Weekly fellowship
For the week beginning July 14:
2023 Thanksgiving Blending Conference - The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity: Week 2 - The Joy of the Triune God Becoming Our Joy
| Old Testament Pages | New Testament Page | |
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| Monday | 837-838 | 963 |
| Tuesday | 839-840 | 964 |
| Wednesday | 841-842 | 965 |
| Thursday | 843-844 | 966 |
| Friday | 845-846 | 967 |
| Saturday | 847-848 | 968 |
| Msg #: | 17 | 18 |
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| Scriptures: | Jer. 15:10—17:27 | Jer. 18—20 |
| Title: | A Full Picture of God’s Economy by His Dispensing | Israel’s Sin Against Jehovah and Jehovah’s Punishment Upon Israel (10) Jehovah as the Potter and Israel as the Pottery |
| Verses to Pray-read: | Jer. 17:7-8 — "Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah and whose trust Jehovah is. And he will be like a tree transplanted beside water, which sends out its roots by a stream, and will not be afraid when heat comes; for its leaves remain flourishing, and it will not be anxious in the year of drought and will not cease to bear fruit." | Jer. 18:6 — "Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does? declares Jehovah. Indeed, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, so you are in My hand, O house of Israel." |
| Radio Msg: | 16 | 17 |
CONCERNING SEEKING—3 sets of scriptural verses
DESIRE: Psa. 42:1-2; 63:1; 73:25; 84:2; 143:6; Isa. 55:1; 41:17; Matt. 5:6; John 7:37; Rev. 21:6; 22:17
SEEK: Deut. 4:29; Psa. 22:26; 24:6; 27:4, 8; 32:6; 63:1a; 105:4; 119:2; Prov. 8:17; Isa. 55:6; Jer. 29:13; Matt. 7:7-8; 6:33; Heb. 11:6
PURSUE: S.O.S. 1:4a; 1 Cor. 9:24, 26; Gal. 2:2; 5:7; Phil. 3:12-16; 2 Tim. 4:7; Heb. 12:1
DESIRE
Psa. 42:1 As the hart pants / After the streams of water, / So my soul pants / For You, O God.
Psa. 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, / For the living God. / When will I come and appear / Before God?
Psa. 63:1 O God, You are my God; I seek You diligently. / My soul thirsts for You, / My flesh faints in longing for You, / In a dry and weary land without water.
Psa. 73:25 Whom do I have in heaven but You? / And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
Psa. 84:2 My soul longs, indeed even faints, / For the courts of Jehovah; / My heart and my flesh cry out / To the living God.
Psa. 143:6 I spread out my hands to You; / My soul [thirsts] for You like a parched land. Selah
Isa. 55:1 Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; / And you who have no money, / Come, buy and eat; / Yes, come, buy wine and milk / Without money and without price.
Isa. 41:17 When the poor and needy seek for water, and there is none, / And their tongue is dry from thirst, / I, Jehovah, will answer them; / [As] the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
Matt. 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
Rev. 21:6 And He said to me, They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him who thirsts from the spring of the water of life freely.
Rev. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who is thirsty come; let him who wills take the water of life freely.
SEEK
Deut. 4:29 And from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you will find [Him] if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Psa. 22:26 The lowly will eat and be satisfied; / Those who seek after Jehovah will praise Him--/ May your hearts live forever!
Psa. 24:6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, / Those who seek Your face, [even] Jacob.
Psa. 27:4 One thing I have asked from Jehovah; / That do I seek: / To dwell in the house of Jehovah / All the days of my life, / To behold the beauty of Jehovah, / And to inquire in His temple.
Psa. 27:8 [When You say,] Seek My face, / To You my heart says, Your face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
Psa. 32:6 Because of this let everyone who is faithful / Pray to You at a time when You may be found; / Surely when great waters overflow, / They will not reach him.
Psa. 63:1 O God, You are my God; I seek You diligently. / My soul thirsts for You, / My flesh faints in longing for You, / In a dry and weary land without water.
Psa. 105:4 Seek Jehovah and His strength; / Seek His face continually.
Psa. 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, / Who seek Him with all [their] heart.
Prov. 8:17 I love those who love me, / And those who seek me diligently will find me.
Isa. 55:6 Seek Jehovah while He may be found; / Call upon Him while He is near.
Jer. 29:13 And you will seek Me and find [Me] if you search for Me with all your heart;
Matt. 7:7 Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
Matt. 7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
Matt. 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing [to Him,] for he who comes forward to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
PURSUE
S.S. 1:4 Draw me; we will run after you--The king has brought me into his chambers--/ We will be glad and rejoice in you; / We will extol your love more than wine. / Rightly do they love you.
1 Cor. 9:24 Do you not know that those who run on a racecourse all run, but one receives the prize? Run in this way, that you may lay hold.
1 Cor. 9:26 I therefore run in this way, not as though without a clear aim; I box in this way, not as though beating the air;
Gal. 5:7 You were running well. Who hindered you that you would not believe and obey the truth?
Phil. 3:12 Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Phil. 3:13 Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing [I do:] Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Phil. 3:14 I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called [me] upward.
Phil. 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are full-grown, have this mind; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you.
Phil. 3:16 Nevertheless whereunto we have attained, by the same [rule] let us walk.
2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.
Heb. 12:1 Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, put away every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles [us] and run with endurance the race which is set before us,