HOW TO GROW IN THE LORD DAY AFTER DAY

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Many make resolutions to do this or that, as another new year rolls around when the answers are provided for us, way in advance. It is actually very simple - the Lord wants us to come closer to Him and to fellowship with, talk to and meet with Him daily.

To being this and any new year, we have decided to do something which will be easy to do, require no more than 5 - 10 minutes per day and can inspire our souls. It can also light a huge burning fire in our hearts to become will with a passion for the Lord in a new way, which may have not seemed possible before.

We start each day in this 31 Days of (short) Prayer for the month of January, by focusing on a different word daily. Then we look at the Bible verse associated with it and the explanation with it. This is followed by a simple thing or things to do that day or week, to get the most of this devotion, to pray and then to maximize its impact.

Some may do so by writing in the Bible margin or notes and some more are already using a prayer journal to record and track with the 31 Days of Prayer by monitoring their daily progress in the Word and Prayer.  

So click the LINK below and catch up with all which you have missed and then let this take you through the year, as you and I do the exercises associated with it:

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 A FRESH DAILY WORD/THOUGHT.ACTION AND PRAYER 
 DAY AFTER DAY

THIRTY ONE DAYS OF PRAYER AND THE WORD:JANUARY 1-31, 2015 THEME: "ABIDE"

DAY SIX:
VERSE:

But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked....(1 John 2:5-6)
PRAYER:
Oh Most Holy and Heavenly Father, I think You that Your Word, Oh God, is written in the Heavens. I thank You that Your Word is Truth. I thank You that Your Words will never fade or pass away and therefore, because You keep Your Word, I pledge to do my part and keep Your Word hidden in my heart and shown through my actions and deeds, that Christ lives within me. 

Lord, may Your Holy Spirit, the Spirit of all Truth, Wisdom and Understand Who keeps me permanently connected to the Eternal, fortify my will to keep Your Word of Truth firmly embedded, to keep it from shame and slander, to keep it from dishonor and degradation and to keep and guard it as jealously as You guard Your Holy Name. Your Love commands, compels and gives me confidence in Your Word to remain faithful to it, to obey it and dwell on it as our Savior did. Your Word says in Hebrews 5:7 that our Savior's prayers, cries and petitions were heard because of His piety, obedience and submission to Your Will and Yours alone.

Let us now walk in that Truth, in the Path of Persistent Obedience where He, the Lord Jesus, walked that we may too be found in Him, to the praise and glory of His Name. By this Truth we know we are His, in Him, in His Will and walking in His Ways. Lord we long to be like Jesus, and to live, walk, talk and rest in You as He did and may ALL our worship be Yours and His, throughout our lives, in the Strong and Mighty Name of King Jesus I pray, amen.

THIRTY ONE DAYS OF PRAYER AND THE WORD:JANUARY 1-31, 2015 THEME: "ABIDE"

DAY THREE:

VERSE: 

Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son....(2 John 1:9)

PRAYER:
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for all Thy mercies and Thy compassions which never fail, so great is Thy Faithfulness to Thy promises and Thy Word....and forever it shall thus be. Lord God Almighty, King of the Universe Who giveth life and liberty to all the captives who lay themselves before Thee and Thy Throne in Heaven, we confess to falling short and transgressing against ALL Thy statutes and commands even after Thy hast redeemed us from the pit.

We are a fallen people, with fallen nature who are embedded with the Nature of Christ which replaced the dying Adamic Nature, yet sometimes some of us sometimes sin and fall short of the Glory of God. We repent and ask forgiveness to Thee, in the wee morning hour when our minds and bodies are refreshed by Your Creation and Your Creator as we rest and abide under the shadow of Your Wings.  

But Lord, many of those who call themselves by YOUR Name and all of the dying world with its systems and religions have already gone too far and stepped outside of the Tabernacle which contains the True Teachings of Christ.

They have denied the Creator and called it the big bang where they have insulted You to their loss, by calling the Work of Your Hands "something coming out of nothing". Even some in Your church say they can believe in that lie and be called by the Name of Christ, they have blasphemed the Savior.
They have diluted Your teachings, as found in the Full Counsel of 66 Books written by the 40 authors You chose to transmit Your Scriptures, via the Holy Spirit and they have adapted it to the perversion and evil of the times, Even those who hate you are more familiar with Your Word and how to twist it to oppress others.
They have destroyed families and morals and corrupted generation after generation by taking Christ's Teachings on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7) and either completely ignored them, or rewritten them or manipulated them into man's evil philosophies of government and social policy.

They gone too far, Oh Lord, because the Word of Christ and the Spirit of Christ never rejuvenated them or brought about the New Man, through conversion from the dominion of darkness into the Kingdom of His Marvelous Light. They await the punishment of Matthew 7:21-23 where the Christ, in Whom they never abide will declare to them "depart from Me, I never knew you". But we, oh Lord, to whom Judgment will commence in the House of the Lord, first, may we be found faithful and true to the Master's Teachings. Thy Word, oh Lord, is written forever in the Heavens, and because of the Saving Power of Jesus Christ, His Work on the Cross and His offer to us, we are able to read the stitches on the fastball and read the pure Word of God now written and sealed on and in our hearts. We abide in that Truth,  We rest in that assurance of the Promise that by accepting EVERY WORD OF EVERY PHRASE OF EVERY VERSE OF EVERY CHAPTER of Scripture, that we can abide and dwell in Your Holy and Wonderful Presence, even while here on earth, as we prepare for that day when we see You Face to face and live there forever more, through Christ our Soon Coming King. Amen.