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Here is today's communion meditation.
Every year during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day I like to take a little time to reflect on the year and create my Miracle Year Plan for the next year. For the upcoming year in 2023 I am excited because we have a new workbook/journal planner to put our plans in. For about a decade I have been seeking God for what I call a "Success Indicator," which is a tool we can use to track our progress and make adjustments as needed.
The new "Recording Your Journey," workbook/journal is what has emerged as our "Success Indicator," for the Abundant Life Blueprint, and the subtitle of the workbook is "Making Your Next Chapter Your Best Chapter."
In today's communion we are asking God to help us make our Miracle Year Plans for 2023 and for him to help us make our next chapter our best chapter.
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Merry Christmas!
Here is today's communion meditation.
As we celebrate Christmas today let's remember Acts 20:32-35, “Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. 35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Today's communion is a time of gratitude for the Christmas season, and we are asking God to help us understand how it is more blessed to give than to receive and to walk in this consistently
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Here is today's communion meditation.
This is a season for gifts, and it's a reminder of God's good gifts he has for us. He has looked ahead into our lives and made provision for the things we need and desire. Once we had a friend who stayed with us for period of time, and we didn't want this friend to leave. This person would help us take care of our kids, help us pick up the groceries, and do all kinds of thoughtful things.
For example, one day we came home and there was a new tea kettle on the stove. Our friend had seen my wife drinking tea and noticed we didn't have a tea kettle, so she bought one without saying anything. I think it's the ability to be present and pay attention that leads to becoming great at giving gifts.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude for all of God's gifts and we are asking him to help us become great gift givers ourselves.
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Merry Christmas!
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.
As Christmas approaches this time of year is a reminder to celebrate the light that came into the world. This is a time of the year when we can celebrate that we get to walk in the light with God every day as he is in the light.
Don't be surprised if God brings light to your situation and begins to illuminate your path to a new level over the next week.
Here is this week's filter(reminder) to write at the top of our journals each day... Celebrate Light
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
We are in the middle of Hanukkah and it's almost Christmas, which are both reminders of light shining in the darkness. God's light is in us, and light is energy. His energy is available to work within us.
The apostle Paul said in Colossians 1:28-29, We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29 To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand how to rely on His energy within us, rather than our own, and to get it powerfully working within us.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Our workouts are a great time to practice relying on God's energy working within us. We do this by resting in our soul, taking the pressure off of ourselves, and becoming more present.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
The other day we did the communion meditation on how Mary Magdalene did a beautiful thing for Jesus when she broke the expensive jar of perfume for Jesus. We also talked about how Mary Magdalene was the first-person Jesus appeared to when he rose from the dead and how she loved much because she was forgiven much.
While thinking about this I was reminded of how important it is to forgive ourselves, because we often forget to. We tend to beat ourselves up and not give ourselves grace. Forgiving ourselves can be the missing link that allows God's love and grace to flow through us to others and it takes so much pressure off of us.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the importance of forgiving ourselves and to walk in this consistently
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Here is today's communion meditation.
The other day we did the communion meditation on how Mary Magdalene did a beautiful thing for Jesus when she broke the expensive jar of perfume for Jesus. We also talked about how Mary Magdalene was the first-person Jesus appeared to when he rose from the dead. Today we are looking at how she loved much because she was forgiven much.
In Luke 7:37-47 it says...
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
“T...
Here is today's communion meditation.
The other day we did the communion meditation on how Mary Magdalene did a beautiful thing for Jesus when she broke the expensive jar of perfume for Jesus. And Jesus said that the memory of this would live on.
After we did the communion meditation on the Beautiful Thing, I read in Mark 16 where Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene, and I believe she may have been the only one (or maybe one of the few) who saw Jesus before he ascended to His Father. Later in Mark 16 it says Jesus appeared in another form to the disciples.
I think there was a connection between the beautiful thing she did for Jesus and that He appeared to her first.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the significance of the beautiful thing Mary did and why He appeared to her first.
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Here is today's communion meditation.
Last night was the first night of Hanukkah. During Hanukkah, one candle is lit on the first night and then an additional candle is lit each night after that, to remind us that our light is to be growing brighter.
As we walk in the light at greater levels, it helps us better know what to do, and take our relationship with God to new levels.
In today's communion we are thanking God for the opportunity to walk in the light with him each day, and we are asking him to help our light grow brighter.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Light is energy, and as our light grows brighter, we will experience a greater level of energy.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
In Mark 14 the woman pours the very expensive jar of perfume onto the body of Jesus and the disciples start giving her a hard time because they thinking she is wasting the valuable perfume.
But Jesus tells them in Mark 14:6-9...
“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
Notice in this verse that a beautiful thing is linked to a lasting memory. This year we have been talking about the Beautiful Land and beauty is memorable.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand this verse and to discern what is beautiful to him...
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