Day 154 - 3 June 2021 reflections
Day 154, 3 June 2021
Proverbs 4 - 6
Proverbs 4
Wisdom Is Supreme
1 (Pr 1:8; Ps 34:11) Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 (Dt 32:2) For I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 (1Ch 22:5; 29:1) For I was my father's son,
tender and the only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 (Pr 7:2; Eph 6:4) He also taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget it, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 (2Th 2:10) Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;
love her, and she will keep you.
7 (Mt 13:44-46) Wisdom is principal; therefore get wisdom.
And with all your getting, get understanding.
8 (1Sa 2:30) Exalt her, and she will promote you;
she will bring you honor, when you embrace her.
9 (Pr 1:9) She will place on your head an ornament of grace;
a crown of glory she will deliver to you."
10 (Pr 3:2 ) Hear, my son, and receive my sayings,
and the years of your life will be many.
11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom;
I have led you in right paths.
12 (Pr 3:23; Ps 18:36 ) When you walk, your steps will not be hindered,
and when you run, you will not stumble.
13 (Pr 3:18; 3:22) Take firm hold of instruction, do not let her go;
keep her, for she is your life.
14 (Ps 1:1; Pr 1:15) Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not go in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and pass on.
16 (Ps 36:4; Mic 2:1) For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief;
and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18 (2Sa 23:4; Job 11:17 ) But the path of the just is as the shining light,
that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
19 (Isa 59:9-10; Jn 12:35( The way of the wicked is as darkness;
they do not know at what they stumble.
20 (Pr 5:1) My son, attend to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21 (Pr 3:21; 2:1 ) Do not let them depart from your eyes;
keep them in the midst of your heart;
22 (Pr 3:8; 12:18) for they are life to those who find them,
and health to all their body.
23 (Lk 6:45; Pr 4:7 ) Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
and put perverse lips far from you.
25 Let your eyes look right on,
and let your eyelids look straight before you.
26 (Pr 5:6; Heb 12:13) Ponder the path of your feet,
and let all your ways be established.
27 (Dt 5:32; 28:14) Do not turn to the right or to the left;
remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 5
Warning Against Adultery [Pornography]
1 (Pr 4:20; 22:17) My son, attend to my wisdom,
and bow your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may regard discretion,
and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 (Ps 55:21; Pr 2:16) For the lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4 (Ecc 7:26; Ps 55:21) But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 (Pr 7:27) Her feet go down to death,
her steps take hold of Sheol.
6 (Pr 4:26) She does not ponder the path of life;
her ways are unstable, and she does not know it.
7 (Pr 4:1) Hear me now therefore, O children,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honor to others,
and your years to the cruel;
10 lest strangers be filled with your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of a stranger;
11 and you mourn at the last,
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 (Pr 12:1; 1:22) and say, "How I have hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof!
13 And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was almost in utter ruin
in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern,
and running waters out of your own well.
16 (Ps 68:26) Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own,
and not for strangers with you.
18 (Ecc 9:9) Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 (SS 2:9; 4:5) Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe;
let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
and always be enraptured with her love.
20 (Pr 6:24; 7:5 ) Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an immoral woman,
and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
21 (Hos 7:2; Heb 4:13) For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
and He ponders all his goings.
22 (Ps 7:15-16; 9:15) His own iniquities entrap the wicked himself,
and he is snared in the cords of his sins.
23 (Job 4:21; 36:12) He will die for lack of instruction,
and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
Proverbs 6
Warning Against Pledges
1 (Pr 11:15; 17:18) My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
if you have shaken hands with a stranger,
2 you are snared with the words of your mouth;
you are taken with the words of your mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself;
when you have come into the hand of your friend,
go and humble yourself;
plead with your friend.
4 (Ps 132:4) Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 (Ps 91:3; 124:7) Deliver yourself as a doe from the hand of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
The Folly of Idleness
6 (Pr 10:26; 20:4 ) Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise.
7 Which, having no guide,
overseer, or ruler,
8 (Pr 10:5 ) provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 (Pr 24:33-34) How long will you sleep, O sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep-
11 (Pr 24:34) so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker,
and your need as an armed man.
The Wicked Man
12 (Pr 4:24 ) A wayward person, a wicked man,
walks with a perverse mouth.
13 (Ps 35:19; Pr 10:10 ) He winks with his eyes,
he signals with his feet,
he motions with his fingers;
14 (Mic 2:1; Pr 6:18-19) perversity is in his heart,
he devises mischief continually, he sows discord.
15 (2Ch 36:16; Jer 19:11 ) Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken without remedy.
16 These six things the Lord hates,
yes, seven are an abomination to him:
17 (Pr 12:22; Isa 1:15 ) a proud look,
a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 (Ge 6:5; Pr 1:16) a heart that devises wicked imaginations,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 (Ps 27:12; Pr 6:14) a false witness who speaks lies,
and he who sows discord among brethren.
Warning Against Adultery
20 (Eph 6:1 ) My son, keep your father's commandment,
and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
21 (Pr 3:3) Bind them continually upon your heart,
and tie them around your neck.
22 (Pr 2:11; 3:23-24) When you go, they will lead you;
when you sleep, they will keep you;
and when you awake, they will speak with you.
23 (Ps 119:105; 19:8) For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 (Pr 2:16; 7:5) to keep you from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.
25 (2Ki 9:30; Mt 5:28) Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
26 (Pr 29:3; 1Sa 2:36 ) For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread,
and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom,
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can one walk upon hot coals,
and his feet not be burned?
29 So he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
whoever touches her will not be innocent.
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
31 But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold;
he will give all the substance of his house.
32 (Pr 7:7; 7:22-23) But whoever commits adultery
with a woman lacks understanding;
he who does it destroys his own soul.
33 (Pr 5:9-11) A wound and dishonor will he get,
and his reproach will not be wiped away.
34 (Pr 27:4; SS 8:6) For jealousy is the rage of a man;
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 He will not regard any ransom,
nor will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
2) Our Daily Bread for 3 June 2021
https://odb.org/US/2021/06/03/its-okay-to-lament
entitled It’s Okay to Lament
Lamentatons 3:19-26
19 La 3:5; 3:15 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
20 (Ps 42:5-6; 42:11) Surely my soul remembers
and is humbled within me.
21 (Ps 130:7 )But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 (Mal 3:6; Ps 78:38) It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed;
His compassions do not fail.
23 (Zep 3:5; Ps 36:5) They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
24 (Ps 16:5; 73:26) "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in Him."
25 (Isa 25:9; 30:18) The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the soul who seeks Him.
26 (Ps 37:7; 130:5) It is good that a man should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
I dropped to my knees and let my tears fall to the floor. "God, why aren't you
taking care of me?" I cried. It was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
I'd been laid-off for almost a month, and something had gone wrong
with my unemployment application. I hadn't received any money yet,
and the stimulus check the US government had promised hadn't arrived.
Deep down, I trusted that God would work out everything. I believed He truly
loved me and would take care of me, but in that moment, I felt abandoned.
The book of Lamentations reminds us it's okay to lament. The book was likely
written during or soon after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 587 BC.
It describes the affliction (3:1, 19), oppression (1:18),
and starvation (2:20; 4:10) the people faced. Yet, in the middle of the book
the author remembers why he could hope: "Because of the Lord's great love
we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every
morning; great is your faithfulness" (3:22–23). Despite the devastation,
the author remembered that God remains faithful.
Sometimes it feels impossible to believe that "the Lord is good to those
whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him" (v. 25), especially when
we don't see an end to our suffering. But we can cry out to Him,
trust that He hears us, and that He'll be faithful to see us through.
By: Julie Schwab
Reflect & Pray
What’s making it difficult for you to trust God today?
What will help you feel comfortable enough to cry out to Him?
Father, I need You right now. Please help me to trust You to come through
for me in my difficult situation.
To learn more about suffering and the Christian faith,
visit https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/CA211 .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 5 - Learning by Heart
Ps 119:9,11
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) How shall a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Your word I have hidden in my heart,
that I might not sin against You.
"His heart is not just in it," a gifted musician commented about the
pianist onstage. "He's here at the Orchestra Hall, playing for
thousands of poeple, an his technique is flawless, but something
is missing - his heart is just not in it."
The psalmist , in Psalm 119, draws a similar parallel. We "Keep our
way pure" through obedience of his Word, by ordering our lives according
to the commands of the Scriptures. But outward behaviour is not the only
essential factor in purity of life. The changes in our behaviour need to
come from the heart, from the inside out. Our "technique" for living
the Christian life may be flawless, but our obediance is founded
in heart motivation, something is certainly missing.
"I seek you with all my heart," the psalmist declares in verse 10.
Thus he can say in verse 11, "I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you"
Often we refer to memorisation as "learning by heart" - and indeed
"by heart" is the biblical mandate for assimilating God's truth
into our daily lives. "By rote" or "By Mind" leaves us
intellectually overstuffed, yet spiritually starving.
When we try to apply the Word outwardly to our behaviour,
we end up in a tangle of legalism, a log "do list" by which
we hope to please God. But when we set our hearts toward god first,
then changes in our behaviour grow out of love for God and a deep
desire to serve him. Then we are truly loving and obeying God with
our whole hearts.
Application
a) In what ways have I tried to apply God's word to my behaviour
without having the truth firmly in my heart? What was the result?
b) How can I set my heart toward God and give myself more fully
to his Word?
c) What areas of my life need "purifying"? How can these verses
help me to "make my way pure"?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Cor 8:9
9 (Mt 20:28; 2Co 6:10; 13:14) For you know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
that though He was rich,
yet for your sakes He became poor,
that through His poverty you might be rich.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Freeing Forgiveness
Eph 1:3-8a
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 (2Co 1:3; Eph 6:12; 2:6) Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 (Eph 5:27; Col 1:22) just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, to be holy
and blameless before Him in love;
5 (Ro 8:29–30; Eph 1:11) He predestined us to adoption as sons
to Himself through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure
of His will,
6 (Mt 3:17; Eph 1:12) to the praise of the glory of His grace
which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7 (Ro 3:24; Ac 2:38; 20:28) In Him we have redemption through His blood
and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,
8 which He lavished
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Quebec
Quick facts on Muslims in Quebec
Quebec 2015 population 8214 000
est Muslim Population 418946
CNMM Networks: Montreal
There is a growing Muslim population in Quebec City and a smattering
os Muslims scattered aound the rest of the province, yet the vast majority
of Muslims live in the greater Montreal area. n fact, 23% of Canada's Muslim
population live in Quebec. Why is that? It is largely because Francophone
African Muslims are atrracted to La Belle Provence.
And here's an interesting, perhaps even shocking fact: There are more
Muslims in Montreal than there are evangelical Christians.
This is one demographic factor creates a challenging environment for churches
and believers here: The size of the available 'workforce' is small
by comparison to begin with. Believers are already is a host culture that
is often either indifferent to releigion or resistant to it. And now
this 'new' religious community of Muslims - many of whom do not visibly
or socially conform to Quebec society - are a growing population. It might br
easy for Christians to feel overwhlem by this cultural double-whammy,
yet God has alsways worked miracles through the small, the few.
Agree in prayer for :
- Te people of Quebec, Muslim or otherwise, to be open to the Gospel
- for Muslims who are encountering believers and responding
-for a new group of Muslim background believers who are meeting
together for worship!
- For pastors and believers to be full of passion, faith and vision for
reaching Muslims in Quebec.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, atheists, secular humanists, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
3rd Day of the Month
a) Pray for the province of Alberta as follows:
I) Pray for the leaders of Alberta, that God's Spirit
would influence then to act justly,
serve with integrity and honour high moral standards.
(
1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good and acceptable in the sight
of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses beaming
forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
b) Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin
and to draw Canadian to faith in Christ.
( John 16:8 - When He comes,
He will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment: ,
Matthew 9:36 - But when He saw the crowds
, He was moved with compassion for them,
because they fainted and were scattered, like sheep without a shepherd )
Conclusion:
Pray to Lord to be in Wisdom for he has solutions for wickedness and adultery .
Pray to the Lord for you need Him right now. Please help to trust Him
to come through for us in our difficult situations.
Pray to the Lord to make your ways pure in Your Life.
Pray to the Lord to remeber how His poverty on the Cross makes your rich today.
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Pray to the Lord for He freed us from sin.
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Pray for Muslims in Quebec to receive Christ as Saviour
and that Christian outreach will increae in Quebec.
Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have God's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin
and to draw everyone to faith in Christ.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
and Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness
Remember eternity starts now -
Pray for the direction you take to the Ever lasting loving God.
Proverbs 4 - 6
Proverbs 4
Wisdom Is Supreme
1 (Pr 1:8; Ps 34:11) Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 (Dt 32:2) For I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 (1Ch 22:5; 29:1) For I was my father's son,
tender and the only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 (Pr 7:2; Eph 6:4) He also taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget it, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 (2Th 2:10) Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;
love her, and she will keep you.
7 (Mt 13:44-46) Wisdom is principal; therefore get wisdom.
And with all your getting, get understanding.
8 (1Sa 2:30) Exalt her, and she will promote you;
she will bring you honor, when you embrace her.
9 (Pr 1:9) She will place on your head an ornament of grace;
a crown of glory she will deliver to you."
10 (Pr 3:2 ) Hear, my son, and receive my sayings,
and the years of your life will be many.
11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom;
I have led you in right paths.
12 (Pr 3:23; Ps 18:36 ) When you walk, your steps will not be hindered,
and when you run, you will not stumble.
13 (Pr 3:18; 3:22) Take firm hold of instruction, do not let her go;
keep her, for she is your life.
14 (Ps 1:1; Pr 1:15) Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not go in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and pass on.
16 (Ps 36:4; Mic 2:1) For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief;
and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18 (2Sa 23:4; Job 11:17 ) But the path of the just is as the shining light,
that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
19 (Isa 59:9-10; Jn 12:35( The way of the wicked is as darkness;
they do not know at what they stumble.
20 (Pr 5:1) My son, attend to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21 (Pr 3:21; 2:1 ) Do not let them depart from your eyes;
keep them in the midst of your heart;
22 (Pr 3:8; 12:18) for they are life to those who find them,
and health to all their body.
23 (Lk 6:45; Pr 4:7 ) Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
and put perverse lips far from you.
25 Let your eyes look right on,
and let your eyelids look straight before you.
26 (Pr 5:6; Heb 12:13) Ponder the path of your feet,
and let all your ways be established.
27 (Dt 5:32; 28:14) Do not turn to the right or to the left;
remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 5
Warning Against Adultery [Pornography]
1 (Pr 4:20; 22:17) My son, attend to my wisdom,
and bow your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may regard discretion,
and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 (Ps 55:21; Pr 2:16) For the lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4 (Ecc 7:26; Ps 55:21) But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 (Pr 7:27) Her feet go down to death,
her steps take hold of Sheol.
6 (Pr 4:26) She does not ponder the path of life;
her ways are unstable, and she does not know it.
7 (Pr 4:1) Hear me now therefore, O children,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honor to others,
and your years to the cruel;
10 lest strangers be filled with your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of a stranger;
11 and you mourn at the last,
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 (Pr 12:1; 1:22) and say, "How I have hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof!
13 And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was almost in utter ruin
in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern,
and running waters out of your own well.
16 (Ps 68:26) Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own,
and not for strangers with you.
18 (Ecc 9:9) Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 (SS 2:9; 4:5) Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe;
let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
and always be enraptured with her love.
20 (Pr 6:24; 7:5 ) Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an immoral woman,
and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
21 (Hos 7:2; Heb 4:13) For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
and He ponders all his goings.
22 (Ps 7:15-16; 9:15) His own iniquities entrap the wicked himself,
and he is snared in the cords of his sins.
23 (Job 4:21; 36:12) He will die for lack of instruction,
and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
Proverbs 6
Warning Against Pledges
1 (Pr 11:15; 17:18) My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
if you have shaken hands with a stranger,
2 you are snared with the words of your mouth;
you are taken with the words of your mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself;
when you have come into the hand of your friend,
go and humble yourself;
plead with your friend.
4 (Ps 132:4) Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 (Ps 91:3; 124:7) Deliver yourself as a doe from the hand of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
The Folly of Idleness
6 (Pr 10:26; 20:4 ) Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise.
7 Which, having no guide,
overseer, or ruler,
8 (Pr 10:5 ) provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 (Pr 24:33-34) How long will you sleep, O sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep-
11 (Pr 24:34) so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker,
and your need as an armed man.
The Wicked Man
12 (Pr 4:24 ) A wayward person, a wicked man,
walks with a perverse mouth.
13 (Ps 35:19; Pr 10:10 ) He winks with his eyes,
he signals with his feet,
he motions with his fingers;
14 (Mic 2:1; Pr 6:18-19) perversity is in his heart,
he devises mischief continually, he sows discord.
15 (2Ch 36:16; Jer 19:11 ) Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken without remedy.
16 These six things the Lord hates,
yes, seven are an abomination to him:
17 (Pr 12:22; Isa 1:15 ) a proud look,
a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 (Ge 6:5; Pr 1:16) a heart that devises wicked imaginations,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 (Ps 27:12; Pr 6:14) a false witness who speaks lies,
and he who sows discord among brethren.
Warning Against Adultery
20 (Eph 6:1 ) My son, keep your father's commandment,
and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
21 (Pr 3:3) Bind them continually upon your heart,
and tie them around your neck.
22 (Pr 2:11; 3:23-24) When you go, they will lead you;
when you sleep, they will keep you;
and when you awake, they will speak with you.
23 (Ps 119:105; 19:8) For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 (Pr 2:16; 7:5) to keep you from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.
25 (2Ki 9:30; Mt 5:28) Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
26 (Pr 29:3; 1Sa 2:36 ) For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread,
and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom,
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can one walk upon hot coals,
and his feet not be burned?
29 So he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
whoever touches her will not be innocent.
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
31 But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold;
he will give all the substance of his house.
32 (Pr 7:7; 7:22-23) But whoever commits adultery
with a woman lacks understanding;
he who does it destroys his own soul.
33 (Pr 5:9-11) A wound and dishonor will he get,
and his reproach will not be wiped away.
34 (Pr 27:4; SS 8:6) For jealousy is the rage of a man;
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 He will not regard any ransom,
nor will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
2) Our Daily Bread for 3 June 2021
https://odb.org/US/2021/06/03/its-okay-to-lament
entitled It’s Okay to Lament
Lamentatons 3:19-26
19 La 3:5; 3:15 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
20 (Ps 42:5-6; 42:11) Surely my soul remembers
and is humbled within me.
21 (Ps 130:7 )But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 (Mal 3:6; Ps 78:38) It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed;
His compassions do not fail.
23 (Zep 3:5; Ps 36:5) They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
24 (Ps 16:5; 73:26) "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in Him."
25 (Isa 25:9; 30:18) The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the soul who seeks Him.
26 (Ps 37:7; 130:5) It is good that a man should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
I dropped to my knees and let my tears fall to the floor. "God, why aren't you
taking care of me?" I cried. It was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
I'd been laid-off for almost a month, and something had gone wrong
with my unemployment application. I hadn't received any money yet,
and the stimulus check the US government had promised hadn't arrived.
Deep down, I trusted that God would work out everything. I believed He truly
loved me and would take care of me, but in that moment, I felt abandoned.
The book of Lamentations reminds us it's okay to lament. The book was likely
written during or soon after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 587 BC.
It describes the affliction (3:1, 19), oppression (1:18),
and starvation (2:20; 4:10) the people faced. Yet, in the middle of the book
the author remembers why he could hope: "Because of the Lord's great love
we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every
morning; great is your faithfulness" (3:22–23). Despite the devastation,
the author remembered that God remains faithful.
Sometimes it feels impossible to believe that "the Lord is good to those
whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him" (v. 25), especially when
we don't see an end to our suffering. But we can cry out to Him,
trust that He hears us, and that He'll be faithful to see us through.
By: Julie Schwab
Reflect & Pray
What’s making it difficult for you to trust God today?
What will help you feel comfortable enough to cry out to Him?
Father, I need You right now. Please help me to trust You to come through
for me in my difficult situation.
To learn more about suffering and the Christian faith,
visit https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/CA211 .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 5 - Learning by Heart
Ps 119:9,11
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) How shall a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Your word I have hidden in my heart,
that I might not sin against You.
"His heart is not just in it," a gifted musician commented about the
pianist onstage. "He's here at the Orchestra Hall, playing for
thousands of poeple, an his technique is flawless, but something
is missing - his heart is just not in it."
The psalmist , in Psalm 119, draws a similar parallel. We "Keep our
way pure" through obedience of his Word, by ordering our lives according
to the commands of the Scriptures. But outward behaviour is not the only
essential factor in purity of life. The changes in our behaviour need to
come from the heart, from the inside out. Our "technique" for living
the Christian life may be flawless, but our obediance is founded
in heart motivation, something is certainly missing.
"I seek you with all my heart," the psalmist declares in verse 10.
Thus he can say in verse 11, "I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you"
Often we refer to memorisation as "learning by heart" - and indeed
"by heart" is the biblical mandate for assimilating God's truth
into our daily lives. "By rote" or "By Mind" leaves us
intellectually overstuffed, yet spiritually starving.
When we try to apply the Word outwardly to our behaviour,
we end up in a tangle of legalism, a log "do list" by which
we hope to please God. But when we set our hearts toward god first,
then changes in our behaviour grow out of love for God and a deep
desire to serve him. Then we are truly loving and obeying God with
our whole hearts.
Application
a) In what ways have I tried to apply God's word to my behaviour
without having the truth firmly in my heart? What was the result?
b) How can I set my heart toward God and give myself more fully
to his Word?
c) What areas of my life need "purifying"? How can these verses
help me to "make my way pure"?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Cor 8:9
9 (Mt 20:28; 2Co 6:10; 13:14) For you know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
that though He was rich,
yet for your sakes He became poor,
that through His poverty you might be rich.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Freeing Forgiveness
Eph 1:3-8a
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 (2Co 1:3; Eph 6:12; 2:6) Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 (Eph 5:27; Col 1:22) just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, to be holy
and blameless before Him in love;
5 (Ro 8:29–30; Eph 1:11) He predestined us to adoption as sons
to Himself through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure
of His will,
6 (Mt 3:17; Eph 1:12) to the praise of the glory of His grace
which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7 (Ro 3:24; Ac 2:38; 20:28) In Him we have redemption through His blood
and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,
8 which He lavished
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Quebec
Quick facts on Muslims in Quebec
Quebec 2015 population 8214 000
est Muslim Population 418946
CNMM Networks: Montreal
There is a growing Muslim population in Quebec City and a smattering
os Muslims scattered aound the rest of the province, yet the vast majority
of Muslims live in the greater Montreal area. n fact, 23% of Canada's Muslim
population live in Quebec. Why is that? It is largely because Francophone
African Muslims are atrracted to La Belle Provence.
And here's an interesting, perhaps even shocking fact: There are more
Muslims in Montreal than there are evangelical Christians.
This is one demographic factor creates a challenging environment for churches
and believers here: The size of the available 'workforce' is small
by comparison to begin with. Believers are already is a host culture that
is often either indifferent to releigion or resistant to it. And now
this 'new' religious community of Muslims - many of whom do not visibly
or socially conform to Quebec society - are a growing population. It might br
easy for Christians to feel overwhlem by this cultural double-whammy,
yet God has alsways worked miracles through the small, the few.
Agree in prayer for :
- Te people of Quebec, Muslim or otherwise, to be open to the Gospel
- for Muslims who are encountering believers and responding
-for a new group of Muslim background believers who are meeting
together for worship!
- For pastors and believers to be full of passion, faith and vision for
reaching Muslims in Quebec.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, atheists, secular humanists, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
3rd Day of the Month
a) Pray for the province of Alberta as follows:
I) Pray for the leaders of Alberta, that God's Spirit
would influence then to act justly,
serve with integrity and honour high moral standards.
(
1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good and acceptable in the sight
of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses beaming
forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
b) Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin
and to draw Canadian to faith in Christ.
( John 16:8 - When He comes,
He will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment: ,
Matthew 9:36 - But when He saw the crowds
, He was moved with compassion for them,
because they fainted and were scattered, like sheep without a shepherd )
Conclusion:
Pray to Lord to be in Wisdom for he has solutions for wickedness and adultery .
Pray to the Lord for you need Him right now. Please help to trust Him
to come through for us in our difficult situations.
Pray to the Lord to make your ways pure in Your Life.
Pray to the Lord to remeber how His poverty on the Cross makes your rich today.
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Pray to the Lord for He freed us from sin.
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Pray for Muslims in Quebec to receive Christ as Saviour
and that Christian outreach will increae in Quebec.
Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have God's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin
and to draw everyone to faith in Christ.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
and Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness
Remember eternity starts now -
Pray for the direction you take to the Ever lasting loving God.