OVERCOMER - Week 2

Daily Scripture Readings

Monday: Ephesians 2:1-10

Tuesday: Ephesians 2:11-22

Wednesday: John 1:1-18

Thursday: 1 John 3:1-10

Friday: Psalm 71

Saturday: Psalm 139:1-18

Sunday: Matthew 6:5-8

Opening Prayer

Lord Jesus, teach us to pray. 

I receive your righteousness and release my sinfulness.
I receive your wholeness and release my brokenness.
I receive your fullness and release my emptiness.
I receive your peace and release my anxiety.
I receive your joy and release my despair.
I receive your healing and release my sickness.
I receive your love and release my selfishness. 

Come, Holy Spirit, transform my heart, mind, soul, and strength so that my consecration becomes your demonstration; that our lives become your sanctuary. For the glory of God our Father, Amen.

READING:

This devotion is from J.D. Walt, and Seedbed’s Daily Text (January 16, 2024) titled, “Prayer And Knowing that God Knows You”

The year was 1988. The place was Memphis, Tennessee, and the surrounding nine state region. We were about to witness the advent of an amazing technological advance we take for granted today. I remember my first encounter of it like it was yesterday. I was in college at the time at the University of Arkansas (aka the Harvard of the Ozarks). On that day I made a routine telephone call to my father, who was in his home in Dumas. As he answered the phone he didn’t say hello. His first words, spoken immediately and in a loud and excited voice: “Hey John David!” 

I was dumbstruck. How on earth did he know it was me? 

I asked him how he knew. In pure amazement, he said, “It says your name on the screen of the phone.”