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Good morning! Thank you for joining me today. God bless you as we pray together for our children! Wednesday, November 15, 2017 The Way of the Cross in Submitting to Authority: The Discipline of Submission, Part 12 of 12 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Romans 13:1-7 Submission to the Authorities 13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.5 Therefo...

Monday, November 13, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 7 – Submission to Our World (the Environment, the Global Community): The Discipline of Submission, Part 11 of 12 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Numbers 35:33-34 You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Prov...

Friday, November 10, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 6 – Submission to The Broken and Despised: The Discipline of Submission, Part 10 of 11 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: James 1:27 27  Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble,  and  to keep oneself unspotted from the world. 1 John 3:17-19 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him… Matthew 25:34-40 34  “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.  35  For I was hungry, and you gave Me  something to eat; ...

Thursday, November 9, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 5 – Submission to The Believing Community: The Discipline of Submission, Part 9 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Hebrews 6:10 “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.”   Hebrews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Psalm 37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ 1 John 3:14-18 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever do...

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 4 – Submission to Our Neighbors: The Discipline of Submission, Part 8 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster)  Scripture: Mark 12:30-31 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.” Leviticus 19:9-18 Love Your Neighbor as Yourself 9  “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.  10  And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God. 11  “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.  1...

Monday, November 6, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 3 – Submission to Our Family: The Discipline of Submission, Part 7 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Ephesians 6:1-4 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Proverbs 31:15-17 15 She gets up while it is still night; she provides food for her family and portions for her female servants.  16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.  17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. Colossians 3:13 13...

Thursday, November 2, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 2 – Submission to the Scriptures: The Discipline of Submission, Part 5 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Luke 6:47-48 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. Luke 11:28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” Psalm 112:1 Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments! Psalm 119:1-6 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who a...

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 The Acts of Submission Part 1 – Submission to the Triune God: The Discipline of Submission, Part 5 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Psalm 5:1-3 1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation. 2  Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray. 3  My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct  it  to You, And I will look up. Psalm 25:4-5 Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your ow...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 When Submission Isn’t Right: The Discipline of Submission, Part 4 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Acts 5: 29 We must obey God rather than men… Devotional: There is no doubt that we are called by the Lord to live a life of mutual submission one to another. However, as many wise men and women of God have reminded me over the years, we are at times expected to stand firm. We have the Bible to show us when submission is not right. When another God-created human is expecting us to walk against God’s plans, His Word, and His character, we are expected and called just like the believers in the early church to choose to lovingly resist. There is no witness in capitulating to the works of the flesh of others; there is no profit to the Kingdom in being a party to sin or willful disobedience to the Lord. There are going to be times when we need to resist even those closest to us—perhaps a spouse who is off base or...

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 The Wholeness in Submission: The Discipline of Submission, Part 1 (Inspired by Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster) Scripture: Mark 8: 34 “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” Matt. 10: 39 “He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it” From Celebration of Discipline: Self-denial does not mean the loss of our identity as some suppose. Without our identity we could not even be subject to each other. Did Jesus lose his identity when he set his face toward Golgotha? Did Peter lose his identity when he responded to Jesus’ cross-bearing command, “Follow me” (John 21: 19)? Did Paul lose his identity when he committed himself to the One who had said, “I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name” (Acts 9: 16)? Of course not. We know that the opposite was true. They found their identity in the act of self-denial. (Foster, Richard J.. ...