Mastery
Daily Devotions for a Year
Published on 2. January 2018
447 pages
978-1-5018-4964-0 (ISBN)
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Jesus Christ lifted our fear by giving us the capacity to face things that happen to us and to make something out of them. In Mastery, E. Stanley Jones shows us how to attain the moral and spiritual mastery that came to the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. He demonstrates that mastery of living comes not by being tense and anxious, but by being receptive to the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. In daily inspirational readings, affirmations, and prayers for one full year, Jones offers us guidance in mastering our lives.guidance in mastering our lives.
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Called "the world's greatest missionary evangelist" by Time magazine in 1938, E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) spent 70 years presenting Jesus Christ as the universal Son of Man without the trappings of Western culture. His message had a life-changing impact on the millions of people who heard him speak or read his books.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Publisher's Preface
- Author's Introduction
- Week 1
- Sunday: The Master
- Monday: The Master Imparts His Mastery
- Tuesday: "Jesus Began" Almost Everything!
- Wednesday: The Word Become Flesh
- Thursday: The Gospel Is God's Search for Humanity
- Friday: The Life Becomes Light
- Saturday: Eternal Greatness in the Passage of Temporal Fact
- Week 2
- Sunday: Mastery Must Begin with Moral Mastery
- Monday: Love Bears and Shares
- Tuesday: He Lives!
- Wednesday: Who Has the Final Word?
- Thursday: God's Totalitarianism and Humanity's
- Friday: No Cosmic Loom?
- Saturday: The Applied Edge of Redemption
- Week 3
- Sunday: From Preparation to Promise to Performance
- Monday: Nothing Is Ours Until It Gets Within
- Tuesday: Impotent Instead of Omnipotent
- Wednesday: Symptoms of the Minus
- Thursday: The Seven Road Blocks
- Friday: The Key Log in the Jam
- Saturday: The First Need: to Belong
- Week 4
- Sunday: From Secondhand to Firsthand
- Monday: Mastering Our Jerusalems
- Tuesday: On Walking Up to Everything!
- Wednesday: A Cause of Neurosis: Refusing Responsibility
- Thursday: Retreating into Unconsciousness
- Friday: The Real Shut-Ins Are Walking Cases
- Saturday: Intellectually Mature, Emotionally Immature
- Week 5
- Sunday: The Unhealed Trying to Heal
- Monday: The Mastery of Religious Paraphernalia
- Tuesday: The Great Simplification
- Wednesday: I Am Not Religious: I'm His
- Thursday: Not a Vague Power, but a Vital Person
- Friday: How Do We Receive the Holy Spirit?
- Saturday: Why Not Go Direct to God?
- Week 6
- Sunday: The Eternal Quest and the Eternal Finding
- Monday: Drunk . . . with God
- Tuesday: At the Sight of This . . . I Am Down
- Wednesday: The Eternal Finding
- Thursday: Mastery of the Times-and-Seasons Mentality
- Friday: Destiny in the Stars?
- Saturday: Working Emphasis Is the First Coming, Not the Second
- Week 7
- Sunday: Lord, Will You? . . . But You
- Monday: He Conceals and Reveals
- Tuesday: I Must Have Freedom to Surrender
- Wednesday: God Invites Us to Share His Throne
- Thursday: The Mastery of Special Privilege and Standing
- Friday: Have Alien Ideas Invaded Us?
- Saturday: Underlying Ideas Become Outer Fact
- Week 8
- Sunday: Mastery of the Inferior Status of Women
- Monday: Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
- Tuesday: The Incompatible Principle
- Wednesday: The Mastery of Privilege Based on Blood
- Thursday: An Assumption!
- Friday: The New Community Based on Divine Blood
- Saturday: The Backward Look and the Forward!
- Week 9
- Sunday: The Mastery of Sacred Places
- Monday: There Is Nothing Holy but a Holy Person
- Tuesday: The Secular Becomes Sacred
- Wednesday: Mastering Relationships between Youth and Age
- Thursday: Youth and Old Age Both Lean toward the New
- Friday: The Kingdom Primarily a Youth Movement
- Saturday: The Partnership Must Be an Equal One
- Week 10
- Sunday: The Mastery of Social Distinctions
- Monday: Slavery a Divine Institution
- Tuesday: More Than a Slave
- Wednesday: A Person for Whom Christ Died
- Thursday: The Mastery of Race Distinctions
- Friday: No, Lord
- for I Have Never . . .
- Saturday: I Believe the Bible, All Except . . .
- Week 11
- Sunday: Three Ways to Deal with Race
- Monday: The American Way of Dealing with Race
- Tuesday: The New Testament Way of Dealing with Race
- Wednesday: The Mastery of the Material
- Thursday: The Christian Accepts the Material
- Friday: The Breaking of the Bread Becomes a Love Feast
- Saturday: Individualism and Collectivism in a Living Blend
- Week 12
- Sunday: What Does This "Other Tongues" Mean?
- Monday: Gifts and the Gift
- Tuesday: On Dividing What God Has Joined
- Wednesday: Putting God into the Total Life
- Thursday: The Spirit Gives Us Special Skills
- Friday: The Center of Spiritual Power Shifts
- Saturday: The Apostles Drop Out of the Acts of the Apostles
- Week 13
- Sunday: I Feel God Everywhere
- Monday: The Mastery of Inner Conflict and Decision
- Tuesday: Partially On, Leaky and Noisy
- Wednesday: The Cleansing of the Subconscious
- Thursday: The Leisured Heart
- Friday: Wanted to Take a Bath
- Saturday: Called in Now and Then
- Week 14
- Sunday: First Bind the Strong Man
- Monday: Two Methods of Binding the Strong Man
- Tuesday: You Are Akin to the Divine but Not Divine
- Wednesday: I Do Not Account My Life of Any Value, If only . . .
- Thursday: That Which Has Been Made Was Life in Him
- Friday: Consecrated by the Holy Spirit
- Saturday: On Mulling over Yourself
- Week 15
- Sunday: The Mastery of Sex
- Monday: Sex Mastery by Kingdom Mastery
- Tuesday: The Four Uses of Sex
- Wednesday: This Seemed More Important
- Thursday: Eros Passes into Agape
- Friday: Four Possible Attitudes toward the Herd
- Saturday: So Different That They Made a Difference
- Week 16
- Sunday: Social and Yet Solitary
- Monday: Manifestations of a Cleansed Subconscious
- Tuesday: Mastery of the Art of Witnessing for Christ
- Wednesday: The Two Groups of Twelve
- Thursday: The Mastery of Disunity
- Friday: Unity within the Personal Self
- Saturday: Unity amid the Intimate Body of Disciples
- Week 17
- Sunday: The Unity of All Believers
- Monday: Unity between Former Enemies
- Tuesday: The Mastery of the Economic
- Wednesday: Why Has Communism Failed?
- Thursday: Beyond Individualism and Communism: The Kingdom
- Friday: Distribution According to Need
- Saturday: The Trend in America to Distribution According to Need
- Week 18
- Sunday: By Compulsion or Impulsion?
- Monday: Interim Ethic or Spiritual Basis?
- Tuesday: You Shall Love Yourself, or Your Neighbor as Yourself?
- Wednesday: How Can We Deal with Parasites?
- Thursday: The Unity of the Spirit
- Friday: The Koinonia
- Saturday: The Relation of the Koinonia to the Church
- Week 19
- Sunday: The Kingdom in Miniature
- Monday: The Relationship of the Kingdom and the Church
- Tuesday: The Disciples Were First Called Christians in Antioch
- Wednesday: Our Spiritual Roots Are in Antioch
- Thursday: The Center of Gravity in the Pew
- Friday: The Mark of the Cross upon the Church
- Saturday: Barnabas, a Great Man Because a Good Man
- Week 20
- Sunday: The Strong Corporate Sense of the Church
- Monday: The Material an Expression of the Spiritual
- Tuesday: A New Race Made Up of All Races
- Wednesday: A Classless Society
- Thursday: Blending the Conservative and the Radical
- Friday: Holding Together Strong People Who Differ
- Saturday: A Fellowship of the Spiritually Contagious
- Week 21
- Sunday: The Creative Spirit
- Monday: Concord or Cantankerousness?
- Tuesday: The Mastery of Mistakes and Blunders
- Wednesday: The Power of Quick Recovery
- Thursday: The Mastery of Unmerited Suffering
- Friday: A Thing of Beauty Wrapped around Trouble
- Saturday: A Vacancy into a Vocation
- Week 22
- Sunday: Taking Your Captor Captive
- Monday: Attack but No Harm
- Tuesday: The Game of the Hour
- Wednesday: From Invalid to World Champion
- Thursday: The Mastery of Fear
- Friday: Tasting Chaos and Tasting Cosmos
- Saturday: Happy Warriors or Unhappy Worriers?
- Week 23
- Sunday: This Fear Hits Me in the Stomach
- Monday: They Weren't Naturally Fearless
- Tuesday: Three Secrets of Fearlessness
- Wednesday: The Mastery of Inadequacy and Inferiority
- Thursday: From the Pit of Nothingness
- Friday: Discovering Our Own Powers or God's?
- Saturday: Adequate When Attached to Adequacy
- Week 24
- Sunday: The Simple Art of Drinking
- Monday: A Gift Producing Spontaneity
- Tuesday: From Above, Not from the Subconscious
- Wednesday: Why Do You Stare at Us?
- Thursday: The Spirit-Quickened Life
- Friday: I've Always Had Tasks I Couldn't Do
- Saturday: Such as I Have I Give
- Week 25
- Sunday: The Mastery of Confusion
- Monday: Jesus, the Great Clarification
- Tuesday: The Earliest Creed: Jesus Is Lord
- Wednesday: Everything Anchored to Jesus
- Thursday: We Are Drifting into Humanism
- Friday: This
- Saturday: The Three Working Ideas
- Week 26
- Sunday: The Mastery of Negative Attitudes
- Monday: The Critics Get Criticized
- Tuesday: Two Contrasting Commissions
- Wednesday: Turning the World Upside Down
- Thursday: The Major Reversals
- Friday: Evil a Parasite upon the Good
- Saturday: On Turning the Other Cheek
- Week 27
- Sunday: Positive in the Right Direction
- Monday: Not-the-Way Tries to Stop the Way
- Tuesday: One Saw Iniquity
- the Other an Instrument
- Wednesday: The Steps Down and Up
- Thursday: He Lives Like a Corinthian
- Friday: From Lust to Love
- Saturday: I Was All Tied Up Inside
- Week 28
- Sunday: Does the Cosmic Process Affirm Our Affirmative?
- Monday: The New Word: Hope
- Tuesday: In All These Things
- Wednesday: On Earth as It Is in Heaven
- Thursday: Every Person's Infinite, Essential Perfection
- Friday: Self-Realization or Self-Surrender?
- Saturday: By the Grace of God I Am What I Am
- Week 29
- Sunday: The Two Emphases the Person and the Order
- Monday: God a Half-God Ruling over a Half-Realm
- Tuesday: The Kingdom Is the Way
- Wednesday: The Way, Which They Call a Sect
- Thursday: Human Totalitarianism and God's
- Friday: Trainees for the New Order
- Saturday: Repent, for the Ecumenical Church Is at Hand?
- Week 30
- Sunday: The Mastery of Sickness and Disease
- Monday: God Heals through Physicians
- Tuesday: In a Mortal World the Body Breaks Down
- Wednesday: Right Thinking and Right Emotions
- Thursday: Percentage of Diseases Rooted in Mind and Emotion
- Friday: Stress: The Cause of All Diseases?
- Saturday: Headaches through Resentments
- Week 31
- Sunday: The Holy Spirit Quickens Our Mortal Bodies
- Monday: Only 8 Percent Really Worth a Wrestle
- Tuesday: Indecision the Cause of Ill Health
- Wednesday: Authentic Cases of Healing
- Thursday: A Personal Testimony
- Friday: A Minimum of Strain with a Maximum of Result
- Saturday: The Main Emphasis on Redemption from Sin
- Week 32
- Sunday: The Mastery of Sadness and Gloom
- Monday: Never Associated God with Joy Before
- Tuesday: A Drunkenness That Makes You More Sober
- Wednesday: Everything Has a New Taste
- Thursday: I Have No Problems
- Friday: I Laugh Down What I Don't Get Done
- Saturday: Still Had That Wonderful Smile
- Week 33
- Sunday: The Mastery of Resentments
- Monday: Meeting a Wrong with a Wrong
- Tuesday: The Lamb Was on the Throne
- Wednesday: I Do Not Frustrate the Grace of God
- Thursday: I Love You, but I Don't Like Certain Things
- Friday: The Bitterness Poisoned Him
- Saturday: I Distinctly Remember Forgetting That
- Week 34
- Sunday: The Mastery of Many Things
- Monday: He Did Many Things
- Tuesday: This Is Not Preaching
- It Is Revelation
- Wednesday: Wanting Three Tabernacles
- Thursday: The Mastery of the Secondhand
- Friday: We Have Heard for Ourselves
- Saturday: With Unveiled Face
- Week 35
- Sunday: The Mastery of Jealousy
- Monday: A Mental Cancer, Jealousy
- Tuesday: Jealousy Comes Out in Physical Symptoms
- Wednesday: The Mastery of Guidance
- Thursday: Two Secrets of Power
- Friday: Guidance from the Outer to the Inner
- Saturday: Was Paul Wrong?
- Week 36
- Sunday: The Mastery of Legalism
- Monday: The Jewish Sabbath Replaced by the Christian
- Tuesday: Two Things Transferred to the New Sabbath
- Wednesday: Ready to Vanish Away
- Thursday: The Mastery of the Old by the New
- Friday: But a New Creation
- Saturday: Applications of Fulfillment
- Week 37
- Sunday: The Mastery of Ingrown Attitudes
- Monday: Holding Their Spiritual Pulses?
- Tuesday: Experience Becomes Expression
- Wednesday: Came Near Upsetting the Table
- Thursday: They Have an Enthusiasm among Themselves
- Friday: An Old Tattooed Woman Won a Thousand
- Saturday: A Butcher Knife and the Way
- Week 38
- Sunday: We Cannot but Speak
- Monday: Evangelism Is Inherent
- Tuesday: Lack of an Inner Push
- Wednesday: Foundations of Progress in Conversion
- Thursday: College Presidents and Outcasts
- Friday: At the End of My Rope
- Saturday: Mine Has Left Me with Answers
- Week 39
- Sunday: The Mastery of the Human Dilemma
- Monday: The Answers of Buddhism and Hinduism
- Tuesday: Other Proposed Ways Out of the Dilemma
- Wednesday: There Is No Dilemma
- Thursday: Discover Your Own Perfection
- Friday: Repentance Is a Change of Mind
- Saturday: Forgiveness and Filling
- Week 40
- Sunday: Mastery of Non-Caring in General
- Monday: They Cared with Prodigal Love
- Tuesday: A Difference of Lordship
- Wednesday: The Secret of This Caring?
- Thursday: Uranium Once on the Scrap Heap
- Friday: Jesus the Redeemer of Waste Material
- Saturday: A Society of Caring
- Week 41
- Sunday: The Mastery of Criticism and Critical Attitudes
- Monday: Prosecutor's Stand or Witness Box?
- Tuesday: You Have Me Doing Everything
- Wednesday: Mastery of Criticism of Fellow Christians
- Thursday: Is Christ Divided?
- Friday: One Flock, Many Folds
- Saturday: Christians Are the Most United Body
- Week 42
- Sunday: The Mastery of Prayer
- Monday: They Did the Most Incredible Things
- Tuesday: Prayer for One Thing: The Holy Spirit
- Wednesday: The Kingdom First: All Else Added
- Thursday: Not for Safety but for Boldness
- Friday: Brother Saul
- Saturday: Last Instances Gathered Up
- Week 43
- Sunday: Conclusions Regarding Prayer
- Monday: The Power of the Lord Was with Him to Heal
- Tuesday: The Mastery of Enforced Idleness
- Wednesday: The Ten Days That Changed the World
- Thursday: Two Civilizations Born out of Two Meditations
- Friday: Mastery of Prison Idleness
- Saturday: The Human Log
- Week 44
- Sunday: The Mastery of Narcotics
- Monday: I Haven't Got the Guts to Do It
- Tuesday: I Smoke Because It Helps a Bunion
- Wednesday: I Don't Want That Now
- Thursday: The Mastery of Complexity
- Friday: I Know Both
- Saturday: I Am Able for Anything
- Week 45
- Sunday: The Mastery of War
- Monday: We Cannot Kill a Man for Whom Christ Died
- Tuesday: The Human Outline in the Granite
- Wednesday: God's Word Final in Scripture
- Thursday: The Mastery of Dishonesty and Lies
- Friday: Two Cases of Compromise
- Saturday: God Will Not Pull Down God's Standards to Ours
- Week 46
- Sunday: The Mastery of Prejudice
- Monday: Absolutely Not Lord! I Have Never
- Tuesday: What Are You Going to Do, Scold Me?
- Wednesday: Neither Did His Brethren Believe in Him
- Thursday: The Mastery of Shyness
- Friday: I Am Shy and Tied Up
- Saturday: The Holy Spirit Puts Back My Shoulders
- Week 47
- Sunday: The Mastery of Old Age
- Monday: Primarily to Making a Living Instead of Giving a Life
- Tuesday: They Shall Bring Forth Fruit in Old Age
- Wednesday: The Heavenly Frisky
- Thursday: I Don't Want to Lose the Accent
- Friday: The Mastery of Indecisiveness
- Saturday: Put It Off and Get an Ulcer
- Week 48
- Sunday: The Mastery of Oppression
- Monday: Not Somehow but Triumphantly
- Tuesday: Openly and Unhindered
- Wednesday: Let the North Wind Warm You
- Thursday: The Mastery of the Lack of a Mystical Temperament
- Friday: The Choice Is Always Ours
- Saturday: None Excluded Except Those Who Exclude Themselves
- Week 49
- Sunday: The Mastery of Perfectionism
- Monday: The Surrender of the Seven Kingdoms
- Tuesday: Now I'm Just Cutting Down a Tree
- Wednesday: The Widow's Mite
- Thursday: The Mastery of Trying to Change Others First
- Friday: Success in Examinations Guaranteed
- Saturday: What Is Your Name?
- Week 50
- Sunday: The Mastery of Loneliness
- Monday: Nobody but Me and Jesus
- Tuesday: Twofold Answer to Loneliness
- Wednesday: The Mastery of Always Being Right
- Thursday: I Never Say I'm Wrong
- Friday: If We Walk in the Light
- Saturday: Responsible for All We Know and All We Might Know
- Week 51
- Sunday: Steps in Finding the Holy Spirit
- Monday: Further Steps in Receiving the Holy Spirit
- Tuesday: I Endorse This with All My Heart
- Wednesday: I Will Stop Seeking and Begin to Praise
- Thursday: The Gifts of the Spirit
- Friday: The Lord God Has Sent Me and God's Spirit
- Saturday: He Left It All
- Week 52
- Sunday: Gathering up the Lessons
- Monday: No Longer Religious Busybodies
- Tuesday: Their Problems Turned to Possibilities
- Wednesday: Distribution According to Need
- Thursday: Various Masteries Reviewed
- Friday: A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
- Saturday: We Build the Church
- We Receive the Kingdom
