GPS for the week of November 2nd, 2025
“Great is the Lord, and Greatly to Be Praised; His Greatness is Unsearchable”
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“Lord Jesus, free me from the things that occupy and
preoccupy me. Help me just to be with you. To pray with
you, glorify you, thank you, worship you. I want to be more
attentive, more ready to hear you, more willing to understand
the mystery of your birth and life, your dying and your rising.
Make me still, Lord, make me quiet, and speak to me in that
silence. Amen.” (Prayer by Henri J.M. Nouwen.)
Monday 11.3 “My spirit abides among you; do not fear.”
Haggai 1:15b-2:9
“On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month… In the
second year of King Darius, in the seventh month, on the twenty-
first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet
Haggai, saying: Speak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, and to the remnant of the people, and say, Who is left
among you that saw this house in its former glory? How does it
look to you now? Is it not in your sight as nothing? Yet now take
courage, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; take courage, O Joshua,
son of Jehozadak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of
the land, says the Lord; work, for I am with you, says the Lord of
hosts, according to the promise that I made you when you came
out of Egypt. My spirit abides among you; do not fear.” This call
to courage resonates with us when we feel defeated by our own
weakness and failure. Let us be strong in the Lord.
Tuesday 11.4 “I will shake the heavens and the earth and
the sea and the dry land.”
Haggai 1:15b-2:9
“For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will
shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;
and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations
shall come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of
hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of
hosts. The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the
former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give
prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.” This is a powerful promise!
Our Lord cares for us and for all those around us.
Wednesday 11.5 “The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in
all his doings.”
Psalm 145
“I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever
and ever. Every day I will bless you, and praise your name
forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his
greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall laud your works
to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious
splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will
meditate. The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his
doings. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on
him in truth. He fulfills the desire of all who fear him; he also
hears their cry, and saves them. The Lord watches over all who
love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. My mouth will speak
the praise of the Lord, and all flesh will bless his holy name
forever and ever.” Our Lord is gracious and powerful. Thanks be
to God!
Thursday 11.6 “We beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be
quickly shaken in mind or alarmed.”
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
“As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered
together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be
quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by
letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is
already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will
not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is
revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts
himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he
takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.
Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still
with you?…” We need not fear those who try to oppress us. We
are confident in the love of our powerful Lord!
Friday 11.7 “For this purpose he called you through our
proclamation of the good news.”
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
“But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and
sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first
fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through
belief in the truth. For this purpose he called you through our
proclamation of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm
and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by
word of mouth or by our letter. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ
himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave
us eternal comfort and good hope, comfort your hearts and
strengthen them in every good work and word.” Good news! We
may stand firm in the eternal comfort and good hope of our Lord
Jesus!
Saturday 11.8 “Now he is God not of the dead, but of the
living.”
Luke 20:27-38
“Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came
to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us
that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man
shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now
there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless;
then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way
all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the
resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the
seven had married her.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Those who belong
to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are
considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection
from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed
they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are
children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact
that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about
the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the
dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.’” Jesus was
not troubled by the intellectual maneuvering of these Sadducees
but proclaimed that we are children of the living God.