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GPS for the week of May 18th, 2025

“For The Lord God Will Be Their Light”

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Our Lord has promised to be with us as we rejoice in his grace

and the gift of the Holy Spirit. We often have doubts and feelings

of darkness, but God has promised to be with us and light our way

in this world.

 

Dear Lord, help us to be bold. Thank you for our Holy Spirit

in our lives. Amen

 

Monday 5.19 “The Lord opened her heart to listen

eagerly.”

Acts 16:9-15

“During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of

Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to

Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we

immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced

that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. We

set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the

following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a

leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We

remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went

outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a

place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who

had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper

of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and

a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen

eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household

were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be

faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she

prevailed upon us.” Lydia’s heart and home were opened by the

good news of life in Jesus.

 

Tuesday 5.20 “Let all the ends of the earth revere him.”

Psalm 67

“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to

shine upon us, Selah, that your way may be known upon earth,

your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you,

O God; let all the peoples praise you. Let the nations be glad and

sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the

nations upon earth. Selah. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let

all the peoples praise you. The earth has yielded its increase;

God, our God, has blessed us. May God continue to bless us; let

all the ends of the earth revere him.” We join people from every

place on earth to sing God’s praises.

 

Wednesday 5.21 “They will be my children.”

Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven

and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of

heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of

God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they

will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe

every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and

crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed

away.’ And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I

am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this, for these

words are trustworthy and true.’ Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I

am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the

thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.

Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God

and they will be my children. But as for the cowardly, the

faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the

sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake

that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.’” God

will make us bold and truthful as we face our weakness and

become his children.

 

Thursday 5.22 “The glory of God is its light.”

Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5

“Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the

seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you

the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ And in the spirit he carried me

away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city

Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God… I saw no

temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and

the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it,

for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. The

nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring

their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day—and there

will be no night there. People will bring into it the glory and the

honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone

who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are

written in the Lamb’s book of life…” This holy city Jerusalem

shines with the light of God’s grace.

 

Friday 5.23 “They will need no light of lamp or sun.”

Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as

crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through

the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is

the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each

month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the

nations. Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the

throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will

worship him; they will see his face, and his name will be on their

foreheads. And there will be no more night; they need no light of

lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign

forever and ever.” We worship our Lord in the light of his

goodness.

 

Saturday 5.24 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to

you.”

John 14:23-29

“Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and

my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our

home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my

words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the

Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while I am

still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father

will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of

all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I

give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let

your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard

me say to you, “I am going away, and I am coming to you.” If you

loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,

because the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this

before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.’”

God will bring us peace as we quietly accept his grace in our lives.