January 31: As He Walked by the Lake

Affirmation: I step into my power with confidence and grace.

The focus is to do everything in love.

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Ponder and Personalize: Continue to memorize these verses. Make it your prayer. This prayer focuses on who God is…the Maker of Heaven and Earth. Look around at the creation around you: mountains, lakes, rivers, plains, sun, moon… See Gods fingerprints in it all. Now look at yourself. See His fingerprints all over you and your life, too.Make this your daily prayer. 
”I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.“‭‭Psalms‬ ‭121‬:‭1‬-‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.121.1-8.NIV

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Praying the Message of Jesus: A Year of Thoughts and Prayers

by Eugene Peterson

                      Jan 31

As He Walked by the Lake

Walking along the beach of Lake Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers: Simon (later called Peter) and Andrew. They were fishing, throw­ing their nets into the lake. It was their regular work. Jesus said to them, "Come with me. I'll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I'll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass." They didn't ask questions, but simply dropped their nets and followed. A short distance down the beach they came upon another pair of brothers, James and John, Zebedee's sons. These two were sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, mend­ing their fishnets. Jesus made the same offer to them, and they were just as quick to follow, abandoning boat and father. 

MATTHEW 4:18-22 

Jesus began his work along Lake Galilee, not at the Jerusalem Temple. The world of common work, not the world of religious ritual, was where disci­pleship started. And fishermen, not priests, were the first disciples. Jesus comes to us, where we are, and initiates the work of kingdom-making. 

 

From what does Jesus call you? 

As you speak your commands to me, 0 Christ, complete your will in me. Convert me from a way of life bound to things to a life related to persons. The nets have absorbed my attention long enough; lead me into your way of being human. Amen.