Morning Devotional August 2, 2015

Isaiah 59:2

 

“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”

 

O how horrible the thought that our Heavenly Father would hide His face from us and hear not our prayers!

And why would He do this?

Because of our sins.

Many in modern religion today think that because we are saved by God's grace that we have a free will to do what we want and that because our price was paid for on Calvary that nothing we do can harm our relationship with our God.

God's people will pray and seek His face yet all the while they are living in the most hainess of sinful ways. Yes, we are to go to Him in times of need, but if we are living a life of sin,which most of us are, it must be with a repentive heart first. If it is our iniquities that have separated us from our God then it must be our repenting of those iniquities that brings us back together with our God.

Now, I would remind you here that, this verse is written to God's people. Not to the lost and dying world. But to those that are already saved. For how can one be separated that was not joined to start with?

Why would our Father in Heaven turn His face from us and not hear our prayers? Notice in this verse that He does not say He leaves us. In Hebrews 13:5 He promised never to leave us. No, but it is us who have sinned and caused the separation. It is us that have left our Lord and followed after the sin we once knew.

As the children of God we are commanded to leave our old life of sin and rebellion behind and follow our Lord in a new life of joy and peace and free of sin. Yet as long as we are on this sinful earth and in these sin ravaged bodies we are prone to wander back to the life we once were enslaved to.

Praise God!!! His Son Jesus Christ paid the price and bought us from that old slave master of sin!!! Praise be to God that we no longer are bound to follow that road that leads to death and hell!!!

Then why do we continue to rebel and follow after this old sinful world? Because of the sin of our father Adam that has been passed down from generation to generation. The sin of rebellion against our God. Our wanting to follow after our own “free” will and not follow after the commandments of our loving Heavenly Father. But our will is not as free as we think. We are either bound by sin and death or we are bound to the commandments and life given by our Lord and Savior.

So, even though we are now children of the God of Heaven, the Creator of all things, we still have a desire to be a part of the sin of this world. We still rebel against His commandments. It is a struggle we will have as long as we are on this earth and in these bodies.

What can we do then? What we must do is follow our Lord. As Jacob did, run from evil. Leave our coats in the arms of those who would lead us astray. And even though false accusations may arise against us, keep our eyes on the Lord and He will get the glory for it all.

Follow His commandments and His Word. Seek His face with a repentant heart and ask that He reveal His will to you and to make His will for your life the same that you want for your life. We can have no joy and peace until we are following our Lord and not rebeling with every step we take.

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional July 31, 2015

Psalm 11:3

 

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the rightous do?”

 

Today we are witnessing those in our nation attacking anything and everything godly. Is this new as some say? No. It is just now these people have larger numbers than before and with that they have a louder voice.

The very foundations of the founding of our nation are under attack. The foundations that our forefathers took from the Word of God to form what they saw as a nation founded upon Biblical princeables. It is very effidant from the official documents and personal writtings that they saught the guidance of our Holy Creator and that they were relying on the God of the Bible to form their thoughts and opinions and not themselves or other men.

We are seeing a fastly growing minority(for now) protesting against God and His Word. Yes, our founders were men, sinful men, just like any of us. They made their mistakes and they sinned just as we do or any man does. And so this great minority is focusing on the sins of our founding fathers to prove, in their eyes, that these men were not as godly as we have been taught.

So, the question before us is; What can the rightous do? As the children of the God of Heaven and Earth? What can we do when our God and our godly heritage come under attack from the children of darkness?

Simple answer: PRAY!!!

Pray for the souls of those who are fighting against our Lord and Savior. Pray that God will give us a peace about these matters. Pray for our Lord's quick return. Pray without ceasing!!!

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional July 29, 2015

Proverbs 15:16

 

“Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.”

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional June 29, 2015

Jeremiah 6:16-19

“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”

The Words of our Lord to the prophet Jeremiah were for the nation of Israel. Yet we see in the United States today a very simular situation where a people who claim to be a “nation under God” have denied the very God they claim as their own. Like the nation of Israel spoken of here our nation has followed after false prophets and preachers of false doctrine into the worship of a false god. Tolerance for sin has run rampied for so long that many today do not recoginize sin and refuse to hear the law of God concerning sin.

We cannot watch television or listen to the radio or look at bill boards on the street without being exposed to some of the most hainis sins ever to enter the minds and hearts of man. And yet we as God's people sit back and watch television programs and listen to music on the radio and laugh at the signs on the street that are promoting the very sins our Lord warned us to stay away from.

Remember we are His children. He told us to be seperate from this world. He told us not to follow after this world. So why do we? Because, even though we are His children we still love sin. We still live in a sinful flesh. Is that a good excuse? Of course not! Because we are the children of God we should desire His ways and desire to please Him and only Him.

We must stop following after the world and start following after our Heavenly Father. We see our world falling deeper and deeper into sin and farther and farther away from the laws of God. Cling to Him!!! Our Lord is our only hope. Put all your trust in Him and flee from the world. As children of God we must stop living in sin and start living for our Lord. We must start showing the world who we are and whom's we are!!!

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional June 19, 2015

Philippians 3:13-14

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

 

Paul reminds us in these verses to forget our past and to reach for the future. So many of us today are haunted by the sins of their past. But the Lord tells us plainly, we are free from those sins through His blood that He shed for us on the cross. There is no benefit to dwelling on our past sins. It only brings unneeded stress and grief. We should learn from our mistakes and move on.

As the scripture above tells us “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Seek the Lord's will for your life and press on to that goal. Look to the Lord for peace and joy in this life. Think and meditate on the things of God and not on ourselves, the world around us or our past. Press on toward to our inheritance with Christ Jesus.

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

 

Morning Devotional June 17, 2015

Lamentations 3

3 I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional June 16, 2015

Psalm 51

1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!