The Anointing Abides in You 

We are in the final times. Whatever hour you are in right now, there is a spiritual sense that it is part of the last hour as expressed by John in verse 18. While we cannot predict just when the actual end will come, it has begun already with what took place on the last day of the old creation, Good Friday.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit gives you all you need to know about what to do. What an assertion in verse 20: “You know all things!” This is due to the anointing, gift of the Holy Spirit.

In order to access this knowledge, you need a life of prayer, union with other wise persons who are also under the anointing, and a total desire to dedicate yourself to the Lord. Trust that the Lord will indeed speak to you heart. Be willing to filter out everything else, so that you can hear.

1 John 2:18–29

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Example: Born of Him and doing right v. 29

Thursdays are dedicated to the letters of Paul, other letters,
the Book of Acts, and the Book of Revelation.
In the Winter Season of Advent to Epiphany this year we read the Letters of John and Jude.

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Redeeming Grace 

What a comfort this psalm is to anyone who has committed great sin! David shows us the way to abandonment to sorrow and grief over sin. His sins of adultery and murder found in 2 Samuel 11 and 12, result in an even greater repentance. His prayer has come down to us, the most well known of seven “Penitential Psalms.” Feel the soul’s upward movement, first humbled and purified by sorrow, then a gentle, peaceful lifting as the soul becomes open to the sweetness of being forgiven.

Notice that David does not wallow in guilt; this is self-serving and gridlocks the movement of the self toward true reconciliation with God. Only a gifted consciousness of God’s great mercy can lead one out of the depths of remorse into the light of God’s redeeming grace.

Psalm 51

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Example: Teach me wisdom in my heart. v. 6

We continue to follow the Psalms in numerical order.

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Into the Camp of the Enemy 

We encounter the man of valor who named the Gideons. Just as Gideon went into the camp of the enemy, so do the Gideons go into “camps” where the Enemy might be at work, with the prayerful hope that the Word of God would move mightily upon the lives of people away from their home.

Note the contrasts in the Book of Judges. There are mighty “Lone Ranger” types with a mission from the Lord; then there are the people who lapse right back into idolatry. The theme is constant in the Old Testament— God’s chosen love and the unfaithful response of the people.

Are you being faithful to the Lord and all that God calls you to be?

Judges 7—8

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Example: Show me where I am needed.

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Winter Season of Advent to Epiphany this year we read Judges, Proverbs 4 6.

 

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