Good day dear friends.
We continue to discover that in having a God heart we become builders and we discover the true potential God intended for us.
Here is our study guide: Tuesday: In the same book in chapter 6, the same powerful thinking continues about fullness of life. Please find verses 4-9. Read those prayerfully and allow the Lord to speak to your heart about what is truly important in life.
Here is that passage from Deut. 6: 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The above passage is known as the Shema by the Jewish faith. It is the morning prayer every Jew should pray. It is a prayer of identification and affirmation. It reminds the person praying of who s/he is and who God is. Look at those verses again and see if you don't sense the importance of God in one's life. We affirm there is only one God. And this one God is our God and deserves our love with such intensity that we love Him with our heart, our soul, and our strength. In other words in every realm of our lives we should be loving God! And not only is it meant for our instruction, it is something that guides our living and should guide our children's living. Verse 7 says we should be teaching our children about God. Instruction about God does not start in Sunday school; it starts at home. Every person who believes in God should be a Sunday school teacher every day. In your home, in your travels, as we are about to go to sleep and as we arise. If you need help remembering, don't tie a string around your finger, bind these words as a sign on our hand, and another one as an emblem on our forehead. And if that's not enough, let your neighbors know as they enter your house and your property!
You know what they meant. If God is so important to you, no one will have any doubts about your faith. It will be evident in all ways of your life. It's not about billboards, it's about beliefs lived out in ways that make a positive difference in your life: how you treat yourself, your spouse, your children, your family, your loved ones. It goes beyond the cross necklaces, Emmaus bracelets, cross label pins, etc. Are you living your faith in a loving way?
PRAYER: Father, it is so much easier to put a display of faith on our person than it is to live it. Help me to realize that I am called to live my faith in a way that makes You have first place in my life. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
We continue to discover that in having a God heart we become builders and we discover the true potential God intended for us.
Here is our study guide: Tuesday: In the same book in chapter 6, the same powerful thinking continues about fullness of life. Please find verses 4-9. Read those prayerfully and allow the Lord to speak to your heart about what is truly important in life.
Here is that passage from Deut. 6: 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The above passage is known as the Shema by the Jewish faith. It is the morning prayer every Jew should pray. It is a prayer of identification and affirmation. It reminds the person praying of who s/he is and who God is. Look at those verses again and see if you don't sense the importance of God in one's life. We affirm there is only one God. And this one God is our God and deserves our love with such intensity that we love Him with our heart, our soul, and our strength. In other words in every realm of our lives we should be loving God! And not only is it meant for our instruction, it is something that guides our living and should guide our children's living. Verse 7 says we should be teaching our children about God. Instruction about God does not start in Sunday school; it starts at home. Every person who believes in God should be a Sunday school teacher every day. In your home, in your travels, as we are about to go to sleep and as we arise. If you need help remembering, don't tie a string around your finger, bind these words as a sign on our hand, and another one as an emblem on our forehead. And if that's not enough, let your neighbors know as they enter your house and your property!
You know what they meant. If God is so important to you, no one will have any doubts about your faith. It will be evident in all ways of your life. It's not about billboards, it's about beliefs lived out in ways that make a positive difference in your life: how you treat yourself, your spouse, your children, your family, your loved ones. It goes beyond the cross necklaces, Emmaus bracelets, cross label pins, etc. Are you living your faith in a loving way?
PRAYER: Father, it is so much easier to put a display of faith on our person than it is to live it. Help me to realize that I am called to live my faith in a way that makes You have first place in my life. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
