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Family Devotional-02/22/2014 

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Exodus 20:12- http://bit.ly/1fjpvGg


 How can you say you honor God when you don't honor your parents? God says to honor your mother and father and it doesn't stop when you are grown. Listen now about how God spoke to a man, literally and told him to write these things down. Listen to how specific things are instructed by God. Do you hear from God like that? Most of us can't understand or choose not to understand and obey simple directives, such as honor your mother and father that your days be long upon the earth...Imagine if we listened and obeyed as this man did as you read along or listen.

The man's name is Moses and he wrote the first 5 books of the Bible through the verbal stories told and from dictation from God (especially the law, since it did not exist prior to Moses). I would like to be as good a note taker...It shows how God can enable us if we listen and obey.

Leviticus 13:1-59

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Noah- Stress Col. 3:15  Also, let Christ’s peace control you. God has called you into this peace by bringing you into one body. Be thankful.

Matthew- Season of rededication- Deut. 30:19
Fighting against the flesh-Gal 5:17- What your corrupt nature wants is contrary to what your spiritual nature wants, and what your spiritual nature wants is contrary to what your corrupt nature wants. They are opposed to each other. As a result, you don’t always do what you intend to do.

Romans 12:2  Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.



Forgive us of our sins and for sinning, and please put it in the hearts of those we have offended both real and imagined offenses, to forgive us for their own sakes. Please continually drive out unforgiveness in us. We don't want to live life that way.
Thank you God for all that you are doing in our lives because we know it is for our good.
Please guide our steps when we are confident and when we have no idea what to do. Today and everyday in all things.
Please drive the demonic presence trying to destroy my son, Dylan, away from him forever.
I bind the powers of darkness trying to destroy him, and I rebuke them and cast them out.
I also call on ministering spirits to lead him away from anything to bring him down and I ask you to fill him with your joy and your peace, and the knowledge and feelings of love that so many are trying to express to him. Convict his heart to draw him closer to you. Please forgive him of any unconfessed sin and take advantage of the conviction when it comes. Thanks you Father for loving him even more than we do.

We stand together in agreement on this.
In name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

In His name and on the sign of the rebel, Jesus!
-Just L.

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Christmas (P) resents

Christmas (p)resents-

Proverbs 19+

4 Wealth attracts many friends,

but a poor man is separated from his friend.

6 Many seek a ruler’s favor,

and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.

7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him;

how much more do his friends

keep their distance from him!

He may pursue them with words,

but they are not there.

17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord,

and He will give a reward to the lender.

                                                       

Please Listen to This As You Finish Reading 

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My friends from childhood were talking about hating or not hating Christmas music.
Some of the family did and some didn't. (They happen to Jewish) and I made a joke or two with them, But it got me thinking about the Christmas season in general. 

Dr. David Jeremiah (http://www.davidjeremiah.org) has had some radio shows and devotionals about some of the things I was thinking about including Christmas music and missing Christmas emotionally and spiritually if not physically. The devotionals are very  succinct so I recommend going through them for this week. 
Read the story of the banker who locked himself in the bank vault!

I want to focus on missing Christmas and some of the many things that can get lost at this time of year.
Mainly, I want to give you something to think about as we go through this season.

Everyone loves to give gifts away...Well, almost everyone.
Everyone loves to receive gifts.
How much do these gifts usually mean 6 months out?
Not as much as they seemed to on Christmas day for most people.

What would mean something to last until next Christmas?

Who smiles on the outside but dies on the inside?

Who is lonely even in a crowded room?

Who feels generosity throughout the year in both financial and emotional areas?

Who feels rejected and suffers in silence because no one really cares?

Who goes for a day or longer without even hearing something kind from another human being?

Who spends so much time worried, anxious, etc about buying gifts, being at a gathering, giving an expensive enough gift, buying enough for their kids?

Who gives to the needy as generously the rest of the year as they do at Christmas time?

Who visits the incarcerated? Checks on the sick? Calls someone to see how they are *really* doing? (Birthdays and holiday DO NOT COUNT!)

Who has been resentful or ungrateful about gifts received OR *not* received?

Who has been resentful or angry about giving a gift and the recipient was ungrateful?

What else can you think of that takes away from how we *should* experience Christmas?

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These are all ways we resent Christmas.

How should we *present* Christmas?


Last questions:
Are you on one side or the other of any of those questions?

What are you willing to change this year and how committed are you?

Think about it...


Epilogue: 
BTW, I hate Christmas music too! 
In His name, and on the sign of the rebel, Jesus!

-Just L.

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