SEPTEMBER "prayer-starters" DAY 6

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September 2008 Day 6

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Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, THAT your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10 THAT ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till (with a view toward being ready for) the Day of Christ. 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Day 6 — Those who profess to know the Kingdom must live as people of the Kingdom.

There are four matters in the Philippians passage, from which we are drawing our prayers for two months. They have to do with our receiving an inheritance with Christ. The first is that we must open ourselves to a kind of Love that is accompanied by clear knowledge and a keen perception of people.

Only someone who has received the Love that comes from the heart of God can be one who passes judgment on another person. There is no place in the Kingdom of Christ for any judgment that is not founded in God’s Love. Take for example the woman taken in adultery. The legalists wanted her stoned to death. But, the love of God that was in Jesus knew of a higher way. If we will serve with Him in His Kingdom, we too must know this higher way to which Love will direct us in all matters of judgment.

Instead of condemning the woman to death, the Love that was in Jesus carried with it enough power to set her free from her sin. We are called to walk even as He walked.

DEAR FATHER, I cannot deny the fact that my love tends to stop short of the kind of Love demonstrated in Your Son. Please work in me to set me free from this legalistic way of regarding people who do wrong things. Show me the way of Love that will set people free when they are wrong.

The Example Set for Us by Jesus—John 8:3-11

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