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June 25
Wednesday


ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE

READ:
Ephesians 2:11-19
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Through Him we both
have access by one
Spirit to the Father.
__Ephesians 2:18
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When Mike Marolt is out of town, he remotely accesses the computer and files in his Aspen, Colorado, office. On a recent overseas trip, Marolt answered e-mails and kept in touch with his clients by using his laptop through a satellite phone hookup. This time, however, he was sitting in a base camp tent at 21,000 feet on the side of Mt. Everest. These days even that doesn't surprise us because we have become used to the technology that provides access to the rest of the world anytime, anywhere.

We can easily develop a similar lack of amazement toward prayer. Talk to God? "Of course." We don't have to wait in line, enter a building, or wear nice clothing. We can pour out our hearts to the Lord anytime, anywhere. It's easy to lose the wonder of that because it has become so familiar.

Paul always seemed to marvel at the door opened wide into the presence of God. "In Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ," he wrote. "For through Him we both [Gentiles and Jews] have access by one Spirit to the Father" (Eph. 2:13,18).

The door is open for everyone. God welcomes all who come by faith. Through Christ we can enter His presence__anytime, anywhere, Amazing! __David McCasland
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``````````````Let's always keep the prayer lines open,``````````````
`````````````````Knowing God is always there;```````````````````
```````````````For we upon His name may call````````````````````
`````````````Anytime and anywhere. __D. De Haan````````````````
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There is no place or time we cannot pray.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Ephesians 2:11-19***********


11 Therefore remember that
you, once Gentiles in the
flesh__who are called
Uncircumcision by what is
called the Circumcision
made in the flesh by
hands__ 12 that at that time
you were without Christ,
being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel
and strangers from the
covenants of promise,
having no hope and without
God in the world. 13 But
now in Christ Jesus you
who once were far off have
been brought near by the
blood of christ.

14 For He Himself is our
peace, who has made both
one, and has broken down
the middle wall of
separation. 15 having
abolished in His flesh the
enmity, that is, the law of
commandments contained
in ordinances, so as to
create in Himself one new
man from the two, thus
making peace, 16 and that
He might reconcile them
both to God in one body
through the cross, thereby
putting to death the enmity.

17 And He came and
preached peace to you who
were afar off and to those
who were near. 18 For
through Him we both have
access by one Spirit to the
Father.

19 Now, therefore, you are
no longer strangers and
foreigners, but fellow
citizens with the saints and
members of the household
of God.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

IN the Bible, circumcision is the external sign that Israel is God's
covenantal people. Gentiles, as the uncircumcision, were once
without Christ, aliens excluded from the covenant and therefore
without God and without hope (vv.11-12). However, in Christ
Gentiles are now incorporated into the covenant with equal access
to God (vv.13-19). __Sim Kay Tee