We’ve all been lied to…we’ve all had trust issues. For we live in a fallen world where telling the truth and honoring your word are laughed at. And it’s the people we should be able to trust the most that hurt us the deepest. But God is trustworthy and steadfast…He is faithful and just. You can believe in His word and trust Him with your life.
Category: Daily Inspirational Devotional
Job 7:11 ” Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.”
Only the Lord may know the personal suffering and grief you’re going through today. And it’s perfectly OK to be completely honest with God and tell Him how you feel…even to the point of yelling at Him. For the Lord has very broad shoulders and will never take offense…for only He can truly understand.
Matthew 9: 6-7 ” Then He said to the paralytic, ‘Get up, take your mat and go home.’ And the man got up and went home.”
A group of friends brought a paralyzed man to the Lord and Jesus gave him a three-stage command. “Stand up on your once useless legs, pick up and carry the mat you were brought here on, and go home and witness. Jesus was asking the paralytic to do something he couldn’t do before …”Stand to your feet.” Jesus then commanded him to pick up his only means of transportation and carry what had carried him in the past. And finally, He said, ” Go home and testify of your healing to everyone that has only known you as a paralytic…and take the mat as a remembrance. “
Lamentations 3: 19-20 ” I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope.”
Life does not spare anyone from loss, sorrow, and pain. So when we’re in the middle of trials, it’s difficult to take our eyes off the sadness and onto God. But here in Lamentations, Jeremiah voices his grief and suffering, yet he reminds himself that God’s great love and compassion never fail…and thus there is hope.
John 6: 28-29 ” Then they asked Him, ‘What must we do to do the works God requires?’ Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.’ “
God’s not asking for our toil and labor. He’s not looking for elaborate and great achievements we can do in His name. No, He’s quite simply asking us to believe…to believe that He sent His Son into the world to save it and give us eternal life. But for many, it’s hard to just trust…for we think we have to “do something” to gain this pardon. But it’s very true, the only thing God asks of us… is to believe.
I Kings 17: 15-16 ” She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food everyday for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.”
God had told Elijah to travel to Zarephath and a widow would supply him with food during a severe drought. When Elijah asked the woman for bread she replied she had only a handful of flour and a little oil left. Then Elijah prophesied that the jar of flour and the flask of oil wouldn’t run out until the Lord brought rain. At that moment the widow had two choices…allow fear to rule in her life, or step out in faith and believe God. Everyday fear will make us choose between Fearing the Enemy And Running or Facing the Enemy And Rising.
Philippians 3:9 ” …that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”
There’s the Law of works and the Law of faith. The Law of works tell you that if you’re perfect and do enough good works down here on earth, you can somehow “work” your way into heaven. But in the end, the only thing you’ll see is depression, anxiety, and discouragement…for no one can live a perfect life, and despite how many good works you do, it’ll never be enough. On the other hand the Law of faith frees us from that condemnation and self-loathing that loves to torture us when we fail. Within the Law of faith there is not only that freedom, but saving grace and mercy… all in the name of Jesus.
Deuteronomy 5:32 ” So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.”
It takes real self-discipline to keep the ways of the Lord. We need to remain faithful, not veering off track when our eye catches a glimpse of something enticing…for that can be our downfall. Our gaze must remain straight ahead, for the way is narrow and evil lurks on either side.
I Corinthians 12:12 ” The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body.”
“No one will miss me…nobody will even realize I’m not in Church.” The enemy does it all the time – convincing us that we don’t count, that we aren’t important enough, or that no one will even notice if we’re not in Church. But if someone took your brain, or your heart, or your lungs you’d notice real quick! Just like the human body, the Church is composed of many working parts, each with a specific task, but all working together for the common good of the body. No one part can function separately from the body…it will die. Never allow the enemy to persuade you that you aren’t important, or that your presence in Church is insignificant…you are very needed within that Body of Believers for it to function well.
Jeremiah 32:19 ” O great and powerful God, whose name is the Lord Almighty, great are Your purposes and mighty are Your deeds. Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; You reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve.”
Elsewhere in the Old Testament it declares, ” For a man’s ways are in full view of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.” (Proverbs 5:21) We may think we’re being so sly…so cunning…so sneaky, that no one knows about our secret sin…but the Lord does. We may think we’re pulling the wool over everybody’s eyes…but God sees all…hears all…and knows all.
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