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Daily God Walk - Life of Christ

2/9/2018

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​The Will Of God Made Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. – John 1:1-2
 
The logos, the expression of the mind of God, has been with God from before the beginning, and in fact is God. The thought of God can no more be separated from God than our own thought can be separated from ourselves. No one better explains this than Bishop Fulton Sheen in his book, “Life of Christ.” Read what he has written:

Whatever there is in the world, is made according to the thought of God, for all things postulate thought. Every bird, every flower, every tree was made according to an idea existing in the Divine Mind… Prior to his earthly existence, Jesus Christ is eternally God, the Wisdom, the Thought of the Father.. In His earthly existence, He is that Thought or Word of God speaking to men. (Sheen, Life of Christ, Image Books, p25).
 
Throughout the history of God dealing with man he has revealed his will. On Mount Sinai he revealed his will through the law he gave to Moses. His will for man was in opposition to the will of man. Man’s will was all about how he could be fulfilled. God’s will was to bring man to ultimate fullness through being restored in right relationship to him.

This conflict of wills continued for centuries. Then God sent forth his word in the flesh of Jesus. “The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14). All that Jesus said and did was a direct expression of the will of God. He came to earth to reveal the will of the Father.

The purpose of Christ was not to bring upon man the bondage of buckling to the law, but it was to change the will of man to reflect the will of God. In that way he would change the world.

Jesus, in the flesh was the word of God manifest. Holy Spirit in the heart of man is the word of God reiterated. Reconciled, renewed and restored man is the word of God manifest in the earth. 
 
Prayer: Father, in my natural stat my will is to fulfill the desires of my flesh; grant me the grace of having your will in my heart. Amen.
 
Message: Jesus, in the flesh was the word of God manifest. Holy Spirit in the heart of man is the word of God reiterated. Reconciled, renewed and restored man is the word of God manifest in the earth.
 
Affirmation: As I submit to Holy Spirit, God's word in me, I am becoming the word of God manifest in the earth.
 
Reflection: This is a powerful concept. If in fact Jesus the Christ is the Logos, the manifest word or thought, of God, and that same Christ, or Logos, dwells in us, then does it follow that as we live the Christ life we are to be the manifest word of God on earth today? Give some thought to this.


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Daily God Walk - Birth and Life of Christ

2/6/2018

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​The Lineage of Christ:  A message to the Fallen

A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.. Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar… Salmon, the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab… Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth… David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife… and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. – Matthew 1:1-16
 
Five women are mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Four of them, according to the law, were disqualified from being a part of the chosen race, but the fifth, his mother, conceived a child in a supernatural manner. It was the child conceived in her that sanctified all the failures of the past.
There is no greater message to those whose lifestyle declares, “I am unworthy” than the message of the four women who were mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Let’s look at them:
  • The first is Tamar, who posed as a prostitute and seduced her father-in-law, Judah, in order to bear a child.
  • The second is Rahab, the one called “harlot” in the book of Joshua. She is the one who hid the spies in Jericho.
  • The third is Ruth, king David’s grandmother. She was the Moabite daughter-in-law of Naomi.
  • The fourth is Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She is the one whose husband David had killed to cover his sin with her.
All four of these women, under Jewish law, would not have been qualified to be mentioned as in the lineage of Christ, but they were mentioned. What does that tell us about the nature of God and the purpose of Jesus, the Son of God?
Even before the fall of man God had a plan to restore him. No one has fallen so far, or sinned so grievously that the love of God and the blood of Christ cannot reach them.  A passage in Romans tells it more plainly than any other: “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
 
Prayer:  Thank you for grace. I was fallen, but in my fallen state I reached out and you reached down to me. Thank you. In Jesus name, amen.
 
Message: No one has fallen so far, or sinned so grievously that the love of God and the blood of Christ cannot reach them. Romans5:8, “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners Christ died for us.”
 
Affirmation: The love of God reaches through all of my sin to grant me the opportunity to be reconciled to God, renewed, restored.
 
Reflection: Today gives some thought to the idea that God has shown himself to be the giver of second chances then think about how that applies to you.

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Daily God Walk - Jesus: His Early Life

2/2/2018

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​Call Him Jesus, Savior

After he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said… “Do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.      – Matthew 1:20-21
 
Put yourself in Joseph’s shoes. You are engaged to the love of your life and she comes up pregnant, and you know you are not the father. Then she comes up with this wild story about some angel and God and being overshadowed and conceiving. You set there, broken hearted, asking yourself, “How can I ever believe that story?”

He went to bed thinking on these things and trying to decide what he would do. In his sleep an angel appeared to him and said, “Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” Then he understood. Mary was telling the truth and this child would be born of the Holy Spirit.

The message from the angel to Joseph was two-fold. First, it was to confirm that he was to be married to Mary. The second was that the name he was to give the child was Jesus. He was to be called Jesus because he would save his people from their sins.

Jesus, just the sound of the name brings comfort to those who believe. The name simply means “The Lord has become my salvation.” Jesus brought with him the hope all men have; that they can be lifted up from the morass that life has become and be reconciled to peace with the God of heaven.

The prophecy given by Isaiah some 700 years before his birth was coming to pass. “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” – Which means, “God with us” (v23). God himself became man so that man could be reconciled to God. The hope of the world was carried in the womb of a virgin.
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Who is this one who dared to let others call him Lord? Who is this one who, without force, has established his kingdom in every corner of the globe? He is Jesus and he rescues us from our sins. Hallelujah!
 
Prayer: Lord, I have heard, I have believed, and I have received Jesus the Christ of Redemption. Thank You for the opportunity. Amen.
 
Message: The name "Jesus" simply means “The Lord has become my salvation.” Jesus brought with him the hope that all men have; that they can be lifted up from the morass that life has become and be reconciled to peace with the God of heaven.
 
Affirmation: Jesus, my Lord, my Savior has lifted me out of the life I once had and has given me a brand new life; eternal life. I've been born again.
 
Reflection: "The Lord has become my salvation." What a promise! Every time we speak his name we are affirming that the Lord God himself has become our salvation. Give some thought to what that actually means to you.

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