My Daily Bible Reading
Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:
1 Timothy 1,2,3,4
Scripture
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, 7 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christand not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (1 Timothy 2:1-7, New King James Version)
Observation:
We all need prayer.
We are all sinners in a broken world that need Him and sometimes it takes longer (or not) to realize that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, except in and through our Heavenly Father.
It’s tough to pray for our enemies, for people we don’t like, for people we fear to offend, for people we don’t know yet, but it’s a reminder to that at one time, someone must have prayed for us, whether we knew it or not and then hand it over to our Father to do what HE needed to do.
Someone at my church wisely told me, “We’re not the Holy Spirits”, that’s not our job, that the Holy Spirit’s job, but that our job as believers is to share His Word and to use the best tool, that we are blessed with, prayer.
And if we don’t think prayer is working, what do we do?
We pray more and harder.
We live in a broken world and like a farmer, if we tend to one seed, planted in the ground, how can we hope for a harvest at the end of season.
So what does a good gardener do?
Plant as many seeds as possible, tend to them all lovingly with water and nutrients, but let the sun and the earth that the seeds are nestled in, do their jobs too.
We may never see the final results of our prayers until the day we are in Heaven, but that’s okay; Our lives here on Earth is temporary but we have eternity to look forward to, with our Heavenly Father and family.
Application:
This is just a reminder that everyone needs prayer whether we or they know it. There was a time that someone, that I knew and probrably didn’t knew, pray for me and even now, may still be praying for me and so should we not use prayer as a clique to pick and choose a select favorite to pray for, but we should, when we can,take the time to remember to pray for our church, our pastors, the community and the world, and the man or woman we don’t know and may never know that one day we will all confess He is Lord of lords and King of kings and all knees will bow before Him in loving worship.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, Thank You for being Abba and for the power of prayer that led me, led others to You and I pray that we remember that just as someone has or still is praying for us, that we dont’ just pray for people we like, but for people we don’t like (with love) and people we don’t know that Your word and love permetrate all our hearts to YOUR Glory, Lord.
Amen
****Purpose of this post****
Gentle Readers, There are days that I will read a verse or passage and just feel pulled to share here, but there are days when I will read something and just feel, I need to spend the day, in personal contemplation of what is being convey and may just post via Twitter, what passages I have read that day and post nothing on here.
That is what bible reading is about; It’s not about having to write something down everyday; There maybe days when you are reading say, Numbers and it’s just lineages, but other days, you may find yourself dealing with a “powerhouse verse” of the moment and have to just go “WOW” and seek God in personal time and prayer to understand what He is sharing.
I will try to post daily, but particularly on weekends, if I’m sick or I’m just completely in awe of what I’m reading or maybe I am trying to understand what I am reading, I may not post here, I may just write in my Life Journal (hardcopy), because I will find myself having to seek His Word and/or the Commentary and just seek in prayer to understand what our Father in Heaven is seeking to reveal.
Either way.
Reading His Word, is about getting to know Him better and developing your Christian growth and maturity. Do what is right and good for you.
If you do use the Life Journal and participate in the daily readings, I would like to hear from you and your perspective on each day’s reading, when I do have a post up, or feel free to comment on a previous “Daily Bible Reading post” or send me a quick email.
Please feel free to join in the linky that I post below, so others too, who uses the Life Journal/or SOAP method to read the bible can participate.
Don’t feel obligate to have to blog about each passage to be read, but if anything, feel free to share those passages that have the most impact on you that day.
There maybe some days that you may read your daily reading and find nothing to jot down in your journal or on your blog and that’s okay, but there maybe other days, that you will find yourself inspire.
This is about you being encouraged to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father, and spending each day with Him, You and Him.
It is my prayer and hope that this will be an encouragement to establish a personal daily reading as well.
To find out more about using the S.O.A.P. method, here’s a link to an ehow article and here’s the link to the Life Journal to find out more what it is, and how you can use it for your own daily bible readings. If you don’t want to order the journal or if it’s not available through your local church, another method is simply, buy a journal or notebook or even blog about your life journal readings.
Disclaimer: I am not personally affiliated with the church that the link goes to, but merely share it as a resource of what the Life Journal is, how to order it.
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