Reading the Bible cover to cover: DTaily selections from the Old Testament and New Testament
#1 Wonder about Creation, spoken by a Word, not for your curiosity, but for your soul to know this---There Is A Creator who moved over the earth for you. What will you do with that thought this moment you are in? Genesis 1
#2 Ask yourself why you are angry, what's really going on with your responses? Why is your face sad? Genesis 4:6-7. What's going on within? Who gets your anger?
#3 The Lord shut Noah in an ark for one year. Has the Lord "shut us in" to make us holy? Genesis 7:16. And when you come out of the ark - Live to "cover" not to "expose." Genesis 9:26.
#4 Don't live in contempt of court. It's not right to live to make a name for yourself." Genesis 11:4
#5 We are all headed to a heavenly country. What's the next stop along the way? Genesis 13:1. What is going on inside of you?
#6 - You are a God of Seeing---my betrayal, my flight, my thirst, my hunger to be known, my desire to be loved, my hope for a child. Genesis 16:8
#7 God opens swollen eyes---there is a well of water in grace. God rises on swollen souls. Genesis 18 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#8 “But I thought” —- we all have to wrestle in our hearts with the Truth. If it truly were a matter of the mind, we could change our minds. Genesis 20:11 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#9 What competes in our hearts for sovereignty? Open our ears to hear Your words. Open our eyes to see—-even in our wilderness. Open our hearts to embrace what You are doing in our lives. Genesis 22:1 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#10 Live loosely with the attachments to this life. Our chief concern always should be: With Whom shall we rise. Genesis 24:1 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#11 Go to “The Well of the One Who Sees Me” and live in dependence on the right things. Genesis 25:11 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#12 Live with your longings, don’t bargain for a birthright like Jacob did. Genesis 26. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#13 Very well could be that God is in this place, and I know it not. Genesis 28:16 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#14 God never intended for us to be attached to anyone else but Him. Genesis 29:34. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#15 Lift your eyes as if to signal through future scores of generations: I am changed. I am both forgiven and forgiving. Genesis 33:5 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#16 Go back to the place where God answered you. Genesis 35:1. Find what is most alive in you. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#17 - The worst thing is never the last thing. So, hold in your heart what God has already promised. Genesis 37:5 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#18 - The infamous Judah is chosen—-just like us—-by God’s grace, not by merit. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#19 Even so, the Lord was with Joseph in prison. God is with us in our afflictions. Genesis 39:21 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#20 We must not think it strange in this world if slights are returned for our kindness. Live content to prove yourself innocent—-don’t upbraid others with their guilt. Genesis 40:23.
#21 All things that are working against me will actually work for my good and the good of others. Genesis 42:36. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#22 Live in the humble beginnings where God has placed you. May we see that all what happens in our lives as from God—-it was not you who sent me here, but God. Genesis 45:8 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#23 Am I in the place of God? Genesis 50:19. Dare I usurp the prerogative of God. (Poole). The concourse of Providence directs my story.
#24 God remembers to listen to our every moment. He sees and understands everything we face. Genesis 2:24
#25 Can you answer him by heart when he calls your name: “Here I am.” Exodus 3:4 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#26 God trumped Moses with His Power—-Who made your mouth, Moses? Go. And God Himself will be with your words, Exodus 4:11-12
#27 Do we love success more than God? What about better circumstances? Moses’ thoughts in Exodus 5:23: “From the moment I spoke in Your Name, things have gotten worse.” How many times in a day do we think: if I do the right thing, then life is going to get better? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself.
#28 To live for this life bows our head to the temporal not the eternal. Exodus 9:3. You cannot live every day for one gold medal. Submit not knowing the outcome. The finger of God writes your story. Exodus 8:19. But the Pharaoh still didn’t feel the wrongs in his “person.”
#29 No difference between princes and paupers. So, bow low to your Maker. God is doing something new here after 430 years. Exodus 12:1. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#30 Do we live on God’s terms or our own terms? When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them through the shortest way lest they might change their minds. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#31 God is never more present than in the depths of our problems. So, what is stealing my joy? Exodus 15:2, 5.
#32 Do we know God’s Presence only when things go right? God rains down hidden manna every single day of our lives. Exodus 17:7 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#33 God wrote the Ten Commandments not to make us feel guilty but to lift us up to Himself. God wants to write his law on our hearts. We want to write it on our to-do lists. Exodus 20:20. Don’t be afraid. God has come to instill a deep and reverent awe within you. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#34 God’s words interpret us 2,000 years later for we are bound by an amazing debt to respond. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#35 Look through the clear lens of the Word of God and listen to the 66 books. Face yourself honestly —- it will do you more good than anything else.
#36 Make much of the tabernacle—-keep your lamps burning bright. Eternal flames. Do not be fixed on this world. The Gospel is a Person not a Place. Exodus 27:21 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#37 There I will meet with you and speak with you. Exodus 29:42. A new covenant. Here on This Day, I will meet with you and speak with you. To this very day, Christ lives to make intercession for His Church. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#38 Turn back to the finger of God written in His Word and hang on tight. Ask and Seek the favor of God in your perplexing difficulties This Day. Exodus 32:11 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#39 Tuck this thought under your pillow Tonight: “I will give you Rest.” Exodus 33:14. Sleep in peace. Rest in Him not in solving perplexities, not in connecting with a person or place. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#40 God is merciful when people tell us what’s wrong with us; when our friends swindle us; and when we are the self-swindlers. He is making sure that we know that. Exodus 34:6. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#41 God put in their hearts to work and it stirred them up in a wilderness. Exodus 35:34. What an exact work ethic! Do we approach our tasks this way? A debt of love not a debt of labor. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#42 The Divine light and fire then and now will overpower the strongest heads and hearts. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#43 Lives “curved in” (Augustine) on ourselves will focus on the smaller story of our lives from our birth to death—-and we will misunderstand everything that matters. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#44 Our daily offerings—-is it fulfilling to just check off the box? Our validation in life is that we answer God’s invitation. Leviticus 1:17. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#45 Leviticus reveals what is most wrong in our lives that blocks our joy. Holiness. We want God to solve our problems but we have a worst problem—-distance from God. Don’t keep your distance. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#46 Think about redeeming grace for the secret sins and the sins against humanity. Nothing can snatch us out of his redeeming grace. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#47 Look before you at your very steps. May we be found waiting and watching. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#48 Fire came out from the presence of the Lord. Aaron remained silent. Aaron held his peace. Lost boy of his boys in that fire. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#49 The Israelites were looking forward. We no longer look backwards. We have Him here. Partakers of the Divine Nature. God is engineering all things. Don’t be nurtured in accomplishments, achievements, and possessions. Give Thanks. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#50 All Done! All the regulations done. Done out of love for God. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#51 Spiritual leprosy causes us to distance ourselves from our enemies and those who disagree but we must treat them as friends. How? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#52 Am I more concerned about my relationship with God than I am with these rough circumstances trapping me in? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#53 When did it become okay to work harder to be holy?” Leviticus 19:1 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#54 In the midst of the OT offerings, there is a “call to holiness,” that is lifted central in the lives of every Israelite and their community. Same for us: a call to holiness individually and collectively in America. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#55 We put God on trial every time we evaluate if He is good. God is not on trial; we are. God is the Judge. Humble your soul. Come to Him first all day long. Leviticus 23:27. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#56 So what’s the point of Leviticus. The laws were written for our instruction. So what did I learn that applies to my society? “Rest.” May we find true rest in God, not in the tangibles of life. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#57 Moses was a prince in a grant. Marshalled in rank and file. Moveable. Pitch your tent and pressd on. Pressing on for the prize of Christ Himself and that future state of ours. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#58 Step into your calling even if the world might recognize you as returnable. Numbers 3:34. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#59 Every man carried out his work as assigned but never looked into his own heart. Numbers 4:49. They did what was right in their own eyes. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#60 God’s will is for me to become holy not to solve all my problems. Moses led 2 million on a trip of joy that should have taken 11 days not 40 years. Concerned more with comfort than holiness. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#61 Put God's Name on every face you meet. Numbers 6:24-26. The Lord bless you and keep you. Covers all your work here on earth. No conditions. May God lift His Face on you: a gracious movement of God toward you. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#62 The Lord matched their magnanimous offerings with his very own Audible Voice. Buechner says: If I see you, I experience you as an object in space. If I hear you, you bring me into the innermost secrets of who you are. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#63 God’s movement in our lives belongs to Him and His will for us. It may be quick like Jonah or years like Joseph. It is not for us to say. It is there for us to follow. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#64 Never try to live on old manna or replace it for better. Nor seek help in Egypt. “All must come from Jesus or you are undone.” Spurgeon #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#65 Caleb means “all heart.” A spirit of holy heat, noble daring. May God stir the heart of the un-Caleb people we live with. (Spurgeon). #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#66 The whole 2 million people in the community forgot what they just read. Numbers 16. Forgot the feeling of the ocean floor they just crossed. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#67 Does my happiness depend on others treating me well and things going my way? Numbers 17 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#69 Moses and Aaron just did the same thing the one million Israelites had been doing. Do we think we have to protect God's reputation? Speak as you walk through life. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#70 It’s A Beautiful Thing when the Angel draws the line and God stands in our way and we look within and God opens our eyes. Numbers 22:31 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#71 God let every male over 20 years old wander for 40 years and die. 603,548. Gone. They never looked deep enough inside to see what was terribly wrong in their own hearts. Caleb and Joshua walked away from a wildersness—-what did they see that half a million people did not see. Divine Power. Hope. Move forward and occupy. Numbers 26:65. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#72 If God answered all your prayers today, would it change the world or change you? Moses could no longer enter the Promised Land so he prayed, not for himself, but for the appointment of a worthy successor. Numbers 27:12-17. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#102 Last Words! Love the Lord your God and walk in His Ways and cling to Him with all your heart and soul. God Himself puts to flight a thousand for you. Joshua 22:5-6 #60000thoughts
#103 The stone will be a witness against you. It has heard all the words spoken. Joshua 24:27104 Am I more afraid of losing the blessings or losing my relationship with God?Am I more afraid of losing the blessings or losing my relationship with God? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#104 Something Worse than a difficult life. Something Worse than all this pain & suffering. Something Worse than all the bad things that happen to us. Am I more afraid of losing the blessings or losing my relationship with God? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#105 The book of Judges is not about returning to God, finding God for the good life. This book is how our relationship with God is our greatest good. #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
#106 Gideon was more than weak, beside himself in a predicament. The Presence of God, the Eternal Word of God comes to Gideon and is with you, too, this very moment. God is with you, O Mighty Warrior. Believe God. Judges 6:12.
Are you the One we've been expecting or are we still waiting in a prison cell? Matthew 11:3 #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
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