{"id":11263,"date":"2020-09-01T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_6_1-11-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:26:38","slug":"luke_6_12-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/luke_6_12-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray Through Your People Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke 6:12-26 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 6:12-26.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 6:12-16 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
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\nOn verses 12-16:\u00a0 Notice that Jesus spent quality time in prayer before he chose his disciples and called them his authorized representatives (\u201capostles\u201d).\u00a0 What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Before you ask someone to be in a significant relationship with you (whether it\u2019s business-wise, romantically or otherwise), make sure you pray about it and seek God\u2019s guidance.\u00a0\u00a0Like Jesus, pray through your most important people decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 6:17-19 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon,
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured,
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
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\nOn verses 17-19:\u00a0 Notice here that Jesus didn\u2019t ask the people to come up to him.\u00a0 Jesus went down and met them where they were – both Jews and Gentiles alike.<\/p>\n

Whereas religion would tell us, \u201cWork hard and climb up and maybe you\u2019ll reach God\u201d, Jesus says, \u201cI know you\u2019ll never reach me no matter how hard you climb up, so I\u2019ll come down to where you are.\u201d\u00a0Christianity is not about our pride-fueled effort to reach up for God, but about God\u2019s powerful yet humble love reaching down for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 6:20-26 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 20-26:\u00a0 To paraphrase Jesus here, when life is going well for you — whether financially (\u201cyou who are rich\u201d), materially (\u201cyou who are well fed\u201d), emotionally (\u201cyou who laugh now\u201d), or how you look in people’s eyes (\u201cwhen all men speak well of you\u201d) — watch out that you don\u2019t get self-satisfied and prideful, lest you steer off course like a false prophet (v24-26).\u00a0 When life is hard — whether financially (\u201cyou who are poor\u201d), materially (\u201cyou who hunger\u201d), emotionally (\u201cyou who weep\u201d), or how you look in people’s eyes \u2013 consider yourself blessed (\u201crejoice in that day and leap for joy\u201d), because God will use that time to strengthen you and there are riches waiting for you in heaven if you respond to that situation in a God-glorifying way.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, like Your Son Jesus, may I be a person who prays through my decisions, who values Your humble servant\u2019s heart, and who responds in a God-glorifying way to whatever circumstance I\u2019m facing, whether it\u2019s a pleasant circumstance or a tough circumstance.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Luke 6:12-26.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Luke 6:12-16 (NIV)\u00a0
\n12\u00a0\u00a0One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
\n13\u00a0\u00a0When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
\n14\u00a0\u00a0Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
\n15\u00a0\u00a0Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,
\n16\u00a0\u00a0Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.<\/p>\n

On verses 12-16:\u00a0 Notice that Jesus spent quality time in prayer before he chose his disciples and called them his authorized representatives (\u201capostles\u201d).\u00a0 What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Before you ask someone to be in a significant relationship with you (whether it\u2019s business-wise, romantically or otherwise), make sure you pray about it and seek God\u2019s guidance.\u00a0\u00a0Like Jesus, pray through your most important people decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11264,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions\/11264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}