Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Emmanuel, Emmanuel
His name is called Emmanuel
God with us,revealed in us
His name is called Emmanuel

Scripture Reflections Luke 12:32-33

32"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.


This is your promise to me Lord Jesus that you take pleasure in giving the kingdom to me. You are not trying to be coy, shy...your blessings are not something that are hidden. It is your pleaser to provide the kingdom to me. I am so grateful for your grace which reachs me as this I write this Lord Jesus. I am aware that you are here with me and that there is no need to ever worry.

33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

So if it is your good pleasure to give the kingdom then why would I attempt to hold on to the blessings which you have freely given Lord? Give me the places and the opportunities and the grace to give without even noticing it Lord Jesus...except to praise you that I am able to.

34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Lord Jesus keeping my heart where it needs to be is not as easy as it sounds. So many things distract me from the focus. Good things sometimes...needful things...don't let me be sidetracked by the good and miss the best. Your kingdom is the best...your blessings what lasts...your hope the only thing that should motivate me.

Lord Jesus help me to avoid Attention Defect of the Soul today. Help me to keep my focus clearly on you and your Kingdoms values.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

I will praise you with all of my life

I will praise you with all of my strength

I will praise you with all of my life

With all of my strength

All of my hope is in you!

Scripture Reflections Luke 12:27-11

27"Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all ave taken care of me better than the lilies and the ravens.

You have given your blessings freely and abundantly to me. There is no reason why you have been gracious to me. You have given to me out of your abundant love and mercy. I stand in awe of what you have done. I will trust you for my needs today.

28If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

Lord Jesus you care about the grass and take care for it. I know that you are taking care of my needs even before I know what they are. Help me to be aware in a way that brings a new clarity to your work on my behalf.

29And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. 30For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

What are the things that I am looking for and asking for Lord? What am I setting my heart on?

Are my values kingdom values or are they values driven by the whims of the culture that surrounds me? Lord Jesus shape my wants and requests that I make to you to fit kingdom values.

Lord Jesus in this day help me to reflect and be thankful for blessings that you have brought into my life. Help me to seek after kingdom goals, kingdom values and kingdom dreams today.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

My Life is in You Lord
My life is in you, Lord
My strength is in you, Lord
My hope is in you, Lord, in you, it's in you

I will praise you with all of my life

I will praise you with all of my strength
I will praise you with all of my life
With all of my strength

All of my hope is in you!

Scripture Reflections Luke 12:8-11

22Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

My life is in your hands Lord Jesus. I depend upon your grace for this coming day. Lord Jesus be with me, provide in this coming day as only you can do. My life is in you Lord, my hope is you Lord...

24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!

Ravens are crows Lord and you know how I don't like crows.

Four crows have lived right in my back yard for the last 5 years. I am not sure why but they just don't like them. They are black, they feed on dead stuff and they are just plain creepy.

Yet you provide for them. If you provide for the crows that live in my back yard that are just plain creepy...then why should I worry or be concerned about your provision for me? You are in control of the winds of this world that blew them into my backyard in the first place...you know the conditions that will change that will send them on their way to another back yard.

25Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 26Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

So I am not going to worry about the crows anymore...although I would not mind if you sent them on their way. Me being concerned about birds in the back yard is a bit out there in the wild reaches.

Kurt a reality check is a good idea sometimes...

It just seems like crows in the back yard of a parsonage might mean something...but maybe it just means that you brought them to my back yard to feast on the grubs and moles that also live there. I have seriously thought about getting a gun and going after those silly crows to encourage them along their life cycle. But even crows need a place to call home.

So what do you have for me to learn from the crows Lord?

In the middle of the crows sleeping somewhere in the trees tonight outside my window, I rest in your grace...not always knowing what it all means. I rest in the fact that you care about crows, but you care about me more. Your grace and love are more than enough to see me through the crows. You have lessons for me to learn on this corner that the crows will see take place...hope they enjoy the view.

Lord Jesus be with me in the day that will begin all to soon...may you hand be upon me and lead me.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Change My Heart, Oh God
Change my heart oh God
Make it ever true
Change my heart oh God
May I be like you
You are the potter, I am the clay
Mold me and make me, this is what I pray

Scripture Reflections Luke 12:8-11

13Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
14Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" 15Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Lord Jesus--I can be so external focused. It is so easy for stuff to become important. You are right there is a need to be on guard about it.

16And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'

Maybe the best thing that this rich man could have done was it give it away to people that needed it. Lord Jesus there is the tendency to hold on to when we just need to let things go. The tricky part Lord Jesus is to know when to hold on and when to let go. That is the place where you will need to be begin to teach me Lord.

18"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '

The focus of this man was exclusively on himself and on what he had and could do. How often is that the way that I think Lord.

20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
21"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

Lord Jesus thank you for the blessings that you have brought into my life. You have blessed me in so many ways with so many different gifts of grace. Lord Jesus help me to hold lightly that which you have given to me...to see it all as a means to goal and a goal in it's self. Your kingdom is the goal. Remind me today when I need it of that simple truth.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

So take me as You find me

All my fears and failures

Fill my life again

I give my life to follow

Everything I believe in

Now I surrender

Scripture Reflections Luke 12:4-7

4"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Lord Jesus--Knowledge makes me responsible for follow through. In the middle of the everyday, you call me to live out with endurance and grace an open and transparent life. It is within that life without secrets that this call to accountability is understood. Without your Holy Spirit's help follow through is impossible.

6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

You know me Lord Jesus...you know my thoughts, my desires, my weaknesses...you made me and you know my needs. You don't forget sparrows you will not forget me. If you numbered the hairs on my grey head, then you know the reality of my life...you know the risks and you know the possible rewards, you know the way forward...you know my fears and hopes. Savior lead.

Savior in this day lead and direct as only you can. Give strength and encouragement in the middle of the places that I find myself. Help me to be open and transparent to your call and your direction.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Every move I make I make in You, (You make me move Jesus)
Every Breath I take I Breath in You
Every step I take I take in You, (You are my way Jesus)
Every Breath I take I Breath in You

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:52-12:3

52"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." 53When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, 54waiting to catch him in something he might say.

Lord Jesus--In the middle of opposition and of confusion teaching and ministry continued. The leaders of the law and the religious right of your day began to oppose you because you called things are they were. You did not let them live in hypocrisy.

Luke 12
1Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 3What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

Don't let me fool myself into believing that I have the last word or am able to identify the forest in the middle of all the trees either Lord Jesus. I know that you speak truth and you speak it in my heart where I dare not over look it. There is nothing that is hidden that will not eventually come to light.

So how does that impact what I am doing today and for your kingdom. It means that I need to handle carefully the word of truth. It means that in the middle of the confusion of life I need to stay to the task that you have set out for me. You are telling me that in the middle of the mix of the daily the eternal shines through with clarity...so don't miss the light. The leaders of your day...of what had been a reformation of the religious community a generation before had become rigid and settled in their ways and were not open to a new movement of the Spirit of God.

Lord Jesus move with definition and character in my life in this day. Thank you for the sun that is coming over the trees right now...shine in my heart of Great Light of the World.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Waves of Mercy Waves of Grace
Everywhere I Look, I See Your Face
Your Love has captured Me
Oh My God this Love, How can it Be!

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:47-48

47"Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them. 48So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. 49Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.'

Nostalgia is something that runs deep in those who worship you Lord Jesus. I am not comfortable with change and growth. It is always much easier to remember and celebrate the blessings of the past than to walk by faith the journey you call me today.

We can not live in the safe past. We must journey with you Lord to the place of grace and service that you have for me. A journey always implies risk, adventure, mistakes and mess. Lord Jesus teach me about the risks, give me a heart that is content with with adventure, guard me from the mistakes that would be fatal to your work, and Lord Jesus thank you for the mess.

50Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.

The consequences for not following the call of God for living in the present has an effect that ripples like a stone thrown into a calm pool of water.

Lord Jesus help me follow you in the present tense and not in some nostalgic past that no longer has any chance of change in it. Lord Jesus give me the courage and faith to reach out for all that you have for me today with grace.