Being part of the Lord’s boot camp teaches you discipline and discernment. But with new-found wisdom comes the tendency for us to be very impressed…with ourselves! God won’t use someone who’s arrogant and prideful. He wants rather a person whose contrite, modest, and humble…a person fully aware of where their wisdom comes from, and just Who is working through them. It’s then that God will esteem them before men.
Month: October 2014
Mark 13: 31 ” Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”
This earth has a shelf life…the entire universe as we know it will end someday. But God and His Word will never cease to be in existence. God’s Word is alive and eternal. His Word is ever fresh, ever bringing new revelation and insight each time it’s read. God’s Word will last forever.
Amos 5:5 ” Seek Me and live; do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba.”
God is not in a certain location. Just because there’s been a great move of God there, doesn’t mean we need to worship the place it happened at. Why do we like to travel to places rather than searching for the source that made the location great in the first place? Pursue God, not where He might have been.
Isaiah 11:2 ” The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him – The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and of Power, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the fear of the Lord – and He will delight in the fear of the Lord.”
The same Spirit that rested on Jesus, rests on you. And so I pray this wonderful revelation of Isaiah for you today. May you be filled to overflowing with an abundance of God’s insight , discernment, and counsel as you make decisions in your life. May He occupy every thought with His sage advise – for the source of all wisdom is in God. Lastly, May you stand ever in awe and reverence before the throne of Grace…because without it, you’d be lost.
Psalm 108: 13 ” With God we will gain the victory, and He will trample down our enemies.”
What terror and turmoil has you in its clutches today? Call on the name of Jesus, and all the mighty power of Heaven and Earth will be at your disposal…for it is because of Him that we gain the victory. The Lord will crush under foot the enemy that has you filled with fear. Call on His name.
John 10:2 ” The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep.”
The thief enters over the fence…the wild animal, by digging underneath the enclosure…but the shepherd strides up and opens the gate. The Good Shepherd – Jesus, is not only the sole person who can rightfully open the gate…He is the gate. For in verse 9, Jesus goes on to say, “I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved.” Jesus is the Good Shepherd and the only means by which we can be saved… ever watching over, and protecting His flock… allowing passage into eternity.
John 10:4 ” When He has brought out all His own, He goes on ahead of them, and His sheep follow Him because they know His voice.”
As His sheep, we need to be ever attentive, listening for His voice. But we also need to be ever on guard of confusing voices that draw us away from the one true voice. But alas, how do we recognize His voice? It’s by encounter after encounter with Him that we learn to perceive His voice.
Ephesians 1:17 ” I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.”
Oh, to have that divine knowledge and insight to discern good from bad…right from wrong…wise from foolish. But if you think about it…we do have access to that kind of wisdom – it’s through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit – that still small voice giving direction and guidance, helping us make the right choices every day. All we have to do is be willing to listen and obey.
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