ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD><TITLE>THROUGH THE BIBLE IN THREE YEARS</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 9" name=Originator><LINK href="./dev_files/filelist.xml" rel=File-List><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Author>Ann McGee</o:Author> <o:Template>Normal</o:Template> <o:Revision>1</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>1</o:TotalTime> <o:Created>2003-07-12T13:56:00Z</o:Created> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1414</o:Words> <o:Characters>8064</o:Characters> <o:Company>McGee's</o:Company> <o:Lines>67</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>16</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>9903</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>9.2720</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Wingdings; 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TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } P { FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } OL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } UL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } </STYLE> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="2050"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in" vLink=lightgreen aLink=#ff0000 link=yellow bgColor=steelblue> <DIV class=Section1> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">THROUGH THE BIBLE IN THREE YEARS</SPAN></B> </P><br> <b><center>DAILY DEVOTIONS</b></center><br> <b>HI!</b><br> <P> What is brown, black, yellow, and red...<br> and watched constantly?<Br> <P> <font="steelblue">A CHRISTIAN. </font><Br> <P><B><U> ____________________________________________________<br> ________</u>SCRIPTURE<u>__________________________________</u><br> <P> John 1:12-13<Br> 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, <Br> even to them that believe on his name:<Br> 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.<Br> KJV<br> <P><U> ____________________________________________________<Br> _______</u>THOUGHT<u>____________________________________</U></b><br> <P> To what greater elevated status can a Christian claim than “sons of God?”<Br> Born again: by the Spirit of the Living God!<Br> <P> He who states the Christian life is a miserable one because of restraints<Br> has no comprehension of the immeasurable joy!<Br> <P> Rom 8:15 tells us,<Br> “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; <Br> but ye have received the Spirit of <u>adoption</u>, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”<Br> <P> We are “knit” to God as son to Father!<Br> He is close enough, always, that we can call upon Him!<Br> Daily, He fills our hearts with joy that is exceeding abundant, above all anyone can ask or think!<Br> Constantly, He sends streams of light to our soul that remind us of our soon sunrise!<Br> <P> The Christian life is not known for restraints as much as for JOY!<Br> “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,<Br> and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)<Br> <P> Yes, sometimes we exhort others to surrender to Christ because of the fear of hell.<Br> But let us exhort them more because of His JOY!<br> Christians are being watched constantly to see what they may have that others want.<Br> <P> May I echo Paul’s admonishment:<Br> “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, <u>Rejoice</u>.” (Philippians 4:4)<Br> <P> Love ya,<Br> Bruce<Br> <p>