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The Father's Business Podcast
The Father's Business Podcast
Devotional-Praying the Beatitudes
Explore the transformative power of the Beatitudes and uncover how these timeless teachings can guide your spiritual journey. Ever wondered how embodying traits like humility, meekness, and mercy can lead to divine blessings? We promise that by tuning in, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the path to spiritual satisfaction through aligning with Jesus' teachings. Through prayer and surrender, we'll reflect on what it truly means to hunger for righteousness and the courage required to stand firm in the face of adversity for righteousness' sake.
The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God. Thank you for listening to this devotional Praying the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes outline the new way of the kingdom that Jesus said we should seek above all else in Matthew 6.33. Above all else, in Matthew 6, 33. It's a tall order to be like Jesus, like his compassion, his humility, his longing for his father's glory. But our part is not to be perfect. Our part is to open ourselves up to partner with Jesus and all of who he is, and let who he is shine through us. The Beatitudes are conditional promises of blessing. Letting Jesus work, his character in us is the condition. Blessing is the promise. What does blessed mean? It means joy produced by the revelation of his matchless grace. It means living in God's kingdom in our heart, so that our satisfaction comes from him, not from our favorable circumstances. So as we pray through the Beatitudes today, what we are doing is surrendering our will to our Father's will and saying we want to partner with Jesus to allow more of him and less of us to come through. Pray this for yourself that you will enjoy the blessings of being the person God wants you to be, as God molds you into the character of his beloved and well-pleasing Son.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5.3 said blessed are the poor in spirit. Heavenly Father, I want the humility not to be impressed with myself and my accomplishments. Increase yourself in me. More of you, god, less of me. I am overwhelmed with a sense of my spiritual need. I recognize my true spiritual condition of pride and self-sufficiency and I am broken over my need to cast myself upon your mercy.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5, 4 says Matthew 5.4 says Blessed are those who mourn God. I pray for you to break my heart with what breaks your heart. Let me embrace the true grief of the man of sorrows. I die to unholy grief, in other words self-pity. Let me receive your holy comfort in my losses, wipe away my tears in your tender mercy in places where I am hurting.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5.5 says blessed are the meek. My Lord Jesus was meek and lowly and gentle of heart, but in no way weak. Jesus, you knew that you had all the infinite resources of God at your command. So I pray for you to reign me in so that I may be gentle in your strength. I accept all your dealings with me as good. Replace my self assertiveness and demanding my rights with your holy, long suffering and humility.
Speaker 1:Matthew five six says blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Father, may I intensely long for more of you with unquenchable thirst. May my spirit and my soul be completely satisfied only in the living water of your presence. I don't want to satisfy my soul appetite at the world's table, but I want to taste and see that you are good. I ardently desire you as much as I need food and water to sustain my life.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5, 7 says Blessed are the merciful Father of mercies. Help me open my heart to others Through me, show the mercy they need, setting off a chain reaction of grace. I choose to forgive in the measure as I have been forgiven, because Jesus lives in me with his infinite forgiveness. Matthew 5.8 said Blessed are the pure in heart. Jesus, wash me with your holiness, burn out the impurities with your refining fire. I present my hands and my heart for sweet daily cleansing from the pollution and guilt of sin, separate the precious from the dross, the worthless, the insincere and the unholy. I want to be pure.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5, 9, blessed are the peacemakers. Prince of peace, I renounce jealousy and competition. I am content with who I am before you. I receive your peace in my heart, I choose to be at peace with everybody in all circumstances. As much as I can, I will make peace where there is discord. As a peacemaker, I will sow in peace and reap a harvest of righteousness. I am an ambassador of reconciliation. I am an ambassador of reconciliation.
Speaker 1:Matthew 5.10 said Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake. Righteous one, help me to suffer for the right reason, for your sake, for God's likeness and commitment to you, not for self-pity or petty sensitivity. I will stand strong when opposed for pursuing you and I will fall deeper into your arms. I am a citizen of another kingdom and I bow only to God's rightful claims on my life by his spirit. God, we thank you for these promises of blessing of your kingdom, your relentless mercy, seeing your face being conformed to the family, likeness as your child, and more of heaven's reign here on earth.
Speaker 1:We pray that you would open our eyes to how we can intercede for others, using the Beatitudes as a model of the character of Jesus that you want to work not only in our lives but the lives of our loved ones. We pray, jesus, to fulfill all of the blessings that you have promised in our lives. Help us to stay step in step with you, following your heartbeat. This devotional is taken from prayer Essentials for Living in His Presence, volume 2, by Sylvia Gunter. It is available at our website, wwwthefathersbusinesscom. This devotional is taken from Living in His Presence, volume 2 by Sylvia Gunter. Find it on our website, wwwthefathersbusinesscom.
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Speaker 1:And for the first time we're going to be offering two tracks at the same time. You can either come and be a part of the beginner track, which is for people that are new to the idea of Ruach Journey, or be a part of the advanced track for those of you that have either attended a conference before or have done the Ruach Journey study. That's available on our website.
Speaker 2:So if you want to come be a part of that beginner track, we're going to give you the foundation for the teachings of the Ruach journey. We'll be talking about the biblical foundation for blessing your spirit, how to live from your position and identity in Christ, understanding your unique design. This will give you a rich introduction to this framework. If you want to go deeper in this advanced track, then we will dive even deeper into these topics. We will explore new connections between the spirit, soul and body. We will learn about blessing the land and the impact that land can have on us. We will also talk about how to heal the wounded spirit. This advanced track will be an opportunity to focus on building what you've already learned. So we hope that you will join us for one of these tracks. So go to our website thefathersbusinesscom.
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