Anna Zhou
Preface. During the past few days, responding to the urgent calls from beloved Muslim sister，we are comforted by the hymn: Forever Love Has Loved Me, based on the scripture Jer.31:3. The other pieces were prayerful notes of walking with three more patients and their loved ones.
Observe the eternal blood covenant of love，till we see Lord Christ Jesus. Heb. 13:20
Indeed, in prayer with the Scripture before dawn, the Lord bestowed spiritual food to quench my hungry and thirsty soul. When we cried out for help in urgent needs, we are upheld in His love with our old age and grey hairs. His word shed the Light of Life, cleansing and curing us. His grace is sufficient for our daily living. Is 46:3-4, 2 Cor.12:9.
1.Live before God, fixing my eyes on Christ
· Lord Jesus said：No one is good，except God alone. Mark 10:18
· Calm my heart, being enlightened, sanctify myself for Lord’s special use. Tim 2:21
2.The Bible in prayerful seeking heart, soothe my hungry and thirsty and cure my weakness
· Lord Jesus’ words are life and the Spirit. John 6:63
· Gaining His life，anointing the Holy Spirit，being a new creation daily. 2 Cor.5:17
· My praises of the Lord are from my Lord. In awe, I worship You Lord. Ps 22:25
3. Practice Love daily to love the Lord and His beloved
· Being surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses，we share Christ’s love. Heb 2:1
· Observe the eternal blood covenant of love，till see Lord Christ Jesus. Heb 13:20
During the past few days, responding to the urgent calls from the beloved Muslim sister, we are comforted by the hymn: Forever Love Has Loved Me, based on the scripture Jer.31:3. The other pieces were prayerful notes of walking with three more patients and their loved ones.
Observe the eternal blood covenant of love，till see Lord Christ Jesus. Heb 13:20
20230825 Read the Scripture Deny Self Obey God（James 1:23-25）
1. Only hear God’s Word but does not do what God says is like someone looking at his face in a mirror.23
·God’s Word manifests oneself’s reality before God so to stimulate us to deny self more and obey God more. Luke 9:23
· Reading the Scriptures for applying His Word to self. Not for judging others against His teachings. Matt 7:1； Is 58:9
2. After looking at oneself, going away and immediately forgets what oneself looks like.24
· Immediately forgetting myself was, showing self without receiving it in heart to apply it in daily life.
3. Who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it; they will be blessed.25
· look into: fix one’s view on, stoop down and look into, Acts 17:11
· The perfect law：God is perfect and is able to make the reader perfect.
· The law of liberty：does not tie us up, but to make us free for service. John 8:32
· This one will be blessed in what he does: showing God’s Word is of great effect to accomplish the good pleasure on those who do His Word will be blessed in what they do. Is. 55:11.
(Bible in One Year：Lamentations 1-2)
202300824 New Life’s Nature Is Love（1 Peter 1:22-23）
1 Peter 1:22： Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply,22
1. Obedience to the truth is obedience to Christ. 2 Cor. 10:5；
· Obedience to Christ is magnifying the Lord. Luke 1:46
· Let His peace rule over me. Col 3:15
2. Daily life must start from the purification of my own heart,
· All filthy words are uttered from heart Matt. 15:18
· A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Luke 6:45
3. Obey God to Love: from friendly love to the unconditional divine love; from sincere love to fervent love without falsehood
· Let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18
1 Peter 1:23： For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1. The word of God not only makes us reborn but also keeps our life. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Matt. 4:4
2. God’s Word is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword and is able to manifest and discern all. Heb. 4:12
3. God’s Word is everlasting and abiding. Matt 24:35； Isaiah 40:8.
(Bible in One Year： Jeremiah 51-52)
20230823 My Heart’s Delight in God’s Word（Je. 15:15-16； Ez. 2:8，3:1-3；Ro 8:6；Job23:12；Ps119:103）
1. Two prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel: no matter how hard the situation might be, they had overcome so can we, for Lord’s Spirit indwelling, speaking His Word as spiritual food. Jer. 15:15-16
· Weeping prophet Jeremiah was asking God to remember and save him in persecution and insults for God’s sake.15
· When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty.16
2.Prophet Ezekiel listened to God’s Word. Ez. 2:8，3:1-3
· But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you.
· Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it. So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Thank you Lord for granting me Your Word. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. making me treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Ro 8:6； Job 23:12； Ps 119:103
(Bible in One Year： Jeremiah 49-50)
20230817 Scriptural Prayer（Col 1:11-13）
1. Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
· Ask for Lord’s mercy：being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might，admitting I am weak physically and spiritually.
· Patience needs the power of faith, and longsuffering needs the power of love.
· Joyful Patience and longsuffering in true loving heart.
2. And giving joyful praises and thanks to the Father, who made us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light / For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.12-13
· Joyful Praising and thanksgiving the Almighty God leads us to the summit of prayer,
· Christ is the portion of all the saints, for sharing the possession and enjoyment of Christ’s Love.
· Walking in Christ’s Light/being partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Eph 5:8-14
· Sharing the grace with all the saints/learn to be fellow servants/coworkers. Col. 1:7; 4:7 .
3. Scriptural prayer according to the above verses
· Rejoice in the Lord always, even in hardship. Phil 4:4
· Joyful heart is good medicine, and a sorrowful spirit dries up the bones. Prov.17:22
· Thank God for giving us our Lord Christ as our model to follow His manner. Joyful is true love in obedience. Heb 12:2
(Bible in One Year：Jeremiah 28-30)
20230816 Prayerful Reading to Know God in Truth（Col. 1:9-10）
1. Since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will. 9
· Once being saved, we seek to know God’s will. Not being fools, God delights in our knowing His will. Eph. 5:17
· The primary purpose of prayers and supplications is not speaking to God but hearing God.
· Spiritual growth is not out of man, but of God’s works.
· Seeking in a humble heart to obtain the wisdom from the Above to deepen knowledge of God in truth. Matt. 11:25-26; James 3:17
· If one is filled with the knowledge of God’s will in truth, his life must be led by the will of God.
2. So we may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. 10; Gal 5:22-23
· We really desire to know God, not on reasoning or theory only, but shall obey God in our walk, knowing God’s will and practice in life.
· Daily life is built on the knowledge of God in truth. Really know God to discern from the heresy and walk worthy of the Lord.
· To walk worthy of the Lord, being in accordance with God’s will, not through his own judgment or zeal.
· Growth due to the knowledge of God. Spiritual knowledge brings about spiritual growth with spiritual fruit in every good thing.
· Our knowledge of God is increasing more and more gradually by daily accumulation step by step.
(Bible in One Year： Jeremiah 25-27)
20230815 Practice Love（Mark 12:30-31； Ro 12:9-21,13:8；1 John3:18； Matt 19:7; Eph 2:3;5:1; 1 Thes.5:16-18）
Practice love has three aspects:
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength/Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30-31
2. Love one another toward members in God’s family. Ro 12:9-21
· Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good/no one but God is good, sanctify self /do everything in love from heart. 9; 1 John 3:18, Matt 19:7; Eph 5:1
· Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another/in humility count others better than myself/more important than myself.10; Eph 2::3
· No lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord/ Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.11；Ro 13:8
· Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer/rejoice always, praying unceasingly, thanksgiving in everything.12; 1 Thes.5:16-18
3. Treat outsiders/people with different opinions/the opponents with friendly respect.17-21
· Amazing love: Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse/Wishing he well receiving eternal life in the Lord.14
· Sympathetic love: Rejoice with those who rejoice.15
· Humble love: Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things.16
· Modest love: Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.17
(Bible in One Year：Jeremiah 22-24)
20230814 Live before God（2 Peter 3:14-22； Pro. 10:8,17； Ps. 90:12,14）
Lord brings us to live before God.
1. God’s will is to suffer for doing good. 14-17
· Do not be afraid of suffering for the sake of righteousness.14
· Sanctify the Lord Christ in heart.15
· Keep a good conscience.16
· Be willing to keep doing God’s will.17
2. Christ’s suffering for saving sinners.18-22
· Righteous suffered for the unrighteous sinners that He might bring us to God.18
· Though he died in the flesh, he was made alive by the Spirit.18
· Christ is at the right hand of God/all is made subject to Him.19-22
Prayer
· Asking the wise of heart will receive commants/the one who is on the path of life follows Lord’s instruction. Proverbs 10:8,17
· Teach us to number our days when we may get a heart of wisdom/Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love for keeping your commandments, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Ps 90:12,14
(Bible in One Year：Jeremiah 18-21)