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The Bent Knee Time – August 17

HOW WORTHY GOD IS!

 Psalms 122:1-9

Worship is really thinking in the heart how worthy God is, how loving and lovable and how thoughtful of us. We can be doing this all the time, everywhere. But there’s special blessing when we gather together with others to pour out our praise and worship, and to learn more of our wondrous God. He delights to have us do it. It is sweet to have fellowship with others in the things that we prize most.

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The Bent Knee Time – August 16

NOT HOW MUCH BUT HOW WELL

 Acts 6:1-7

Big things depend on little things. A little screw out of place in the locomotive can wreck the whole train. Big things depend on little things being well done. Let us remember that if ours is some little, humble task, it takes just the same grace and power as does the big thing our neighbor is doing. And the Master doesn’t measure bigness of task, but the faithfulness of each one in the part asked of him.

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The Bent Knee Time – August 15

THE JESUS INSTINCT

Acts 4:32-37

When we get a vision of Jesus we know that all we have is from him. We know it belongs to him. It is ours only in trust, to be used for him. And we are willing and eager so to use it that his message of love may be loosed out to draw others to him. The common instinct is to keep all for ourselves. The Jesus instinct is to use it so men shall know about him.

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The Bent Knee Time – August 14

THE REAL CHURCH

Acts 2:41-47

The Church is really composed of all those who have opened their hearts to Jesus. They are joined together by the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. They are chiefly concerned about one thing—getting men everywhere to know that Jesus came down and lived and loved and died. So living together and working together there comes a renewal of strength, and there goes a clear, ringing witness to the world of the power of Jesus.

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The Bent Knee Time – August 11

DO YOU DO IT?

1John 3:13-22

When Jesus died for us, it wasn’t because we were lovable. It was because we were so deeply tangled in sin. And our sin had to be got rid of somehow, it was hurting us so. It is easy to love the lovable. He loved us when we were unlovable. When we love the unlovable, even if we cannot like them, and are even willing to give our lives daily to win them, that’s the real touch of the real Jesus spirit.