Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and 1 Corinthians 13.

Chapter 13 is very familiar; read it as though hearing it for the first time. Sense the divine logic beyond your mind, into your spirit.

Reflect upon the spiritual gifts outlined in chapter 14. The gift of tongues is described, a spiritual language that many find the Holy Spirit continuing to give. Ordinary language tends to keep one in the mind alone. A language of the Spirit allows the Corinthians to yield their hearts to those communications from the Lord beyond the understanding. The limitations of mind are surpassed, as pure worship and praise rise forth.

Many people experience that the gifts of chapter 14 not confined to Paul’s Corinthian community. Pray that the Lord give you discernment about this in your own spiritual life.

1 Corinthians 13—14

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Example: Love bears and endures all things. v. 7

Thursdays are dedicated to the letters of Paul, other letters,
the Book of Acts, and the Book of Revelation.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.

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Some traditions call today “Spy Wednesday,” after the plot of Judas to betray Jesus. See in your minds eye the Lord praying this psalm, finding comfort in the prayer of King David. Today we are suspended between Jesus the King and his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and the King on the cross, two days from now.

Imagining the trials of David, the psalm sings of the Lord’s protection when David is overwhelmed. Can you find the four metaphors that weave through this psalm? As you jot them down, begin to relate to them in your spirit. What do you find in your life that links these images with David and Jesus?

The Spirit of Jesus prays this psalm. Greater than the impact of a spy’s eyes upon you, is the loving, knowing, and protective gaze of the Lord upon your life. God is all-powerful in your circumstances. All that is apparently death-bound in you can move toward life, if you yield to the Lord.

Psalm 61

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Example: Lead me to the higher rock. v. 2

We continue the Psalms in numerical order.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Job 40:3-14.

God responds to Job in a manner very different from the “friends” of Job. They are into debate, to set the mind and mouth going in the search to solve the mystery of evil. God’s tactic is to silence Job’s tongue so that he can peer through the lens of God’s eyes and see God’s world.

The Lord presents Job with some large animals of the wild. God invites him to enter their world and to exit Job’s limited one. The secret is to be released from the obsession of his own thoughts, to place himself again into the mystery of the universe.

When you find that you are being obsessed with problems, look out the “window” of your world and look at the Lord’s. Get involved in something that is fun for you, so that in the joy of pure living, you give God glory.

God’s wisdom and power are beyond our capacity to understand. In God’s own time, the scales of justice will be balanced.

Job 40

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Example: Laying my hand on my mouth v. 4

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Season of Lent this year we read Job 15-21; 39-40

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information