Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Monday, 29 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Monday, 29 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:
While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader's house to say, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?" But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe." He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. When he had entered, he said to them, "Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha cum," which means, "Little girl, get up!" And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. [Mark 5:35-42, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.[ A. W. Tozer]
Pray Together with Us:
O Lord Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life, we pray you do not suffer us to stray from you, who is the way, nor to distrust you, who is the truth, nor to rest on any other than you, who is the life. Teach us to believe, what to do and wherein to take our rest.[Erasmus]
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Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 26 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:

I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. Remember then what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. Yet you have still a few persons in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes; they will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not blot your name out of the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels. Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.[Revelation 3:1-6, NRSV]

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.[Richard Foster]

Pray Together with Us:

Dear Lord Jesus, we shall have this day only once; before it is gone, help us to do all the good we can, so that today is not a wasted day.[Stephen Grellet]

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Be Encouraged by God's Word

Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up quickly. He said to his counselors, "Was it not three men that we threw bound into the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king." He replied, "But I see four men unbound, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the fourth has the appearance of a god." Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!" So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Daniel 3:24-26, NRSV

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

Dallas Willard

Pray Together with Us

Heavenly Father, Lord of the harvest, have respect to these our prayers and send forth laborers into your harvest. Fit and prepare them for the work of their ministry. Give them the spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind. Strengthen them to endure hardness; and grant that both by their life and doctrine they may set forth your glory and set forward the salvation of all men; through Jesus Christ our Lord.[Church of Ireland Prayer Book]

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Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Wednesday, day, 24 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:

Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.[Luke 13:24, NRSV]

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves—that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.[N. T. Wright]

Pray Together with Us:

Your church, Lord, remember,

And thus from all evil deliver her,

Making her perfect in your love.

Bring her united, made holy,

from the four corners of the horizon,

Into your kingdom, which you have prepared for her.[Hispanic Litany]

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Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Tuesday, 23 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:

Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.[Exodus 14:19, NRSV]

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.[Brennan Manning]

Pray Together with Us:

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours; yours are the eyes through which to look at Christ's compassion to the world, yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good, and yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.[Teresa of Avila]

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Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Friday, 22 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.[Romans 12:3-8, NRSV]

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.[N. T. Wright]

Pray Together with Us:

Bring to fruition, Creator God,

the work of your kingdom.

Make us part of that joyful harvest

in which your loving purpose is completed.

Help us to realize

how important the smallest words and deeds are

in the context of eternity.

At harvest time, when we remember your goodness

make us grateful also

for all we have received from the labor of others

who have sown the seeds of faith, hope and love in our lives.[Author unknown]

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Soul Care New Every Morning of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Thursday, 14 February 2016 "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:23

Good Morning, Ministry Partner:

Be Encouraged by God's Word:

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,

    your faithfulness to the clouds.

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,

    your judgments are like the great deep;

    you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

How precious is your steadfast love, O God!

    All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

They feast on the abundance of your house,

    and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

For with you is the fountain of life;

    in your light we see light.

O continue your steadfast love to those who know you,

    and your salvation to the upright of heart![Psalm 36:5-10, NRSV]

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.[Jim Elliot]

Pray Together with Us:

Thank you, Lord, that even though we fail you, you never give up on us.[Ron Brandon]

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