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In John 15 Jesus says...
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Today's communion is a time of...
Today we are taking communion over our families. If you have been praying and believing for members of your family(spouse, kids, parents, grandparents, grandkids, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, or anyone else) to be saved, know God, and walk with him then today will be a special communion to turn this over to God and activate him going to work.
Here are some scriptures to meditate on for this...
Acts 2:39 - For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Acts 11:14 - He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.'
Acts 16:3 - They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God is not just interested in us but also our whole family, because families are the building blocks of communities. And we are...
In today's communion we are receiving promises from God to help us have sweet peaceful sleep. Here are some scriptures on God giving us sleep.
Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.
Psalm 4:8 In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Matthew 8:24 Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.
Jeremiah 31:23-26 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity, the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’ 24 People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move...
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.
We are getting close to the feast of Pentecost, which was a time when all of the believers were gathered together in one accord. This is a time of year to remember to work in unity together. In the story of the Tower of Babel God said that nothing would be impossible for the people if they worked together, and that was without him. How much more can be accomplished by people working together in unity with God.
We have talked about installing a weekly filter at the top of our journal every night. The filter is just a short phrase that we write that serves as a reminder to keep things top of mind.
Here is this week's filter... People Working in Unity
I am praying for you.
Daniel
P.S. The Yearly Cycle Calendar for 2022 is down below.
James 1:16-18 says, "Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.."
Every good and perfect gift comes from above. Lately we have talked about how God supplies and how heaven is the storehouse of God's bounty. His good and perfect gifts for our lives come from above. The don't come from us toiling away trying to figure things out or forcing things to happen, they come as a gift from above.
How do we receive these good and perfect gifts? I think we ask, seek, and knock for them, but we must do this in single minded faith that doesn't waver.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude for the good and perfect gifts that God sends from above. And we are asking God for the good and perfect gifts he...
Something I feel God has been teaching me about lately is the importance of our tendons and ligaments. If you study scriptures about the tendons and ligaments it consistently says that they supply or nourish our bodies and knit or weave them together. They are the connection with the head and one of the biggest keys to growth and increase.
Here are some scriptures on this to meditate on today...
Ephesians 4:15-16
NKJ - but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
NIV - Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament,...
One year ago today I recorded the first Daily Communion Meditation. Here are some of the main lessons I learned from 1 year of daily communion meditations...
God Will Supply - When I first started recording daily videos my biggest hesitation was what I was going to talk about every day. How was I going to come up with a new message every single day? But I learned that whatever God asks us to do he sustains. I learned that God supplies. He always had a new message ready for every day. During the last year I learned how to trust and rely on him at a greater level. Over the course of 365 messages probably 30% of the time I had no clue what I was going to talk about within 10 minutes of hitting record on my computer. But, every time God would show up. During this time I also learned how to better follow those little nudges he gives. Sometimes I would just have one word or sentence to talk about but then he would take over from there. Through this process of...
Today we are going to be taking communion over a passage from 2 Corinthians 1 where the apostle Paul was under so much pressure that he despaired of life itself. Despair means having no hope of a way out. But Paul said this happened so that they would learn to rely on God rather than themselves. In life we are going to have troubles and pressure. Sometimes we will get put in positions that seem impossible and like there is no way out. But these times are meant to teach us to trust and rely on God.
Here is the passage from 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are...
In Matthew 7:7-12 Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Lately we have been talking about how Heaven is the storehouse of God's supply and he has some good gifts waiting for us. Every good and perfect is from above. But he does tell us to ask, seek, and knock for what he has for us.
Today's communion meditation is a time of gratitude for all God has prepared for us. And we are...
Lately we have been talking about supply and demand. In the New Covenant the tables have been turned and God is now the source of our supply for the demands that are coming at us in life. He has an unlimited inexhaustible supply of everything we need, but we must learn to receive his supply and see it flowing through us in our life. It is good for supply and demand to be balanced, because if he supplied too much it would be wasted and could expire.
In Deuteronomy 28 it says that Heaven is the storehouse of God's bounty. I believe something God is showing me lately is that his supply for our lives is kept in Heaven until the demand is there and there is a perfect timing for it to be released. It is kept in Heaven because no thief can break in and steal or destroy and it won't rust or expire.
Here are some verses to meditate on today...
1 Peter 1:3-5 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us...
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