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Giving Thanks to the Bread of Life (Day 4)

  W orship Jesus, the Bread of Life Lord, so many times I think about my needs only in the physical sense - I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m thirsty.  But, my deepest need is YOU.  Today, I thank You for being enough for all I need, for being the One who will satisfy my soul at the deepest level.  You are the bread of life and Your nourishment sustains me and fills me.  John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. A ppropriate the truth of scripture as you grow in your walk of faith Lord, I want to live on Your words; increase my hunger for the things of God.  May I turn to You for life-giving words each day. Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord L ight - Walk in the light by openly confes
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Praying to the Word (Day 3)

"The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon His precious Word, was to begin to meditate on the Word of God; searching, as it were, into every verse, to get blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word; not for the sake or preaching on what I had meditated upon; but for the sake of obtaining food for my own soul. The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer." - George Mueller In the beginning, God created the universe with nothing other than the word of His mouth.  With His word, He created us.  Then at Mt. Sinai, He delivered His Word, also called His Law, statutes, or commandments to Moses so we could know how to live for Him.  The Bible is G

Day 2 - Praying Scripture (to the Light of the world)

To desire revival... and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.  — A.W. Tozer When I was in Ukraine during the 1990’s, I often visited the Orthodox churches in our city.  Holidays, weddings and regular Sunday morning worship looked very different from our western evangelical church services. I have one visual memory in particular of rows and rows of little burning candles. In the Orthodox church, when a person wanted to pray for someone or some situation, they would go to the church, buy a little yellow thin candle, and light it as part of their prayer.  Now just to be clear, lighting a candle isn't necessary for us to commune with God, but the flame on a candle is a beautiful symbol of how God illuminates our path through prayer and how His presence warms us and brightens our day.  Sometimes I enjoy the ambience of a candle burning during my prayer time, just to remember that our prayers are like incense on the altar (Revel