Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 March 2022 | SU Daily Guide for Thursday
March 17, Scripture Union Daily Guide
TOPIC: Divisions Not Peace
OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, may the entrance of your word bring light and life to all I will do today.
SCRIPTURE: Luke 12:49‐59
Question(s) for Reflection
• Is there any warning for me to heed?
• What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 March 2022 MESSAGE
The Lord Jesus came “to seek and to save sinners”; but also “to cast fire on the earth”. In v.50, “baptism” is a symbol of death to an old way of life and rising to a new way of life. The Lord Jesus accepts His role to bring salvation or new life to people (see John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus died because of our sins and He was raised to life to make us right with God (Romans 4:5, NLT). The entrance of the gospel to a family brings division (vs.51–53). Why? Which side of the divide are you on? If you are on the inside, what steps are you taking to bring other members of your family in? We are able to interpret the weather and tell it is going to rain because of where and how the clouds have formed.
But not too many people are able to recognise the presence of Christ and His Holy Spirit’s work among them in the Church or Community (vs.54‐56). There is a good advice that when you know your case is weak, seek to settle the matter before it gets to the magistrate court.
• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
JESUS LOVES EVEN ME
1. I am so glad that our Father in Heav’n Tells of His love in the Book He has giv’n; Wonderful things in the Bible I see, This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.
Refrain
I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me. I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me.
- Though I forget Him, and wander away, Still He doth love me wherever I stray; Back to His dear loving arms I do flee, When I remember that Jesus loves me.
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Oh, if there’s only one song I can sing, When in His beauty I see the great King, This shall my song through eternity be, Oh, what a wonder that Jesus loves me!
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Jesus loves me, and I know I love Him; Love brought Him down my poor soul to redeem; Yes, it was love made Him die on the tree; Oh, I am certain that Jesus loves me!
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If one should ask of me, how can I tell? Glory to Jesus, I know very well! God’s Holy Spirit with mine doth agree, Constantly witnessing Jesus loves me.
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In this assurance I find sweetest rest, Trusting in Jesus, I know I am blessed; Satan, dismayed, from my soul now doth flee, When I just tell him that Jesus loves me.
Closing Prayer
• Father God, thank you for my new life in Jesus Christ. Please help me to be an instrument of reconciling my family, community, and nation to you.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Philippians 4:13
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Numbers 23, 24, Psalms 36, Acts 9.
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN
Thu, 17-Mar-2022
PRAYER FOCUS
GREATEST INFLUENCE
You are the salt of earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty. Mathew 5:3
THANK GOD FOR:
› The position He has placed us in SU as the salt of the earth.
› The opportunity to make, dictate or refute what our environment should be like.
PRAY FOR:
› Spiritual alertness, careful watch, and total obedience to God in order to retain and enjoy the right God has bestowed on us.
› Constantly returning to God daily for supply to enable us continue as salt.
› Living daily in the power and total direction of the Holy Spirit, to know when to go and when to stop.
› The Regional Prayer sectaries and the National prayer secretary as they travel to Benin for the National Prayer Conference.
PRAY AGAINST:
∷ All forms of carelessness and toying with sin, that may become a stumbling block and remove our righteousness as salt.
∷ Allowing any atom of pride, thinking it is we and not the power of God working in us that make us what we are.
Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 March 2022. Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God.