Taking a break

The duties of work and family, and the survival mode because of these, make me take a break in this blogging activity. I simply cannot find time to think, write, edit, and evaluate.

I will come back, as soon as I find my rythm and put my life in order.

God Bless...

Interesting

NAMPA, ID - A Christian missionary support agency says a piece of mission history is part of this week's space shuttle mission.

Mission Aviation Fellowship says Discovery astronaut Patrick Forrester received NASA permission to take part of the battery box from martyred missionary Nate Saint's plane into space with him. Saint and four other missionaries were slain by an isolated tribe in the jungles of Ecuador in 1956.

If only I could...

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Tears of the Saints

Today's Devotionals

Morning:

Thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it,
[like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.--God [is]
a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit
and in truth.--But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our
righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags.--I will be sanctified in
them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be
glorified.

This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain
the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most holy.--
Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.--Seeing . . . that we have a great
high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God, let us . . . come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Ex 28:36 Heb 12:14 Joh 4:24 Isa 64:6 Le 10:3 Eze 43:12
Ps 93:5 Joh 17:19 Heb 4:14,16


Evening:

My cup runneth over.

O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
[that] trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for
[there is] no want to them that fear him. The young lions do
lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not
want any good [thing].--His compassions fail not. [They are] new
every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.

The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.--Whether . . .
the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come; all are yours.--Blessed [be] the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be
content.--Godliness with contentment is great gain.--My God
shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.

Ps 23:5 34:8-10 La 3:22,23 Ps 16:5,6 1Co 3:22 Eph 1:3 Php 4:11
1Ti 6:6 Php 4:19

Today's Devotionals

Morning:

I know their sorrows.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--Touched with
the feeling of our infirmities.

Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.--
Jesus, . . . being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the
well.

When Jesus . . . saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
. . . Jesus wept.--For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of
the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death.--He
knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold.--When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
then thou knewest my path.

He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.--In all
their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he
bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Ex 3:7 Isa 53:3 Heb 4:15 Mt 8:17 Joh 4:6 11:33,35 Heb 2:18
Ps 102:19,20 Job 23:10 Ps 142.3 Zec 2:8 Isa 63:9


Evening:

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but
the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.--He that watereth
shall be watered also himself.

My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish
his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then]
cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And
he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together.--The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
[that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to
hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with
the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.--Occupy
till I come.

I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the
grace of God which was with me.

Joh 9:4 Pr 13:4 Pr 11:25 Joh 4:34-36 Mt 20:1,2 2Ti 4:2
Lu 19:13 1Co 15:10

Today's Devotionals

Morning:

I know their sorrows.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--Touched with
the feeling of our infirmities.

Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.--
Jesus, . . . being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the
well.

When Jesus . . . saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
. . . Jesus wept.--For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of
the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death.--He
knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold.--When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
then thou knewest my path.

He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.--In all
their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he
bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Ex 3:7 Isa 53:3 Heb 4:15 Mt 8:17 Joh 4:6 11:33,35 Heb 2:18
Ps 102:19,20 Job 23:10 Ps 142.3 Zec 2:8 Isa 63:9


Evening:

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but
the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.--He that watereth
shall be watered also himself.

My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish
his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then]
cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And
he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together.--The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
[that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to
hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with
the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.--Occupy
till I come.

I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the
grace of God which was with me.

Joh 9:4 Pr 13:4 Pr 11:25 Joh 4:34-36 Mt 20:1,2 2Ti 4:2
Lu 19:13 1Co 15:10

Heb 10:19-25

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

(Heb 10:19-25)

Today's Devotionals

Morning:

None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die,
we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are
the Lord's.--Let no man seek his own, but every man another's
[wealth].--Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by
life, or by death. For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die
[is] gain. But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my
labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait
betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
which is far better.

I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.

Ro 14:7,8 1Co 10:24 6:20 Php 1:20-23 Ga 2:19,20


Evening:

God gave Solomon . . . largeness of heart,
even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

Behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.--The Prince of
Peace.

Scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth
his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.--Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.--The love of Christ . . . passeth knowledge.

Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.--In whom are
hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.--The unsearchable
riches of Christ.--Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is
made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption.

1Ki 4:29 Mt 12:42 Isa 9:6 Ro 5:7,8 Php 2:6-8 Eph 3:19
1Co 1:24 Col 2:3 Eph 3:8 1Co 1:30