the faith of Your children is "proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed (1 Peter 1:7-8/PTWG). In Your Son's powerful name. Amen.
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DEATH & RESURRECTION OF JESUS, THE KING
Matthew 27
Pilate Hands Jesus Over to Be Crucified v. 15-26 *part 2*
Now it was the governor's (Pilate) custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor.
"Barabbas," they answered.
"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!"
"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But they shouted louder, "Crucify him!"
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"
All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Pilate was a leader who was suppose to administer justice. He proved to be more concern about his position than about doing what was right. He had several opportunities to make the right decision. His conscience told him Jesus was innocent; Roman law said an innocent man should not be put to death; and his wife had the nightmare of warning. Pilate had no good excuse to condemn Jesus, but he was afraid of the crowd and gave them what they wanted. Although Pilate washed his hands, the guilt remained. He had the power in his position to send Jesus to the cross and he did.
Washing your hands of a tough situation doesn't cancel your guilt. It merely gives you a false sense of peace. Don't make excuses-take responsibility for the decisions you make. And purpose to make decision based on righteousness, honesty, love-God's Word. Making the right decision is not necessarily easy all of the time-BUT it is RIGHT!
WE'RE CALLED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT ACCORDING TO GOD'S WORD, NOT WHAT IS EASY!
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"The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach the Good News to the poor." Isaiah 61:1
Scripture & Prayer from NIV Women's Devotional Bible-Classic Edition. Notes from The Study Application Bible.
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