Week 3: Luke Chapter 19 ~ Daily Reading, Memory Verse & Applications

{Reading Plan, Memory Verse, Weekly Challenge}

Week 3 ~ Friday

(S) Luke 18:45-46

(O) Jesus becomes upset when he see those in the temple selling goods for their own profit instead of praying. He tells them that the temple of God is a house of prayer. Jesus taught at the temple, but behind closed doors others were plotting against him. They had a hard time trying to find something to charge him with because the number of followers he was was many. God's house is a house of prayer! His temple is a place to come and meet God. We should never loose site of the true purpose and reason for us as believers to come to the temple. In reality, our Spirit is God's temple. It's the place where he dwells inside of us.

 
(A)The church building is a physical symbol of a temple structure in which we visit multiple times out of the week to learn, fellowship, pray and worship. Our temple should always be in order and line up with God's purpose. I want to always use my temple to edify and lift up God. Through prayer I can meet God at a special place, the temple of my heart. I want to make sure that when i visit the physical temple aka "church" every week, that my purpose and focus is on the things of God not on matters that are far from him. I want my heart to be like Jesus. That I recognize the importance of his temple and what should dwell there in. I will be disturbed with my temple not lining us with it's purpose!

(P)Most High God, Thank you for your word to remind us what your temple is for, A House of Prayer. Forgive me for not coming to your temple with the correct spirit. I want my spiritual temple to be pleasing to you and used for only the purposes in which you designed. I want to come to your physical temple to meet you there and not have fleshly desires and wrong motives for your temple. I thank you for your temple being a venue of prayer. Lord break my heart to be upset for what makes you upset!In Jesus Name, Amen

Week 3 ~ Thursday

(S) Luke 19:40-44

(O) Don't hold your praise! Don't let others tell you to keep your praise quite! There will be some who recognizes the King of Kings and their will be others that don't, but don't let the opinion of others silence your praise, because if you do, the rocks will cry out! The word says, "Let Everything that has breath praise The Lord!" Yes...everything! And if you, whom God has given life, won't praise him.....a rock...with no form of life...will glorify the name of Our Lord! I believe Jerusalem didn't recognize the God of their Salvation so Jesus was disappointed and because they didn't, their enemy would take camp over them. To me I believe the rock is an analogy that those who were considered the less recognized the King of Kings and they began to praise him, but those in Jerusalem (the chosen) didn't...and because they didn't recognize and give praise those rocks (those considered unworthy of being apart of his Kingdom) will and did praise his name.

(A) I won't let a rock cry out in my place! God has been too good to me! I recognize my salvation and I will forever praise the name of Jesus! He has brought salvation to my house and we proclaim that we serve an awesome and mighty God! 

(P) Mighty King, Everlasting Father, Hallelujah to Your Holy Name! Thank you for salvation in my house! I will forever give your name the praise because you are worthy. When I'm down, I will praise you....When I'm up...I will praise you....When I'm worried....I will praise you.....When I'm happy...I will praise you....When I'm sad....I will praise you...You deserve all the praise! I worship you with my heart and my song will forever sing the praises of your name! In Jesus Name! Amen

Week 3 ~ Wednesday

(S) Luke 19:23-24, 26

(O) The third man hid his gift instead of doing what he thought the Master would appreciate or wanted him to do. Instead he did what he though was best and he wasn't the gift giver. The servant who used his gift wisely and made it profitable was openly rewarded before everyone. Storing up your gift isn't a benefit to anyone, not even yourself. God want you to use what you have for him, even if it's a little or a lot. He rewards those who are diligent. He wants our gifts to build "interest" in his Kingdom! 

(A) What is my gift? Is it beneficial to God's Kingdom? Does it yield of great reward? For so long I wondered what my gift was...but through prayer.. I begin to seek God and then allow him to show me what it was he wanted me to do... and He did! That gift I use to complain about and feel like I was being taken advantage of....I had it all wrong...the gift of "helps" wasn't a disadvantage...it was an advantage to ADVANCE the Kingdom! God needed a willing heart who would help others not matter their situation, circumstance, and those whom other's wouldn't help! And To God Be the Glory....he gave little ole' me that gift! I love helping people, those I don't know and those I do know. So my application for today is more of Thanking God for showing me my gift and that I have a call to action to continue to use it! I want my gift of helps to build interest and touch the souls of people everyone. There are some people that will be converted through and act of kindness and I hope through my gift...that the Kingdom grows even the more.

(P) Father...the giver of every good and perfect gift...Thank you for blessing Angela with the gift of helps! I pray that as I continue my walk with you...that those who I encounter will feel the love of Jesus and be compelled to come to him through my gift. Use my gift to seek and to save those whom are lost. Touch hearts and bless souls through this gift. It's not my own because it was given to me by you. I acknowledge every gift and thank you for perfecting what's inside of me. Bless the hearts of my dear sisters in this group, that through my gift, they will be encourage, enlightened, empowered, and blessed to serve an awesome King! In Jesus Name, Amen

Week 3 ~ Tuesday

(S) Luke 19:17

(A) This illustration represents how God wants to respond to our service. He has give us so much to work with, but what shall we do with that he has given us. Will we use it all up and not be productive? Will we store it up for safe keeping? Will we use it to bless others? Will we make it profitable and have a greater return on investment? God requires for us to be servants, FAITHFUL, GOOD, PRODUCTIVE, AND PROFITABLE for the up building of his Kingdom and those things that he has blessed us with, he will continue to supply all our needs and give us abundance.

(O) God has given me so many gifts. Some of them I'm unsure what he wants me to do with them. But I have decided to just pray and use the gifts he has blessed me with for his service: to bless the hearts of others! I just want my actions to be pleasing in his sight and to hear him say, "Well Done, My GOOD and FAITHFUL servant!" I don't want what others have, I just want to use what God has given me, for he chose me to have the things I have for a specific purpose and reason. 

(P) Father, I pray that as I continue to serve you and others with a clean heart, that I will hear those words, "Well done, Angela, my good and faithful servant." I pray that my service is not of pride, but it's of humbleness to be used by you and pleasing in your sight. Let the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart, and the actions of my will be acceptable and pleasing in your sight. Thank you for using me! Thank you for choosing me to lead such an awesome group of women. I pray that we continue to be good and faithful servants, "Down to the Last Drop!" In Jesus Name, Amen!

Week 3 ~  Monday

(S) Luke 19:8-10

(O) When you really want to see Jesus, it will be..by any means necessary!
Jesus knows each of us by name!
Jesus doesn't have any favorites.
We can never judge someone based upon their actions or what we feel they are.
Jesus loves everyone and what man sees on the outside, God sees only through a persons heart.
Meeting Jesus yields a heart repentance and a heart to serve him diligently.
Salvation is for all who have sinned.
Jesus desires every heart to be saved, even those we feel are unworthy, and a heart that yields to him can be accepted into his kingdom. 

(A) There were times where I have sinned and weren't qualified to be apart of God's Kingdom. But through Jesus, I have access and my sins are forgiven. I will never judge someone based upon their past...for we all have sinned and none of us are worthy, but through his son's blood and grace that we can become a child of the King. When I yield my heart to Jesus, I will correct my wrong doings. My past heart will no longer control my actions, but my renewed heart will cause my actions to be based upon my repentance and the decision to live according to God's word. Everyone has the opportunity to come to Jesus. God's Kingdom will come again and every ear will hear the word and have an opportunity to come to him. Jesus knows my name, He know those hidden things in my life that no one else knows about. Today I will pray that through Jesus, those thing that I need to work on and change I will. I will live out my day with a heart of repentance and turning away from those things that will cause me to sin. 

(P) Father, The God of peace and love, I thank you for accepting all of us into your Kingdom. You didn't leave salvation only up to one group, but through peace and reconciliation, we are ALL ONE IN CHRIST and I thank your for taking the undeserved and making us perfect through your son. I pray that you create in me a clean heart, a heart of service, a heart of love, a heart of peace, and a heart of forgiveness, and renew in me a right spirit like Zaccheaus. A spirit to recognize the error of my ways and change. In Jesus Name, Amen