Good morning (or whenever), ladies.
I've looked around at some other Beth Moore books. Amazon has quite a few with reviews that you can check out. Here is a partial list:
Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender
Stepping Up: A Journey through the Psalms of Ascent
David: 90 Days with a Heart Like His
Jesus: 90 Days with the One and Only
John: 90 Days with the Beloved Disciple
To Live Is Christ
Believing God
Things Pondered from the Heart of a Lesser Woman
Take a look to see if any appeal to you. Let me know what you think. We can always go a different direction if you would prefer, but we need to decide soon!
Week Nine, Day Two
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Good Morning! Done for today.
Okay, I went to Amazon to check out some of these books, and it was a little confusing and frustrating for me. The ones that it would let you see inside for a sample were all just books, not workbooks (at least that's the way it seemed), and several of them you couldn't see inside, so who knows? The Psalms one seems like it might be good...got several good reviews. A few of the others were "daily devotional" formats...is that what we've been doing"? they seemed more like personal journals or something... the "90 days with" ones. Anyway...
1. God would hear their repentance from Heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.
2. God heard them.
3. God listened to them and provided a safe journey for them.
4. God tells a man in debt to humble himself before his debtor.
5. God will exalt you when you humble yourself.
6. God will exalt you when you humble yourself! :)
7. John confessed: “I am NOT the Christ.”
8. John said: “I am not worthy to untie his sandals.”
9. John called Christ the Lamb of God.
10. All of John’s language shows his humility. In Matthew 3 John indicated he was not worthy to baptize Jesus, but that he had need of being baptized BY Jesus.
11. Christ said that John was the greatest among those born of women (a statement that also says something incredibly amazing about Jesus’ humility.)
12. Gabriel said that John would be great in the sight of the Lord and that he was filled with the Holy Spirit.
13. John said: “He must increase and I must decrease.”
14. Elizabeth called him “blessed” and “my LORD.”
15. No, Elizabeth did not view their experiences as “equal,” I don’t think. She somehow recognized that her baby was in awe of Mary’s baby.
16. The magi fell down and worshipped Jesus.
17. We are commanded to consider others better than ourselves.
18. Our society really teaches us to focus on ourselves. One way we exacerbate this problem (with Satan’s approval, I’m sure) is to fill up our lives with busy activity and “stuff.” This often gives us “no time” for others – whether that means providing for others needs, spending time together or just being able to sit and really listen to each other to hear and see and be in tune with each other’s needs. If we don’t pause and take the time to put ourselves in each other’s shoes, our issues and struggles will ALWAYS seem more critical, bigger, more important. And if we feel that way, how can we really be humble toward each other?
Michael Jackson’s death made me think of this the other day. I was a big fan of his back in the mid 80’s when I was about 13 years old. (His posters covered my bedroom walls!) I was certainly never the “biggest fan” type of person, but it was still actually painful for me to watch the transformation of just his physical image over the years, never mind all the other strangeness, allegations, etc. that have been attached to him. Fame is such a horrible thing. It feeds into pride and sets a person up to become self-important and super-important to every other person he comes into contact with. It makes an idol of a man. We see that it will change a sweet-faced young performer to someone who is difficult to even look at. It happens all the time, but he’s a rather dramatic example of the truth that pride is ugly. Only true humility could have saved him from that sad descent.
I appreciated your comments, Jennifer. Pride is such a subtle beast. I came up with three things to help me esteem others better than myself:
1. realize how much God loves that person
2. remember I am here to be Jesus in my place - I am here to serve
3. remember it's not about me, but Him By that I mean that whatever I do should not be done to bring myself glory, but to bring Him glory.
I think of Moses as an example of this concept - the meekest man on earth. He started out so confident and knew his destiny, but until he learned humility in the desert tending sheep he was not ready to fulfill that destiny.
Done for today. Will try to check out her other books.
Done for today. A day late.
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