August 29th 14:48hrs DD

Well it has come time for Jeremy to write up the TWGDD (time with god daily devotional, yea i'm going official here lol). Well anyways so after my classes today i went back to my dorm room and i felt like reading more of Mark so I read a couple more chapters and I know Mark's a gospel and that its mostly about the life of Jesus. Therefore its great for learning about what the Lord wants of us also. So anyways i started reading and here are some of the versus that stuck out to me.

Mark 1:16-20 NIV "As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. " Come, follow me," Jesus said, " and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him.
When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he called them and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him."

Mark 1: 40 " A man with leprosy came up to him and begged him on his knees, " If you are willing, you can heal me" ( I believe that Pastor Missel pointed this verse out fairly recently)

I really liked the parable of the growing seed 2 but thats for another daily devotion another day.

Mark 4:38-41 " Jesus was in the stern sleeping on a cushion. The desciples woke him and said to him, " Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
He said to his disciples, " Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
They were terrified and asked each other, " Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"

Mark 5: 24-35 " A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, " If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, " Who touched my clothes?"
"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, " and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'"
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, " Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."


All these versus have at least one thing in common. And i didn't even get all the versus that stuck out to me. It's a simple theme one that i hope everyone has caught onto by now. Faith. Simple and yet soooooo important. In the first verse i mentioned where the disciples had to have enough faith to just leave their jobs. Would you drop your life earnings on the spot? Thats a lot of faith.


And with the man with leprosy. You'd think it doesn't really take faith to ask can you heal me. Like hey anythings worth a shot. But if you look closer at the verse. He says it with out a doubt that if Jesus will do it the man will be healed. "If you are willing, you can heal me". There is nothing in that sentence that says. Can you try to heal me or can you give it a shot. Its if you are willing, if you are willing then heal me because i have no doubt that you can.

And with the storm when the disciples got scared and frightened, they did go to jesus for help which was the right thing to do but afterwards the statement "have ye no faith?" Its the first thing that crosses Jesus' mind. Which shows how important it is. Do you want jesus' questioning your faith? Because he will not question. He knows.

And as finally for the woman and the healing. Faith is what healed her. As Jesus stated.

So as long as we have faith, then life will be ok. So keep that in mind and do your best to in everything you do have your focus on god and think that your doing it for god. Believe in the fact that he died to save you and that without him you are not going to heaven. I hope that this devotional helped people. Its just what i read today and yesterday and I hope that your faith may have increased a little through this. Well i'm gonna go down to the gym. I'll see everyone later and plz pray for me because things haven't gotten any easier.
later,
Jeremy