Who are we to question you? You created the heavens and the earth, I was created in your own image.
Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Shalom
You are the I am that I am
My Rock and My Salvation
The Begining and the End
All Sufficient One
Kings of Kings
Lord of Lords
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
The Lion of the Tribe of Judah
Lilly of the Valley
The Lamb that was slain
You are the God that makes a way where there seems to be no way
You are the Holy one of Israel, Holy Holy Holy is your name
Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Awesome God
You are the God that opens that no man can shut
Unchangeable God, My Covenant Keeping Father
Merciful God, Prince of Peace
Everlasting Father
Immortal, Invisible
Omnipotent, Omniscience, Omnipresence
Ever Faithful Father
My healer, My Redeemer, My Provider, My Protector, My Comforter
You are the Miracle working God
Special Effects God, God of Wonders, Mighty God
My Father, My Husband, My Friend, My All
Is there anything difficult for you?
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Mercy's Messenger
Psalm 6:2
2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
There are certain things in this universe that just can't be separated. God and love, faith and good works, obedience and blessing, salvation and the cross, etc. But here's an inseparable association that we may not be so quick to recognize: mercy and weakness. In reality, you can't disassociate the Lord's mercy from man's weakness, because it's our deficiency that signals our need for His sufficiency. Our weakness acts as a messenger to us that we need help, that we need mercy. And it's when we recognize this and open our empty hands that God fills them with the multitude of His mercies. As you survey the Scriptures, you'll find that those who owned their weakness received mercy. We see this most strikingly in the ministry of Jesus. A leper, a woman who had been bleeding for more than a decade, a frantic and helpless father, a blind man who had been banished to a life of begging by the wayside...all understood they were weak...all received immeasurable mercy. Don't misunderstand. This doesn't mean all our ills will be healed if we simply confess them. Sometimes our suffering is a providential tool God uses for His purposes. But it does mean this: Our weakness can be our greatest strength if causes us to humbly call out to God for His mercy. Be in tune and in touch with the reality that your frame is frail. Do what the Psalmist did and confess your weakness, for it's then you'll find yourself mightily covered in mercy.
Lord of all mercies, never allow us to forget how undone and helpless we are apart from You!
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
There are certain things in this universe that just can't be separated. God and love, faith and good works, obedience and blessing, salvation and the cross, etc. But here's an inseparable association that we may not be so quick to recognize: mercy and weakness. In reality, you can't disassociate the Lord's mercy from man's weakness, because it's our deficiency that signals our need for His sufficiency. Our weakness acts as a messenger to us that we need help, that we need mercy. And it's when we recognize this and open our empty hands that God fills them with the multitude of His mercies. As you survey the Scriptures, you'll find that those who owned their weakness received mercy. We see this most strikingly in the ministry of Jesus. A leper, a woman who had been bleeding for more than a decade, a frantic and helpless father, a blind man who had been banished to a life of begging by the wayside...all understood they were weak...all received immeasurable mercy. Don't misunderstand. This doesn't mean all our ills will be healed if we simply confess them. Sometimes our suffering is a providential tool God uses for His purposes. But it does mean this: Our weakness can be our greatest strength if causes us to humbly call out to God for His mercy. Be in tune and in touch with the reality that your frame is frail. Do what the Psalmist did and confess your weakness, for it's then you'll find yourself mightily covered in mercy.
Lord of all mercies, never allow us to forget how undone and helpless we are apart from You!
What does this passage reveal to me about God?
What does this passage reveal to me about myself?
Based on this, what changes do I need to make?
What is my prayer for today?
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Rest
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself ] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You].
Each evening the sun sets on all of our problems and on all of the mistakes we made that day. But something marvelous happens to us as we sleep—the Lord gives us rest physically, mentally, and emotionally.We are renewed and rejuvenated to face the next day.
Today we may wake up with the same problems we had when we went to bed, problems that yesterday we felt we just couldn’t take anymore. But somehow today after proper rest and sleep, we think, I can do it; I can face it again. God promises to renew our strength when we rest in Him.
From the book Starting Your Day Right: Joyce Meyer
As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself ] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You].
Each evening the sun sets on all of our problems and on all of the mistakes we made that day. But something marvelous happens to us as we sleep—the Lord gives us rest physically, mentally, and emotionally.We are renewed and rejuvenated to face the next day.
Today we may wake up with the same problems we had when we went to bed, problems that yesterday we felt we just couldn’t take anymore. But somehow today after proper rest and sleep, we think, I can do it; I can face it again. God promises to renew our strength when we rest in Him.
From the book Starting Your Day Right: Joyce Meyer
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Staff to a Shadow
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me…
The Bible’s pages are filled with accounts of how God’s anointing was present upon everything from a staff to a shadow.
The anointing rested on Moses’ staff as it swallowed the snakes of Pharaoh (Exodus 7:8-13) and upon Elijah’s cloak as he parted the Jordan and walked on dry ground (2 Kings 2).
The anointing rested upon Elisha’s bones—and, when a dead man was thrown into his open tomb, the dead man’s eyes popped open and he became alive again (2 Kings 13:21).
The anointing will cause what was once dead to come alive again! It is the life force of Almighty God!
Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.”
The anointing of God was in the mud Jesus placed upon the blind man’s eyes and upon Peter’s handkerchiefs and aprons.
The same anointing that resurrected Jesus is still at work in our lives today for God’s glory and for the furthering of His kingdom.
Rod Parsley Breakthrough Devotion
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me…
The Bible’s pages are filled with accounts of how God’s anointing was present upon everything from a staff to a shadow.
The anointing rested on Moses’ staff as it swallowed the snakes of Pharaoh (Exodus 7:8-13) and upon Elijah’s cloak as he parted the Jordan and walked on dry ground (2 Kings 2).
The anointing rested upon Elisha’s bones—and, when a dead man was thrown into his open tomb, the dead man’s eyes popped open and he became alive again (2 Kings 13:21).
The anointing will cause what was once dead to come alive again! It is the life force of Almighty God!
Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.”
The anointing of God was in the mud Jesus placed upon the blind man’s eyes and upon Peter’s handkerchiefs and aprons.
The same anointing that resurrected Jesus is still at work in our lives today for God’s glory and for the furthering of His kingdom.
Rod Parsley Breakthrough Devotion
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
An Intimate Moment
Luke 7:37-38
37 When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them
37 When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them
Joanna carefully brushed her long, coarse hair before she put the covering over her head. She was scared, yes, but she was so excited! Her hands were trembling as she tucked the vial of perfume into the sleeve of her heavy garment. She was actually going to see Him, maybe even touch Him. And deep within her heart was the hope that He might see her-- might notice her in some way. If I can just get into the portico of Simon's house, surely I can find where they are eating.
She stayed in the shadows as she walked down the street, fully aware of the people staring and moving away from her as she approached. No one cares to recognize a harlot. But she was used to that. Not that being used to it had taken away the hurt, but she understood. And yet, maybe that humiliating life of sin and degradation was over? Maybe it was behind her? Maybe He will set me free!
She had first heard Him the day He taught the multitudes, and had followed Him ever since, sometimes losing herself in the crowds or crouching behind the trees and rocks. There were days when there wasn't anyone around who knew her and she was able to help prepare the meals and serve Him and His disciples.
There's his house. I know people can hear my heart pounding! Wait, there's the entrance to the servant's quarters. I'll go in there.
She walked quickly into the dark doorway and then moved toward the sounds of the kitchen.
I hear Him talking! Oh, please let me be close to Him just this once. I long so to show Him how much I love Him. . . .
She crept quietly to an open door just behind Jesus. Then, with one deep breath, she stepped into the room, knelt beside Him, and kissed His feet. It was almost funny the way everyone stopped talking and eating. They were shocked -- of that there was no doubt -- and their silence condemned her.
Joanna wept as she poured the perfume, her tears mingling with the sweet-smelling oil. Then she loosed her hair and began drying those dear, blessed feet.
* * *
Jesus talked to Simon and to the others lounging around the table that day. He talked to Joanna, too. She left, clean and forgiven, knowing that He returned her love and that she was special to Him. We don't hear any more about her, but I want to believe she held steadfastly to her new life.
She made quite a spectacle of herself that day. I can imagine that it took her a long while to make her plans and then to carry them out.
I'm prone to say, "What courage." But no. It wasn't courage that drove Joanna to Simon's house. It was love.
And so the unnamed harlot lives on through biblical history . . . while princes and procurators and scribes and Pharisees, mighty men and strong men and wise men and rich men, are all long since forgotten. Her only claim to fame? She loved much.
Lord, may I love You as much as Joanna loved You.
She stayed in the shadows as she walked down the street, fully aware of the people staring and moving away from her as she approached. No one cares to recognize a harlot. But she was used to that. Not that being used to it had taken away the hurt, but she understood. And yet, maybe that humiliating life of sin and degradation was over? Maybe it was behind her? Maybe He will set me free!
She had first heard Him the day He taught the multitudes, and had followed Him ever since, sometimes losing herself in the crowds or crouching behind the trees and rocks. There were days when there wasn't anyone around who knew her and she was able to help prepare the meals and serve Him and His disciples.
There's his house. I know people can hear my heart pounding! Wait, there's the entrance to the servant's quarters. I'll go in there.
She walked quickly into the dark doorway and then moved toward the sounds of the kitchen.
I hear Him talking! Oh, please let me be close to Him just this once. I long so to show Him how much I love Him. . . .
She crept quietly to an open door just behind Jesus. Then, with one deep breath, she stepped into the room, knelt beside Him, and kissed His feet. It was almost funny the way everyone stopped talking and eating. They were shocked -- of that there was no doubt -- and their silence condemned her.
Joanna wept as she poured the perfume, her tears mingling with the sweet-smelling oil. Then she loosed her hair and began drying those dear, blessed feet.
* * *
Jesus talked to Simon and to the others lounging around the table that day. He talked to Joanna, too. She left, clean and forgiven, knowing that He returned her love and that she was special to Him. We don't hear any more about her, but I want to believe she held steadfastly to her new life.
She made quite a spectacle of herself that day. I can imagine that it took her a long while to make her plans and then to carry them out.
I'm prone to say, "What courage." But no. It wasn't courage that drove Joanna to Simon's house. It was love.
And so the unnamed harlot lives on through biblical history . . . while princes and procurators and scribes and Pharisees, mighty men and strong men and wise men and rich men, are all long since forgotten. Her only claim to fame? She loved much.
Lord, may I love You as much as Joanna loved You.
Monday, 3 January 2011
We Should Know Who We Are In Christ
John 10:3
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
Do you sometimes feel like you are just a face in a crowd or a number in a system? You are identified by your social security number. Even when you see the doctor, you are called by your queue number. If you feel depersonalized and dehumanized, that is exactly how the devil wants you to feel - that you do not matter much to anyone, especially to God.
But you do matter to God! He calls you by name. He knows exactly what you are going through and where you are hurting. He sees you and cares for you, just as He cared for the people when He first walked on earth.
Jesus will do for you what He did for the woman in Samaria. There was a shorter route from Judea to Galilee, but the Bible says that ‚"He needed to go through Samaria‚". (John 4:4) In other words, Jesus deliberately took a longer route, so that He could stop by Samaria to speak to the woman who had been searching for something in her life to satisfy her.
This woman had had five husbands and the man she was living with was not her husband. Clearly, things had not been going right in her life. She was probably looking for answers and fulfillment, and must have felt ashamed about her failed marriages and current lifestyle.
Yet, in spite of all this, she mattered to Jesus! He needed to go to her to minister to her. And indeed, after she met Jesus, the perfect Man, she was transformed. She was no longer ashamed, and went into the city to tell the people about Him. (John 4:28-29)
Jesus came a long way from heaven for you. You certainly matter to Him. He came to give you life and life more abundantly. (John 10:10) You are not just a face in a crowd or a number. No, He knows you by name and has a personal love for you. And in spite of the mess which you might be in, He wants to meet your every need and make your life beautiful!
Thought For The Day
You do matter to God! He knows what you are going through and wants to meet your every need.
But you do matter to God! He calls you by name. He knows exactly what you are going through and where you are hurting. He sees you and cares for you, just as He cared for the people when He first walked on earth.
Jesus will do for you what He did for the woman in Samaria. There was a shorter route from Judea to Galilee, but the Bible says that ‚"He needed to go through Samaria‚". (John 4:4) In other words, Jesus deliberately took a longer route, so that He could stop by Samaria to speak to the woman who had been searching for something in her life to satisfy her.
This woman had had five husbands and the man she was living with was not her husband. Clearly, things had not been going right in her life. She was probably looking for answers and fulfillment, and must have felt ashamed about her failed marriages and current lifestyle.
Yet, in spite of all this, she mattered to Jesus! He needed to go to her to minister to her. And indeed, after she met Jesus, the perfect Man, she was transformed. She was no longer ashamed, and went into the city to tell the people about Him. (John 4:28-29)
Jesus came a long way from heaven for you. You certainly matter to Him. He came to give you life and life more abundantly. (John 10:10) You are not just a face in a crowd or a number. No, He knows you by name and has a personal love for you. And in spite of the mess which you might be in, He wants to meet your every need and make your life beautiful!
Thought For The Day
You do matter to God! He knows what you are going through and wants to meet your every need.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
New year resolution - I have just got one so far, and that is getting close to God (reading my bible daily and applying the word to my everyday life) I really need to learn bible verses....i lack in this area!
I have set myself a challenge to learn at least a verse in the bible each day and will be posting this on my blog everyday. Help me Lord!
So i am currently reading Joseph Prince's Devotional and Life Application Study Bible via YouVersion and will be sharing this with you guys!
I have set myself a challenge to learn at least a verse in the bible each day and will be posting this on my blog everyday. Help me Lord!
So i am currently reading Joseph Prince's Devotional and Life Application Study Bible via YouVersion and will be sharing this with you guys!
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