Open Your Mouth Wide, and God Will Fill It
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Psalm 81:8-10 (KJV)
The Morning Exhortation
When the fire for fitness gets hot enough, it will burn away the lesser desires for things like eating lots of sugar, drinking too much alcohol, and living a life of leisure. Lasting change happens when the desire for God is fanned into a purifying flame of the heart. Catch fire and let the old unprofitable desires burn away. (Isaiah 55:7; Mark 12:28-30; 2 Timothy 1:6-7; Proverbs 16:3; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Ephesians 2:10; Philippians 2:13; Matthew 11:25-30)
Today’s Bible Reading
Exodus 24; John 3
Job 42; 2 Corinthians 12
The Prayer Appointed for This Week
O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant that I, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear my cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The Book of Common Prayer
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