Monday, April 1 : Acts 10-12(Click on the verse to read it)

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Peter traveled from Joppa (South Tel A Viv) to Caesarea, one of my favorite places
nothing that God makes and cleanses is unclean

As Christians, we should help provide in times of need to our Christian family
a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.) 29 The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea.30 This they did, sending their gift to the elders 

How ridiculous we are to think that our situation is too dire and that God couldn't work us out of it, even in ways that go against all reason.  He literally let Peter walk out of his prison, he can do so much with us if we ask and trust.

Reminder to self, ALWAYS give glory and credit to God.
(in reference to Herod )22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

24 But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

Wednesday and Thursday, March 19-20: Acts 4-9

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Our suffering often brings glory to God

3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.

We should, in the workforce, fear God more than the retrebution we will face 

Acts 4:19-20

What are we supposed to do with the community who shared everything in Acts 4?

Tuesday, March 19: Acts 1-3
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Monday, March 17: John 19-21
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Sunday, March 16: John 16-18
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Jesus' prayer specifically for all of us:

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[n] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.

It is interesting that Caiaphas was right even though it wasn't in the way that he thought.  

Saturday, March 15: John 13-15
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What does Jesus mean in John 13:14 that we should wash each other's feet? Does that mean that we should forgive each other?

26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
- This verse is a struggle.  Why would Judas take the bread?

I love the call to love each other and by that everyone will know that we are Jesus' disciples.

13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
This is a comforting verse, Jesus wants to answer our prayers so that they will glorify the Father

Friday, March 14: John 10-12
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It says that sheep will always know their Shepard and won't follow any other voice because they do not recognize it. 
Jesus' reply to the Pharisees was that they should not believe that he was God if he did not do the works of God, but if he did the works then they should believe based upon that, if not their blind faith in him.  How much do our works say that we are God's children? 

What does Jesus mean by 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

I honestly don't know if I would have believed that it was the work of God to raise a dead man.  

We should be able to recognize and submit to the suffering that God put us on this earth to endure in order to glorify him and pointless suffering.  
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!”

This is one of the things that I think we are most susceptible to.  Not that we don't understand what God wants but that we love human praise more than God's praise.  even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God.

47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn themat the last day.