GOD’S WORD FOR  MAY 13

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

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JUST LIKE THAT!

Acts 26:18

“From darkness to light.”

D.L. MOODY

I remember one night when the Bible was the driest and darkest book in the universe to me.  The next day, it was all light.  I had the key to it.  I had been born of the Spirit.  But before I knew anything of the mind of God in His word.  I had to give up my sin.

ERWIN LUTZER

The miracle of the new birth comes to us from above.  It is not self-generated; it is not even a cooperative effort between us and God.  It is a direct miracle of creation within us so that, after we have received Jesus Christ as Savior, there was something within us not there previously. It is a miracle of God.

Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  (John 3:3)  the Word of God and the Spirit of God are brought together by God to create within us the LIFE of God.  This results in a supernatural reality.  “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17).

After we are  born again, the Bible becomes food to us.  We need food to grow physically, we also need food to grow spiritually.  The word of God has within it a whole meal; in the Bible, the Word is described as milk, meat, and honey.  The new nature needs to be fed; it needs nourishment.  Meditation is to the soil what digestion is to the body.

Thank God that, through the power of the gospel, we are given a new appetite – and a new appreciation for the promises of God.  Darkness turns to light.

PRAYER

Father, I thank You for the power of the Spirit that brought me both life and light.

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John 3

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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John 3:7

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

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1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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1 Peter 1:23

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

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John 16:13

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

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James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

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James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

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Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

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John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”

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Acts 4:12: “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

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