Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  Lamentations 3:21-66

REFLECT:  What is "new" every morning?

RESPOND:  
1 - What has caused you the most anxiety in recent months?
2 - How does this promise give you hope in the midst of this trial?
3 - How might YOU be useful to the fulfillment of this promise for someone else?

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"Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God..." (2 Peter 1 - The Message)

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  2 Timothy 1

REFLECT:  Which word did Paul insert into his greeting to Timothy that was NOT normally included?

RESPOND:  Look for ways God demonstrates His grace in your life today.  Describe one event that makes His grace obvious.

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"The Lord passed before [Moses] and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness..." (Exodus 34:6)

Faith WOD

TODAY'S STEPS 

READ:  Nehemiah 9

REFLECT:  How did Israel's history illustrate the mercy of God?

RESPOND:  Set a timer for 5 minutes.  Consider your personal history, and list as many events as possible that demonstrate the mercy of God.

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"But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love..."

Faith Weekend WOD - 6/15/2012 to 6/17/2012

Add to your knowledge...

Commit this passage to memory:  "Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. ⁶ Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord." (Psalm 25:5-7)

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Here is a song that has inspired us this week, as we welcomed our new addition "Reagan Mercy" to the family.  With our other daughter, God has truly given us "Love & Mercy."

Faith WOD - 6/14/2012

Reflect on a specific time when God reminded you He is still there...

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"The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison. I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed. Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:

The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue, Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. 

The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope. The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him, So it is best for us to wait in patience — to wait for him to save us — And it is best to learn this patience in our youth." (Lamentations 3:19-27)

Faith WOD - 6/13/2012

Share one or more items from yesterday's list with someone else.

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"Jesus said, “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” (Mark 5:19)

Faith WOD - 6/12/2012

Set a timer for five minutes. List as many blessings possible that God has provided in your life.

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"And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." (Exodus 33:19)

Faith Weekend WOD - 4/27/2012 to 4/29/2012

Add to your knowledge...

Commit this passage to memory:  "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them." (James 4:13-17)

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Faith WOD - 4/26/2012

Keep your eyes open for a need around you today.  Pray and commit financially to this need.

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"'Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?'  The expert in the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him.'  Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'" (Luke 10:36-37)

Faith WOD - 4/25/2012

Take control of your thoughts concerning others.  List 3 thoughts you want to have as you encounter others today.

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"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Faith WOD - 4/24/2012

In every interaction today (no matter what they are saying)...tell yourself - "This person is here to help."

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"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.  ⁴ Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man." (Proverbs 3:3-4)

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Faith Weekend WOD - 4/6/2012 to 4/8/2012

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Commit the following to memory:  "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."  (John 15:12-13)

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Faith WOD - 4/5/2012

List 3 things that should NOT receive your love, and explain why.

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Speaking of little children, Charles Dickens said:  "I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."

15 Things You Should Give Up - The Purpose Fairy

Faith WOD - 4/4/2012

Look for an opportunity to demonstrate mercy today.  When someone wrongs you, instead of responding in anger, vengeance, or pride - respond with mercy.

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"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. ¹⁸ If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. ¹⁹ Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' says the Lord. ²⁰On the contrary:  If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.  In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:17-21)

Faith WOD - 4/3/2012

"Love..keeps no record of wrongs."  This is one part of the grand definition (1 Corinthians 13:5).  Erase a wrong today.  Send a note, make a call...do what is possible and appropriate.

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"He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends." (Proverbs 17:9)

Faith WOD - 4/2/2012

Describe mercy.  How do you define it?  How do you know it when you see it?

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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."  (Mother Teresa)

"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;  ⁵ guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.  ⁶ Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.  ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways;  according to your love remember me,  for you are good, O LORD." (Psalm 25:4-7)