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Eight) Day 21 - New works often begin quietly.



Scripture: Zechariah 4:6–10



6 (Hos 1:7; Isa 11:2-4) And he said to me: "This is the word of the Lord

to Zerubbabel, saying: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,

says the Lord of Hosts.

7 (Jer 51:25; Ps 114:4) "Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel

you will be made level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amidst

shouting of 'Grace! Grace to the stone!' "

8Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

9 (Ezr 5:16; 6:14-15) "The hands of Zerubbabel have established

the foundation of this house, and they will even complete it.

Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to all of you.

10 (Hag 2:3; Zec 3:9) "For who has despised the day of small things?

These seven will rejoice and see the plumb line in the hand

of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of the Lord, which survey to

and fro throughout the earth."



[6] Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD

unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith

the LORD of hosts.

[7] Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a

plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings,

crying, Grace, grace unto it.

[8] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[9] The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his

hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath

sent me unto you.

[10] For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice,

and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they

are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.



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Not by Might, But by Spirit



Zerubbabel stood before a half-finished temple and a mountain of opposition.

The work had stalled, the people were discouraged, and resources were scarce.

It is a feeling we all know: facing a task that seems too big for our hands

and a timeline that feels impossible to meet.



God's word to him was not a strategy for more fundraising or a pep talk on

working harder. It was a reminder of his fuel source: "Not by might nor by

power, but by my Spirit."



Human effort ("might") and collective strength ("power") have their limits.

They burn out. But the Spirit of the Lord is inexhaustible. God promised that

the "mountain" standing in the way would become level ground, not because

Zerubbabel was strong enough to crush it, but because God was gracious enough

to move it.



Furthermore, God addressed the insecurity of the "day of small things." We

often despise our own slow progress. We want the finished cathedral when we

are still laying the first bricks. But God rejoices to see the work continue.

He celebrates the process, not just the product.



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Application:



- Are you staring at a "mountain" today - a difficult relationship, a stalled

project, or a health crisis? Stop trying to shovel it away with your own

limited strength. Invite the Holy Spirit to do what you cannot. And do not let

the slowness of the process discourage you. God is present in the small steps

just as much as the big finish.



Prayer:



- Lord Almighty, I confess I often rely on my own grinding effort. Forgive me

for despising the small beginnings in my life. I ask for Your Spirit to fill

me and move the mountains I face. Thank You that the hands that began

the good work in me will be faithful to complete it. Amen.



Prayer Requests: Mill Woods Care Closet



As we look forward to the "new things" God is doing in our community,

please join us in prayer for:



- Growth: For increased food and clothing donations and the volunteers

needed to support opening an additional day to serve our neighbours.



- Intake Volunteers: For those on the front lines who share the hope of Jesus

while providing guidance on parenting, finances, employment,

and local resources.



- Funding: For God's favour as we launch our fundraising campaign

in Mill Woods and begin our grant-writing outreach.



- Mission: That in every interaction, we would reflect God's love,

patience, and grace toward every neighbour who walks through our doors.



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Author: Cynthia Foster, Mill Woods Care Closet Executive Director



Conclusion:



Lord, You see what has happened. You know the truth. Nothing about this

situation is hidden from you. Today I pplace this situation into Your hands.

I release my need to controlthe outcome. Help me walk in the footsteps

of Jesus.



Help me continue dooing good. Guard my heart from bitterness. And help me

trust that You are the One who judges justly. Amen.



Pray to the Lord and pray to be Holy in the eyes of the Lord

and honour Him.



Pray to the Lord: "Dear Jesus, thank You for giving me hope.

Use me, please, to show Your light in this world through the way I live."



Pray to the Lord and pray to Him who bought you out of sin.



Pray to the Lord and pray to know His Blessings.



Pray to understand the Rapture of the Church.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Pray for peace in Gaza and for the ongoing war and humanitarian

crisis to be resolved.

Ask Jesus to reveal Himself in dreams and visions to the people in

Gaza.

* Pray for Palestinian believers to be just not Jesus followers, but

also prophets and apostles to their own people.



Pray for the Lord to convict all of humanity of His Righteous

standards of living



QATAR



Pray for Christian expatriates who are sharing

the Gospel in authentic ways with Qataris.



Lord Almighty, I confess I often rely on my own grinding effort. Forgive me

for despising the small beginnings in my life. I ask for Your Spirit to fill

me and move the mountains I face. Thank You that the hands that began

the good work in me will be faithful to complete it. Amen.



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

4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Proverbs 10:22



22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich ,and He adds no sorrow with it.



22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, And he addeth no sorrow with it.



5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:



When you are Saddened by Loss



1 Cor 15:35-38,51-57



35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up?

With what body do they come?"

36 You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

37 When you sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but a bare kernel,

perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

38 Then God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.



51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall

all be changed.

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet,

for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible,

and we shall be changed.

53 For tis corruptible will put on incorruption,

and this mortal will put on immortality.

54 When this corruptible will have put on incorruption,

and this mortal will have put on immortality,

then the saying that is written shall come to pass:

"Death is swallowed up in victory."

55 "O death, where is your sting?

O grave, where is your victory?"

56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ!



35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?

and with what body do they come?

36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,

but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

38 but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him,

and to every seed his own body.



51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall

all be changed,

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:

for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,

and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,

and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,

and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought

to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ.



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."



9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.





6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)



Saskatchewan



Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan



Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400



est Muslim Population 17279



CNMM Networks: Saskatoon



Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past

5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have

focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts

of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres

of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a

Christian school.

Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up

in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young

women who were wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.

Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Adding further





Pray for Palestinians in Gaza



Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip has been a frequent political target, but

for Shireen, it was home. A daughter in a family of ten, she was luckier

than some, eventually being able to study at Al-Azhar University in Gaza.

When she met Christians who brought relief supplies and the Word of God,

her life was transformed as she became a believer in Jesus.



Shireen eventually married Mahmoud, a man who treated her quite poorly.

She was ignored and left to fend for herself and her children when he was

jailed for debt. The desperate situation in Gaza often meant she and the

children would go for days without food and her mother's heart had to

listen to them crying themselves to sleep. She longed to escape.



God intervened and changed her heart. Shireen explains, "Jesus has called

me to be a woman of God in the Gaza Strip. I am needed here and have this

special assignment from God. My little sister loves Jesus now and we pray

together and share scripture with each other. And I tell other

Palestinians how to find eternal life in Jesus in a place that is known

for war and death."



Believers around the world prayed for her husband, Mahmoud, who was not

interested in Jesus. Then, not long ago, he had a powerful change and

began to follow Jesus himself. He grew to become an attentive husband and

often texted verses saying they were "quotes from my four best friends:

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John!"



Mahmoud has also suffered. He has been badly beaten for his faith, yet

rejects sympathy saying, "The only question we should ask is if my scars

have conformed me more to the image of Christ."



How to Pray



Pray for peace in Gaza and for the ongoing war and humanitarian

crisis to be resolved.

Ask Jesus to reveal Himself in dreams and visions to the people in

Gaza.

* Pray for Palestinian believers to be just not Jesus followers, but

also prophets and apostles to their own people.





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, ...) .



7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada



http://www.ehc.ca



15th Day of the Month



a) Pray for the Lord to convict all Canadians of His Righteous

standards of living (John 16: 8 - 11



8 "When He comes, He will convict the world of sin

and of righteousness and of judgment:

9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me;

10 of righteousness, because I am going to My Father,

and you will see Me no more;

11 and of judgment, because the ruler of this world stands condemned."



8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,

and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

)



b) Pray for the province of Nova Scotia



I) Pray for the leaders of Nova Scotia, that God's Spirit would influence

them 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.



1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,

intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2 for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet

and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4 who will have all men to be saved,

and to come unto 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.

DEUTERONOMY 16



The Feast of Weeks



Lev 23:15-22; Nu 28:26-31



9 (Ex 23:16; 34:22) You must count seven weeks for yourself.

Begin counting the seven weeks from the time you begin

to put the sickle to the standing grain.

10 (1Co 16:2) You must keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord

your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand,

which you must give to the Lord your God, in proportion to

how much the Lord your God has blessed you.

11 (Dt 12:7; 12:12) You shall rejoice before the Lord your God-you,

your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant,

the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the orphan,

and the widow who are among you-in the place where the Lord

your God has chosen to place His name.

12 (Dt 15:15) You must remember that you were a slave in Egypt,

and you must be careful to observe these statutes.



[9] Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks

from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

[10] And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a

tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the

LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

[11] And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and

thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that

is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,

that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place

his name there.

[12] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou

shalt observe and do these statutes.



The Feast of Tabernacles



Lev 23:33-43; Nu 29:12-39



13 (Ex 23:16; Lev 23:34-36) You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles

seven days after you have gathered in your threshing floor

and your winepress,

14 (Dt 16:11; Ne 8:9-12) and you shall rejoice in your feast, you,

your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant,

the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who

are within your gates.

15 You are to celebrate the festival for seven days to the Lord your God

in the place where the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will

bless you in all your produce, and in all the works of your hands.

Therefore, you will indeed rejoice.

16 (Ex 23:14-17; 34:20) Three times a year all your males must appear

before the Lord your God in the place where He will choose:

at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks,

and at the Feast of Tabernacles, and they must not appear

before the Lord empty.

17 (Dt 16:10; 2Co 8:12) Every man must give as he is able,

in proportion to the blessing of the Lord your God, which

He has given you.



[13] Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou

hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

[14] And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy

daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the

stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

[15] Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the

place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee

in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou

shalt surely rejoice.

[16] Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy

God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread,

and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall

not appear before the LORD empty:

[17] Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the

LORD thy God which he hath given thee.



Judges

18 (1Ch 23:4; 26:29) You must appoint judges and officers

in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you,

throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people

with righteous judgment.

19 (Ex 23:2; Lev 19:15) You must not pervert judgment nor show partiality.

You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise

and perverts the words of the righteous.

20 (Dt 4:1) You must follow that which is altogether just, so that you may

live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you.



[18] Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the

LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the

people with just judgment.

[19] Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither

take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the

words of the righteous.

[20] That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live,

and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.



Idolatry Forbidden

21 (2Ki 17:16; 2Ch 33:3) You must not plant for yourself an Asherah

Wooden symbol of a female deity. of any trees near the altar of

the Lord your God, which you make for yourself.

22 (Lev 26:1; Ex 20:4) You shall not set up for yourself any image,

which the Lord your God hates.



[21] Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of

the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

[22] Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God

hateth.



2) Our Daily Bread for 15 March 2025 titled



Being a Light for Christ by Kirsten Holmberg



Matthew 5:13-16



Salt and Light



Mk 9:50; Lk 14:34-35



13 (Lev 2:13; Lk 14:34-35) "You are the salt of the earth.

But if the salt loses its saltiness, how shall it be made salty?

It is from then on good

for nothing but to be thrown out and to be trampled underfoot by men.

14 (Jn 8:12; Pr 4:18) "You are the light of the world.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 (Mk 4:21; Lk 8:16) 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.

16 (1Pe 2:12; Mt 9:8; Jn 15:8) Let your light so shine before men

that they may see your good works and glorify your Father

who is in heaven.



[13] Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,

wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be

cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

[14] Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be

hid.

[15] Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a

candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

[16] Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,

and glorify your Father which is in heaven.



When schools around the globe sent their students home for health and safety

during the coronavirus pandemic, their buildings and stadiums stood empty.

While acknowledging many were experiencing greater afflictions from the virus,

teachers sought ways to show their students they missed them and to encourage

them to press on through a difficult time. Many schools initiated what they

called the "Be the Light" challenge, in which they burned the empty

stadium's lights each night.



During His earthly life, Jesus issued His own kind of "be the light"

challenge, saying that we who follow Him are to "let [our] light shine before

others" (Matthew 5:16). His charge had a loftier goal than encouragement or

moral support; instead, our willingness to reveal the light He's put in us

shows the watching world who God is. The way we live our lives, in both word

and deed, reveals the hope Jesus gives us, making it visible to all those

around us, like a lamp on a stand.



Jesus calls us "the light of the world" and challenges us to illuminate the

paths of others with His light radiating through us when they're walking a

dark road. For those who don't yet know the hope Jesus offers, sharing His

light through the way we live can point them toward God as the source

of all hope.



Reflect & Pray



In whom do you see the light of Jesus?

How can you cast His light into the lives of others?



Dear Jesus, thank You for giving me hope.

Use me, please, to show Your light in this world through the way I live.



3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association



Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools



Week 3 - Saved Now and Forever - Day 1 - Bought Back



Eph 1:7



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



[7] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,

according to the riches of his grace;



In the opening scenes of The Glenn Miller Story, Glenn Miller, then a

struggling musician trying to find an audience for his music, enters

a pawn shop. He has hocked his trombone for rent money, and has come

to redeem it. Paying the pawn broker the money, he buys back his own

instrument and leaves the shop, indicating that he will probably

be back again.

In Eph 1:7. Paul says that in Christ "we have redemption through

His blood and the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of His grace."

We belonged to God from the beginning; he made us and stamped

his image upon us. But through sin we were lost, pawned to the

world's system and the Enemy of our souls.

But God redeemed us; he "bought us back" with the most valuable

currency in the universe - the blood of his own Son, Jesus Christ.

He did not resent the bargain, or question whether we were worth

such a price. He freely gave Jesus in trade to ransom the souls

of the people he created and loved.

Sometimes in Christian circles we get so caught up in religious

jargon that we forget what redemption really means. Gog did not have

to "get us out of hock." He was not compelled to buy us back when we

had sold ourselves to sin. But because of his love, and with no

deserving on our part, he chose to pay an enormous price to set us free.

We are redeemed, bought back, by the One who owned us in the first place.



Application



a) In what ways have I been "in hock" to sin in my life?



b) What does it mean, in practical terms, that God "redeemed" me

from that sin?

DEUTERONOMY 15



The Sabbatical Year



Lev 25:8-38



1 (Dt 31:10; Ex 23:10-11) At the end of every seven years you shall

grant a relinquishing of debts.

2 This is the manner of the relinquishing: Every creditor that has

loaned anything to his neighbor shall relinquish it. He shall not

exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother, because it is called

the Lord's relinquishment.

3 (Dt 23:20) You may collect it from a foreigner, but that which

your brother has that is yours your hand shall release.

4 However, there will be no poor among you, for the Lord will

greatly bless you in the land which the Lord your God has given

you for an inheritance to possess,

5 if only you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God,

by carefully observing all these commandments which I command you today.

6 (Dt 28:12-13; 28:44) For the Lord your God will bless you, just as

He promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you shall

not borrow. You will reign over many nations, but they will not reign

over you.

7 (Dt 15:9) If there be among you a poor man, one of your brothers within

any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God has given you,

you must not harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

8 (Mt 5:42; Lk 6:34) But you shall open your hand wide to him and must surely

lend him what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.

9 (Dt 24:15; Mt 20:15; Ex 22:23) Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your

heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand," and

your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing,

and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.

10 (Dt 14:29; 24:19) You must surely give to him, and your heart shall

not be grieved when you give to him, because in this thing the Lord

your God will bless you in all your works, and in all that you put

your hand to do.

11 (Mt 26:11; Mk 14:7) For the poor will never cease from being

in the land. Therefore, I command you, saying, "You shall open your hand

wide to your brother, to your poor and needy in your land."



[1] At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

[2] And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought

unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour,

or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.

[3] Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with

thy brother thine hand shall release;

[4] Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly

bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance

to possess it:

[5] Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to

observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

[6] For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt

lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over

many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

[7] If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of

thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not

harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

[8] But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him

sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

[9] Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The

seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against

thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD

against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

[10] Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when

thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall

bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

[11] For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command

thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor,

and to thy needy, in thy land.



Freeing Servants



Ex 21:2-6; Lev 25:38=55



12 (Jer 34:14; Lev 25:39-41) If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman,

is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must let

him go free from you.

13 When you send him out free from you, you must

not let him go away empty-handed.

14 You shall supply him liberally out of your flock, out of your floor,

and out of your winepress. From that with which the Lord your God

has blessed you, you shall give to him.

15 (Dt 16:12) You shall remember that you were a slave in the land

of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. Therefore,

I command this to you today.

16 (Ex 21:5-6) It shall be, if he says to you, "I will not go away from you,"

because he loves you and your house, because he is well off with you,

17 then you must take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door,

and he shall be your servant forever. And you shall also do likewise

to your female servant.

18 It will not seem difficult for you when you send him away free from you,

for he has been worth a double hired servant Or double the amount.

in serving you six years. Then the Lord your God will bless you

in all that you do.



[12] And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman , be sold unto

thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him

go free from thee.

[13] And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go

away empty:

[14] Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy

floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath

blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

[15] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,

and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to

day.

[16] And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee;

because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

[17] Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the

door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant

thou shalt do likewise.

[18] It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from

thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee

six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.



The Firstborn Animals



19 (Ex 13:2; 13:12) You must sanctify all the firstborn males that come

out of your herd and flock to the Lord your God. You must do no work

with the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your sheep.

20 (Dt 12:5-7; 12:17) You shall eat it before the Lord your God year

by year in the place where the Lord shall choose, you and your household.

21 (Dt 17:1) If there is any defect in it, if it is lame or blind

or has a serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean person

alike shall eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer.

23 (Dt 12:16; Lev 7:26) Only you must not eat its blood.

You shall pour it on the ground like water.



[19] All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou

shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the

firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

[20] Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place

which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

[21] And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or

have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

[22] Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person

shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

[23] Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the

ground as water.



DEUTERONOMY 16



The Passover



Ex 12:14-20; Lev 23:4-8; Nu 28:16-25

1 (Ex 34:18; 13:4) Observe the month of Aviv

{March-April in the modern calendar.} and keep the Passover to the Lord

your God, for in the month of Aviv the Lord your God brought you

out of Egypt by night.

2 (Dt 12:5; 12:26) Therefore, you must sacrifice the Passover

to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, in the place

where the Lord shall choose to place His name.

3 (Ex 12:39; 34:18; 12:8) You must not eat leavened bread with it.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread,

the bread of affliction, for you came out of the land of Egypt in a hurry,

so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you

came out of the land of Egypt.

4 (Ex 12:10; 34:25) There must not be any leavened bread seen with

you within all your borders for seven days, nor may any of the

meat which you sacrificed in the evening on the first day remain

overnight until morning.

5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates

that the Lord your God has given you.

6 But at the place where the Lord your God chooses to place

His name, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset,

at the time that you came out of Egypt.

7 (2Ch 35:13) You shall roast and eat it in the place where the Lord your God

will choose, and you must return in the morning, and go to your tents.

8 (Lev 23:36) For six days you must eat unleavened bread,

and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God.

You must do no work on that day.



[1] Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God:

for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by

night.

[2] Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of

the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place

his name there.

[3] Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat

unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest

forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day

when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

[4] And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast

seven days; neither shall there anything of the flesh, which thou

sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

[5] Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which

the LORD thy God giveth thee:

[6] But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name

in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of

the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

[7] And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God

shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

[8] Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall

be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

Day 74, 15 March 2026



Tooady a Calvary Community

Church Pastor Nathan Zieber spoke on Living Counter Culturally -

servants and masters (employess and employers)



Peter is going to show us 3 things in this passage:



a) How Christians respond to unjust suffering,

b) Why Jesus is our example in suffering

c) And how the cross makes that kind of life possible



1 Peter 2:18-25



The Example of Christ's Suffering



18 (Jas 3:17) Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only

to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.

19 (Ro 13:5) For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God

a person endures grief, suffering unjustly.

20 (1Pe 2:19; 3:17) For what credit is it if when you are being beaten

for your sins you patiently endure? But if when doing good and suffering

for it, you patiently endure, this is favorable before God.

21 (Ac 14:22; Mt 16:24) For to this you were called, because Christ suffered

for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

22 (Isa 53:9; 2Co 5:21) "He committed no sin,

nor was deceit found in His mouth."(Isa 53:9.)

23 (Isa 53:7; Lk 23:46) When He was reviled, He did not revile back; when He

suffered, He did not threaten, but He entrusted Himself to Him who judges

righteously.

24 (Ro 6:2; 6:11) He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,

that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.

"By His wounds you were healed."(Isa 53:5).

25 (Isa 53:6; Ps 119:176)

For you were as sheep going astray, but now have been returned

to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.



[18] Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the

good and gentle, but also to the froward.

[19] For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure

grief, suffering wrongfully.

[20] For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall

take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it

patiently, this is acceptable with God.

[21] For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,

leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

[22] Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

[23] Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he

threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

[24] Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we,

being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were

healed.

[25] For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the

Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.



1) Deuteronomy 14, Deuteronomy 15, Deuteronomy 16



DEUTERONOMY 14



Clean and Unclean Food



Lev 11:1-23



1 (Ro 9:8; Gal 3:26) You are the sons of the Lord your God.

You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness

between your eyes for the dead.

2 (Dt 7:6; Lev 20:26) For you are a holy people to the Lord your God,

and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself,

treasured above all the nations that are on the earth.

3 (Eze 4:14; Lev 11:43) You must not eat any detestable thing.

4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the fallow deer, the wild goat, and the ibex,

and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

6 You may eat every animal with divided hooves,

with the hoof divided into two parts, and that chews the cud.

7 Nevertheless, you may not eat of these that chew the cud,

or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, the rabbit, and the coney.

For they chew the cud, but their hoof is not divided,

therefore they are unclean to you.

8 (Lev 11:26-27) The pig is unclean to you because it divides the hoof,

yet it does not chew the cud. You must not eat of their flesh or touch

their dead carcass.

9 These you shall eat of all that are in the water:

All that have fins and scales you may eat.

10 Whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat.

It is unclean to you.

11 You may eat of all clean birds.

12 However, these are the ones which you cannot eat:

the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

13 the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after its kind,

14 every raven after its kind,

15 and the ostrich, the owl, the seagull,

and the hawk after its kind,

16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, and the cormorant,

18 the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19 Every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you. They must not be eaten.

20 You may eat all the clean birds.

21 (Ex 23:19; 34:26; Lev 17:15) You must not eat of anything that dies of

itself, but you may give it to the foreigner that is in your gates, so that

he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people

to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.



[1] Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves,

nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

[2] for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath

chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that

are upon the earth.

[3] Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

[4] These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the

goat,

[5] The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and

the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

[6] And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two

claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

[7] Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of

them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney:

for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean

unto you.

[8] And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it

is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead

carcase.

[9] These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and

scales shall ye eat:

[10] And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean

unto you.

[11] Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

[12] But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage,

and the ospray,

[13] And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

[14] And every raven after his kind,

[15] And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his

kind,

[16] The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

[17] And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

[18] And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the

bat.

[19] And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall

not be eaten.

[20] But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

[21] Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it

unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest

sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.



Tithes



22 (Dt 12:17; 12:6) You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed,

so that the field produces year by year.

23 (Dt 4:10; 12:5-7) You must eat before the Lord your God,

in the place in which He shall choose to place His name,

the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil,

and of the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks so that

you may learn to always fear the Lord your God.

24 (Dt 12:21; 12:5) If the distance is too long for you, so that you are

not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, where

the Lord your God shall choose to set His name, when the Lord

your God blesses you,

25 then you shall exchange it for money and bind up the money

in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.

26 (Dt 12:7; Ecc 9:7) Then you may spend that money for whatever

your heart desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,

or for whatever your heart desires, and you may eat there before the Lord

your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

27 (Nu 18:20; Dt 14:29) and the Levite that is within your gates.

You must not forsake him, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

28 (Dt 14:22; Am 4:4) At the end of three years you must bring forth

all the tithe of your produce the same year and lay it up within your gates.

29 (Dt 15:10; 14:27) Then the Levite (because he has no portion

or inheritance with you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,

who are within your gates, shall come and shall eat and be satisfied,

so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand

which you do.



[22] Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field

bringeth forth year by year.

[23] And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall

choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of

thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou

mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

[24] And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry

it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall

choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

[25] Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine

hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

[26] And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,

for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever

thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and

thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

[27] And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him;

for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

[28] At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine

increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

[29] And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,)

and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy

gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may

bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada



http://www.ehc.ca



14th Day of the Month



a) Pray for God's kingdom to come

in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,

and in our nation ( Matt 6:10



10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;

Your will be done

on earth, as it is in heaven.



10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.





)



b) Pray for those who serve with

denominations and Christian organisations

in Canada - that God will bless their ministry

and anoint them for effective service.



Eight) Day 20 - God’s renewal is both personal and cosmic.



Scripture: Revelation 21:5



5 (Rev 4:9; 20:11) He who was seated on the throne said,

"Look! I am making all things new." Then He said to me,

"Write, for these words are faithful and true."





[5] And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And

he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.



---



One of the principles of the Kingdom of God is often described

as the "already, not yet." It is a tension that every Christian lives in. We

are in this world, but we are not of it. We are alive, yet we have crucified

our lives with Christ. We are healed, yet we still need healing.



As 1 Corinthians 13:12 says, "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;

then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,

even as I am fully known."



As we near the end of our days of prayer and fasting, we may feel a tension

that we have not seen the answers to prayer we hoped for. Maybe we asked for

something dramatic, like a miracle. Or maybe, as we sought God, we expected to

feel something more, to overcome more, or to see clearer change.



In moments like these, I'm reminded of how Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew,

"Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Even

Jesus was not satisfied with the brokenness of the world as it was. He longed

to see greater transformation, not only in the lives of His disciples, but in

the world itself.



In Revelation, we are given a picture of what is still to come, where Jesus

declares that He will make all things new. The things that remain unchanged,

unshaken, and untransformed will one day be made new by Him.



We don't always know which areas God will renew while we are still here on

earth. But we can trust that whether He does it now or later, the victory

is already His. Hebrews 12:12 reminds us,

"Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees."



Our confidence grows when we understand that God is actively working on

our behalf. He is doing a new thing. And He does not ask us to simply wait

until eternity to believe this. He invites us to trust that He is already at

work, doing something new in our lives, our families, our friends,

our church, our city, and in the world.



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Personal Reflection Questions:



- Which area are you going to continue asking God to make new?



- When things get hard, how will you remind yourself

that God is doing a new thing?



Prayer Point:



- Pray for renewal to our church and community,

believing that God wants to transform lives now



- Pray for those who don't yet know Jesus,

that He would bring transformation through the gospel



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Author: Pastor Sebastien Merta, Senior Associate Pastor of Large Group



Conclusion:



Pray to the Lord and pray to love him with all your heart and all your mind.



Pray to the Lord: "Dear God, it's mind-boggling when we try to figure out the

concept of time, but please help me embrace that my times are in Your hands."



Pray to the Lord and pray to know that Jesus Frees you

from the condemnation of sin.



Pray to the Lord and pray to lay a foundation of righteousness.



Pray to the Lord and pray to know Him as healer.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Pray for wisdom, strength, and spiritual growth for Hussein and

other followers of Jesus.

Ask God to grow and multiply house churches among the Shatt people.

* Pray that churches will be established amongst all the peoples who

are refugees in South Sudan.



Pray for God's kingdom to come

in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,

and in our nation



Pray for those who serve with

denominations and Christian organisations

in Canada - that God will bless their ministry

and anoint them for effective service.



- Pray for renewal to our church and community,

believing that God wants to transform lives now



- Pray for those who don't yet know Jesus,

that He would bring transformation through the gospel



BRUNEI



Praise God for Bruneians who have come to faith

in Christ despite harsh religious restrictions.



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

3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools



Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 7 - Oh, Freedom!



Rom 8:1-2



Life in the Spirit



1 (1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:17) There is therefore now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus,

who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

2 (1Co 15:45; Ro 6:18; Jn 8:32) For the law of the Spirit of life

in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.



The Spirit of God Within You

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,

who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free

from the law of sin and death.



In the classic movie, I want to live! actress Susan Hayward

plays a woman convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed.

The suspense builds; the execution is delayed as the officials

wait for a word of pardon. Finally, the woman in executed;

the call comes, and the pardon has been granted, but it is too late.

When no pardon is granted, condemnation leads to death. Our sin

marks us as "guilty" before God, and we deserve the wages of sin,

which is death. But in Jesus Christ, the pardon does come - and

it comes in time. Our sin deserves condemnation by God, and yet

he forgives us because Christ paid the penalty for us,

But we face other kinds of condemnation as well - self-condemnation,

that internal accusation that we still, somehow, must pay the price

of our own sin. Others often condemn us as well, offering much less

forgiveness and mercy than God does. And the Enemy of our souls condemns

us, trying to convince us that we don't, after all, have real freedom

from sin.

Yet Paul tells us in Romans 8, "There is therefore now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus". God has forgiven us freely; he has

granted his pardon. And in light of his forgiveness, how can we live

under the condemnation of others - or even of ourselves?

We are free, Paul says - free from the "law of sin and death,"

free to live in the liberty of the Spirit. The stay of execution

has come: the pardon has been granted. Never again can we tried

for the same crimes: never again must we live under the burden

of condemnation.



Application



a) Have I ever lived under the burden of condemnation from myself

or others? Why?



b) How can Romans 8:1-2 help me live in freedom of such condemnation?





4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Ps 37:25-26



25 I have been young, and now am old;

yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,

nor their offspring begging bread.

26 The righteous are gracious and lend,

and their offspring are a source of blessing.



25 I have been young, and now am old;

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,

nor his seed begging bread.

26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth;

And his seed is blessed.



5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:



When you are ill or injured



Matthew 8:14-17



The Healing of Many People



Mk 1:29-34; Lk 4:38-41



14 When Jesus entered Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother,

lying sick with a fever.

15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she rose and served them.

16 When the evening came, they brought to Him many

who were possessed with demons.

And He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all who were sick,

17 to fulfill what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet,

"He Himself took our infirmities

and bore our sicknesses."



[14] And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother

laid, and sick of a fever.

[15] And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and

ministered unto them.

[16] When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed

with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that

were sick:

[17] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet,

saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.



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."



9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.



6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)



Saskatchewan



Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan



Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400



est Muslim Population 17279



CNMM Networks: Saskatoon



Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past

5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have

focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts

of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres

of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a

Christian school.

Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up

in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young

women who were wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.

Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Adding further





Pray for the Nuba in South Sudan



Hussein belongs to the Nuba K'walip people and lives as a refugee in

South Sudan with his mother and seven younger siblings. His father

died in the war. Life in mud huts without electricity or running water

is difficult, and disease is widespread.



Until about three years ago, Hussein was an average Muslim who

performed daily prayers with his neighbors. But then he heard about

Jesus through a Ugandan believer. It took a lot of patience and many

conversations to address Hussein's questions and misconceptions. Other

believers mobilized prayer for him. Eventually, he came to understand

who Jesus truly is and was baptized. Another Jesus follower walked

with him for a year in discipleship. Now, Hussein leads a small house

church among the Shatt, another Nubian people group who are largely

unreached.



One of the team writes: "This evening, I am on my way to the Shatt

house church with Hussein. The small group meets in the shade of a

house next to our school. Hussein reads the passage from Matthew where

Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

He then gives a short sermon. His friend, who is learning from him,

then leads the group in prayer. There are many prayers of thanks, and

Hussein and I go home feeling greatly encouraged."



On the way back home, Hussein has questions about the Bible passage he

read. He doesn't yet understand all of it himself, but he is hungry

for God's Word and has a heart for Jesus and the people here. His love

and faith in Jesus are evident to his friends, his family and his

neighbors.



How to Pray



Pray for wisdom, strength, and spiritual growth for Hussein and

other followers of Jesus.

Ask God to grow and multiply house churches among the Shatt

people.

* Pray that churches will be established amongst all the peoples who

are refugees in South Sudan.



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, ...) .

DEUTERONOMY 12

The One Place of Worship

1 (1Ki 8:40) These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful

to observe in the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given

you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

2 (2Ki 16:4; Dt 7:5) You must utterly destroy all the places where

the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains,

and on the hills, and under every green tree.

3 (Nu 33:52; Jdg 2:2) And you shall overthrow their altars, and break

their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles

Wooden symbols of a female deity.

with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods,

and eliminate their names out of that place.

4 (Lev 20:23; Dt 16:21-22) You shall not act this way toward

the Lord your God.

5 (2Ch 7:12; Dt 12:11) But you must seek only the place which the Lord

your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name,

and there you must go.

6 (Dt 15:19-20) There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,

your tithes, the offerings of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings,

and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks.

7 (Dt 12:18; 14:26; Lev 23:40) There you must eat before the Lord your God,

and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your

households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.

8 (Jdg 17:6; 21:25) You are not to do all the things that we are doing here

today, where every man does whatever is right in his own eyes.

9 (Dt 25:19; 1Ki 8:56) For you have not yet come to the rest

and to the inheritance which the Lord your God has given you.

10 (Dt 11:31) But when you cross the Jordan, and dwell in the land

which the Lord your God has given you to inherit, and when He gives

you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,

11 (Dt 12:5; 15:20) then there will be a place which the Lord your God

will choose to cause His name to dwell. There you must bring all that

I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes,

the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow

to the Lord.

12 (Dt 12:7; 10:9) You will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons,

your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite

who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place

that you see.

14 (Dt 12:5; 12:11) Rather, in the place which the Lord will choose in one

of your tribes, there you must offer your burnt offerings, and there you

must do all that I command you.

15 (Dt 14:5) Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates,

whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God

which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it,

of the gazelle and of the deer,

16 (Ge 9:4; Dt 15:23) only you must not eat the blood.

You shall pour it on the ground like water.

17 (Dt 12:6; 26:14) You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain,

your wine, your oil, the firstborn of your herds or of your flock,

any of your vows which you vow, your freewill offerings, or the offering

of your hand.

18 (Dt 12:7; 14:23; 12:5) Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God

in the place which the Lord your God will choose-you, your son,

your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite

that is within your gates-and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God

in all that you undertake to do.

19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you

live on the earth.

20 (Dt 19:8; 11:24; Ge 28:14) When the Lord your God shall enlarge your

border as He has promised you, and you say, "I will eat meat," because

you desire to eat meat, then you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

21 (Dt 12:5) If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name

is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock,

which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you,

and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.

22 Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them.

The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23 (Ge 9:4; Lev 17:11) Only be sure that you do not eat the blood.

For the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the meat.

24 You must not eat it. You must pour it on the ground like water.

25 (Ex 15:26; Dt 4:40) You must not eat it, so that it may go well

with you and with your children after you, when you do that

which is right in the sight of the Lord.

26 (Nu 5:9-10; 18:19) You shall take only your holy things which

you have, along with your vows, and go to the place

which the Lord shall choose.

27 (Lev 1:9; 1:13) You must offer your burnt offerings, the meat

and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God,

and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar

of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the meat.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you,

so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever,

when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

29 (Jos 23:4; Dt 19:1) When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from

before you, where you go to possess them, and you dispossess them,

and dwell in their land,

30 (Dt 7:16) take heed to yourself so that you are not ensnared by following

them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you not inquire

after their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods?

Even so I will do likewise."

31 (Jer 32:35; Lev 18:3) You shall not do so to the Lord your God,

for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done

to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters

in the fire to their gods.

32 (Dt 4:2; Jos 1:7) Whatever I command you, be careful to do it.

You shall not add to it or take away from it.



Deuteronomy 12

[1] These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in

the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all

the days that ye live upon the earth.

[2] Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye

shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the

hills, and under every green tree:

[3] And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn

their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their

gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

[4] Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

[5] But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your

tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and

thither thou shalt come:

[6] And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,

and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your

freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

[7] And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in

all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy

God hath blessed thee.

[8] Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man

whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

[9] For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the

LORD your God giveth you.

[10] But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your

God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies

round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

[11] Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to

cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command

you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave

offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

[12] And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and

your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite

that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with

you.

[13] Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every

place that thou seest:

[14] But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,

there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that

I command thee.

[15] Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,

whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy

God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as

of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

[16] Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as

water.

[17] Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy

wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any

of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering

of thine hand:

[18] But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the

LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy

manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:

and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest

thine hands unto.

[19] Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou

livest upon the earth.

[20] When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised

thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat

flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

[21] If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there

be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,

which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat

in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

[22] Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the

unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

[23] Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;

and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

[24] Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

[25] Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy

children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of

the LORD.

[26] Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take,

and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

[27] And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon

the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be

poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

[28] Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go

well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest

that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

[29] When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,

whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest

in their land;

[30] Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after

that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after

their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I

do likewise.

[31] Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to

the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their

sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

[32] What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add

thereto, nor diminish from it.

DEUTERONOMY 13



Idolatry



1 (Jer 27:9; 29:8) If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among

you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

2 (Dt 18:22; Jer 28:9) and the sign or the wonder comes to pass

concerning that which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods,"

which you have not known, "and let us serve them,"

3 (Dt 8:2; 6:5) you must not listen to the words of that prophet

or that dreamer

of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love

the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

4 (Dt 10:20; 2Ki 23:3; 2Ch 34:31) You must follow after the Lord your God,

fear Him, and keep His commandments, obey His voice, and you must

serve Him, and cling to Him.

5 (1Co 5:13; Dt 17:7) That prophet or that dreamer of dreams must be put

to death because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord

your God, who brought you out ofthe land of Egypt and redeemed you

out of the house of bondage, to entice you away from the way in which

the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you must put the evil

away from your midst.

6 (Dt 28:54; 1Sa 18:1) If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son,

or your daughter, or your beloved wife, or your friend, who is as your

own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,"

which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

7 namely, of the gods of the people who are all around you, near you

or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other end

of the earth,

8 (Pr 1:10; Dt 7:16) you shall not consent to him or listen to him,

neither should your eye pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him,

9 but you must surely kill him. Your hand must be first upon him

to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people.

10 (Jos 7:25) You shall stone him with stones so that he dies

because he has sought to entice you away from the Lord your God

who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

11 (Dt 19:20; 17:13) All Israel shall hear and fear and no more do any

such wickedness as this among you.

12 If you hear it said in one of your cities, in which the Lord your God

has given you to dwell, saying,

13 (Dt 13:2; 13:6) "Certain men, the sons of wickedness, are gone out

from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying,

'Let us go and serve other gods,'" which you have not known,

14 (Dt 17:4) then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently.

If it be true and certain that such an abomination has been among you,

15 (Ex 22:20; Lev 27:28) you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city

to the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock-with

the edge of the sword.

16 (Jos 8:28; Jer 49:2) You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle

of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within

it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever.

It must not be rebuilt.

17 (Ge 26:4; 26:24) Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling

to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness

of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you,

and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

18 (Dt 12:25; 12:28) if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and

do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.



Deuteronomy 13

[1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,

and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

[2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,

saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,

and let us serve them;

[3] Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer

of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love

the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

[4] Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his

commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

[5] And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;

because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which

brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you

out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD

thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from

the midst of thee.

[6] If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter,

or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul,

entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,

which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,

nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth

even unto the other end of the earth;

[8] Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall

thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal

him:

[9] But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to

put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

[10] And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath

sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of

the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

[11] And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such

wickedness as this is among you.

[12] If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God

hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

[13] Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and

have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve

other gods, which ye have not known;

[14] Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,

behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is

wrought among you;

[15] Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of

the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle

thereof, with the edge of the sword.

[16] And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street

thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every

whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not

be built again.

[17] And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that

the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and

have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy

fathers;

[18] When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all

his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in

the eyes of the LORD thy God.



2) Our Daily Bread for 14 March 2026 titled

God's Timing by Kenneth Petersen



2 Peter 3:8-13



8 (Ps 90:4) But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that with

the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 (1Ti 2:4; Hab 2:3; Heb 10:37) The Lord is not slow concerning His promise,

as some count slowness. But He is patient with us,

because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

10 (Mt 24:35; Rev 21:1; 2Pe 3:7) But the day of the Lord will come like

a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with

a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat.

The earth also and the works that are in it will be burned up.

11 (1Pe 1:15) Seeing then that all these things are to be destroyed,

what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

12 (2Pe 3:10; Ps 50:3; Isa 34:4) while you are waiting for and desiring

the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens will be destroyed

by fire and the elements will be consumed by intense heat?

13 (Isa 65:17; 66:22; Rev 21:1) But, according to His promise, we are waiting

for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.



[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with

the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count

slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should

perish, but that all should come to repentance.

[10] But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which

the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt

with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be

burned up.

[11] Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of

persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

[12] Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the

heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with

fervent heat?

[13] Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a

new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.



Until 1967, units of time were scientifically measured by astronomical

patterns: the spin of the earth and its revolution around the sun. But over

the centuries, a problem emerged. The earth is actually slowing down in its

orbit. Scientists discovered that the unit of the second is longer than it

used to be. Gradual though this is, since the days of Christ, the world

has "lost" a full three hours of measured time.



Of course, God created the ways we measure time: the astronomy of orbits and

revolutions. Scientists' calculations may be squishier than we'd thought,

but we can stand firmly in Peter's words: "With the Lord a day is like a

thousand years" (2 Peter 3:8). He is arguing against doubters who complained

that Jesus hadn't returned yet: "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,

as some understand slowness" (v. 9). God works in His own time for His own

purposes.



There's more! God's "timing" is born out of His love: "He is patient

with you, not wanting anyone to perish" (v. 9). Jesus will return,

and God wants everyone to have the opportunity to come to Him. This is an

expression of His love. Meanwhile, we're to "make every effort to be found

spotless" (v. 14).



Time, God, and love are linked together: In these last

days God's love is never squishy. It's the one sure thing.



Reflect & Pray



How does thinking of God and time affect your own life?

How might you live differently in light of this?



Dear God, it's mind-boggling when we try to figure out the

concept of time, but please help me embrace that my times are in Your hands.

Day 73, 14 March 2026



1) Deuteronomy 11, Deuteronomy 12, Deuteronomy 13



DEUTERONOMY 11



Love and Obey



1 (Dt 6:5; 10:12) You must love the Lord your God and keep His charge,

His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments always.

2 (Dt 5:24) Know this day that I am not speaking with your children

who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord

your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,

3 (Dt 7:19) and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of

Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land,

4 (Ex 15:9-10; Ps 106:11) and what He did to the army of Egypt,

to their horses, and to their chariots, when He made the water

of the Red Sea to flow over them as they pursued after you,

and how the Lord utterly destroyed them,

5 and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place,

6 (Ps 106:17; Nu 27:3) and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of

Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed

them up, their households, their tents, and everything that was in their

possession, in the midst of all Israel.

7 But your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the Lord which He did.

8 (Jos 1:6-7; Dt 31:23) Therefore you must keep all the commandments

which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go

in and possess the land which you are going to possess;

9 (Ex 3:8; Dt 4:40) and that you may prolong your days in the land

which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them

and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 For the land which you are entering to possess

is not like the land of Egypt from where you came,

where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot

like a vegetable garden,

11 but the land, which you are entering to possess, is a land of hills

and valleys and drinks water from the rain of heaven,

12 (1Ki 9:3; Jer 24:6) a land for which the Lord your God cares.

The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning

of the year even to the end of the year.

13 (Dt 4:29; 6:17) It will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments

which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God,

and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 (Lev 26:4; Dt 28:12) then I will give you the rain of your land

in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather

in your grain and your wine and your oil.

15 (Dt 6:11; Ps 104:14) I will provide grass in your fields for your

livestock, that you may eat and be full.

16 (Job 31:27; Dt 8:19) Take heed to yourselves that your heart

be not deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

17 (Dt 4:26; 6:15) Then the Lord's wrath will be inflamed against you,

and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain

and the land will not yield its fruit, and you will quickly perish

from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

18 (Ex 13:9; 13:16) Therefore you must fix these words of mine

in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand,

so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

19 (Dt 4:9-10; 6:7) You shall teach them to your children, speaking

of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way,

when you lie down, and when you rise up.

20 (Dt 6:9) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house

and on your gates,

21 (Ps 72:5; Pr 3:2) so that your days and the days of your children

may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers

to give them, as long as the days of heaven on the earth.

22 (Dt 6:17; 10:20) For if you diligently keep all these commandments

which I am commanding you to do-to love the Lord your God, to walk in

all His ways, and to hold fast to Him-

23 (Dt 4:38; 9:1) then the Lord will drive out all these nations from

before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

24 (Ex 23:31; Jos 14:9) Every place where the soles of your feet tread

will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon,

from the river, the River Euphrates, as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

25 (Ex 23:27; Dt 7:24) No man will be able to resist you, for the Lord

your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land

where you shall tread, just as He has spoken to you.

26 (Dt 30:1) See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

27 (Dt 28:1-14) the blessing if you obey the commandments of the

Lord your God, which I am commanding you today,

28 (Dt 28:15-68) and the curse, if you will not obey the commandments

of the Lord your God, but turn from the way which I am commanding

you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land

which you are entering to possess, that you shall put the blessing

on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

30 (Ge 12:6; Jdg 7:1) Are they not on the other side of the Jordan,

west where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites,

who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

31 (Dt 9:1; Jos 1:11) For you will cross over the Jordan to go in to possess

the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it,

and dwell in it.

32 (Dt 12:32) You must be careful to do all the statutes and judgments

which I am setting before you today.



Deuteronomy 11

[1] Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his

statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

[2] And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not

known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his

greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

[3] And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto

Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

[4] And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their

chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they

pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

[5] And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this

place;

[6] And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of

Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their

households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their

possession, in the midst of all Israel:

[7] But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.

[8] Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this

day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to

possess it;

[9] And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto

your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with

milk and honey.

[10] For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land

of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and

wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

[11] But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and

valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

[12] A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God

are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the

year.

[13] And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my

commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to

serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

[14] That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first

rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine,

and thine oil.

[15] And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest

eat and be full.

[16] Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn

aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

[17] And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the

heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and

lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

[18] Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your

soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets

between your eyes.

[19] And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou

sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest

down, and when thou risest up.

[20] And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon

thy gates:

[21] That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the

land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of

heaven upon the earth.

[22] For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command

you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to

cleave unto him;

[23] Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye

shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

[24] Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:

from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even

unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

[25] There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God

shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye

shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

[26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

[27] A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I

command you this day:

[28] And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God,

but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after

other gods, which ye have not known.

[29] And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in

unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the

blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

[30] Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth

down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over

against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

[31] For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the

LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.

[32] And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set

before you this day.

6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)



Saskatchewan



Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan



Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400



est Muslim Population 17279



CNMM Networks: Saskatoon



Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past

5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have

focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts

of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres

of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a

Christian school.

Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up

in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young

women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.

Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Adding further





Pray for the Pashtuns of Pakistan



Omed is a Pashtun and, many years ago, came to Germany as a refugee.

He received a Bible in the refugee camp. Friendly Christians cared for

him. When he almost despaired from loneliness, a friendly employee

from the government office helped him move into a shared apartment

with a group of Christians.



Here, Omed received answers to his questions about faith and accepted

Jesus as Savior and Lord. The Bible became his joy and comfort in

increasingly difficult times. He enjoys sharing verses from the Bible

to encourage others and bring them joy.



Omed has been living back in his homeland of Pakistan for several

years now. There, he cannot proclaim his faith loudly. But he lives

his close relationship with Jesus and inspires friends and relatives

to reflect. In the village, they respect him as a friendly role model.



Once, he was beaten for his faith. "Wait!" he said to the person who

was beating him, "Let me explain what I believe. If you're right, hit

me. If I'm right, leave me alone." After seeing his boldness, his

attackers left him alone.



One day, a highly respected Muslim leader asked Omed, "Are you a

Christian?"



Omed didn't want to deny his faith, but he also knew how dangerous

such a confession was. So, instead of a direct confrontation, so he

replied, "Look at the Christians. Do you know any Muslim who lives

such a good life? No? I'm thinking about it, dear brother! And you

should too!"



See also Pray for the Saraiki of Pakistan



Omed was grateful that he hadn't denied his Jesus, but he went home

sad anyhow. He has almost no spiritual fellowship because it would be

too dangerous for the Christian community and for him. But he remains

joyfully faithful to Jesus and proclaims him carefully and lovingly.



How to Pray



Pray for the more than 50 million Pashtuns worldwide, among whom

there are few followers of Jesus.

Pray for wisdom, courage, and God's protection for believers like

Omed.

Ask God for many joyful communities of Jesus followers to emerge

from amongst the Pashtun.



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, ...) .



7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada



http://www.ehc.ca



13th Day of the Month



a) Pray that, with God's help, children and

young people will be able to journey with hope towards the destiny God has

for each of them



b) Pray for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador



I) Pray for the leaders of Newfoundland and Labrador, 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



Eight) Day 19 - You can't cling to the past and run toward the future.



Scripture: Philippians 3:13–14



13 (Lk 9:62; Ps 45:10) Brothers, I do not count myself to have attained,

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind

and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

14 (Heb 3:1; 1Pe 5:10) I press toward the goal to the prize of the high

calling of God in Christ Jesus.



[13] Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I

do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those

things which are before,

[14] I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in

Christ Jesus.



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A few years ago, I heard a friend tell the story of Pepito, a little parakeet.

One day, while his owner was cleaning the cage with a vacuum, she went to

answer the phone and left the machine running. As a result, Pepito was

accidentally sucked in. Although he survived, his owner unknowingly exposed

him to more stress by bathing him in cold water and then trying to "revive"

him with hot air. My friend concluded that, from that day on, Pepito never

sang the same way again.



This story reminds us that painful experiences from the past can sometimes

affect our present and future. Many of us have faced loss, illness, betrayal,

or difficult circumstances that seem to leave a permanent mark on our lives.

However, as Christians, we have a different hope: our past does not have to

define us or limit what God wants to do in us.



The Apostle Paul teaches us in Philippians 3:13-14: "forgetting those things

which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in

Christ Jesus. "



Today, God invites us to leave behind pain, to forgive, to heal, and to look

forward with faith. Even if our wounds have been deep, we can trust that He

has a purpose for each of us. Just as Paul pressed on toward the goal without

getting stuck in the past, we too can live with joy, hope, and a renewed

heart, free in Jesus Christ.



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Questions:



1. Are there experiences from your past that still keep you from forgiving,

healing, and moving forward in your spiritual life? How could you give them

to God to be healed?



2. How can you "forget what is behind" and focus your heart on the goal God

has for you today?



Prayer Point:



- Lord, help me to leave behind the hurts and mistakes of the past, to forgive

and heal, and to move forward in faith toward the life You have prepared for

me. Renew my heart and spirit so I can live with joy, hope, and freedom

in Jesus Christ.



Prayer Request:



- Join us today in prayer for our maintenance department. Give our team

willing and faithful hearts to serve with excellence and joy, understanding

that every task - no matter how small it may seem - is an act of worship to

You. Grant them unity, responsibility, and wisdom to care for Your house

with order and dedication, reflecting Your character in everything we do.

May every clean, safe, and well-cared-for space be a testimony to

the community - a place where people can encounter You in a welcoming

and dignified environment. In Jesus' name, Amen.



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Author: Cesar Blanco, Facility Manager



Ideas for the devotional were in part supported

by John Maxwell's book "The Positive Side of Failure".



Conclusion:



Pray to the Lord and pray to purify your heart.



Pray to the Lord: "Heavenly Father, thank You for sending

Jesus to save our suffering world. Please help me to see those whom You might

have me encourage amid their struggles and pain."



Pray to the Lord and pray to klnow the Salvation in Jesus Christ is

accomplished and still working in you.



Pray to the Lord and pray to know the Lord's Word will not return void.



Pray to the Lord and pray to confess and repent your Sins fior Healing.



Agree in prayer with us for:

- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart

and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing

Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.

- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the

spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into

converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.

- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more

to be raised up into effective witness.

- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon

to spread and grow to other cities.



Pray for the more than 50 million Pashtuns worldwide, among whom

there are few followers of Jesus.

Pray for wisdom, courage, and God's protection for believers like

Omed.

* Ask God for many joyful communities of Jesus followers to emerge

from amongst the Pashtun.



Pray that, with God's help, children and young people will be able to

journey with hope towards the destiny God has for each of them.



INDIA



Pray that Buddhist monks who seek to suppress Christianity

in India will discover the reality of the Living Christ.



Join us today in prayer for our maintenance department. Give our team

willing and faithful hearts to serve with excellence and joy, understanding

that every task - no matter how small it may seem - is an act of worship to

You. Grant them unity, responsibility, and wisdom to care for Your house

with order and dedication, reflecting Your character in everything we do.

May every clean, safe, and well-cared-for space be a testimony to

the community - a place where people can encounter You in a welcoming

and dignified environment. In Jesus' name, Amen.



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

DEUTERONOMY 10



The Essence of the Law



12 (Dt 6:5; Mic 6:8) Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you,

but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him,

and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

13 (Dt 6:24) to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which

I am commanding you today for your good?

14(1Ki 8:27; Ex 19:5) Indeed, heaven and the highest heavens belong

to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it.

15 (Dt 4:37) The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them;

and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all people,

as it is today.

16 (Dt 9:6; Jer 4:4) Therefore, circumcise your heart,

and do not be stubborn anymore.

17 (Jos 22:22; Da 2:47) For the Lord your God is the God of gods

and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God

who is unbiased and takes no bribe.

18 (Ps 68:5; 146:9) He executes the judgment of the orphan

and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

19 (Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33-34) Therefore, love the foreigner,

for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

20 (Dt 13:4; 6:13; 11:22) You must fear the Lord your God.

You must serve Him and cling to Him, and swear by His name.

21 (Jer 17:14; Ps 106:21-22) He is your praise, and He is your God,

who has done for you these great and fearsome things which your eyes

have seen.

22 (Ge 15:5; 46:27) Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people,

and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.



[12] And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to

fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to

serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

[13] To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command

thee this day for thy good?

[14] Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the

earth also, with all that therein is.

[15] Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose

their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

[16] Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more

stiffnecked.

[17] For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a

mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

[18] He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth

the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

[19] Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of

Egypt.

[20] Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him

shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

[21] He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these

great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

[22] Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and

now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.



2) Our Daily Bread for 13 March 2026 titled


still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die."

10 He said to her, "You talk like one of the foolish women talks. Will we

indeed accept the good from God but not accept the adversity?" In all this

Job did not sin with his lips.

11 Three friends of Job heard about all this evil that had come upon him,

and each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the

Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They had agreed together to come to

mourn with him and to comfort him. 12 They saw him from a distance and did

not recognize him, so they wept aloud. Each one tore his robe, and they

tossed dust into the air above their heads. 13 Then they sat down with him

on the ground seven days and seven nights. Meanwhile, no one was speaking

to him at all because they saw that his pain was severe. (Are these

friends who will really comfort?)



[7] So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with

sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

[8] And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down

among the ashes.

[9] Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?

curse God, and die.

[10] But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women

speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not

receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

[11] Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon

him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and

Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an

appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

[12] And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they

lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and

sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

[13] So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights,

and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.



"Daddy, my head hurts." "Daddy, I'm so cold." "Daddy, can you rub my feet?"



A high fever, chills, and body aches recently descended cruelly upon my

teenage daughter. She wanted me to make it better. But mostly she just

wanted me near. Eventually we took her to urgent care. "Virus," we were told.

Nothing to do but ride it out.



I sat with my sick girl for hours that day. Rubbing her feet. Getting her

medicine. Desperately wanting her to feel better. Occasionally, my selfish

side complained, This is hard. Indeed, it is hard to sit with people's

suffering, to witness their hurt up close.



Job's friends saw his suffering up close too. These three guys are

often - fairly! - criticised for their later poor treatment of Job. But it's

easy to forget that, initially, they simply sat with him: "They sat on the

ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him,

because they saw how great his suffering was" (Job 2:13).



Job's friends remind us that when someone we love is hurting, it's our

presence - our being there, whether we speak or not - that often matters most.

Their example reminds us that even though we may not always know what to say,

simply sitting with someone in their suffering may be the greatest gift we

can give.



Reflect & Pray



Who do you know who's struggling? How might you be present for them?



Heavenly Father, thank You for sending

Jesus to save our suffering world. Please help me to see those whom You might

have me encourage amid their struggles and pain.





Obadiah is the least-read book of the Bible. Check out this book from Reclaim

Today to help navigate the book of Obadiah

and learn to hear God's voice through it.



3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools



Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 6 - It is Finished



John 5:24



24 (Jn 3:18; 1Jn 3:14; Jn 3:36) "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever hears

My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life

and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. "



[24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth

on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into

condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.



"PLEASE BE PATIENT - GOD IS NOT FINISHED WITH ME YET,"

the sweatshirt read. In this case, the message was an ironic one,

for the occupant of the shirt was a snaggle-toothed, freckle-faced six year

old!

In one sense, God is not finished with the work he has to do in each of us.

Life in Christ is an ongoing process of change and growth as we become

more like him. Certainly, the more we see of ourselves, the more we hope

he isn't finished with us!

Yet whatever plans God has for making us into the men and women he created

us to be, certain aspects of our life in Christ are finished, finalised.

Jesus declares with absolute assurance, "whoever hears

My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life

and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. "

Because we do not have to earn or deserve God's grace, because we are not

called to prove ourselves worthy of Salvation, we can have immediate

and total assurance of the security of life in Jesus Christ. The one who

put his trust in the Lord has eternal life; he will not be condemned;

he has crossed over from death to life.

This "crossing over" into life happens in the split second when we acknowledge

our dependence upon Christ alone. And the rest of our lives is given over to

the development of his image in us.

God is not finished with us yet.

But his work of salvation is finished - complete,

fully dependable an accomplished fact.



Application



a) Have I ever doubted the "accomplished fact" of my own salvation? Why?



b) How can today's verse help me realise that, although I may have a lot of

growing yet to do, my salvation in Jesus Christ is secure?



4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Is 55:11



11 (Isa 45:23; 46:10) so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,

and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.



11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:

it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,

and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.



5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:



When you are ill or injured



James 5:13-16



13 (Ps 50:15; Eph 5:19) Is anyone among you suffering?

Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.

14 (Mk 6:13; 16:18; Ac 14:23) Is anyone sick among you?

Let him call for the elders of the church,

and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil

in the name of the Lord.

15 (Isa 33:24; Jas 1:6) And the prayer of faith will save

the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.

And if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.

16 (Ge 20:17; 18:23-32) Confess your faults to one another

and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.



13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;

and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise

him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,

that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

availeth much.



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."



9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

DEUTERONOMY 9



The Golden Calf



7 (Ex 14:11; 16:2) Remember, and do not forget how you provoked

the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that

you departed out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place,

you have been rebellious against the Lord.

8 Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord

was angry enough with you to destroy you.

9 (Ex 34:28; 24:18; 24:12) When I went up into the mountain to receive

the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made

with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

I did not eat bread or drink water.

10 (Ex 31:18; Dt 10:4) The Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone,

written with the finger of God, and on them was written all the words

which the Lord spoke to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire

on the day of the assembly.

11 (Dt 9:9) At the end of forty days and forty nights,

the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

12 (Ex 32:7-8; Jdg 2:17) Then the Lord said to me,

"Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought

out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are quickly turned aside

from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molded image

for themselves."

13 (Dt 9:6; 10:16) Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying,

"I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stubborn people.

14 (Dt 29:20; Ps 9:5) Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them

and blot out their name from under heaven,

and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

15 (Ex 19:18; Dt 4:11) So I returned and came down from the mount,

and the mount burned with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant

were in my two hands.

16 (Ex 32:19) I looked, and indeed, you had sinned against the Lord

your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly

turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

17 I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands

and broke them before your eyes.

18 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:9) I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,

forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water

because of all your sins which you committed, doing what was wicked

in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.

19 (Dt 10:10; Ex 32:14) For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure

with which the Lord was wrathful against you to destroy you.

But the Lord listened to me at that time also.

20 The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him,

so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

21 (Ex 32:20) I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it

with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small until it was as small

as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that descended down from

the mountain.

22 (Ex 17:7; Nu 11:34) Also at Taberah and at Massah

and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

23 (Ps 106:24-25) Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea,

saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,"

then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,

and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.

24 (Dt 31:27) You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day

I knew you.

25 (Dt 9:18) So I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights;

I fell down because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

26 (Ex 32:11-13) I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said,

"O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance,

which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought

out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness

or their sin.

28 (Nu 14:16) Otherwise, the land from which You brought us may say,

'Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which

He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out

to slay them in the wilderness.'

29 (Dt 4:20; Ne 1:10) Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance,

whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm."



[7] Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath

in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of

Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the

LORD.

[8] Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry

with you to have destroyed you.

[9] When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even

the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the

mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

[10] And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the

finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the

LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of

the assembly.

[11] And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the

LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

[12] And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for

thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted

themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded

them; they have made them a molten image.

[13] Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,

and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

[14] Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from

under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than

they.

[15] So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with

fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

[16] And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and

had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which

the LORD had commanded you.

[17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake

them before your eyes.

[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty

nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins

which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him

to anger.

[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD

was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that

time also.

[20] And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I

prayed for Aaron also the same time.

[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with

fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small

as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of

the mount.

[22] And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked

the LORD to wrath.

[23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and

possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the

commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to

his voice.

[24] Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

[25] Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell

down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

[26] I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy

people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy

greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

[27] Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the

stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

[28] Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was

not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he

hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

[29] Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest

out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.



DEUTERONOMY 10



The Second Pair of Tablets



1 (Ex 34:1-2) At that time the Lord said to me, "Cut out for yourself

two tablets of stone like the first and come up to Me onto the mountain

and make an ark of wood for yourself.

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets

which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark."

3 (Ex 34:4; 25:5) So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets

of stone just like the first and went up onto the mountain

with the two tablets in my hand.

4 (Dt 9:10; Ex 34:28; Dt 18:16) He wrote on the tablets

just like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord spoke

to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire

on the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me.

5 (Ex 34:29; 40:20) I turned around and came down from the mountain

and put the tablets in the ark which I had made,

and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.

6 (Nu 33:38) (The children of Israel set out from Beeroth

of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried,

and his son Eleazar ministered in the priest's office in his place.

7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah,

a land of rivers of waters.

8 (Dt 18:5; 21:5) At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi

to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord

to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, to this day.

9 (Dt 18:1-2; Eze 44:28) Therefore, Levi has no portion or inheritance

with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance,

just as the Lord your God promised him.)

10 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:18-19) As for me, I stayed on the mountain

like the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord

listened to me at that time also. The Lord was not willing to destroy you.

11 (Ex 32:34; 33:1) The Lord said to me, "Arise, take your journey before

the people, so that they may go in and possess the land which I swore

to give to their fathers."



[1] At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like

unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of

wood.

[2] And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables

which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

[3] And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like

unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine

hand.

[4] And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten

commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of

the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

[5] And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in

the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

[6] And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the

children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and

Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

[7] From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath,

a land of rivers of waters.

[8] At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of

the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and

to bless in his name, unto this day.

[9] Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD

is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

[10] And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and

forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD

would not destroy thee.

[11] And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people,

that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers

to give unto them.

Day 72, 13 March 2026



1) Deuteronmy 8,9,10



DEUTERONOMY 8



Remember the Lord Your God



1 (Dt 4:1; 5:32-6:3) You must carefully keep all the commandments

that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, and multiply,

and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers.

2 (Am 2:10; Ex 15:25) You must remember that the Lord your God led

you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you,

and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would

keep His commandments or not.

3 (Mt 4:4; Lk 4:4; Ex 16:2-3) He humbled you and let you suffer hunger,

and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know,

that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone;

but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

4 (Dt 29:5; Ne 9:21) Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did

your feet swell these forty years.

5 (2Sa 7:14; Pr 3:12) You must also consider in your heart that,

as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

6 (Dt 5:33) Therefore you must keep the commandments of the Lord your God,

to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you

into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that

flow out of valleys and hills,

8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates,

a land of olive oil and honey,

9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, in which you

will not lack anything, a land whose stones are iron, and

out of whose hills you may dig copper.

10 (Ps 103:2; Dt 6:11-12) When you have eaten and are full,

then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land

which He has given you.

11 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping

His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I am

commanding you today.

12 (Pr 30:9; Dt 28:47) Otherwise, when you have eaten

and are full and have built and occupied good houses,

13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply,

and your silver and your gold multiply,

and all that you have multiplies,

14 (Ps 106:21; Dt 8:11) then your heart will become proud and you will

forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

from the house of slavery,

15 (Nu 20:11; 21:6) who led you through that great and terrible wilderness,

where there were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought,

where there was no water, who brought forth for you water

out of the rock of flint,

16 (Ex 16:15; Dt 8:3) who fed you in the wilderness with manna,

which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you

and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.

17 (Dt 9:4) Otherwise, you may say in your heart,

"My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth."

18 (Pr 10:22; Hos 2:8) But you must remember the Lord your God,

for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth,

so that He may establish His covenant which He swore

to your fathers, as it is today.

19 (Dt 4:26) If you ever forget the Lord your God

and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,

then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

20 (Da 9:11-12) Just like the nations which the Lord will

destroy before you, so shall you perish because you would

not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.



[1] All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to

do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the

LORD sware unto your fathers.

[2] And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee

these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to

know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments,

or no.

[3] And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with

manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might

make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that

proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

[4] Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these

forty years.

[5] Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his

son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

[6] Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk

in his ways, and to fear him.

[7] For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of

water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

[8] A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;

a land of oil olive, and honey;

[9] A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not

lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills

thou mayest dig brass.

[10] When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy

God for the good land which he hath given thee.

[11] Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his

commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this

day:

[12] Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses,

and dwelt therein;

[13] And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold

is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

[14] Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which

brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

[15] Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were

fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who

brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

[16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not,

that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at

thy latter end;

[17] And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath

gotten me this wealth.

[18] But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee

power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto

thy fathers, as it is this day.

[19] And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk

after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you

this day that ye shall surely perish.

[20] As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye

perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your

God.



DEUTERONOMY 9



Not Because of Righteousness



1 (Dt 4:38; 1:28) Hear, O Israel! You are to cross over the Jordan today,

to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities

fortified up to heaven,

2 (Nu 13:22) a great and tall people, the children of the Anakites,

whom you know and of whom you have heard it said,

"Who can stand before the children of Anak?"

3 (Dt 4:24; Jos 3:11) Understand therefore today that the Lord your God

is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He shall destroy

them and shall bring them down before you, so that you drive them out

and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.

4 (Dt 8:17; 12:31) Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God

has driven them out before you,

"On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess

this land," but it is because of the wickedness of these nations

the Lord is driving them out before you.

5 (Titus 3:5; Ge 12:7) It is not because of your righteousness

or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land,

but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God

drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which

the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 (Dt 9:13; 10:16) Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God

is not giving you this good land to possess on account of your

righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.



[1] Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to

possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced

up to heaven,

[2] A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest,

and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

[3] Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth

over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall

bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy

them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

[4] Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast

them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath

brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations

the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

[5] Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost

thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the

LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform

the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

[6] Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good

land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

2) Our Daily Bread for 12 March 2026 titled The Cost

of Commitment by Xochitl Dixon



2 Timothy 1:6-14



6 (1Ti 4:14; 1Th 5:19) Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God,

which is in you by the laying on of my hands.

7 (Ro 8:15; Ac 1:8) For God has not given us the spirit of fear,

but of power, and love, and self-control.

8 (Mk 8:38; Eph 3:1) So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,

nor of me, His prisoner. But share in the sufferings of the gospel

by the power of God,

9 (Ro 16:25; Titus 1:2) who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,

not by our works, but by His own purpose and grace, which was given us

in Christ Jesus before the world began,

10 (Ro 2:7; 16:26) but is now revealed by the appearing of our Saviour,

Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has brought life

and immortality to light through the gospel,

11 (1Ti 2:7) for which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle,

and a teacher of the Gentiles.

12 (2Ti 1:8; 1Ti 6:20; 1Pe 4:19) For these things I suffer, but I am not

ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is

able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

13 (1Ti 1:14; Titus 1:9) Follow the pattern of sound teaching

which you have heard from me in the faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.

14 (Ro 8:9; 1Ti 6:20) Guard the treasure that was committed to you through

the Holy Spirit who lives in us.



[6] Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,

which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

[7] For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,

and of a sound mind.

[8] Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me

his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel

according to the power of God;

[9] Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to

our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in

Christ Jesus before the world began,

[10] But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light

through the gospel:

[11] Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of

the Gentiles.

[12] For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not

ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able

to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

[13] Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in

faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

[14] That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost

which dwelleth in us.



A group of twenty-two Christian leaders traveled half a day to secretly meet

and learn from a pastor who came from another country. If caught, the pastor

would be deported, and the others would spend three years in prison. Eighteen

of the twenty-two had already been imprisoned for their faith in Jesus.



After the pastor handed out fifteen Bibles he'd brought with him, one woman

gave hers to someone else. Like many others, she'd memorised chapters

of Scripture so she would have its wisdom secured in her heart if she were to

go to prison. She later asked the pastor to pray that their church would be

free to gather just like his. Instead, marveling at how they sacrificed,

suffered persecution, and risked imprisonment, he prayed that his church

would be just like theirs.



Believers around the world are persecuted for their faith in Christ, some more

severely than others. And all believers can be tempted to cower when the

stakes of living for Christ are raised. But the Holy Spirit enables us to use

our God-given gifts with "power, love and self-discipline" (2 Timothy 1:7).

God will help us share the gospel with boldness and compassion, wherever He

leads. Because of all He did for us (vv. 9-10), we can embrace the sacrificial

cost of commitment to Christ and preserve "sound teaching, with faith and love

in Christ Jesus" (v. 13).



Reflect & Pray



How have you sacrificed to seek and share Jesus?

Who will you share the gospel with today?



Mighty God, please deepen my commitment to

know You and boldly share You with others.



For further study, read The Power of Prayer in Sharing the Gospel.



3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools



Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 5 - Starting Over



2 Cor 5:17



17 (Jn 3:3; Ro 16:7) Therefore, if any man is in Christ,

he is a new creature. Old things have passed away.

Look, all things have become new.



17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:

old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.



"The trouble with turning over a new leaf," Gordon sighed,

"is that once you've done it twice, you're right back where

you started." Gordon, in his mid-fifties, had his job

"canceled" by a company wanting to cut back on retirement payments.

Out of work, with few prospects, he said wistfully,

"I wish I had the chance to start over again."

Many of us would echo Gordon's sentiments. Whether we have lost a job,

gone through a divorce, moved to another part of the country, or

experienced some lesser crisis, we often long for the chance to

begin again, fresh, without the shadow of past mistakes following us.

God's word offers just such an opportunity. Anyone who is in Christ,

Paul says in 2 Cor 5:17, is a "new creation". For the Christian, the past

is truly past - "all things are become new". In the forgiveness

and restoration of God's grace we can leave the past behind,

with all its mistakes, and enter into new life.

And the promise is not just for the newly saved. Those of us who

have been Christians for years need to hear the truth of 2 Cor 5:17 again,

for we accumulated some "new mistakes" since we came to Christ. Anyone who

is in Christ is a new creation; the freedom of forgiveness, of

"starting over" is available to all who call upon the name of the Lord.

We cannot every really "start over" simply by establishing New Year's

resolutions or turning over a new leaf. Only God gives us that opportunity;

his grace allows us to clear away the rubble of the past and begin again.

Everything becomes new in God's loving forgiveness.



Application



a) What "resolutions" have I made in an attempt to "start over"

in some area of struggle or failure in my life? Did my resolutions work?



b) What does 2 Cor 5:17 mean for me at this point in my Christian Life?



4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Deut 29:9



9 (Dt 4:6; Jos 1:7)Therefore, keep the words of this covenant

and do them, so that you may prosper in all you do.



9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,

that ye may prosper in all that ye do.



5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:



When you are ill or injured



Psalm 103:1-5



1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.

2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits,

3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) who forgives all your iniquities,

who heals all your diseases,

4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) who redeems your life from the pit,

who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) who satisfies your mouth with good things,

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.



1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name.

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:

3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.



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."



9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.