Morning Devotional November 25, 2015

Psalm 66

“Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah. Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him. He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.”

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional November 24, 2015

Psalm 117

“O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.”

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional November 23, 2015

Romans 6:1-2

 

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

 

 

Wow!!! What strong words for God's children. Often times we forget that even though we are under God's grace we are still sinners. We still have the lust of the flesh and the pride of life within us. Yes, our Lord died and shed His blood so that we could have eternal life and to be free from sin. But we are still living in this old sinful world with all it's temptations. And satan uses those temptations to draw us away from our Lord and ruin our witness for our Lord.

We must remember that though we are no longer bound by the death grip of our sins we still commit sins. God's grace does not keep us from sinning but it keeps us from dying an eternal death in those sins. God's grace keeps us from God's wrath on those who are not His. Our God is merciful in that He promised us that He would never leave us. He will be there whenever we decide to follow Him rather than follow ourselves.

Sin is selfishness. It is following what we want rather that what God wants. And remember when it is His time He will pull us out of that sin and use us however He wills. As our Heavenly Father, the pulling us out of our sin will not be pleasant. As a parent spanks their child to correct them for their disobedience so does our Heavenly Father jerk us up by the nap of the neck and spank us for not following what He has commanded.

What love our God has for His children!!! So much so that even though we fall deeper and deeper into sin He still loves us and loves us enough to correct us and to show us the way He would have us to go. 

 A love so strong we cannot refuse it nor run from it when He is ready for us to do His bidding.

Praise God for His everlasting love!!! Praise God for His grace and mercy towards us even when we fail Him over and over again. O Christian, stop living in the sin of this world. Stop following the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. Seek the face of our Lord and Savior. Fall on your knees in the presence of our Heavenly Father. Beg Him for forgiveness for your sins. Then ask Him to give you forgiveness for yourself and those around you.

O lost person, if the Holy Spirit is convicting you of your sins. If He is causing you to see the wickedness of your ways. Follow Him. Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved!!!

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional November 22, 2015

Psalm 75

“Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.”

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional November 21, 2015

James 1:19-27

“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

 

Morning Devotional November 19, 2015

Psalm 116

“I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.”

 

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Morning Devotional November 18, 2015

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

 

O what a glorious thought to know we have been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ!!! O how wonderful it is to know we have been born again. Born out of the death and sin we once were consumed by.

As new creatures in our Lord our old passed of living in sin is gone. We are new creatures. Children of God. Our passions have changed. Our desires are different. Instead of chasing the lust of the world we now have a desire to follow our Lord and Savior. We thirst after His Word. We desire to follow His commandments.

But, lest we forget, we are still living in a body ravaged by sin and that body of flesh and bone tries to draw us back into the sins we once called home. This old sinful body craves the lust of the eyes and of the flesh and of this world. At times we fall to the temptations that come before us. It is a never ending struggle with our great adversary the devil. He will tempt us with everything from our past and with things we never knew possible.

But, Praise God we have a Comforter!!! Praise Go our Lord did not leave us alone to fight these battles!!! Praise God as new creatures in Him we have an advocate who died so that we might live!!! Praise God, because of this newness of life we are made whole in Him and His grace and mercy will forever be with us.

O child of God, if you are living in sin today, come before the Father and beg for grace and mercy!!! Seek His face!!! Run from your sin. Hide in the shadow of His wings. Seek the guidance of our great Comforter. Don't let another day of living in sin go by without seeking forgiveness from our Heavenly Father.

Seek Him. Praise Him. Give Him the glory for saving your soul and guiding you through this life. Remember, with Him we would be on our way to hell and eternal death and torment.

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!