March 2006

21st day of Lent today. Our theme moves on to “Loving God” for the next ten days.

Matt. 22:37-39
Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.”

Let’s especially pray for Monty and his family today: Lorna’s funeral followed by cremation is at mid day.

Is. 55:8-11
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways,” declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields
seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from
my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Touching Heaven Changing Earth
Daily prayer focus

Ex. 17:10-15
So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and
Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.
As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but
whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he
sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up — one on one side, one on the
other — so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be
remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely
blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner.

Is. 40:21-25
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the
beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like
grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them
out like a tent to live in.

He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take
root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind
sweeps them away like chaff.

“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”