Daily Discipline For Doers Of The Word

Arise with the wonderful Name of Jesus on your lips, go to the powerful Name of Jesus at first opportunity, immediately, enter into His Kingdom by faith! Begin with CONSUMING (Jeremiah 15:16) the Living Word of God through meditation on the Word of God (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2) utilizing the weekly memory verse chosen from your 'Scripture Memory Partner Plan'. Immerse your entire being in the Word of God, reading from your 'read through the Bible in a year Bible Reading Schedule' (II Timothy 2:15).
This will CONDITION your mind for COMMUNION with the Spirit giving opportunity for CASTING down every imagination and bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ by CORRECTING every errant thought and impulse of the flesh or spirit, dying daily, crucifying the flesh, taking up your cross, following Jesus, putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, putting on the whole armor of God, putting on the new man, putting on THE LOVE, putting on the breastplate of faith, bringing your entire being under the full CONTROL of the Holy Spirit by faith through simple step-by-step child-like obedience!
This one-on-one COMMUNION with the Lord by the Spirit establishes the abiding relationship which is commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ in John 15:4. Unless we continue to abide in Him moment by moment throughout the day by faith, unless we remain connected to the Vine, [and here is the key, it's all by faith through child-like obedience,] we will operate in our own strength, receiving the consequences and rewards of the flesh! However, if we take the time to establish this most necessary one-on-one COMMUNION with the Lord by His Spirit at the very beginning of the day we can indeed walk by faith expecting Him to do what He said He would do (II Samuel 7:25) and He will do 'exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think' for HE IS ABLE (Philippians 3:20,21)!!!
This COMMUNION with the Lord must also be Disciplined when praying for specific people including the servants, saints and sinners alike. By utilizing the 'Practicing Priest' (I Peter 2:5,9) prayer booklet you can become Disciplined in your praying, and memorize specific prayers from the Bible at the same time, while you pray these powerful prayers by learning to pray according to Scripture. This booklet will assist you in recording specific names in specific categories, receiving and rejoicing in specific answers to prayer for those designated in the 'Practicing Priest' prayer booklet. This tool can be used effectively to direct and lead you by the Spirit for increased ability to bring 'Souls for Jesus' into His Kingdom!!
If we expect to be led by the Spirit to do the work of the Ministry which includes edifying the Body of Christ (Ephesians 4:12ff) and evangelizing the lost, then we must be CONFORMING to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29) by allowing Him to walk in us by faith. As we enter into the Kingdom of the King and experience His working all around us through His Word by His Spirit, circumstances will unfold with moment by moment accuracy as we utilize the eyes of our understanding...'that we might know what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places' (Ephesians 1:18-20) when our Spiritual eyes are opened by the Lord the Spirit! It is this miraculous illumination of the Word by the Spirit that provides us with the Supernatural guidance of the Lord throughout our day.
However if we fail to engage in Spirit-led COMMUNION through a step-by-step DAILY DISCIPLINE we forfeit the opportunity to 'Walk With The King and Be a Blessing' to those who are saved, first of all, and then through this love for the brethren and the joy we experience through ministering to those of like precious faith, we receive the peace of God which passeth all understanding which provides us with the moment by moment Voice of the Spirit of the Lord! This is the blessed pattern the King our Saviour, the True Vine Himself taught in His private ministry to the eleven the night before His triumphant suffering on the Cross. This is what draws the sinner to the saint! When we demonstrate THE LOVE!! When we are revived the Spirit Himself bears witness that we are the sons of God' and the lost man will be one of the first to notice it...amen??
It was and is THE LOVE which He demonstrated and gave to us by His Spirit (John 13:34-15:10) which supplied THE JOY (John 15:11-16:1) we need to effectively minister to saint and sinner alike in the midst of persecution of the world, which in turn provides THE PEACE of God which the Lord Jesus supplies (John 16:2-33) and He amply bestowed upon His own during His post resurrection ministry. This necessary PEACE for the saints (John 19:20,21,26), and the things concerning the King (Luke 24:27), are in essence the focus of His Kingdom (Acts 1:3) preached during the forty days He spent on earth, providing us with a glimpse of what His Second Coming will be like as He ascended to the Father in His glorified body and returned with this message of PEACE!!
We can know Him 'Who is our PEACE' (Ephesians 2:14) experientially as we are Daily Disciplined, entering into His Kingdom, COMMUNING with the King, step-by-step, moment by moment and be 'Doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving our own selves' (James 1:22-25). Enter in RIGHT NOW and allow the King to live out His life through you and minister to those He leads your way today (Galatians 2:20)!!
During the first part of the day when you are preparing your heart for serving the King of Kings our Daily Discipline must be flooded with the Word of God as we mentioned in Daily Discipline I. This is the only way we can be completely sure of the source of the voice when we receive a thought/message/direction. It is only by the Voice of the Holy Spirit that God speaks for even when an angel is sent from God as in the case of Philip in Acts 8 and many others throughout the Word of God it is still the Voice of the Holy Spirit in essence as the angel himself is sent from the Throne of God from which all authority proceeds!
During the first part of the day when you are preparing your heart for serving the King of Kings our Daily Discipline must be flooded with the Word of God as we mentioned in Daily Discipline I. This is the only way we can be completely sure of the source of the voice when we receive a thought/message/direction. It is only by the Voice of the Holy Spirit that God speaks for even when an angel is sent from God as in the case of Philip in Acts 8 and many others throughout the Word of God it is still the Voice of the Holy Spirit in essence as the angel himself is sent from the Throne of God from which all authority proceeds!
Gabriel spoke to Zacharias the father of John the Baptist and in his reproof to him said 'I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God...' and his mission was to speak the Word of God to Zacharias but we must recognize as in the example of Philip the Evangelist in Acts 8 who was priveleged to have an angel sent from God to direct his work, but when he approached the Ethiopian eunuch the Spirit of the Lord spoke from within saying 'Go near and join thyself unto this chariot' and the rest is history. Philip continued to be led by the Spirit and preached unto him Jesus and the Spirit drew the eunuch to Jesus and he believed and was baptized the perfect picture of the Biblical example of soulwinning obedience!
I said all that to say this, it is imperative that we recognize the Voice of God, and thereby 'Try the spirits to see whether they be of God' in a day when there is much spiritual confusion and the influence of Satan grows stronger! And so in our Daily Discipline we must employ spiritual DISCERNMENT as we 'lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us let us run the race with patience looking unto Jesus' eliminating DISTRACTIONS which can draw our minds away from the job at hand which is DIGESTING the Word flooding our very being with Him, calling on the powerful and holy Name of Jesus, worshipping Him moment by moment DELIBERATE in our actions, DISCIPLINED in our every thought, listening to His Voice all the while meditating on Him thanking Him for each individual blessing of His presence, His power, His person, DELIBERATELY reviewing the eternal spiritual blessings that He has given us through His Blood, Ephesians 1-3 lists at least twenty-four eternal unchanging spiritual blessings that are ours, and it is these eternal unchanging blessings that give us Victory over the World! Faith is the victory over the world, faith in who we are and the wonderful riches we possess in Him rather than the worthless rubble of this temporal world!!
Yes, as we recognize who we are in Christ Jesus and all that we possess in Him which is eternal and will never change we can rejoice in the midst of any assault the old serpent brings upon us as we see with our spiritual eyes what is real and reject the fleshly desires for the things that are unreal, the things that won't last, the things that will be burned up in that day! Oops, got to a little preaching there!
However, if we begin our day DOCUMENTING the blessings, being DELIBERATE in our actions and DISCIPLINED in our worship, letting circumstances fit into His plan, His pattern for our lives, we will hinder/eliminate the DESIRES of the flesh when we replace them with His blessings, DEDICATING ourselves afresh and anew each morning, and if necessary each moment, giving Him our DESIRES, our families, our possessions and most of all DEDICATING AND REDEDICATING if necessary ourselves to Him as a 'living sacrifice' on the altar of God living only to do His will! One preacher rightly said: 'One of the greatest prayers in the Bible is found in Psalm 143:10 'Teach me to DO Thy will for Thou art my God, Thy Spirit is good lead me into the land of uprightness' Amen and Amen.




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