July 8, 2003 - October 7, 2003

Daily Devotionals

Tuesday 8 July 2003

John 14:25-26
“All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”


Wednesday 9 July 2003

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.


Thursday 10 July 2003

John 14:28-29
You heard me say,  “I am going away and I am coming back to you.” If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.


Friday 11 July 2003
 
John 14:30-31
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.”


Monday 14 July 2003

John 15:1-2
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.”


Tuesday 15 July 2003

John 15:3-4
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.


Wednesday 16 July 2003

John 15:5-6
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.”


Thursday 17 July 2003

John 15:7
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.


Friday 18 July 2003

John 15:8
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.


Monday 21 July 2003

John 15:9-11
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”


Tuesday 22 July 2003
 
John 15:12-13
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.


Wednesday 23 July 2003
 
John 15:14-15
You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.


Thursday 24 July 2003

John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.


Friday 25 July 2003
 
John 15:17
This is my command: Love each other.


Monday 28 July 2003
 
John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”


Tuesday 29 July 2003
 
John 15:20-22
Remember the words I spoke to you:  “No servant is greater than his master.” If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.


Wednesday 30 July 2003

John 15:23
He who hates me hates my Father as well.


Thursday 31 July 2003

John 15:24-25
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:  “They hated me without reason.”


Friday 1 August 2003
 
John 15:26-27
“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.”


Monday 4 August 2003

John 16:1-4
“All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.  They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.”


Tuesday 5 August 2003
 
John 16:5-11
Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.


Wednesday 6 August 2003

John 16:12-14
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”


Thursday 7 August 2003

John 16:15
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.


Friday 8 August 2003

John 16:16-20
In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me. “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me, Because I am going to the Father?” “a little while”? “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said,  “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me”? I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.”


Monday 11 August 2003

John 16:21-23
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.


Tuesday 12 August 2003

John 16:24
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.


Wednesday 13 August 2003

John 16:25-27
“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.“


Thursday 14 August 2003

John 16:28, 31-32
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father. You believe at last! But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.


Friday 15 August 2003

John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”


Monday 18 August 2003

John 17:1-2
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.”


Tuesday 19 August 2003

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.


Wednesday 20 August 2003

John 17:4-5
I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.


Thursday 21 August 2003

John 17:6-9
“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.”


Friday 22 August 2003

John 17:10-13
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.


Monday 25 August 2003

John 17:14-16
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.


Tuesday 26 August 2003

John 17:17-19
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.


Wednesday 27 August 2003
 
John 17:20-23
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”


Thursday 28 August 2003

John 17:24-26
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”


Friday 29 August 2003

John 18:4-5, 8
“Who is it you want?” “I am he,” “I told you that I am he,” “If you are looking for me, then let these men go.”


Monday 1 September 2003

John 18:9, 11
“I have not lost one of those you gave me. Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”


Tuesday 2 September 2003
 
John 18:20
“I have spoken openly to the world,” “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.”


Wednesday 3 September 2003

John 18:21
“Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”


Thursday 4 September 2003

John 18:23
“If I said something wrong,” “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”


Friday 5 September 2003

John 18:34
“Is that your own idea,” “or did others talk to you about me?”


Monday 8 September 2003

John 18:36
“My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.”


Tuesday 9 September 2003
 
John 18:37
“You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me either to free you or to crucify you?”


Wednesday 10 September 2003

John 19:11
“You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”


Thursday 11 September 2003

John 19:26-27
“Dear woman, here is your son, Here is your mother.”


Friday 12 September 2003

John 19:28
“I am thirsty.”


Monday 15 September 2003

John 19:30
“It is finished.”


Tuesday 16 September 2003

John 20:15
“Woman,” “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”


Wednesday 17 September 2003
 
John 20:16-17
“Mary.” “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them,  ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”


Thursday 18 September 2003

John 20:19
“Peace be with you!”


Friday 19 September 2003

John 20:21
“Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”


Monday 22 September 2003

John 20:22
“Receive the Holy Spirit.”


Tuesday 23 September 2003

John 20:23
If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”


Wednesday 24 September 2003

John 20:26-27
“Peace be with you!”  “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”


Thursday 25 September 2003

John 20:29
“Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”


Friday 26 September 2003
 
John 21:5-6
“Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some


Monday 29 September 2003

John 21:10, 12
“Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” “Come and have breakfast”


Tuesday 30 September 2003

John 21:15
“Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?” “Feed my lambs.”


Wednesday 1 October 2003

John 21:16
“Simon son of John, do you truly love me?” “Take care of my sheep.”


Thursday 2 October 2003

John 21:17
“Simon son of John, do you love me “Do you love me?” “Feed my sheep.”


Friday 3 October 2003

John 21:18
“I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”


Monday 6 October 2003

John 21:19
“Follow me!”


Tuesday 7 October 2003

John 21:22
“If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”