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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>H.
MATURITY - FOCUS ON JESUS - MAY 31, 2011</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
Revelation 19:11-13 (19:11-16) JESUS: WORD OF GOD! “And I saw the
heaven opened; and lo, a white horse, and he that sat on it <i>is</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
called Faithful and True; and in righteousness does he judge and war.
</span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">12</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
And his :eyes </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">are</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
flame of fire, and on his :head </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">are</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
many diadems; having a name written which no one knows but he. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">13</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And he </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">is</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his :name is called
The Word of :God” (NNT). </span></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">John
1:1 sets Jesus forth as the LOgos, the Word. And His Name in Heaven
as Glorified Man is </span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">The
Word of God</span></u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
Who is like unto You, Lord Jesus? We know of none other! </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hallowed
be your :name.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">2.
Revelation 20:11 (20:11-15) JESUS: GREAT WHITE THRONE. “And I
saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose :face
the heaven fled away; and no place was found for them.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Jesus
has two thrones. One at the beginning of the Millennium: the B</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">E</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">ma
- the Throne of Judgment for the saints. And one at the end of the
Millennium: The Great White Throne - at which time all sinners
receive their just desserts. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
Revelation 2:18 (2:18-29) JESUS: EYES AS A FLAME OF FIRE. “And
to the angel of </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
church of Thyatira write: These </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
says the Son of :God, who has his :eyes as a flame of fire, and his
:feet like burnished brass.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">For
the first 3 churches of the book of Revelation, Jesus first exhorts
them to hear the word of the Spirit to them. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Then</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
He gives His promise to the overcomers. But starting with Thyatira
and the last 4 churches, He changes the order. It is here to the
overcomers that He gives His promise - and ends up exhorting them to
hear the Word of the Spirit! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
Revelation 3:7 (3:7-13) JESUS: ALL DOORS OPEN TO HIM. “And to
the angel :of the church in Philadelphia write: These </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">things
</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">says
the holy </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">one</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
the true, that has the key of David, who opens and none shall shut,
and who shuts and none opens.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Philadelphia
like Smyrna - are the only two churches to whom Jesus has no word of
condemnation. The sixth church has a little power, and their Lord who
has the keys to open or shut all doors, has given to Philadelphia an
open door, which Satan </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">cannot</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
shut. Consider this! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
:daily :bread</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">give
us this day.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
Revelation 4:2-3 (4:1-8) JESUS: A RAINBOW-SURROUNDED THRONE.
“After these </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
I was straightway in </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Spirit: and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and one sitting upon
the throne; </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and who sat </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">was</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and a rainbow round
the throne, like an emerald to look upon.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">This
is the first picture of Jesus following the opening of this “Portal”
door. What an awesome picture of our Resurrected and </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Glorified</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Lord! J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission through
the motivation of George Muller - read 2 chapters on Jesus from the
Book of Revelation </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">every</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Monday morning. He </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">maintained</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
his focus on Jesus. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, as we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
Revelation 5:6-7 (5:6-1:14) JESUS: WHO HAS THE 7 SPIRITS OF GOD.
“And I saw amidst the throne and the four living beings, and amidst
the elders, a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns, and
seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of :God, sent forth into all
the earth. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And he came, and he took </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">it</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
out of the right </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">hand</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of him that sat on the throne.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Again,
a sober and exalting vision of Jesus! The slain and resurrected Lamb
of God was </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">alone</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
worthy in heaven and earth to take and open the booklet with the
7-fold seals. We can </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">never</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
move too high in glorifying the eternal Son of God. In </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Him</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
Luke 2:52 (2:4-52) JESUS: HIS 4-FOLD GROWTH. “And Jesus advanced
in :wisdom and stature, and in grace with God and men.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Never
before or after - a man like Jesus! Even as Son of man - in His human
state - He excelled all others. All pictures above of Jesus in the
Book of Revelation - see Him as Glorified Man! There is a Man beside
the Father sitting on the Throne of the Universe. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one.</span></font></b></p>
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<u><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Through
the example of Oswald Chambers, I have been helped in maintaining my
daily - and even hourly and momentarily - focus on Jesus! At the age
of 27 he broke through into a victorious and overcoming relationship
with Jesus, that continued right up to his Home-going 16 years later.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">His widow Biddy posthumously
prepared for publishing some 50 of his books, that she had during
their 7 years of marriage, recorded very accurately in shorthand. Her
part in this union - was much like that of Catherine Marshall for
Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Again
and again in his teachings came the word - “</span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">My
Utmost</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">His
Highest</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.”
When Biddy picked out from all his writings 366 readings for a Daily
Devotional - </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">this</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
seemed the right title for such a volume.</span></span></font></p>
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“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Personal, Passionate Devotion
to Jesus” was another of his words that recurs again and again in
his writings. This morning, May 31, 2011, I read his reading from “My
Utmost for His Highest,” and marked it - “Master this.” I am
including it for you, as a reading I have continually sought to
“master”! J.A.Watt</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>PUT GOD FIRST - Oswald
Chambers - May 31</b></font></p>
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“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Jesus did not commit
Himself to them . . . for He knew what was in man (John 2:24-25).</b></font></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Put
Trust in God First. </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Our
Lord never put His trust in any person. Yet He was never suspicious,
never bitter, and never lost hope for anyone, because He put His
trust in God first. He trusted absolutely in what God's grace could
do for others. If I put my trust in human beings first, the end
result will be my despair and hopelessness toward everyone. I will
become bitter because I have insisted that people be what no person
can ever be - absolutely perfect and right. Never trust anything in
yourself or in anyone else, except the grace of God.</span></span></font></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Put
God's Will First. “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God”
(Hebrews 10:9). </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">A
personal obedience is to</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">what
he sees to be a need - our Lord's obedience was to the will of His
Father. The rallying cry today is, “We must get to work! The
heathen are dying without God. We must go and tell them about Him.”
But we must first make sure that God's “needs” and His will in us
personally are being met. Jesus said, </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“.
. . tarry . . . until you are endued with power from on high” (Luke
24:49). </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right
relationship to the “needs” of God and His will. Once God's
“needs” in us have been met, He will open the way for us to
accomplish His will, meeting His “needs” elsewhere.</span></span></font></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Put
God's Son First. “Whoever receives one little child like this in
My name receives Me” (Matthew 18:5). </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">God
came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my
personal life to be a “Bethlehem.” Am I allowing my natural life
to be slowly transformed by the indwelling life of the Son of God?
God's ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me.</span></span></font></p>
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