Today's Reading 09 Oct. 2013
E -Word Of God
09 October 2013 Wednesday
Lectionary: 463
Praise The
Lord!!
Start with four steps
1. Come as you are I love you, come the way you are with your brokenness, Inner
wounds. No hopes, insecurity – Matthew 11 28"Come to me, all you who are
weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
2. Give the truth in your heart to the Lord – What is bothering in your heart, it can be your Anger, Hatred, ego, jealousy, etc. - Galatians 5:19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
3. Surrender your life to the Lord - not by mere words, but from the depths of your soul and give Him the complete ownership of your life. From now on I am in his hands - Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
4. Wait in silent communion with the Lord in that state of surrender, and the Lord will speak to you, and you will be filled with the "Holy Spirit" - Matthew 3:1111 I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Reading 1 JOhN 4:1-11
Jonah
was greatly displeased
and
became angry that God did not carry out the evil
he
threatened against Nineveh.
He
prayed, “I beseech you, LORD,
is
not this what I said while I was still in my own country?
This
is why I fled at first to Tarshish.
I
knew that you are a gracious and merciful God,
slow
to anger, rich in clemency, loathe to punish.
And
now, LORD, please take my life from me;
for
it is better for me to die than to live.”
But
the LORD asked, “Have you reason to be angry?”
Jonah
then left the city for a place to the east of it,
where
he built himself a hut and waited under it in the shade,
to
see what would happen to the city.
And
when the LORD God provided a gourd plant
that
grew up over Jonah’s head,
giving
shade that relieved him of any discomfort,
Jonah
was very happy over the plant.
But
the next morning at dawn
God
sent a worm that attacked the plant,
so
that it withered.
And
when the sun arose, God sent a burning east wind;
and
the sun beat upon Jonah’s head till he became faint.
Then
Jonah asked for death, saying,
“I
would be better off dead than alive.”
But
God said to Jonah,
“Have
you reason to be angry over the plant?”
“I
have reason to be angry,” Jonah answered, “angry enough to die.”
Then
the LORD said,
“You
are concerned over the plant which cost you no labor
and
which you did not raise;
it
came up in one night and in one night it perished.
And
should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city,
in
which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons
who
cannot distinguish their right hand from their left,
not
to mention the many cattle?”
Responsorial Psalm PS 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10
R.
(15) Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
Have
mercy on me, O Lord,
for
to you I call all the day.
Gladden
the soul of your servant,
for
to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
For
you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding
in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken,
O LORD, to my prayer
and
attend to the sound of my pleading.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
All
the nations you have made shall come
and
worship you, O Lord,
and
glorify your name.
For
you are great, and you do wondrous deeds;
you
alone are God.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
Gospel LuKe 11:1-4
Jesus was
praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one
of his disciples said to him,
“Lord,
teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
He
said to them, “When you pray, say:
Father,
hallowed be your name,
your
Kingdom come.
Give
us each day our daily bread
and
forgive us our sins
for
we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and
do not subject us to the final test.”
Thought for the day
The saints judge nations, and rule over people: and the Lord their God shall reign for ever. Rejoice in the Lord, ye just: praise becometh the upright.
-- Widom 3: 8; Ps 32:1
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