Daily Portions

Week 1: God’s Eternal Purpose and His Economy

II. God selected and predestinated many people to be His sons – Eph. 1:4-5: (continued)

B. We were predestinated by God the Father unto sonship – Eph. 1:5:
1. This is to have God the Father’s life (John 3:16), being made God’s children, the same as God is in life by being born of God after God’s kind through regeneration (John 1:12-13; 1 Pet. 1:3).
2. This is for our being “sonized” with God the Father’s life in our entire tripartite being – 1 John 5:11-12; Rom. 8:10, 6, 11; 1 John 3:2.

John 1:12-13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name, 13 Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 John 5:11-12 And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.

Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.

Week 1: God’s Eternal Purpose and His Economy

II. God selected and predestinated many people to be His sons – Eph. 1:4-5:
A. We were chosen by God the Father to be holy – Eph. 1:4:
1. This is for us to partake of God the Father’s holy nature to be made the same as God in nature – 2 Pet. 1:4; Rom. 15:16; cf. Rev. 21:2.
2. This is to be sanctified, separated from all things, as God is, and saturated with God – Rom. 15:16; cf. Rev. 21:2:
a. We need to love God and not love the world (1 John 2:15), being separated from the world by God’s word of truth (John 17:14-19; Eph. 5:26), not being fashioned according to this age (Rom. 12:2a).
b. We need to present ourselves to God to be saturated by God with the element of His holy nature (Rom. 6:19) unto the eternal life (v. 22) to be renewed by the Spirit for our transformation into the image of Christ (Titus 3:5b; Rom. 12:2b; 2 Cor. 3:18).

Ephesisans 1:4-5 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love, 5 Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

2 Peter 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.

The daily portions for May 18 through August 23, 2020, are posted on the Summer Truth Pursuit website on God’s Complete Salvation.

Week 1: God’s Eternal Purpose and His Economy

I. God’s eternal purpose is to make man in His image, so that man can express Him, and give man His dominion, to represent Him, so that man can exercise His authority – Gen. 1:26-27: (continued)
C. God’s eternal purpose can only be accomplished by His economy, His plan, His household administration, which is to dispense Himself into His believers as life and everything so that they can be built up to be the Body of Christ – Gen. 2:9-10; Eph. 3:8-11; John 10:10b.

Genesis 2:9-10 And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

Ephesians 3:9-11 And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, 10 In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, 11 According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

John 10:10 …I have come that they may have life and may have it abundantly.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.

Week 1: God’s Eternal Purpose and His Economy

I. God’s eternal purpose is to make man in His image, so that man can express Him, and give man His dominion, to represent Him, so that man can exercise His authority – Gen. 1:26-27 (continued)
B. Dominion—to represent God:
1. To exercise His authority.
2. This is also a matter of life inwardly, because only by God’s life (Christ—Col. 3:4) can we represent God – 1 John 4:4.

Genesis 1:26  And God said, Let Us make man…and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children; and you have overcome them because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.

Here is this week’s outline & verses in a downloadable PDF format.

2020 Summer Truth Pursuit – Week 1

Week 1: God’s Eternal Purpose and His Economy

I. God’s eternal purpose is to make man in His image, so that man can express Him, and give man His dominion, to represent Him, so that man can exercise His authority – Gen. 1:26-27
A. Image—to express God:
1. The Bible uses the example of a son being the expression of his father – John 1:18.
2. This shows that God’s image is a matter of life inwardly – 2 Pet. 1:3-4.

Genesis 1:26–27  And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 27 And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

2 Peter 1:3–4 Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue, 4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following two short video podcasts sometime during the day.

Spend some time this morning to open up to the Lord in prayer regarding what He touched you with during the previous six days. Review your notes and the outline points and verses. Ask the Lord what He would have you share with all the saints. Prepare a prophecy (1-2 minutes long) to share with the saints what you enjoyed this week.

The Bible—A Time With The Lord

Hymns:  Good Morning Lord Jesus, Give Yourself To Love The Lord, 554, 389

I. The morning is the best time to spend personal, intimate, and affectionate time with the Lord for His satisfaction

Song of Songs 7:12 Let us rise up early for the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, If the blossom is open, If the pomegranates are in bloom; There I will give you my love.

 Psalm 110:3 Your people will offer themselves willingly in the day of Your warfare, In the splendor of their consecration. Your young men will be to You like the dew from the womb of the dawn.

John 20:1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene came early to the tomb while it was yet dark and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

John 20:14-18 When she said these things, she turned backward and beheld Jesus standing there, yet she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She, supposing that He was the gardener, said to Him, Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away. Jesus said to her, Mary! She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, Rabboni! (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God. Mary the Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, I have seen the Lord, and that He had said these things to her.

II. The morning is the best time to receive spiritual nourishment

Exo. 16:13b-14 And in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as the frost on the earth.

Exo. 16:21 And they gathered in morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun became hot, it melted.

III. The morning is the best time to have fellowship with the Lord by exercising our spirit in praying, praising, singing, and reading His word

 Mark 1:35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still night, He went out and went away to a deserted place, and there He prayed.

 Psa. 90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness that we may give a ringing shout and rejoice all our days.

Psalm 108:2-3 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; And I will sing psalms to You among the nations.

Psalm 119:147 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; I hoped in Your words.

IV. Practical points for our practice

• Habitual
• Achievable
• Normal
• Exercised
• Focused
• Uninterrupted

Psalm 5:1-3 To my words give ear, O Jehovah; / Consider my moaning. 2 Give heed to the sound of my cry, / My King and my God; / For to You do I pray. 3 O Jehovah, in the morning / You will hear my voice; / In the morning I will set forth my words in order to You, / And I will watch.