Friday's Joyful Shout (Isaiah 12:3, Proverbs 18:3-5)

Today's the last chance to guess this week's theme (state of being and a water tool). Win an autographed CD from David Crowder Band by replying to this email or posting a comment at http://ajoyfulshout.blogspot.com.

³ Therefore with joy you will draw water
      From the wells of salvation.

(Isaiah 12:3, New King James Version)

³ When the wicked comes, contempt comes also;
      And with dishonor comes reproach.
       ⁴ The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;
      The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.
       ⁵ It is not good to show partiality to the wicked,
      Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
       (Proverbs 18:3-5, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"Wellspring of Wisdom," Matthew Henry
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/Prov/Proverbs-18-3
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/Prov/Proverbs-18-4
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/Prov/Proverbs-18-5

PRAYER
Bridge-FM Christian Radio: For the Lord to guard against numerous technical attacks over the last few days that seem to just keep coming. May The Bridge be able to broadcast the Word of God clearly and without interruption.
Rozek Family: That God would show Joey what the next steps might be in mobilizing believers across the city to pray and seek the face of the Lord; for the right location in the city where the whole church in the city can gather to pray; for God to give wisdom to help people function more freely in their gifts; for Madelyn, who will be having a minor surgery done on Monday morning of March 22 to get a certain mark on her forehead removed, and that God would protect and sanctify the Rozek family for His
purpose.

Blessings,
B :)

Thursday's Joyful Shout (John 9:1-25)

 ¹ Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. ² And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
³ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. ⁴ I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
⁶ When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. ⁷ And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
⁸ Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”
⁹ Some said, “This is he.” Others said, “He is like him.”
He said, “I am he.”
¹⁰ Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
¹¹ He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”
¹² Then they said to him, “Where is He?”
He said, “I do not know.”   
¹³ They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
¹⁶ Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.”
Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
¹⁷ They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
¹⁸ But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. ¹⁹ And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
²⁰ His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. ²³ Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
²⁴ So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, “Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner.”
²⁵ He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
(John 9:1-25, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"Christ Gives Sight To One Born Blind," Matthew Henry


PRAYER
Potters' Field Orphanage: May the CCOB Missions Team in El Salvador help to impact the children

Blessings,
B :)

Wednesday's Joyful Shout (John 4:5-26)

This week's theme is hard, but if you look closely at each verse and song title, you'll get it. Reminder: double meaning of a state of being and a useful water tool. Hope you'll play, guess the Theme of the Week and win a prize if first correct.

⁵ So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
¹¹ The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
¹⁵ The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
¹⁹ The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. ²² You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
²⁵ The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” (John 4:5-26, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"The Woman at the Well," Matthew Henry

PRAYER
CCOB Missions: For Eric Ceasar's mom, whose basement flooded badly in the recent storm, has no hot water and whose washing machine and dryer are damaged, especially since things are financially tight since the passing of Eric's Father. May the Lord provide and bring her peace. Also praise from Haiti Team, who recently distributed food to 225 families and enjoyed a powerful time of group prayer and great devotions in 1 Peter.

Blessings,
B : )

Tuesday's Joyful Shout (Exodus 2:15-20, Deut. 4:39-40)

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
¹⁸ When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”
¹⁹ And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”
²⁰ So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
(Exodus 2:15-20, New King James Version)

³⁹ Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. ⁴⁰ You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.” (Deuteronomy 4:39-40, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"Moses Flees," Matthew Henry

"Warnings Against Disobedience, Promises of Mercy," Matthew Henry

PRAYER
Baby Madison: 2 lb. 6 oz. baby fighting to survive birth

Monday's Joyful Shout (Gen. 29:4-12; 1 Corinth. 10:23-24)

For this week's theme of A Joyful Shout,look at one word that has a double meaning throughout every passage, you'll find it. In one meaning, the word is a useful object. In another, a state of being. I hope you'll play. First one to guess the theme wins a prize. Comment here or at makinwaves64@yahoo.com Or follow A Joyful Shout @bobmakin on Twitter or in the Joyful Shout group on Facebook.

⁴ And Jacob said to them, “My brethren, where are you from?”
And they said, “We are from Haran.”
⁵ Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?”
And they said, “We know him.”
⁶ So he said to them, “Is he well?”
And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.”
⁷ Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
⁸ But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”
⁹ Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. ¹¹ Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. ¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. So she ran and told her father.
(Genesis 29:4-12, New King James Version)

   
²³ All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
(1 Corinthians 10:23-24, New King James Version)



TEACHING
Jacob Comes To the Well," Matthew Henry
"The Glory of God, the Well Being of Others," Matthew Henry

PRAYER
Storm and flood victims: May the Lord bring sunshine back to the Northeast in the sky and our hearts
Daniel & Zina Docto: For a visa to remain missionaries in Thailand and praise that they now can stay through May

Blessings,
B :)

Sunday's Joyful Shout (Genesis 24:10-14, Matthew 25:21)

Today starts a new theme of A Joyful Shout. This is a hard one, but if you look at one word that has a double meaning throughout every passage, you'll find it. In one meaning, the word is a useful object. In another, a state of being. I hope you'll play. First one to guess the theme wins a prize. Comment here or at makinwaves64@yahoo.com. Follow A Joyful Shout @bobmakin on Twitter or in the Joyful Shout group on Facebook.

¹⁰ Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. ¹¹ And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water. ¹² Then he said, “O LORD God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. ¹³ Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴ Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
(Genesis 24:10-14, New King James Version)

²¹ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ (Matthew 25:21, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"Servants Meeting with Rebekah," Matthew Henry
"The Parable of the Talents," Matthew Henry

PRAYER
For all those affected by the storm with damage and loss of power.

Blessings,
B :)

Friday's Joyful Shout (Acts 8:31)

Reminder: new theme rolls out Sunday. Read ahead: John 4

   
³¹ Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied. (Acts 9:31, New King James Version)



TEACHING
"The Works of Jesus Christ as an Advocate," John Bunyan

PRAYER
Wounded Warrior Project: May the Lord bless this organization that blesses those wounded in fighting for our country's freedom.
Calvary Chapel Old Bridge Men's Gathering: May God's wisdom be gleaned from a time of fellowship and worship themed to spiritual warfare 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 20 with special guest Greg Laurie and many others.
Calvary Chapel Cambridge: Pray for their retreat on May 7-9; for Pastor Joey Rozek speaking at a Serbia retreat May 21-23; for an upcoming missions trip to Haiti; for the Rozek Family to be faithful in all areas of life; for them to know and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit; for Sunday, Tuesday and Friday gatherings; for the Lord to connect them with lost and hurting people in our community; for the spiritual growth of the Rozek children; for those whom God might send out or raise up to help serve; for the Rozek family to be closely united with the Lord and each other, and for financial support.

Blessings,
B :)