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    ONE BREAD, ONE BODY:
    "LÒNG TIN CỦA ANH ĐÃ CỨU CHỮA ANH". (LUCA 18: 42)
     
    Monday, November 14, 2022,

    Revelation 1:1-4; 2:1-5
    Psalm 1:1-4, 6
    Luke 18:35-43
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    SEEING HEALINGS
    “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.” —Luke 18:42

    Many Christians in our secular humanistic culture have been programmed to have reservations about Jesus’ healings. They wonder whether Jesus really did all those healings. Even if they believe He did, they doubt whether He still does such things. They think that things are different now, and of course, they are right. Now we can’t talk to Jesus standing right in front of us, and we can’t audibly hear His voice. Things are different for us than for those who walked and talked with Jesus.

    However, these differences do not mean that Jesus heals less but that He heals more. Jesus said that it is better for us that He go (Jn 16:7). After Jesus ascended, He and the Father sent the Holy Spirit (see Jn 16:7-8). Filled with the Spirit, those who believe in Jesus can do works greater than Jesus ever did (Jn 14:12). Jesus began the New Testament healing ministry; He did not end it. Therefore, we can live in the golden age of healing. But we must first let Jesus open our eyes to see His greater healings and greater glory shining through the New Testament Church (see 2 Cor 3:9).

    Lord, “I want to see” (Lk 18:41).



    Prayer: Father, may I begin to see things the way You see them.

    Promise: “I hold this against you, though: you have turned aside from your early love. Keep firmly in mind the heights from which you have fallen. Repent, and return to your former deeds.” —Rv 2:4-5

    Praise: Gloria was healed of tumors three times, each time just before the scheduled operation.

    (For a related teaching on How Jesus Healed, listen to, download or order our CD 11A-1 or DVD 11A on our website.)

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BÁNH SỰ SỐNG LC - ONE BREAD, ONE BODY - SUNDAYSỐNG

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    Sunday, November 13, 2022, 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time

    LUCA 21, 5-19
    Malachi 3:19-20
    2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
    Psalm 98:5-9
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    DEFENSE ATTORNEY
    “I bid you resolve not to worry about your defense beforehand.” —Luke 21:14

    Doesn’t the Word of God say to be ever ready to give a reply to those who question you about why you live a life of faith? (1 Pt 3:15) The Holy Spirit is the Paraclete (Jn 14:26), a term which can be translated as “Attorney for the Defense.” Since the Holy Spirit is our Defense Attorney, we are actually stifling the Spirit (1 Thes 5:19) if we try to take over the Spirit’s job. Let the Spirit prepare your defense. You need only to be His witness when called upon.

    The Holy Spirit will remind us of all He taught us in advance (Jn 14:26; 16:13). The Spirit will teach us “what to say and how to speak” (Jn 12:49). The Spirit will do a far better job of defending us than we can ever do. So we can instead spend our time thanking and praising Him, and listening to His words. Then we can let God do His job. Our business is simply to follow Him (Jn 21:19).

    It’s the daily life of faith that prepares us. We can’t think of all the ways others will challenge us, but the Spirit knows this in advance. When we are living in the Spirit and in a life of faithful prayer with a well-formed conscience, then whatever the Spirit brings to mind is what He wants said. Even with an incomplete formation of conscience, if we are docile to the Spirit, He has the power to bring the proper words to our mind. 

    Offer your life to God as a living sacrifice; then the Holy Spirit will renew and transform your mind (Rm 12:1-2).



    Prayer: Holy Spirit, open my ears to hear Your voice, and open my lips to speak Your words.

    Promise: “By patient endurance you will save your lives.” —Lk 21:19

    Praise: “The night shall be no more. They will need no light from lamps or the sun, for the Lord God shall give them light, and they shall reign forever” (Rv 22:5). Praise the risen Jesus!

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BÁNH SỰ SỐNG LC - ONE BREAD, ONE BODY - THỨ SÁU

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    Friday, November 11, 2022, St. Martin of Tours

    2 John 4-9
    Psalm 119:1-2, 10-11, 17-18
    Luke 17:26-37
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    THE WORD ON OVERCOMING TEMPTATION
    “Look out that you yourselves do not lose what you have worked for; you must receive your reward in full.” —2 John 8

    Satan wants to keep people on the sideline and off the field of spiritual battle. If Satan cannot keep a Christian from entering the field of spiritual battle, his next tactic is to keep the Christian weak and defensive by constant accusations (Rv 12:10). He attempts to keep both Christians and non-Christians apathetic, fearful, paralyzed, distracted, and doubting.

    However, one of Satan’s special opportunities is the occasion when a Christian achieves success in spiritual battle. Then the enemy will aim for a vicious takedown. When a powerful Christian falls, the evil one ensures much negative publicity, so that thousands of people will be tempted to turn away from the Lord and His Church.

    God appreciates those who have labored long and hard for Him (see Heb 6:10). He does not want you to lose your reward; “you must receive your reward in full” (2 Jn 8). Satan aims to prevent that by pressing temptations upon you (see Mt 4:1ff). Thus, a verse from today’s psalm response is helpful: “Within my heart I treasure Your promise, that I may not sin against You” (Ps 119:11).

    Therefore, read and treasure the Word of God each day (Ps 1:2; Acts 17:11). Store it in your heart and mind, then in time of temptation, the Holy Spirit can call to mind the Scripture verses stored in your heart to prevent you from succumbing to sin.



    Prayer: Father, give me the constant grace I need to keep my eyes fixed on Jesus (Heb 12:2).

    Promise: “Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it; whoever loses it will keep it.” —Lk 17:33

    Praise: Family circumstances forced St. Martin of Tours to join the Roman army while still a teen. However, Martin later clothed a beggar and encountered the risen Christ.

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    Thursday, November 10, 2022, Pope St. Leo the Great

    Philemon 7-20
    Psalm 146:7-10
    Luke 17:20-25
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    CROSS-CULTURAL EVANGELIZATION
    “I, Paul, ambassador of Christ and now a prisoner for Him, appeal to you for my child, whom I have begotten during my imprisonment.” —Philemon 9-10

    Paul led Onesimus, a runaway slave and fellow prisoner, to the Lord (Phlm 10). Paul had also led Onesimus’ owner, Philemon, to the Lord (Phlm 19). Paul converted both slave and owner, both poor and rich. In his ministry of evangelization, Paul even did the unthinkable by converting both Jews and Gentiles.

    Most people come to the Lord because of the witness of someone like them. It takes an amazing person to lead to the Lord people of different backgrounds. For example, most people who would identify with and have compassion for a runaway slave, don’t also relate to the slave-owner, or vice versa. It requires exceptional compassion to care about both the slave and the owner.

    List the people you have been instrumental in leading to the Lord. If you observe significant differences in your converts’ ages, backgrounds, races, and economic status, then you have a love that covers a multitude of sins (1 Pt 4:8) and bridges the greatest gaps.

    Evangelization is primarily a matter of deep love, and cross-cultural evangelization is a matter of even deeper love. May we love the lost more than we love ourselves. May we have a river of love so deep that it will cover not only those close and familiar to us, but also those far away and different from us.



    Prayer: Father, may Your love impel me (2 Cor 5:14) to break new ground in sharing my faith.

    Promise: “A time will come when you will long to see one day of the Son of Man but will not see it.” —Lk 17:22

    Praise: Pope St. Leo the Great wrote: “In spite of the many parts of [Christ’s] holy body, the Church subsists as an integral Whole.”

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