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Hello! I hope you had a great weekend. Please pray for those that do things on Halloween. Lots of kids will be walking around and they need to stay safe. Please also pray that the day will not be used inappropriately by cultists and evildoers. JCSM has increased its monthly donation to Compassion International from $84 to $100. We are supporting three kids in Kenya, funding AIDS awareness programs, caring for children who have lost their caregiver due to AIDS, and treating people who already have the disease. Please support JCSM and Compassion International.
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JCSM's Weekly Devotions (click here to listen!) "Continually Pray for Yourself and Others" 1 Thessalonians 5:17 "Pray without ceasing." Matthew 5:44-45 "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." John 16:24 "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." Galatians 5:20 (Pray for these!) "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." Insight: We need to be in constant prayer. Our prayers need to align with the scriptures or they won't be answered. Continually pray for yourself and others. (See here for our Bible lesson on prayer - http://jcsm.org/biblelessons/prayer.htm) Prayer: "Dear Lord, bless us and help us to pray. Thank you for loving us more than we can comprehend. You are an awesome God. Help us to pray for others and for the salvation of the lost. Thank you for your amazing grace and how it saved us. There is no other like You. Let us see You as You really are and worship You. Speak to us and lift us up. Give us joy, wisdom, love, and faith. In Jesus' name, Amen."
Rutgers University 1766, was originally founded in New Jersey as "Queen's College," being influenced by the Dutch minister, Rev. Theodore Frelinghuysen, 1692-1747, who began a Pietist minister in Germany, schooled in Holland, and later emigrated to New Jersey. Queen's College was changed to Rutgers University in 1825 in honor of Henry Rutgers. He had served as a captain in the 1st Regiment of the New York Militia, was a member of the New York Assembly, and gave land for the 2nd Free School for the city's poor. He was a regent for the U. State of N.Y., as well as a trustee of Princeton and Queens College. Henry Rutgers was the president of the board of the Dutch Reformed Church and gave the land for the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church. Rutgers University had as its official motto: "Son of Righteousness, Shine upon the West also." ¹ ¹ 1766. Stephen K. McDowell and Mark A. Beliles, America's Providential History (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Press, 1988), p. 93. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 92. If you'd like to see more quotes from those that framed and founded America, please click here: http://jcsm.org/AmericasFounders/.
Worship is a response of respect to God.
Spend some time in prayer, today. Challenge yourself. Spend a little more time than usual. If need be, read the Bible lesson on prayer and follow that format. It will help you recall things you need to pray about. Link: http://jcsm.org/biblelessons/prayer.htm God bless you as you meet this week's challenge!
tefilaw (Hebrew, see 2 Samuel 7:27): intercession, supplication, by implication a hymn, prayer
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims: Genesis 35:22 - "Reuben went and lay with his father's concubine." I wonder why God wants to tell us about it. Maybe he figures that "inquiring minds want to know." "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds: The details of the Bible lend to its credibility and authenticity. Even so, there are reasons for even the smallest details. (This explanation came from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained", by Jason Gastrich. This book is on CD and explains over 3,000 difficulties regarding the entire Bible at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.org. There is also a 300 question workbook that accompanies the CD-ROM.)
There are no new quotes this week, but we have thousands in our archive! Visit http://quotes.jcsm.org. Plus, if you'd like to receive a new quote every day, please go to http://jcsm.org/Wisdom.htm and bookmark it!
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