Come With Me Devotional , livre ebook

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© 2017 by Suzanne Eller
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Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
1. Filled
2. Hungry
3. More Than a Carpenter
4. Sent
5. You Are Wanted
6. Nail-Scarred Hands
7. Muzzled
8. All Day Long
9. Bottom of Empty
10. He’s in Your Boat
11. Waiting
12. One More Time
13. Awe
14. People Catcher
15. The Real Miracle
16. Clean
17. Don’t Tell Anyone
18. People, People, Everywhere
19. Scallywags
20. Let Me Carry You
21. God Alone
22. Unlikely
23. Tell Someone
24. When Our Good Is Bad
25. Light Bearer
26. Brand-New!
27. Nitpicky Faith
28. Mercy Moments
29. Roar
30. Wisdom
31. Chosen
32. Power
33. Blessing
34. Woe
35. The Law of Love
36. Degree of Mercy
37. Eye for an Eye
38. Pressed Down, Shaken Together
39. Like the Teacher
40. I’m Still Here
41. Delight
42. Arise
43. Revolutionary Faith
44. Different
45. Least of These
46. Set Apart
47. Alabaster Tears
48. Who Loves Him More?
49. He’s With Us
50. In His Eyes
51. Loosed!
52. Parable of Thorns
53. Roots
54. Parables
55. We Are the Light
56. Listen
57. More to Do
58. Be Still
59. Shipwrecked
60. Unshackled
61. Tell Everyone
62. Reach for His Hem
63. I Was First
64. Dynamis!
65. For the Road
66. Travel Light
67. Tell Jesus
68. You Feed Them
69. Leftovers
70. Jesus, the Christ
71. Self-Emptied
72. Like Jesus
73. Unashamed
74. Shekinah Glory
75. Exodus
76. Monuments
77. Are You Listening?
78. Oh So Human
79. Together We’re Better
80. Fiery
81. Harder Paths
82. Two by Two
83. Harvest
84. I Send You
85. As a Lamb
86. Peace
87. Rejected
88. Falling From Heaven
89. Deep, Legitimate Joy
90. How Blessed We Are
91. Heart Check
92. Good Neighbor
93. Hardworking
94. One Thing
95. Teach Me
96. Hallowed
97. Waltz
98. Ask, Seek, Knock
99. Good Gift
100. Evidence
101. Stronger
102. Emptied
103. Blessing Upon Blessing
104. A Sign
105. No Part Dark
106. Alms Giving
107. Rule Followers
108. Crossroads
109. Like Leaven
110. Misplaced Fear
111. Words Will Come
112. Snare
113. Big Ol’ Barns
114. Life Is More
115. Bags of Worry
116. Seek First
117. Heavenly Deposit
118. Unfailing
119. Be Ready
120. Is This for Me?
121. Constrained
122. Do You See?
123. Where Is Jesus?
124. Another Chance
125. Celebrate
126. Work, Work, Work
127. Teeny-Tiny Faith
128. Strait Gate
129. One-to-One
130. Grandfather Clause
131. Hearts to Repair
132. Under His Wing
133. Watched
134. Burden Lifted
135. Humility or Humiliation
136. Hospitality
137. Invited
138. Just As We Are
139. My Disciple
140. Overcomer
141. Hello
142. Salty
143. Grumblers
144. In Search of a Shepherd
145. Rejoice!
146. Adrift
147. Far From Home
148. Famine
149. Waiting Arms
150. The Best Robe
151. What About Me?
152. Shrewd
153. Dividend
154. Master, Master
155. Hollow Hearts
156. Spirit of the Law
157. Hold Her Close
158. Crossings
159. Send a Message
160. Little Ones
161. We Are Free
162. Increase
163. In Us
164. Servant-Hearted
165. Heard
166. Pure Praise
167. Go Your Way
168. Heart Work
169. Ransomed
170. Jesus Will Return
171. What Will Matter
172. Lifeline
173. Opposite
174. Virtue
175. Answered Prayer
176. Get Out of the Way
177. Open Arms
178. One Thing
179. Our Identity
180. Pruning the Vine
181. Fulfilled
182. Son of David
183. Clamor
184. Just for One
185. Come and Dine
186. Recompense
187. Seek and Save
188. A Vast Kingdom
189. Be My King
190. Equal Opportunity
191. Reunion
192. Triumphal Entry
193. Am I Ready?
194. Purple
195. Spontaneous
196. Cry Out
197. A King Weeps
198. Holy
199. Spiritual Eyes
200. A Question
201. Honest Talk
202. Tell Us
203. Fruit
204. Crushed
205. Sweet Talk
206. Honor the King
207. Afterlife
208. We Live!
209. Who Am I?
210. Be Careful
211. Our Not Enough
212. More Than a Building
213. Believe
214. Testify
215. Counted
216. Look Up!
217. His Words Remain
218. Ready
219. Refuge
220. We Are Wise
221. Where Will We Go?
222. Family
223. Remembrance
224. A Good Guy
225. Lover of Quarrels
226. Stand by Me
227. When You Recover
228. A Sword
229. A Cupful
230. Keep Watch
231. Put Down the Sword
232. Regret
233. It Begins
234. Half-Truths
235. Not My Problem
236. Entertain Me
237. Fast Friends
238. One Voice
239. Two Men
240. Prevail
241. About This Man
242. Green Wood
243. King of the Jews
244. Never Too Late
245. Veiled No More
246. Touching Jesus
247. Rolled Away
248. Ministering Angels
249. The Tomb Is Empty
250. Better Together
251. All the Way
252. I Want to Believe!
253. Scripted
254. Road to Jesus
255. His Presence
256. Jesus Himself
257. It’s Really Me
258. My Mission Is Complete
259. World Changers
260. Come With Me
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover
Introduction

D O YOU LONG to know Christ in a way that transforms the way you think and the way you live?
I do.
So did the early disciples. As they followed Jesus, they came to know him. That relationship shaped their faith. It changed them. Let’s consider for a moment that we are walking with him in the three-plus years he was here on earth.
Let’s sit with him. Let’s listen to his words. Let’s watch as Jesus interacts with his friends and those who resist his love. Let’s watch as he reaches out to people, even those who rebuff him. What would it be like to crowd in close to hear him speak and learn from him?
My prayer for this Come With Me Devotional is that you will walk with him as if you’ve never heard about him. My prayer is that you’ll discover Jesus all over again.
As you read through the book of Luke, and walk with Jesus, ask these questions:
Jesus, what are you saying?
Are these words for me?
What does your example teach me?
How do I live this in my real life?
I took this personal journey nearly three years ago. I wasn’t in a crisis of faith, or maybe I was. I wasn’t trying to write a book. I was asking Jesus to rewrite his story on my heart. I love ministry, but somehow faith and ministry became entangled and I wanted to go back to that moment when I first encountered Jesus. When I didn’t really know anything about him, or his Word.
You see, that’s how the original disciples began. They had no idea what saying yes to Jesus’ invitation meant. They found out as they walked with him.
Something beautiful took place as I stepped into the book of Luke and asked the questions for myself. Let me repeat those questions. They’re important.
Jesus, what are you saying?
Are these words for me?
What does your example teach me?
How do I live this in my real life?
There were moments I sat with my open Bible and wept, totally lost in the beauty of what I heard or witnessed. There were times I was smack in the middle of real life, and I’d hear his words.
Not just hear them, but know where he was leading me—if only I would follow.
This is not a devotion. It’s a journey of rediscovery.
Let’s begin in Luke 4 as Jesus begins his public ministry. Take a seat on a craggy rock in the bleak wilderness as our Savior is led into the wilderness by the Spirit. Prepare to witness an intense battle with a real enemy as our Savior poises to rescue you and me.
Suzie
1 Filled

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.
L U K E 4:1–2 N L T
T H E E N E M Y C I R C L E S around Jesus. He isn’t after just the person, but the position of Messiah. He’s poised to wage a colossal battle. He’s poised to lead Jesus away from his mission.

Come With Me