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The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 14:32-72

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Today is Mark 14:32-72 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

What seemed to be Peter’s entire world was falling apart right in front of him. The One he left everything to follow, Jesus, had been arrested and wasn’t even trying to defend Himself.
I can imagine the dismay and unbelief the enemy was enticing Peter with.

Denying Jesus was one thing, but trying to prove you have had nothing to do with by cursing and swearing was another. Then the rooster crowed and Peter remembered what Jesus had told him. “He broke down and wept.”

I have been where Peter was and I can identify. Things weren’t going my way. God wasn’t doing what I wanted Him to. So I decided to do things my way… I tried to distance myself from Him, but keeping just enough of Jesus to “keep my fire insurance current.” What a miserable way to live. Especially if you have had an authentic relationship with Jesus, but have drifted away. I’m pretty sure this is why Peter wept. Once you have tasted and seen the goodness of God, everything else is empty.

Thankfully Peter’s story does not end at the end of Mark 15. Jesus restored his relationship. Thankfully my story did not end with me adrift, living my life my ways…not God’s. Jesus restored my relationship.

How about you? Can you relate to Peter and me? Your story does not have to end in sorrow! Surrender to God is the pathway to peace. Come to Him!

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The Bible Book of the Month Club the Book of Mark — Mark 14:1-31

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Today is Mark 14:1-31 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

The thing that stands out to me the most in this passage of scripture is the intimacy in relationship that Jesus had with His disciples. Jesus spent time with them eating meals.

Some of the most intimate times I have with my kids are our family dinners. When the food has been eaten, we remain at the table talking, laughing, and enjoying each others company. They are beautiful times.

I can imagine dinner with Jesus being the same. However the accounts of this passage have a more serious note. Jesus tells His best friends, those closest to Him, what is to come. He wants them to understand what happens when it does. What a beautiful Savior we have!

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He still wants to have that intimate fellowship with us. We are invited to His table where we can spend time with Him. He has sent that invitation to us! (Revelations 3:20) Our role is to come to Him and open the door of our hearts.

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The Bible Book of the Month Club The Gospel of Mark — Mark 12:18-44

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Today is Mark 12:18-44 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

How much is enough? This is the tendency of our fleshly hearts. We want enough of Jesus to make us comfortable with our lives, but we come without a desire to fully surrender. However, God doesn’t want a half-hearted devotion to Him. Jesus, Himself, tells us the greatest command:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭12‬:‭30‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Love God with ALL!

There have been many times I have approached God with part of me… offering pieces of my time, my thoughts, my desires. That is such a miserable way to live.

If we love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, we are able to experience Him and His goodness fully. Anything short of wholehearted devotion to Him is a shallow relationship with God.

God desires for us to know Him intimately and experience Him moment by moment of every day. He wants us to give Him all of us because He is offering all of Him!

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The Bible Book of the Month Club The Gospel of Mark — Mark 11

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Today is Mark 11 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“Have faith in God…” verse 22

Faith — belief, trust, confidence… the assent of the mind to the truth.
Assent is the act of the mind in admitting, or agreeing to, the truth of a proposition. (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)

I have complicated faith for years. I thought if I worked hard enough at it and gritted my teeth tight enough, I could have faith and see God move in my life. But faith is actually quite simple. It is this statement: “God said it. I believe it.”

Faith comes to us by hearing and hearing comes to us by the Word of God. Faith is simply agreeing with the truth of God’s Word. It is trusting in God’s Word. It is having confidence that God is who He says He is and He will do what He says He will do.

In order for me to walk in that kind of faith, I have to know the Word. I have to have an intimate relationship with it. When we come to the Word of God expecting to hear from Him, our faith in who God is grows. Because we are interacting with Him in relationship. We will see the truth about Him and we will agree with that truth.

Jesus tells us to “Have faith in God.” It is a command that is for our good. When we live in intimate, close and connected relationship with God interacting with Him through His Word, we will have faith in Him. We will see God do the impossible in our lives that is always for our good because He is always good!

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The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 8:1-21

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Today is Mark 8:1-21 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

In Jesus, there is abundance for every need. Two times the crowds were in need for physical food and Jesus provided. What was it that Jesus used to provide the need? It was ALL the disciples had. Jesus took what was given to Him, a few loaves and fish. He not only provided a meal for a crowd, but leftovers that displayed His generous provision.

He is the same today as He was yesterday, and He will be the same forever. We can come to Him with what we have, all of us. He will work the miraculous in what we offer up to Him with generous abundance!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 8:22-38)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 7:24-47

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Today is Mark 7:24-37 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus…” verse 33

I love how Jesus took time for the individual. He interacted with them. The man who was deaf and could not speak could have been healed in a manner of seconds with Jesus’s touch, but Jesus took him aside. He gave the man one on one attention.

Jesus is personal. He is all about connecting with “the one” i.e. you and me. He loves to take us aside, away from the crowd, to be with Him in a deep, personal, and intimate relationship.

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(Tomorrow is Mark 8:1-21)

The Bible Book of the Month Club The Gospel if Mark — Mark 7:1-23

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Today is Mark 7:1-23 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“…These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” (Verse 6)

Years ago there was a commercial for American Express credit card. It listed all the benefits of their card and ended by asking this question, “What’s in your wallet?” I keep thinking about these words this morning but changed slightly, “What’s in your heart?”

Jesus gives us a clear indicator of what is in our hearts. It is what is coming out of them. It is what is reflected in our actions and words each day. If we are angry, prideful, anxious, hateful, etc…, we can be assured that our hearts are full of anger, pride, anxiety, hate, etc. If we display the characteristics of Jesus — love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control, our hearts are full of Him.

Jesus saw the religious people of His time. They were “doing all the right things”, obeying their man made rules. But their hearts displayed what was truly inside, evil. We do the same.

A few years ago, I went to church and tried to live morally right, but my heart had drifted far from God. This was because I refused to let Him have my heart, empty it of the sin inside, and fill my heart with Him. What came out of me reflected that.

What’s in your heart? It’s coming out of you — in all you think, do and say.

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 7:24-37)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 6:1-29

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Today is Mark 6:1-29 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“They took offense at him…He (Jesus) was amazed at their lack of faith…”

“When Herod heard John he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.”

Hardness of heart… This passage displays this condition well.

Imagine what it would have been like to see Jesus as He walked on the earth. I would like to think I would be one of the ones hanging on His every word. But there have been times that I have not lived that way. I have taken offense at His Word. I have lacked faith. I have had hardness of heart towards God’s Word. It is a miserable way to live.

The account of Herod and John points to another case of hardness of heart. Herod enjoyed listening to John speak. He knew John was a prophet and feared him. He knew John was righteous and holy. But Herod, in order to please others and save his own reputation, ordered John’s execution. We can know what is good, right, and holy, but in order to preserve ourselves and our ways, reject it all.

Reading these passages increases my desire to have a heart that is soft and tender towards God — listening to what He says in His Word, obeying it fully, and following His ways alone!

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(Tomorrow’s reading is Mark 6:30-56)

The Bible Book of the Month Club the Gospel of Mark — Mark 5:21-43

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Today is Mark 5:21-43 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

“She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭5‬:‭26‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Desperation! A woman who had suffered much from a bleeding issue pressed through a crowd. She had hope that somehow she would come into contact with the Jesus she had heard about. She knew if she could just “touch his clothes” she would be healed.

What impresses me about this account is that she had tried everything to be better and had only grown worse. I can relate to that. One time I tried to calculate the amount of money I spent trying to fix myself and the anxiety that I suffered with: professional counseling, meds, self help books I purchased, subscriptions to Headspace — eastern meditation app, gas to drive to the counseling sessions, over $700 on a workshop that offered a cure (15 years ago I haven’t checked its price now), coloring books to distract me from my anxious thoughts, the list could go on… AND what I was suffering with did not get better. It grew worse.

All I really needed was just reach out to Jesus. He had paid the price for me to be free long ago on the cross. When I finally came to an end of myself and my ways and I came to Him, I was healed.

What is it that needs a miraculous touch in your life? Jesus has power flowing out of Him that can free you from your suffering. Come to Him in faith believing He can!

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(Tomorrow we read Mark 6:1-29)

The Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark (Mark 5:1-20)

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Today is Mark 5:1-20 ❤️🙌🔥 for the “Bible Book of the Month Club — The Gospel of Mark”

What a miracle! A man with no hope, who lived in a graveyard and was possessed by many demons was set free with the words “Come out of this man…” spoken by Jesus.

The man begged to go with Jesus in the boat, but Jesus had another plan for him.

“Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.””
‭‭Mark‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ ‭NIV‬‬

This man obeyed what Jesus told him to do, and “all the people were amazed” by His testimony.

What has Jesus done for you? Proclaim it! People need to hear the amazing things what God has done! God is so real and still does miracles!

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(Tomorrow we read Mark 5:21-43)