16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. + JOHN 3:16-18 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
Ask for What You Need
1One day he was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said, “Master, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
2-4So he said, “When you pray, say,
Father,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right.
Keep us alive with three square meals.
Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil.” + LUKE 11:1-4 - HOLY BIBLE - THE MESSAGE
Praise JESUS.
41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but few things are needed—or indeed only one. f Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” {LUKE 10:41-42 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION}
1-2 God spoke to Moses: “Tell the Israelites to turn around and make camp at Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. Camp on the shore of the sea opposite Baal Zephon. + EXODUS 14:1-2 + HOLY BIBLE + KING JAMES VERSION
JESUS' "five smooth stones {1 SAMUEL 17:40}" SERMONETTE 'STONE' ON "TODAY" {HEBREWS 13:8 + HOLY BIBLE + NKJV}.
JESUS
JOHN 20
Resurrection!
1-2Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, gasping for breath. “They took the Master from the tomb. We don’t know where they’ve put him.” + JOHN 20:1-2 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
JESUS, THANKS FOR HELPING Me.
Praise JESUS.
40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. + 1 SAMUEL 17:40 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS IS GOD {JOHN 1:1-5}
JESUS IS LORD AND GOD {JOHN 20:28}
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JESUS PREVIOUS "stone" {PROVERBS 27:3 + KING JAMES VERSION}.
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}.", TuesDAY's First "smooth stone [1 SAMUEL 17:10 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE],
August the 6th, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
1 Listen while I build my case, God, the most honest prayer you'll ever hear.
2 Show the world I'm innocent - in your heart you know I am.
3 Go ahead, examine me from inside out, surprise me in the middle of the night - You'll find I'm just what I say I am. My words don't run loose.
4 I'm not trying to get my way in the world's way. I'm trying to get your way, your Word's way.
5 I'm staying on your trail; I'm putting one foot In front of the other. I'm not giving up.
6 I call to you, God, because I'm sure of an answer. So - answer! bend your ear! listen sharp!
7 Paint grace-graffiti on the fences; take in your frightened children who Are running from the neighborhood bullies straight to you.
8 Keep your eye on me; hide me under your cool wing feathers
9 From the wicked who are out to get me, from mortal enemies closing in.
10 Their hearts are hard as nails, their mouths blast hot air.
11 They are after me, nipping my heels, determined to bring me down,
12 Lions ready to rip me apart, young lions poised to pounce.
13 Up, God: beard them! break them! By your sword, free me from their clutches;
14 Barehanded, God, break these mortals, these flat-earth people who can't think beyond today. I'd like to see their bellies swollen with famine food, The weeds they've sown harvested and baked into famine bread, With second helpings for their children and crusts for their babies to chew on.
15 And me? I plan on looking you full in the face. When I get up, I'll see your full stature and live heaven on earth. + PSALMS 17 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
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He Took on the Status of a Slave
2 1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care—then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
+ PHILIPPIANS 2:1-4 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
1Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
The Lost Sheep
3And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. + LUKE 15:1-7 + HOLY BIBLE + KING JAMES VERSION
Praise My LORD AND My GOD {JOHN 20:28}, JESUS!!!!!
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Today's "smooth stone" {1 SAMUEL 17:40}"
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." TuesDAY,
August the 6th's SECOND "Smooth stone {1 SAMUEL 17:40 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}", IN THE YEAR OF Our LORD JESUS 2024
1 All this time Saul was breathing down the necks of the Master's disciples, out for the kill. He went to the Chief Priest
2 and got arrest warrants to take to the meeting places in Damascus so that if he found anyone there belonging to the Way, whether men or women, he could arrest them and bring them to Jerusalem.
3 He set off. When he got to the outskirts of Damascus, he was suddenly dazed by a blinding flash of light.
4 As he fell to the ground, he heard a voice: "Saul, Saul, why are you out to get me?"
5 He said, "Who are you, Master?" "I am Jesus, the One you're hunting down.
6 I want you to get up and enter the city. In the city you'll be told what to do next."
7 His companions stood there dumbstruck - they could hear the sound, but couldn't see anyone -
8 while Saul, picking himself up off the ground, found himself stone blind. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus.
9 He continued blind for three days. He ate nothing, drank nothing.
10 There was a disciple in Damascus by the name of Ananias. The Master spoke to him in a vision: "Ananias." "Yes, Master?" he answered.
11 "Get up and go over to Straight Avenue. Ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus. His name is Saul. He's there praying.
12 He has just had a dream in which he saw a man named Ananias enter the house and lay hands on him so he could see again."
13 Ananias protested, "Master, you can't be serious. Everybody's talking about this man and the terrible things he's been doing, his reign of terror against your people in Jerusalem!
14 And now he's shown up here with papers from the Chief Priest that give him license to do the same to us."
15 But the Master said, "Don't argue. Go! I have picked him as my personal representative to Gentiles and kings and Jews.
16 And now I'm about to show him what he's in for - the hard suffering that goes with this job."
17 So Ananias went and found the house, placed his hands on blind Saul, and said, "Brother Saul, the Master sent me, the same Jesus you saw on your way here. He sent me so you could see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
18 No sooner were the words out of his mouth than something like scales fell from Saul's eyes - he could see again! He got to his feet, was baptized,
19 and sat down with them to a hearty meal.
20 but then went right to work, wasting no time, preaching in the meeting places that this Jesus was the Son of God.
21 They were caught off guard by this and, not at all sure they could trust him, they kept saying, "Isn't this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem among the believers? And didn't he come here to do the same thing - arrest us and drag us off to jail in Jerusalem for sentencing by the high priests?"
22 But their suspicions didn't slow Saul down for even a minute. His momentum was up now and he plowed straight into the opposition, disarming the Damascus Jews and trying to show them that this Jesus was the Messiah.
23 After this had gone on quite a long time, some Jews conspired to kill him,
24 but Saul got wind of it. They were watching the city gates around the clock so they could kill him.
25 Then one night the disciples engineered his escape by lowering him over the wall in a basket.
26 Back in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him. They didn't trust him one bit.
27 Then Barnabas took him under his wing. He introduced him to the apostles and stood up for him, told them how Saul had seen and spoken to the Master on the Damascus Road and how in Damascus itself he had laid his life on the line with his bold preaching in Jesus' name.
28 After that he was accepted as one of them, going in and out of Jerusalem with no questions asked, uninhibited as he preached in the Master's name.
29 But then he ran afoul of a group called Hellenists - he had been engaged in a running argument with them - who plotted his murder.
30 When his friends learned of the plot, they got him out of town, took him to Caesarea, and then shipped him off to Tarsus.
31 Things calmed down after that and the church had smooth sailing for a while. All over the country - Judea, Samaria, Galilee - the church grew. They were permeated with a deep sense of reverence for God. The Holy Spirit was with them, strengthening them. They prospered wonderfully.
32 Peter went off on a mission to visit all the churches. In the course of his travels he arrived in Lydda and met with the believers there.
33 He came across a man - his name was Aeneas - who had been in bed eight years paralyzed.
34 Peter said, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" And he did it - jumped right out of bed.
35 Everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him walking around and woke up to the fact that God was alive and active among them.
36 Down the road a way in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, "Gazelle" in our language. She was well-known for doing good and helping out.
37 During the time Peter was in the area she became sick and died. Her friends prepared her body for burial and put her in a cool room.
38 Some of the disciples had heard that Peter was visiting in nearby Lydda and sent two men to ask if he would be so kind as to come over.
39 Peter got right up and went with them. They took him into the room where Tabitha's body was laid out. Her old friends, most of them widows, were in the room mourning. They showed Peter pieces of clothing the Gazelle had made while she was with them.
40 Peter put the widows all out of the room. He knelt and prayed. Then he spoke directly to the body: "Tabitha, get up."
41 He took her hand and helped her up. Then he called in the believers and widows, and presented her to them alive.
42 When this became known all over Joppa, many put their trust in the Master.
43 Peter stayed on a long time in Joppa as a guest of Simon the Tanner. + ACTS 9 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
Plots Against Saul
19-21 Saul spent a few days getting acquainted with the Damascus disciples, but then went right to work, wasting no time, preaching in the meeting places that this Jesus was the Son of God. They were caught off guard by this and, not at all sure they could trust him, they kept saying, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem among the believers? And didn’t he come here to do the same thing—arrest us and drag us off to jail in Jerusalem for sentencing by the high priests?”
+ ACTS 9:17 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS, Thank YOU FOR HEALING me.
16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and onlye Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. + JOHN 3:16 + HOLY BIBLE + BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE
Praise JESUS.
JESUS, Thank YOU FOR HELPING me.
"Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. {1 JOHN 5:21 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION}"The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! {REVELATION 22:21 + THE HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}"
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. + JOHN 3:16 + HOLY BIBLE + ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION
Return to Jerusalem
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
46 and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
50And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. + LUKE 24:33-34, 46-53 - HOLY BIBLE - KING JAMES VERSION
Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. + 1 SAMUEL 17:40 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
JESUS' "five smooth stones {1 SAMUEL 17:40}"
JESUS IS GOD {JOHN 1:1-5}
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." WednesDAY,
August the 7th, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. + JOHN 3:16-18 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
ThursDAY, August the Eighth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
11-15 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it’s an initiation ritual you’re after, you’ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets. + COLOSSIANS 2:11-15 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
FriDAY, August the Ninth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn’t find the body of the Master Jesus. + LUKE 24:1-3 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
MonDAY, August the 12th, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
1 Whoever is a slave must make the best of it, giving respect to his master so that outsiders don't blame God and our teaching for his behavior.
2 Slaves with Christian masters all the more so - their masters are really their beloved brothers!
3 If you have leaders there who teach otherwise, who refuse the solid words of our Master Jesus and this godly instruction,
4 tag them for what they are: ignorant windbags who infect the air with germs of envy, controversy, bad-mouthing, suspicious rumors.
5 Eventually there's an epidemic of backstabbing, and truth is but a distant memory. They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.
6 A devout life does bring wealth, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God.
7 Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless,
8 if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that's enough.
9 But if it's only money these leaders are after, they'll self-destruct in no time.
10 Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
11 But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life - a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy.
12 Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
13 I'm charging you before the life-giving God and before Christ, who took his stand before Pontius Pilate and didn't give an inch:
14 Keep this command to the letter, and don't slack off. Our Master, Jesus Christ, is on his way.
15 He'll show up right on time, his arrival guaranteed by the Blessed and Undisputed Ruler, High King, High God.
16 He's the only one death can't touch, his light so bright no one can get close. He's never been seen by human eyes - human eyes can't take him in! Honor to him, and eternal rule! Oh, yes.
17 Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage -
18 to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous.
19 If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.
20 And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts.
21 People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith. Overwhelming grace keep you! + 2 TIMOTHY 6 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
TuesDAY, August the Thirteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
25-28 Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage. + EPHESIANS 5:25-28 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSIAH
"Praise GOD, BEAUTIFUL."
The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! + REVELATION 22:21 + THE HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
All SCRIPTURES ARE FROM THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
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