What Is God’s Will for Your Life?
Good, Pleasing, and Perfect!
By Riqui Ricón*
But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice,
and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto
you. (Jeremiah 7:23, KJV)
The sooner you understand that everything written
in the Bible, the Word of
God, was written for your benefit, the sooner you’ll be able to believe and
receive the full and abundant
life that Jesus purchased for you when He died on the cross.
Keep this Book of the Law always on
your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I
not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will
be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:8–9, NIV)
It’s that simple!
The key to your life is to make the Bible your foundation and guiding principle. Put God’s Word in
your mind, in your mouth, and in your heart!
Read and meditate on the
Bible every day of your
life—day and night.
For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews
4:12, KJV)
The Word of God is alive and powerful to
produce in your life the faith you need to believe
and make happen
every single thing God has said about you.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares
the Lord, plans
to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. (Jeremiah
29:11, NIV)
God’s will and desire for you has always
been good, pleasing,
and perfect. And
the most beautiful
truth of all is that God loves you. Yes, my friend,
God loves
you so much that He chose to give His own Son to pay the price for your sins
rather than lose you.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, NIV)
It is because of His great love for you that
God has spoken words of blessing and good over your life.
He loves you so much that He designed a plan in which
all your sins would be paid for through the life of His Son, Jesus, to justify
you, sanctify you, perfect
you, forgive you, and give you Eternal
Life—a life that only
Born-Again children of God can enjoy.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation
has come: The old has gone,
the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV)
Now, in Christ Jesus, the best part of your life has already begun.
A completely new path starts
at your feet—one already blessed by God your Father. And even though you will
certainly face afflictions in this world, you can live in
peace, because by God’s Word of Honor,
you can be certain that you will come
out more than a conqueror over any problem, sickness, or trial through Him who
loved you, Christ Jesus.
God is not human,
that he should
lie, not a human being,
that he should
change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not
fulfill? I received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
(Numbers 23:19–20, NLT)
God has established it in His Word, and if God said it, He will fulfill it. If God spoke it, He will carry it out. God
does not lie!
For all these reasons, the time has come—and it is now—for
you to make reading and meditating on the Bible the highest priority in
your life.
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
Only in the Bible can you truly know and believe the love that God has given
you.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health
and that all may
go well with you, even as
your soul is getting along well. (3 John 1:2, NIV)
Only in the Bible can you know and believe
the good, pleasing,
and perfect will God has for you.
But those who drink the water
I give will never thirst.
Indeed, the water
I give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life. (John 4:14,
NLT)
The Bible, God’s Word, is the source
of the water of eternal
life flowing in you.
It is the seed planted in the good soil of your heart, which will bear fruit a hundredfold.
So, God loves you, and He wants things to go
well for you and for you to live a good life. Therefore, you can begin to believe
and receive this love God has for you by aligning your thoughts,
feelings, emotions, and words with His Word.
Submit to God, submit to His Word,
resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
For Satan comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, but now Jesus is with you to
give you that good and abundant life that He already paid for by shedding the last drop of His blood out of love for
you.
Do not conform to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s
will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans
12:2, NLT)
Always remember that everything
written in the Bible about you will come to pass—it is the Word of God!
It is the Word of Honor!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for Your Word, the Bible. Lord, I know that You do not lie, that the
Bible is Your Word of Honor, and therefore my heart is firm and confident in You, Lord Jesus. By Your Word, my
heart is secure, and I will not fear. By
Your Word, I know that I have set the Lord,
my hope, the Most High,
as my dwelling place. No harm will overtake me, nor will any plague come near my home.
For You will command Your angels concerning me to guard me in all my ways. They
will lift me up in their hands, so that my foot will not strike a stone. I will
tread on the lion and the cobra; I will trample the great lion and the serpent.
Because I have placed Your love in me, You will also deliver me; You will exalt
me, because I know Your name. I will call on You, and You will answer me; You
will be with me in my distress.
You will deliver
me and bring glory to Yourself. You will satisfy
me with long life
and show me Your salvation. I am healed; I am free to live that full and
abundant life that is written about me. Lord Jesus, You are the source of the
water of Eternal Life flowing in me. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary
human being, subject
to the law of sin and death, but now as a legitimate and authentic Child of God,
Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother.
Therefore, I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 6 2 Timothy 2 / Jeremiah 7-8 / Psalm
122
2 Timothy
2 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore
endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs
of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to
be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive
for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first
partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ
of the seed of David
was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble,
as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's
sakes, that they may also obtain
the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful
saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny
us:
13
If we believe
not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging
them before the Lord
that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself
approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness.
17 And their
word will eat as doth a canker:
of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past
already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the
foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there
are not only vessels of gold and of silver,
but also of wood and of
earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man
therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's
use, and prepared
unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts:
but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with
them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish
and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender
strifes.
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle
unto all men, apt
to teach, patient,
25 In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to
the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Jeremiah
7 The word that came to Jeremiah
from the LORD, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words,
saying, The temple
of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, are these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words,
that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder,
and commit adultery,
and swear falsely,
and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called
by my name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which
was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it
for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake
unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but
ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein
ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up cry nor prayer for
them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children
gather wood, and the fathers
kindle the fire, and the women
knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of
their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the
ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not
unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings
or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded
I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers
came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this
day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up
early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their
fathers.
27 Therefore thou
shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer
thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off
from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley
of the son of Hinnom, to burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my heart.
32 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
no more be called Tophet, nor the valley
of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet,
till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for
the land shall be desolate.
8 At that time, saith
the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the
bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves:
2 And they shall spread
them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they
shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
3 And death shall
be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither
I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and
not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden
back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they
refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard,
but they spake not
aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned
to his course, as the horse
rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the
time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of
the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed
and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I
give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit
them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest
is given to covetousness, from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed
when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither
could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have
given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced
cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked
for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting
of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled
at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and
have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell
therein.
17 For, behold,
I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18 When I would comfort
myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell
in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why
have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter
of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on
me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead;
is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Psalm
122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand
within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the
LORD, unto the testimony of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper
that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within
thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within
thee.
9
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
What Is God’s Will for Your Life?
Good, Pleasing, and Perfect!
By Riqui Ricón*
But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice,
and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto
you. (Jeremiah 7:23, KJV)
The sooner you understand that everything written
in the Bible, the Word of
God, was written for your benefit, the sooner you’ll be able to believe and
receive the full and abundant
life that Jesus purchased for you when He died on the cross.
Keep this Book of the Law always on
your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I
not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will
be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:8–9, NIV)
It’s that simple!
The key to your life is to make the Bible your foundation and guiding principle. Put God’s Word in
your mind, in your mouth, and in your heart!
Read and meditate on the
Bible every day of your
life—day and night.
For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews
4:12, KJV)
The Word of God is alive and powerful to
produce in your life the faith you need to believe
and make happen
every single thing God has said about you.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares
the Lord, plans
to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. (Jeremiah
29:11, NIV)
God’s will and desire for you has always
been good, pleasing,
and perfect. And
the most beautiful
truth of all is that God loves you. Yes, my friend,
God loves
you so much that He chose to give His own Son to pay the price for your sins
rather than lose you.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, NIV)
It is because of His great love for you that
God has spoken words of blessing and good over your life.
He loves you so much that He designed a plan in which
all your sins would be paid for through the life of His Son, Jesus, to justify
you, sanctify you, perfect
you, forgive you, and give you Eternal
Life—a life that only
Born-Again children of God can enjoy.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation
has come: The old has gone,
the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV)
Now, in Christ Jesus, the best part of your life has already begun.
A completely new path starts
at your feet—one already blessed by God your Father. And even though you will
certainly face afflictions in this world, you can live in
peace, because by God’s Word of Honor,
you can be certain that you will come
out more than a conqueror over any problem, sickness, or trial through Him who
loved you, Christ Jesus.
God is not human,
that he should
lie, not a human being,
that he should
change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not
fulfill? I received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
(Numbers 23:19–20, NLT)
God has established it in His Word, and if God said it, He will fulfill it. If God spoke it, He will carry it out. God
does not lie!
For all these reasons, the time has come—and it is now—for
you to make reading and meditating on the Bible the highest priority in
your life.
See what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1
John 3:1, NIV)
Only in the Bible can you truly know and believe the love that God has given
you.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health
and that all may
go well with you, even as
your soul is getting along well. (3 John 1:2, NIV)
Only in the Bible can you know and believe
the good, pleasing,
and perfect will God has for you.
But those who drink the water
I give will never thirst.
Indeed, the water
I give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life. (John 4:14,
NLT)
The Bible, God’s Word, is the source
of the water of eternal
life flowing in you.
It is the seed planted in the good soil of your heart, which will bear fruit a hundredfold.
So, God loves you, and He wants things to go
well for you and for you to live a good life. Therefore, you can begin to believe
and receive this love God has for you by aligning your thoughts,
feelings, emotions, and words with His Word.
Submit to God, submit to His Word,
resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
For Satan comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, but now Jesus is with you to
give you that good and abundant life that He already paid for by shedding the last drop of His blood out of love for
you.
Do not conform to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s
will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans
12:2, NLT)
Always remember that everything
written in the Bible about you will come to pass—it is the Word of God!
It is the Word of Honor!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for Your Word, the Bible. Lord, I know that You do not lie, that the
Bible is Your Word of Honor, and therefore my heart is firm and confident in You, Lord Jesus. By Your Word, my
heart is secure, and I will not fear. By
Your Word, I know that I have set the Lord,
my hope, the Most High,
as my dwelling place. No harm will overtake me, nor will any plague come near my home.
For You will command Your angels concerning me to guard me in all my ways. They
will lift me up in their hands, so that my foot will not strike a stone. I will
tread on the lion and the cobra; I will trample the great lion and the serpent.
Because I have placed Your love in me, You will also deliver me; You will exalt
me, because I know Your name. I will call on You, and You will answer me; You
will be with me in my distress.
You will deliver
me and bring glory to Yourself. You will satisfy
me with long life
and show me Your salvation. I am healed; I am free to live that full and
abundant life that is written about me. Lord Jesus, You are the source of the
water of Eternal Life flowing in me. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary
human being, subject
to the law of sin and death, but now as a legitimate and authentic Child of God,
Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother.
Therefore, I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November 6 2 Timothy 2 / Jeremiah 7-8 / Psalm
122
2 Timothy
2 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore
endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs
of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to
be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive
for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first
partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ
of the seed of David
was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble,
as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's
sakes, that they may also obtain
the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful
saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny
us:
13
If we believe
not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging
them before the Lord
that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself
approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness.
17 And their
word will eat as doth a canker:
of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past
already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the
foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there
are not only vessels of gold and of silver,
but also of wood and of
earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man
therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's
use, and prepared
unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts:
but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with
them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish
and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender
strifes.
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle
unto all men, apt
to teach, patient,
25 In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to
the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Jeremiah
7 The word that came to Jeremiah
from the LORD, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words,
saying, The temple
of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, are these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words,
that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder,
and commit adultery,
and swear falsely,
and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called
by my name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which
was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it
for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake
unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but
ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein
ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up cry nor prayer for
them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children
gather wood, and the fathers
kindle the fire, and the women
knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of
their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the
ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not
unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings
or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded
I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers
came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this
day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up
early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their
fathers.
27 Therefore thou
shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer
thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off
from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley
of the son of Hinnom, to burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my heart.
32 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
no more be called Tophet, nor the valley
of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet,
till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for
the land shall be desolate.
8 At that time, saith
the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the
bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves:
2 And they shall spread
them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they
shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
3 And death shall
be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither
I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and
not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden
back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they
refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard,
but they spake not
aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned
to his course, as the horse
rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the
time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of
the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed
and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I
give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit
them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest
is given to covetousness, from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed
when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither
could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have
given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced
cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked
for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting
of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled
at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and
have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell
therein.
17 For, behold,
I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18 When I would comfort
myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell
in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why
have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter
of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on
me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead;
is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Psalm
122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand
within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the
LORD, unto the testimony of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper
that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within
thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within
thee.
9
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
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