Micah 5:6 – 7:20
October 20, 2019: Day Fourteen of the Great adventure Self-Discipline is Good.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (NIV)24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but […]
October 19, 2019: Day Thirteen of The Great Adventure
This subject of fasting has captured our hearts here at Lakeland for these weeks because it is in this one discipline that we see more clearly our real need for Christ. Go back with me to the garden of Eden. Look at the two newly created human beings as they stand next to each other […]
October 18, 2019: Day Twelve in The Great Adventure Our Real Food and Our Real Strength
John 4:28-34 (NIV)28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.31 Meanwhile, his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat […]
October 17, 2019:Day Eleven of the Great Adventure
Growing in our desire for God Psalm 42:1-3 (NIV) As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to […]
October 16, 2019: Day Ten of The Great Adventure-The Reason We Fast
Matthew 6:16-18 (NIV) 16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth; they have received their reward in full. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that […]
October 15, 2019: Day Nine of the Great adventure: The Day of Bold Asking
Nehemiah 2:1-6 (NIV) 1 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before; 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when […]
October 15, 2019: Day Nine of the Great adventure: The Day of Bold Asking
Nehemiah 2:1-6 (NIV) 1 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before; 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when […]
October 21, 2019: Day Eight of The Great Adventure
Nehemiah 1:8-11 (NIV) 8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them […]
Day Seven of the Great Adventure: Learning From Nehemiah’s Example
Day Seven of the Great Adventure: Learning From Nehemiah’s Example Nehemiah 1:4-7 (NIV) 4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. 5 Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his […]