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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>WEEK
2 - SUNDAY</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>JESUS:
LOVED BY AND WELL-PLEASING TO THE FATHER</b></u></p>
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<b>Luke 3:22 (3:19-22) "And the Holy :Spirit descended in bodily
form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, You are my
:son the beloved; in you I am well pleased."</b></p>
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The highest self-disclosure that Jesus makes of Himself is that He is
Perfect Everything, giving Perfect Everything, Inspiring Perfect
Everything, enabling Perfect Everything, and commanding Perfect
Everything.</p>
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He is the most precious being of all because He is God, the Eternal
Christ and the perfect man on the plane of our suffering and need; He
is the perfect Word made perfect flesh, the perfect Ideal perfectly
realized and manifested. He is the perfect man, perfectly
self-offered, resurrected and glorified, and on the throne of God and
the universe. He is the perfect beginning of the new heaven and
earth.</p>
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He is the perfect Body as well as the perfect Soul. In Him the
perfect spirit has attained the perfect form and concretion, and (as
Whitehead has observed) the whole movement of the Divine Spirit is
toward concretion. He is perfect God on the throne of man, and
perfect man on the throne of God.</p>
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Best of all for us, He is the perfect Lover as well as perfect Love,
loving us into loving even our enemies in order to make them His
friends and ours, loving the most unlovable, making them lovable and
loving.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>DAY
1 - JESUS: PERFECT PROPHET, AND GIVER OF PROPHETIC MINISTRY</b></u></p>
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The Pre-incarnate Jesus said, <b>"Let there be light, and there was
light." </b>And He has shed abroad in our heart light and love and
life. For some of us, He has given the prophetic ministry (Romans
12:6-8). This is more than the gift or manifestation of 1 Corinthians
12:8-11, and links with the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge,
the discernings of spirits and the gift of faith: to bless the
church, His body. Gifts from God are not for the receiver, but for
His body. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Receivers only
- are indeed like the Dead Sea; but receivers and immediate givers
are like Lake Galilee. Jesus received that He might give, and when
His free Spirit has His way in us, we are led to experience the same
joy, delight and blessing of giving. We give <b>for the common good</b>!</p>
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So, we too can bring light into this darkened world, as with glad
abandonment we learn to be "Channels only" for the Blessed
Master. O, He is worthy! O, He is wonderful!</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>WEEK
2 - MONDAY</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>JESUS:
TURNS TO GOOD ALL TURNED OVER TO HIM</b></u></p>
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<b>Romans 8:28 (26-30) "And we know that to them that love :God
:God works all <i>things</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
together for good, to those who are called according to </span><i>his</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
purpose.</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In Him everything is opportunity; He
turns everything to good that is turned over to Him, the seeming
worst as well as the certain best. In Him, there is as much Heaven on
the way to Heaven that one wonders how Heaven itself can be much
better that the going to Heaven. As the happy sister on the way there
put it, "When I get to Heaven, if they don't let me in, I am going
to shout all around Heaven telling how good it is to come to Heaven."
It is also true that there is so much hell going to hell that even
the most stupid and perverse should have enough of it before getting
there and like the Prodigal Son repent and turn Homeward.</span></p>
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Jesus redeems and makes best uses of even the worst past. He more
than forgives us: He turns our liabilities into assets and self-made
hells into Heaven. No matter how badly we mess life when we turn the
messer and the mess over to Him, He unmesses the messer, and makes an
asset of the mess.</p>
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<u><b>DAY 2 - JESUS, PERFECT SERVANT: EXHORTING US TO BE LIKE HIMSELF</b></u></p>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Jesus gloried not in the position of
Deity He left; not in the perfect manifestation of the Father through
Him as the Son of Man; not in His miracles; but that He could
minister to us, poor lost humanity, by giving His life a </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>ransom</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
for us. His Atoning-Redemptive work on the Cross He came to do, that
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>we</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
might be </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>reconciled</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
to God by His blood, and become recipients of the Paraclete, the
other Comforter, through His Resurrection and Ascension. It was in
His humble ministry that He gloried. It was in washing His disciples'
feet that He set us an example in humility and ministry. Here we see
the Servant-spirit of our God.</span></p>
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Behold it and weep, all proud men, all those of Hubris. Yes, wail and
mourn, and identify yourself with the humble, serving Savior, who
shares His Easy Yoke, and Light Burden with us, if we will humble
ourselves through identification to join Him in His Servant Spirit.
O, the humility of Jesus! O, the humility of God! O, the arrogance
and pride of man. Humble us, Lord. Lord, we humble ourselves, join
You and identify ourselves with You in Your humility and servant
spirit of ministry.</p>
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<u><b>WEEK 2 - TUESDAY</b></u></p>
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<u><b>PUTTING JESUS FIRST: CAUSES ALL ELSE TO PROSPER</b></u></p>
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<b>Matthew 6:33 (6:19-34) "But seek you first his :kingdom, and
:righteousness; and all these <i>things</i> shall be added to you."</b></p>
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Moreover, in Him, the redemption of the present also redeems the
past. I was permitted to see this over forty years ago. It has helped
me personally and it has also helped me to help others immeasurably.
Recently I found in <u>The Great Divorce,</u> that C. S. Lewis has
put the same thought exceptionally well in saying that when we enter
into Heaven (here or anywhere), Heaven begins to extend backwards,
and that if we choose Heaven in preference to earth, our whole earth
experience becomes an adjunct to Heaven. We lose the earth as we put
earth first. If we put first the best of all, we get the Best of All,
and in getting that we get everything. Put first the Kingdom of God,
and the kingdoms of this world become ours as well as His. Put the
interest of the soul first and the body gets health and redemption
and immortality. In Jesus we lose nothing worth keeping and get
everything worth having. Moreover, all potentialities of good are
brought to perfection through union with Him.</p>
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In Him, not only the law and prophecy of the Chosen People are
fulfilled, but also all the light everywhere is brought to bright
burning. He is the one whom all the seekers are looking for.
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<u><b>DAY 3 - JESUS, PERFECT TEACHER: OPENING OUR EARS TO HEAR GOD'S
WORD</b></u></p>
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Healing of the Land and of the Family Tree is almost necessary before
a prayer team is able to function in unity. Hindrances of the past,
both in the individual as well as the possibility of occult bondage
coming down upon us from our heritage, can be removed on the basis of
2 Chronicles 7:14.</p>
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But who points these issues up in such clarity that motivation comes
upon us, enabling us to deal effectively with these hindrances? The
Anointed Teacher! Hear these Messianic words: <b>"The Lord Jehovah
has given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how
to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakens morning by
morning, he wakens my ear to hear as they that are taught. </b><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><b>5
</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>The Lord Jehovah
has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away
backward" (Isaiah 50:4-5).</b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">An Anointed Teacher and
Counselor causes healing to flow back into our past, and into the
future. By Him we are touched body, soul and spirit. Jesus as the Son
of Man on earth did this for all who believed on Him, and He is no
respecter of persons - He will do it through us. In the Romans 12:6-8
seven-fold listing, one out of every seven believers will function in
a pre-eminent teacher mode, coloring with this all other, lesser
gifts. What a blessing! And the resurrected Christ, opens the
teacher's ears by His Spirit, to speak timely, healing words to the
weary.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">And, it is good to note - that
as God dispenses these 7 ministries to individuals, this grace also
applies to each local church, each city church, each area, state or
province, and each nation! What grace!</font></p>
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<u><b>WEEK 2 - WEDNESDAY</b></u></p>
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<u><b>APART FROM JESUS - WE CAN DO NOTHING</b></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;">John 15:5 (1-16) "I am the
vine, you </span><i>are</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> the
branches: Who abides in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit:
for apart from me you can do nothing."</span></b></p>
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He is the One they need who seek to do His works and follow His
example without being in union with Him. We start out to follow His
example and teachings and when we find a crisis, we find that we need
Him to come and reign and guide from within as well as from without.
As good as are His teachings, and as precious as is His example, we
must have the Teacher and have Him both without and within us. His
example and teaching need to be supplemented by Him and His spirit
and His presence. We need Him every hour and every minute, as well as
His teaching and example, to teach us what to say right now, and what
to do right now. For He still tells one man who wants to join Him and
His little company to go back home and tell what great things the
Lord has done for him. He still tells another man who wants to remain
at home for a funeral to let the dead bury the dead and to come with
Him who raises the dead, for He conducts resurrections instead of
funerals. He still tells a rich young "ruler" that if he would be
perfect he should sell all and give it all to the poor and follow
Him. He still calls "Peter" and "John" to leave their homes
and business (not to sell them) and to follow Him. Later He uses
"Peter's" home for a healing center, and the home of "John"
as a haven for His own mother. He still tells His "disciples" to
take no purse nor script and no extra change of clothes, for they
will be well provided for; at another time He tells them if they have
a purse to carry it along.</p>
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<u><b>DAY 4 - JESUS, PERFECT EXHORTER: MAKING US ABLE MOTIVATORS</b></u></p>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">We constantly need the Spirit of
Jesus within for a specific R</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>E</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">ma
word on what to do. Should we </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>answer
a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceits?
</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">or, </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Answer
not a fool according to his folly, lest we become like him (Proverbs
26:4-5)? </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">The written word
does not have the answer: but the Spirit of Jesus within intuitively
shows us the proper word of exhortation. To be a true exhorter, one
must abide constantly and in intimacy with Jesus.</span></p>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">All fretting, confusion and
frustration flee away as we rest in the assurance that God within us
has the right and best answer at just the right time for </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>every</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
occasion! What a load that takes off of us. The responsibility is not
ours, but </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>His</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Don't premeditate what to say when you are brought before rulers to
give an answer for your doings; at the proper moment the Spirit of
your Father will show you what to say.</span></p>
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Then, as those in the church with this ministry prove themselves, and
learn to excel, it moves from a "branch" ministry of exhortation
into a "root" office of the evangelist. Can God do this? Remember
Stephen and Philip. Because of their faithfulness as deacons and
exhorters, God promoted them to serve as evangelists, the logical
outgrowth of the exhorter.</p>
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Look to the Savior mighty to save. Look to God on the throne of the
universe and on the throne of your heart.</p>
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<u><b>WEEK 2 - THURSDAY</b></u></p>
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<u><b>THE HOLY SPIRIT: ENHANCES ALL OF JESUS IN US</b></u></p>
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<b>John 15:26 (17-27) "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will
send you from the Father, the Spirit of the truth, who goes forth
from the Father, HE shall witness of me."</b></p>
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Moreover, we need to receive the other Comforter, the Holy Spirit,
the Spirit of truth that He went away to receive and to give. He
especially commanded His disciples not to go out to do His work until
they received the gift of the Holy Spirit which would give them
power, certainty and authority (Acts 2:33).
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Jesus gives us His own perfect joy and makes our joy full (John
15:11). He gives us His own Spirit and brings ours to perfection. He
gives us His own mind and wisdom and makes our own amazing. He gives
us His own perfect body and makes ours perfect. If we have humor,
gaiety and laughter, motivated by love, these will not be taken away
but heightened.</p>
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A New York friend, who ministered in the spirit with unusual joy and
laughter, was asked by someone who evidently objected to his levity
if he thought Jesus ever laughed. His reply was: "I do not know
about that, but He has fixed me up so I can." When the children of
Israel returned from captivity, their mouths were full of song and
singing and laughter (Psalm 126). When a certain man with a sense of
humor was conducting an informal forum with a group of students of
the Yale Divinity School, one of them said, "Say, is that humor of
yours native or does it belong up in the country where you live?"
The answer of course is that all of our natural gifts are heightened
and none of them taken away. The natural is redeemed and brought to
its highest capability by the supernatural, and through the natural
the supernatural is given human means for revealing itself.</p>
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<u><b>DAY 5 - JESUS: BRIDGE, BALANCE AND PERFECT LIFE THROUGH US</b></u></p>
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Jesus is the Perfect Manifestation of the Father, and assigns to each
of us our individual and unique ministry. Each of us has one of the 7
Romans 12:6-8 ministries that surpasses and colors the other 6. He
puts in each of us the gift of <u>giving</u>, but one out of seven of
us outshines in this ministry. Then from among a few of the many
with <u>giving</u>, He selects one like the apostle Paul, who so
gives of himself in Christ, that he is as a Niagara Falls pouring
forth the power, beauty and fruitfulness of the Lord Jesus. It is no
longer Paul living, but Christ in him mightily doing the works
(Galatians 2:20). When we commit ourselves fully to the Lordship of
Jesus, and choose to manifest all we are and do and say in the spirit
of His love - then we too can join the ranks of Paul - not to
function in his ministry and his gifting, but to see Jesus do through
us as uniquely as He did through Paul. According to Ephesians 3:7,
the apostle explains that the effectiveness and fruitfulness of his
ministry is because of the "d<u>o</u>-reA," the <u>gift</u> of
the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38), which Jesus gives to all willing to be
used completely by Him. That is, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is
reserved for those who <u>obey</u> Him (Acts 5:32).
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<u><b>WEEK 2 - FRIDAY</b></u></p>
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<u><b>JESUS: THE KEY TO THE EXCHANGED LIFE</b></u></p>
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<b>2 Corinthians 8:9 (8-15) "For you know the grace of our :Lord
Jesus Christ, that, being rich, for you he became poor, that you by
his :poverty might become rich."</b></p>
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In Jesus Christ, dull people become bight and the stupid brilliant.
He can take a fisherman and make of him the writer of a Gospel. He
can take almost nothing and make it almost everything.</p>
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While He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief because He
took upon Himself our sorrows and grief, that we may have His joy and
Heavenly bliss, nevertheless as John Mott has said, "When the
ecclesiastical bloodhounds of Jerusalem were at His heels, He told
His disciples to cheer up and willed them His joy and peace." Since
His resurrection, ascension, and gift of the Holy Spirit, and His
taking His place in God's throne, His joy and bliss are beyond human
conception. You cannot be in union with Him without sharing His joy
and bliss. He will yet be known as the Man of Joy.</p>
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<u><b>DAY 6 - JESUS, PERFECT LEADER: THE ENABLER OF EVERY ELDER</b></u></p>
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Jesus is the 100% Man of Faith. He did not mock us. All He did, He
did as the Son of Man, not as God. True, the fullness of the Godhead
dwelt bodily in Him, but from Himself as man, He did not originate
one word nor one miracle. He was completely subservient to the will
of the Father; and He said, Follow me! Live of Me as I lived of the
Father. And Paul said, Follow me, as I follow Christ - the Messiah.</p>
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Can God in us, having complete sway over our total being, do through
us what He did through the Messiah? Of course! And Jesus said,
<u>greater</u> works than these shall you do, because I go unto My
Father.</p>
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Jesus received a perfectly human body from Mary and God, yet without
sin. In that body He succeeded where Adam failed; He redeemed us and
reconciled us to God when we were enemies, ungodly, and none of us
seeking after God; and He lives before us as perfect example of the
victory one can live as a man completely indwelt by God.</p>
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He is our leader; He indwells all elders and leaders, and can live
out through them wise leadership and rulership. He can set elders in
the Gate of each city, and cause an Acts 15 situation to function in
all cities of the nations of the world. All praise and glory be unto
Him. And to praise Jesus, is to praise the Father, for He and the
Father are one.</p>
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<u><b>WEEK 2 - SATURDAY</b></u></p>
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<u><b>JESUS: DELIVERS US FROM ORTHODOXY OF THE DEAD LETTER &
HERESY OF THE SPIRIT</b></u></p>
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<b>2 Corinthians 3:6 (4-6) <i>:God</i> "who also made us
sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of <i>the</i> letter,
but of <i>the</i> spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives
life."</b></p>
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In Jesus we find the perfect union of the orthodoxy of fact and of
the liberal spirit. He is more orthodox than the Orthodox, more
up-to-date than the Modernist, more scientific that the Scientist.
The special temptation of the custodians of orthodoxy is to say
"Lord, Lord," as a substitute for doing His will. The special
temptation of the liberal is to seek to bear the fruit of the
heavenly Vine without being in the Vine.</p>
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Those who are seeking to do the healing and other works of Jesus that
He did and does, without union with Him and His gift of the Holy
Spirit, will be far more successful when they receive His gift and
receive Him who is already victor over the world, the flesh, the
devil, and over every limitation. What has been achieved by Him has
been achieved for all, and we enter into that achievement to the
degree of our fruit-bearing union with Him.</p>
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<u><b>DAY 7 - JESUS, MERCIFUL ONE: WHO EQUIPS ALL PASTORAL MINISTRIES</b></u></p>
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<span style="">Of all the 7 ministries of Romans
12:6-8, perhaps this last one of "showing mercy" is the acme and
fruition of all 7. Here is the heart of the true pastor. Here is the
heart of Jesus! Here is the heart of the Father. Here is the 5</span><sup><span style="">th</span></sup><span style="">
Beatitude: </span><b>Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy.</b><span style=""> He who forgives shall be
forgiven. When Job prayed for his 3 erring friends, he himself was
healed, forgiven, restored, and made twice the man he was prior to
his testing and trial. We have heard of the patience and endurance of
Job - may we follow in his train.</span></p>
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<span style="">But it is the good Spirit of Jesus
in us, completely possessing us for His </span><u><span style="">own</span></u><span style="">
purposes and ends, that releases the fullness of mercy to flow
through us. Without mercy, righteousness in the Kingdom can be rigid
and hard. With mercy, it comes into beautiful balance like an
ellipse, and around these 2 foci flow the beauty of the pure in
heart, who see God.</span></p>
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So - let Righteousness and Mercy kiss each other! Let the righteous
shepherd be tempered and balanced with mercy. Here in this balance we
find an abiding place in Jesus and the Father, and sit with Him and
rule with;Him from His Throne.
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<u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>: The
readings of the Week are by Rufus Moseley; those of the Days by Jim
Watt</b></span></p>
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