DAY 17- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (THOSE IN AUTHORITY) - JUNE 10, 2012

June 10



1 Timothy 2:1-4
New International Version (NIV)


2 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

DAY 17 - DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 10, 2012

June 10



Standing on the Promises


“…He who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23b)


Don’t you hate when people break their promises? I am so glad to know that God never breaks His promises.


Has God given you a specific promise that hasn’t come to pass yet?  Is someone or something trying to deter you from continuing to believe in the promise God gave you?  I want to encourage you to stand on His promise!  He will fulfill His Word. He is forever faithful!


As I was preparing for this devotion, I was reading about Russell Kelso Carter (1849-1928). Carter seemed to have a great life from being a great athlete, a successful teacher, and coach.  Then, he went on to become a Methodist preacher and a medical doctor.  Believe it or not, Carter was also a musician & songwriter. Around the age of 30, Carter began to have heart problems to where it was very serious, and the doctors did all they could to help him, to no avail. That is when he determined healing or no healing He took God at His Word.  Carter turned to God for his healing and began standing on His Promises for his healing.


Over the next months, Carter began to feel better and he was healed.  He lived another 49 years.  During the course of the months when he was still standing on the promises of God for his healing, he wrote the beautiful song, Standing on the Promises:


Standing on the promises of Christ my King, Through eternal ages let His praises ring, Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing, Standing on the promises of God.


 Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior; Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises that cannot fail,


When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail, By the living Word of God I shall prevail, Standing on the promises of God.


Standing on the promises, I now can see, Perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me; Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free, Standing on the promises of God.


Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord, Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord, Overcoming daily with the Spirit sword, Standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises I cannot fall, Listening every moment to the Spirit’s call Resting in my Savior as my all in all, Standing on the promises of God.


Carter stood strong on God’s Word & Promise.  Let’s stand strong on all of God’s promises! He is faithful.


I believe God is anxiously waiting to fulfill all of His promises in and through you? Don’t let anyone or anything cause doubt or fear.


Let’s believe God for what He’s promised, and believe Him for even greater things!


“…He who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23b)

In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship

http://dailyliveworship.com/blog/standing-on-the-promises/

DAY 17 - DAILY PRAYER (GOVERNMENT) - JUNE 10, 2012

June 10



Praying For The Government


1Tim 2:1............Heavenly Father, I give thanks for our government.
1 Tim 2:2...........I pray for all men and women having authority over us in any way. 
Prov. 1:23..........Pour out Your Spirit upon them and make Your Word known to them. 
Ps 25:21...........Cause them to be men and women of integrity, obedient concerning us, 
1 Tim 2:2...........that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty. 
Prov. 2:10..........Let wisdom enter their hearts, and let knowledge be pleasant to them.
Prov. 2:11..........Let discretion preserve them and understanding keep them, 
Prov. 2:12..........to deliver them from the way of evil and from evil men. 
Psalm 1:1..........Make their hearts and ears attentive to godly counsel, 
2Chr 20:32.........doing what is right in your sight.
Prov. 2:21..........Let the upright dwell in our government. 
Heb 12:27..........Cause there to be a shaking in all areas.
Prov. 2:21..........Let those complete and blameless before You stay. 
Prov. 2:22..........and cut off the wicked. Let the unfaithful be rooted out. 
1Cor 4:5............Bring to light what is hidden in darkness, 
1Cor 4:5............and expose the secret aims of the hearts.
Rev 2:5.............Let this nation remember from where they have fallen,
Rev 2:5.............repenting, and returning to doing their first works,
1Chr 22:19........setting their hearts and their souls to seek the Lord,
2Chr 7:14..........humbling themselves, praying, and turning from their wicked ways. 
2Chr 7:14..........Then hear them, O Lord, and forgive their sins and heal our land. 
Acts 26:18........Open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light. 
Heb 3:13...........Soften the hearts that are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 
Ps 107:20..........Deliver them from their destructions. 
2Pet 3:9............Father, You have been longsuffering toward us, 
2Pet 3:9............not willing that any should perish, 
2Pet 3:9............but that all should come to repentance. 
Isa 49:22...........Raise up a standard in this nation. 
Zech 10:1..........Cause the rains of Your Spirit to flood this land 
Hab 3:2.............and revive Your work in the midst of us. 
Isa 59:16...........Raise up intercessors for this nation 
2Cor 10:4..........to pull down strongholds over this land. 
Isa 40:5............And let the glory of the Lord be revealed!

http://www.prayingscriptures.com/government.shtml

DAY 17 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR JUNE 10, 2012

June 10



The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduated its first class on JUNE 10, 1854. 


The Academy was established under George Bancroft, Secretary of Navy for President James Polk. 


On June 16, 1845, Polk issued Order 27 to Secretary George Bancroft: 


"The President...with heartfelt sorrow announces to the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps the death of Andrew Jackson...


The 8th day of June, about 6 o'clock, he resigned his spirit to his Heavenly Father...


He believed the liberties of his country imperishable... 


He departed from this life in a full hope of a blessed immortality through the merits and atonement of the Redeemer." 


George Bancroft, known as the "father of American history" for compiling the nation's first comprehensive record, wrote in Progress of Mankind: 


"The Divine Being should...be known, not as a distant Providence...but as God present in the flesh...The consciousness of an incarnate God carried peace into the bosom of humanity." 


George Bancroft continued: 


"The idea of GOD WITH US dwelt and dwells in every system of thought that can pretend to vitality; in every oppressed people, whose struggles to be free have the promise of success; in every soul that sighs for redemption."

JUNE 10. Bancroft, George. Address titled, "The Progress of Mankind." George Bancroft, Literary & Historical Miscellanies, pp. 502, 504. Stephen Abbot Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, TX), pp. 24-25. Semi-centennial celebration. Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the New York Historical Society. Monday, November 20, 1854.

by George Bancroft; New-York Historical Society.


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DAY 16 - SPECIAL ZIOLO FAMILY PRAYER REQUEST - JUNE 9, 2012

June 9


Dear prayer partners,


My family would like to ask you to specifically pray for us, as we are in the process of adopting a wonderful young boy from an orphanage in Uganda.  The Lord placed a desire in our hearts back in 2010, and the seed grew over the next few years.  It was this year (last month), that the Lord finally reveled 'the one' that He intended us to love for a lifetime.  The child's name is Akram, and He is the desire of our hearts.  Please pray that the Lord will provide all of the necessary finances, His favor in all proceedings, a swift process, an easy transition for all, and safe travels to and from Uganda, as well as in-country.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/akramziolo/


We acknowledge that there are over 2.7 million orphans in Uganda alone, and that the need is great for loving families to adopt those precious children.  The fingerprint of God is in each of them, and He has called us to love them as Christ loved the children.


Matthew 19:14


Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."




In Christ,

Wally Ziolo and Family

Akram

DAY 16- DAILY BIBLE VERSE (FATHER TO THE FATHERLESS) - JUNE 9, 2012

June 9

Psalm 68:5-6

New International Version (NIV)

5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God sets the lonely in families,

DAY 16 - DAILY DEVOTION - JUNE 9, 2012

June 9



Dying for Love


We say we love all sorts of things: cars, clothes, foods, movies, sports, & etc.…   Is that really Love?


I want to propose to you today that love is more than just saying I love you.   It is giving of YOU.   Love actually is dying to self.   Without death, love is selfish!


Look at John 3:16 (NLT) “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son..”  He gave His only son.  I have to ask you, will you give yourself away for love?  Will you die for love?


Yesterday, I was telling God how a friend had not treated me fairly.  You know what God told me?  He said, “Love them and show them the love of Christ even if they don’t deserve it.”  That is how you win people by loving and giving of yourself.  It’s DYING- Dying to self and anything else that hinders you from giving and showing un-conditional love.  Love truly is patient and kind.


It’s a daily dying to self and giving yourself to God to allow Him to use you for His Glory.   Can you picture with me now the cross of Jesus? He gave it all.  Will you give your all?  Call out to Him now and He will help you.  Just say here I am Lord, I give myself to you?  Help me to show love to a lost and dying world.


Jesus gave it all.  John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”


Maybe you’ve never had a good earthly example of love, then look at the best example known to man:  JESUS!   He laid down His life for you.  He gave it all for love!


Lord, we ask that you would exchange the old way of what we thought love was for this new love that You came to give.  What a beautiful exchange of love you gave us, O Lord!  You are so worthy of all our love and adoration.  Psalm 89:1 (NLT) “I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love…”


We have a reason to sing today of His un-failing Love for us.   Will you join me in worshiping Him with a heart of gratitude?  Lord, we ask that you would help us to love like you.   And, help us to die to our flesh, inabilities, or anything else that would try to hinder our love for you and others.  Let our LOVE, draw others to a deeper relationship with You.


I like what Amy Carmichael, a Protestant Christian missionary in India once said,  “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship

http://dailyliveworship.com/blog/dying-for-love/

DAY 16 - DAILY PRAYER (GENEROUS HEARTS) - JUNE 9, 2012

June 9


Most Loving Father,


We the people of the United States, and the world at large beseech You for our hearts to be softened for the great need in the world.  That You might loosen the hands that You have given each of us; to give freely to the poor, the hungry, those needing assistance, and those seeking a family to call their own.  That the Holy Spirit within each of us would be allowed to move without restraint and in obedience to comfort those around us.  That the purse strings that we clutch so tightly would be opened to bless others, especially those who live in third-world poverty, as it is nothing like we have in our own country.  Bless the children without parents who live as orphans, and give them a hope of being loved by a Foster or adoptive family.  Father, you knew the plans that You had for each life prior to conception, and You alone know what purpose each of us will fulfill for Your Kingdom.  Allow each life to flourish with good nutrition, clean water, love, and proper housing.  Protect the innocent from those who may wish to prey upon them, and strengthen the providers for those in orphanages, or other care communities. And Father, most of all, call those willing to serve in Your Earthly Kingdom to assist those who are without hope.


We ask this in Jesus' Mighty Name.  Amen!


Wally Ziolo
Columbus Area Coordinator
Operation Christmas Child - A Samaritan's Purse Ministry
Lancaster, Ohio
www.columbusocc.info