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Friday Bible Recollection Of The Day Hebrews 4:15

A High Priest is one who mediates between God and Man. An ordinary High Priest may not always be able to sympathize with our weaknesses and failings. Because he's human like us.

This verse points us out to Jesus Christ, as our True High Priest and tells us the nature and the limitless extent of the empathy and compassion of Christ. He suffers with us, not merely showing compassion to those of us who have sinned, are suffering and are being tempted, but deeply sharing in our feelings of weaknesses. Jesus can do this because He has passed through these trials, has Himself been tempted and has overcome.

On a more personal level, whenever you face a problem, a trial or difficulty, you may not always approach your best friend for help. You will more likely than not approach a friend who has in the past faced a similar situation. This is because you expect a feeling of empathy and compassion from them to help you out of the situation that you're in. But you may not always be assured of their help, maybe they're out of town, or they're too busy or just not there for you.

Jesus is always there.
Jesus is always ready.
Jesus is always waiting for you. Just say the word.
And remember He has seen it all. Been there. Faced that. Overcome it.

So today,
Call On Him.

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Thursday Bible Recollection Of The Day Psalms 33:18

One of the most beautiful verses showing the faith of one who places his trust in the Lord and hopes for His Eternal Love.

The innermost feelings and workings of the human heart and soul are best known to the Creator from whom all things flow. All creation depend upon Him. And all creation seek His favor. If we are certain of God's favor towards us, then we need not fear anything that might come against us. This is put very clearly in the second part of
Romans 8:31
"If God is for us, who is against us?".

On a more personal note, God is always watching you. Not because He wants to catch you doing something wrong but because He loves you. And because He loves you, He loves looking at you, the object of His adoration. He knows your heart, your life so very intimately. He even knows when it's time for you to change your toothbrush* ( *from a very personal message from God to me which I'll share sometime later).

So today know that:
God is working behind the scenes to make your life a better one.
God is working for you to live life to the fullest.
God is asking you to take in the wonder of knowing that you're not alone.
And God is asking you to make time to share your day with Him.

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Bible Recollection Of The Day Isaiah 58:11

We are but pilgrims on earth until, our death and reward as eternal life with God in Heaven. As we go through the seasons of life, sometimes life leads us to desolate places. We go through trials and tribulations and sometimes we break down and we feel that all hope is lost.

But in the grand plans which God makes for his people there is no such deception. The unending fountains of forgiveness, peace and joy are ever open and ever full. The streams of life giving salvation are always flowing. We as tired and lost pilgrims may go there at any season of the year and from any part of a desolate world and find them always full, refreshing and free.

When we call upon the Lord for help, He hears and answers us. In these verses He promises to lead and guide us in the way that we should go. He also promises to give us strength and nourishment for our physical bodies. And refreshing peace to satisfy our parched souls and this will continue to flow on to the end of time.

So today, let us call out to Him. Let us look to Him.
He is the Only One who is able and ever-willing to rescue us out of any desolate situation that we find ourselves in.
Let us keep our eyes fixed on Him.
And let us truly believe in our hearts of His Goodness and Love for us. Eternally.

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Catholic Bible Recollection Of The Day Galatians 2:20

To say that this is one of the more remarkable verses in the New Testament is an understatement. Saint Paul says that just as Christ was put to death by crucifixion, Saint Paul became dead to sin, dead to the world and dead to the Jewish Law. St. Paul goes on to clarify that though he was dead, he now lives through Christ who lives within him. Or rather that he lives through the Grace of Christ who is the Redeemer.

Saint Paul now lives by his faith on the Son of God, by confidence in the Son of God, looking to Him for strength, trusting in his promises, and in his grace.

"Who loved me and gave Himself for me". Here St.Paul acknowledges the love of Christ who loved him so much that He had given Himself up to the death of the cross in his behalf.

How often have you at the end of the day, rewound and replayed the day in your mind. Most often than not, wished that you had spoken differently, acted differently and taken hot words back. Or it could be that you are facing a difficult problem. Or that your heart, mind and soul is feeling low because of your present circumstances.

In times as such, you wish you were a time traveler and could just go back a day before, a week before or even a year before and start anew. There's good news for you, God's love and mercies are always there waiting for you. Yours for the asking, any time, any place.

Put to death your old self and soak yourself in God's love and mercy. His compassion will take away yesterday with all its pain, sadness and regrets. His love and faithfulness will strengthen you every new day. And His Grace will fill you with His Holy Spirit and you will live the future a new being in Christ.

To conclude in the words of Saint Paul in his letter to the Romans, chapter 8, verse 31
"If God is for us, who can be against us?".

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Catholic Bible Recollection Of The Day Acts 3:19

The explanation of this verse is simple. In order that your sins may be forgiven, you must repent. Sin cannot be pardoned before you repent of it. In the order of the work of grace, repentance must always precede pardon. You cannot truly believe that your sin is pardoned until you repent of it.

To repent is to go back home where we belong. One of the best parables of repentance is that of the prodigal son as detailed in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 15 verses 11-32. Going home is not only about being forgiven and given the assurance of a new life, but also finding new meaning and a new direction for your life.

Here it's all about returning to God, renewing your relationship with God and redirecting your life to fit in with God.

When you repent God changes you from the inside. You are a new person. You are different. You abhor sin. You dislike doing things that displeases the Father. His Holy Spirit lives in you and starts making positive changes in you. This was best understood by King David in Psalm 51, after he committed adultery with Bathsheba and then murdered Uriah. David goes on to say in verses 10-12
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Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11
Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

You need to remember that repentance is not about feeling bad. It's all about admitting your sin and asking God's help with it. And God will refresh you with His Holy Spirit. The second half of today's verse tells us that true repentance leads to times of refreshing from God Himself.

This call to repentance, turning away from your sin, asking pardon and returning to the Father is open to all. Today God is telling you:
"Come Home To Me".

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Catholic Bible Recollection Of The Day 2 Corinthians 12:9

Saint Paul in the 2nd letter to the Corinthians, chapter 12 tells us of a revelation that he had of Our Lord. He gives us an inkling of the remarkable vision that he had of Heaven and the extraordinary wonders that he was permitted to gaze upon.

He goes on to say that to prevent him from getting a swollen head over this special gift from Our Lord, he was given a 'thorn'. A thorn which was painful and for which he prayed earnestly to Our Lord to deliver him from. The answer he received forms the verse which we are reading now. Our Lord goes on to say that His Grace is all that Saint Paul needs to support him.

This goes for all of us today. Every day, every hour, every minute, God extends His Hand of Grace to you to help you get through whatever that you are facing.
God says:
You are weak, I am strong.
You are restless, I am restful.
You are unable, I am able.
You are powerless, I am powerful.
Where all your efforts end, let His Grace take over.

So today, accept the Grace that God is offering you and remember that nothing is impossible for Him. Surrender to Him and let Him take over your life and it's problems. And in the words of Saint Paul in his letter to the Philippians 4:4:
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

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Catholic Bible Recollection Of The Day Numbers 23:19

Numbers 23:19

A fundamental aspect of God the Father's character is His Faithfulness. A realization, acceptance and unshaken belief in this aspect of God's character is the easy and sure path to the best possible life that you can have. Let me put it in another way, if you don't believe that God can be faithful enough to lead you to the best possible life that you could lead, then obviously, you will not consult Him in every decision that you have to make. Looking further, you will not be able to trust Him with your material life. And thus you will neither be able to fully enjoy the life that He has planned out for you nor enjoy His Presence in your life.

God is always awake and present and faithful to your needs. In the 6-8 hours that you sleep, you are helpless. Neither can you help others nor can others help you. But your God is always awake, aware and heedful to your needs - Faithful. Friends and Family may fail you but not your God - Faithful. Family and Friends may not be there when you are in need of them, But not your God - Faithful. Your God will always be there for you - Faithful.

Read these verses to find what the scriptures say about God's faithfulness.
Romans 8:28
Isaiah 54:10
Hebrews 10:23
Pholippians 1:6
1 Thessalonins 5:23-24

Make a resolution now to take up on God the Father's offer of the best possible life He has planned for you. Respond to the Father's faithfulness with your own and experience basking in the love and joy of a Faithful Father who loves you perfectly and completely. And always remember that God's faithfulness will outlast anything that you can imagine.

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Catholic Bible Recollection Of The Day Galatians 4:6-7

All of us have been created by God the Father. God loves to look upon us as His children. But our sinful nature separates us from the love of the Father. The power and grace of Jesus's supreme sacrifice for us by His passion and death on the Cross have made us children of God.

Furthermore, Jesus's love for those who have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb is exemplified by the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit who resides in all of us who trust and believe in Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, helps us to abhor sin and live a life that is acceptable to the Father.

God the Father is Holiness personified and thus expects that same holiness from each and every one of us. Be Holy As I am Holy says the Lord in the scriptures.

As children of the Father through Jesus, we are heirs to the Kingdom of God and that means eternal life with the Holy Trinity in Heaven where our real home is.

The greatest gift that the Father can bestow upon us is eternal life with Him in our Heavenly home and that is what this verse promises.

So let us live not as orphans without accepting this Truth but as children of God secure in peace and joy living in the unconditional love of the Father .

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Isaiah 12:2
God is my savior; I will trust him and not be afraid. The LORD gives me power and strength; he is my savior.
The spiritual translation of this verse is that God has given us the free gift of salvation. Since this gift is from God Himself and not any other being whether angelic, super-natural or of human origin, we can trust in the source which is God Himself.
Thus, we need not be afraid of the harmful works of other inferior beings since God is the source of this salvation and all we need to do is to trust Him completely.
God is the foundation of our confidence. We are safe in His hands. No snares or arrows or plots of the evil one shall touch us.

The verse in itself is a beautiful prayer of Faith, Hope and Trust in God.

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1 John 1:9

God the Father forgives us our sins whenever we confess them in the name of His beloved Son, Jesus. When we call upon the name of Jesus, God our loving Father, can only look at us through the wounds of Jesus. He cannot look at us in any other way.

This supreme grace is available to us sinners freely, at all times and at any number of times. With this wonderful free gift in our hands, we are always in a state of Grace. We only have to call out.

This Grace came to us free, but came at a cost to our Lord Jesus, by His Passion and Death on the Cross.

Let us not add the Supreme Sin of treating the Blood of the Lamb cheaply, by again and again falling into sin with the carefree knowledge that our sins will be forgiven by God.

When we realize the supreme sacrifice of our Lord Jesus, we must truly repent. The key to forgiveness of sins is true repentance. With true repentance comes an aversion to sin. And with this aversion to sin, we get closer and closer to God the Father by becoming more and more like His One Beloved Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus. 

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James 3:9

Most of us wake up in the morning giving thanks to God for the gift of another day. Some of us may pray for a good and meaningful day. The vast majority of us wake up with positive feelings.
Now, try and visualize the time just before we fall asleep. Again the vast majority of us will wonder what went wrong with our day. We recollect our mistakes, failings and often feel sadness at the thought of a day that might have been spent better. With more patience, love, kindness, understanding...you get the drift.

I'm going to try and give a situation that I face most days and show that how we can overcome. As Saint James so aptly put it in chapter 3 of his letter, the tongue is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.

I wake up this morning, my first words are
Praise You Father, Praise You Jesus, Praise You Holy Spirit.
I walk downstairs to see my wife making us coffee. She wishes me a Good Morning with a smile. In the meantime, I find a floor-mat out of place and instead of wishing my wife a Good Morning in return, grumble about the out-of-place floor-mat. The smile on my wife's face fades and she becomes quiet. She has a great deal more patience than I have and so does not react.

As the day progresses, I keep finding faults and a little later, the whole house is in a state of negativity and full-blown blame-game is on. At this stage even if I realize my fault and want to make amends, I can't set things right because our household has 3 generations living together and everyone's feelings are hurt.

This is the case in most homes and communities where the first person to utter a sentence at the beginning of the day sets the trend for that day. A smile, a touch, an acknowledgement, a word of praise, a thank you, a kiss sets the trend for the day in our homes.

If you have time try and read the whole chapter 3 of Saint James's letter. It's a small chapter which you can finish in no time.

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Habakkuk 2:14

Historically, in this bible verse, God's power and might is glorified by the destruction of Babylon. Looking forward, Babylon as symbol of sin and bondage of man is destroyed and thus paves the way for all men to hear, accept and be filled with the knowledge of the One, True, Living God.

It is our God's ultimate desire that all men hear about Him, accept Him and be filled with His Holy Spirit. This verse echoes in
Isaiah 11:9
"They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea."

The coming of Jesus Christ is the fore-runner of the fulfillment of this prophesy. Jesus taught us about the Father. All of us who accept the Truth are commissioned to spread the Word of God.

The conclusion that every christian longs for is in Philippians 2:10-11
"that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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James 4:3
The key take-away here is that when our prayers are based on worldly desires rather than the graces and mercies of God, they remain unheard. We often ask God for gifts with wrong aims and intentions. These aims and intentions more often than not, affect our prayer life and desire for God, which should be our driving force. God is right in not answering such prayers for worldly things.

What we forget is that God the Father wants the very best for each one of us. The greatest gift that He can bestow upon us is eternal life with Him. And anything that diverts our attention from the Path is at enmity with God.

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More often than not, when we have a problem at hand, the first response is to pick up our mobile phones and call a friend to ask his opinion and solution. We may go a step further and seek advice from a social media group of "friends". Finally, we bury our heads in the sand hoping it will all go away by getting busy with a lot of unimportant and needless "work". All this and more when God was there all along at our elbow just waiting for us to ask for His help.

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The more you read the Word of God, the more the desire to read, understand and apply it in your life. By applying the Word of God in your personal prayers, the more you realize the power of the Word of God. As you see over a period of time the power of the Word of God touching those areas for which you had prayed for, the more you will want to apply it in all areas of your life.

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Only when we study the Word of God in-depth, do we realize that  anxiety, worry and obsessive behaviors have no place in our lives. They do not have to rule us. The Word of God truly sets us free.

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