Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,
left the Jordan…
Jesus returned to Galilee in the
power of the Spirit
(Luke 4:1a, 14a, NIV).
"Full of the Spirit" and "in the power of
the Spirit" are two phrases that clearly define the life that Christ Jesus lived in this world. They also define the lifestyle
that God has prepared for you.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that
I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go
unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye
shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it (John
14:12-14, KJV).
These are the words of Jesus and it is the Word of God; therefore,
there is no room for mistakes
or doubts. If you believe
in Jesus, you can—and should—live at the level He lived and do
the things He did, and even greater.
But how will you be able to do that? According to the Bible, which is the Word of God and does not lie, God designed
a divine plan to make you a person fit and capable of doing the works Jesus did
and even greater. It is a plan that does not depend on you or your limitations,
but depends totally and exclusively on God and His Power.
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified
us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light (Colossians
1:12, NIV).
It is God, and not you, who through this plan has made you fit to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light.
A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you
to walk in my statutes, and ye
shall keep my judgments, and do
them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God (Ezekiel
36:26-28, KJV).
Pay close attention, because in the Old
Covenant—given the constant and continuous failures of human beings in their
relationship with God—it was promised that He would establish a better
covenant. A New Covenant where everything would now depend on God and no longer
on your efforts
to please Him. He would give
you a new heart, a new spirit, and put His Holy Spirit in you, all with the purpose of His Word being recorded, once and for
all, in your mind and heart.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I
will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put
my law in their inward parts,
and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall
teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more (Jeremiah 31:31-34, KJV).
Beloved, all of this has already been
fulfilled in you thanks to Jesus Christ. Through His sacrifice on the cross,
His death, and His resurrection, you have now been justified in His blood,
forgiven by God, and sanctified and perfected by the promised Holy Spirit, who
is now in you and with you. You are a new creation, a born-again child of God,
and you can face the beginning of
the New Year with the confidence and
guarantee that the word of the living and true God gives you; knowing
that you ARE exactly like Jesus, filled
with the presence and power of the Spirit of God.
You come to the help of those who
gladly do right, who remember your ways. But
when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we
be saved? (Isaiah 64:5, NIV).
How could a person like you truly do the
works Jesus did and even greater? How could a person like you be saved? Only through the great love of God and
His abundant grace over your life.
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved (John
3:16-17, KJV).
God loves you so much that He chose to give up His own Son rather than lose you!
See how much our heavenly Father
loves us that he allows us to be called children of God. And the most wonderful thing is that we really are! Naturally, since most people do not know
God, they do not understand why we are (1 John
3:1, NIV).
God loves you so much that He has declared, through His most powerful Word, that you are now His beloved child!
Because of this, today you can receive
the New Year filled with the Spirit
of God and with the power of the Holy Spirit in you and with you.
Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness
in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world (1 John
4:17, KJV).
Just as Jesus is, so are you in this world! There is no way you can lose in this year that is about to begin!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, every day I am more
and more amazed by Your love for me. Knowing that the Holy Spirit is in me, and
with me—in the same way, authority, and power that He was with Jesus—is
something that marvels me and fills me with gratitude toward You. Oh, how You love me, God! Thank
You! Thank You! Thank You so much! Now I know there is no way I can lose
in this world. Lord Jesus, I love You with all my heart. Thank You for dying on
that cross and paying for all my sins. Thank You for rising
again and giving
me a new life. Thank You for the New Covenant in Your blood that
gives me the full and
abundant life You bought for me. Thank You for the eternal
life of a child of God!
Holy Spirit, You are my
God and my best friend. Thank You for fulfilling Your promise and being here,
in me and with me. I know that all Your love and power, which You placed at the
disposal of Christ Jesus, are now at my disposal. You caused me to be born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever! Because of this, and because of Your great love
for me, I believe and declare that I can do ALL things through Christ who
strengthens me. I am Yours and I have overcome
the world, for greater is He who is in me and with me than he who is in the world. From every problem,
illness, or affliction, I, (your
name here), shall come out more than a conqueror through Him who loved me unto
death, Christ Jesus. So, I am healed! I
am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! I am a born-again child of God! I am going to make this
starting year the best year of my life! In the name of Jesus. 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.
December
29 Luke 4.1-30
/ Ezekiel 44-45 / Isaiah 64
Luke
4 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by
the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted
of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he
afterward hungered.
3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command
this stone that it be made
bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,
That man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word of God.
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of
them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind
me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the
Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written,
He shall give his angels
charge over thee, to keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God.
13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the
region round about.
15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
16 And he came to
Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and stood up for to read.
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Esaias. And when he had
opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the
Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were
in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears.
22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious
words which proceeded out of
his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely
say unto me this proverb,
Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do
also here in thy country.
24 And he said, Verily
I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
25 But I tell you of
a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years
and six months,
when great famine was throughout all the land;
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon,
unto a woman that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel
in the time of Eliseus
the prophet; and none
of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
were filled with wrath,
29 And rose up, and
thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their
city was built,
that they might cast him down headlong.
30 But he passing through
the midst of them went his way,
Ezekiel
44 Then he brought
me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east;
and it was shut.
2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it;
because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath
entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the
prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch
of that gate, and shall go out by the way
of the same.
4 Then brought he
me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the
LORD filled the house
of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house
of the LORD, and all the laws thereof;
and mark well the entering in of the house, with
every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to
the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice
you of all your abominations,
7 In that ye have
brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,
when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
9 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
uncircumcised in flesh,
shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger
that is among the children of
Israel.
10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel
went astray, which went
astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be
ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering
and the sacrifice for the people,
and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
12 Because they
ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office
of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers
of the charge of the house, for all the service
thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 But the priests
the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the
Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep
my charge.
17 And it shall come
to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;
and no wool shall come upon
them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have
linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins;
they shall not gird themselves with any thing that
causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they
shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads,
nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest
drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
22 Neither shall
they take for their wives
a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of
the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall
teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between
the unclean and the clean.
24 And in
controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes
in all mine assemblies; and
they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person
to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile
themselves.
26 And after
he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven
days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the
Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye
shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated
thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of
all the firstfruits of all things,
and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the
priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest
the first of your dough,
that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine
house.
31 The priests
shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself,
or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
45 Moreover, when ye shall divide
by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of
five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This
shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
2 Of this there
shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about;
and fifty cubits
round about for the
suburbs thereof.
3 And of this
measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth
of ten thousand: and in it shall
be the sanctuary and the
most holy place.
4 The holy portion
of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the
LORD: and it shall be a
place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
5 And the five and twenty thousand
of length, and the ten thousand of breadth
shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a
possession for twenty chambers.
6 And ye shall appoint
the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over
against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of
Israel.
7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and
of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and
before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the
east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions,
from the west border unto the east border.
8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; and the
rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove
violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice,
take away your exactions
from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
10
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and
the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the
homer.
12 And the shekel shall be twenty
gerahs: twenty shekels,
five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be
your maneh.
13 This is the
oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of
barley:
14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part
of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
15 And one lamb out
of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel;
for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering,
and for peace offerings, to
make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation
for the prince in Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince's
part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the
house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and
the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the
house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; In the first month,
in the first day of the month, thou shalt
take a young bullock without
blemish, and cleanse
the sanctuary:
19 And the priest shall take of the blood
of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four
corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner
court.
20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that
erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
21 In the first month,
in the fourteenth day of the month,
ye shall have the
passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare
for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin
offering.
23 And seven days of
the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks
and seven rams without blemish
daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin
offering.
24 And he shall prepare
a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and an
hin of oil for an ephah.
25 In the seventh month,
in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like
in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the
burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
Isaiah
64 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains
might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting
fire burneth, the fire causeth
the waters to boil, to make
thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible
things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy
presence.
4 For since the
beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him
that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold,
thou art wroth;
for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
saved.
6 But we are all as
an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth
upon thy name, that stirreth
up himself to take
hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because
of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter;
and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither
remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all
thy people.
10
Thy holy cities
are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers
praised thee, is burned
up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself
for these things,
O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace,
and afflict us very sore?
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