Resist Stubborness

 

September 20

RESIST STUBBORNESS - If you resist God’s commands and remain persistently stubborn against His will, showing Him scant respect and grudging deference, how do you expect to know His tender compassion? His compassion will not be new to you every morning. It will be all vain and a waste to you, if you refuse to fear Him.

 

Snatch me Lord, capture me and save me from my sinful pride and deadly stubbornness against You. Amen!

 

Read Hosea 4: 16

 

Christ For Me

 

                        Christ for me, yes Christ is for me,

So fears and doubts will have to flee,

They aren’t friends, but the enemy,

Seeking ways, whatever they be,

Trying their works, even with plea,

To make me deny, Christ for me.

 

Christ for me, I will take His lead,

Even when cares would intercede,

Sowing unholy, wicked seed,

Saying to me, come on and feed,  

Tempting me in my dire need,

To turn on Christ, as my one lead.

 

Christ for me, my hope and my stay,

Though I am weary, tossed each way,

As the deceiver comes with sway,

Showing how, I waste time to pray,

Telling me, I should move away,

To seek not Christ, as my one stay.

 

Christ for me, yes Christ is for me,

Though from fears and doubts, I’m not free,

When the way forward, I can’t see,

God help me, to keep Christ only,

Though the world with me won’t agree,

Lord help me to live, Christ for me.

Amen!

Eternal Springs

 

September 19

ETERNAL SPRINGS – Did you realize that you don’t have to live a life of thirst, when the living waters of God are freely flowing? Why are you going thirsty and forfeiting God’s free grace for you? Did you know that God quenches your thirst, wherever you are and whatever your place? Our God is Omnipresent and His living, thirst-quenching water, will never, ever run dry, for He is Sovereign Creator. Eternal Springs, mean that you can be fed and refreshed daily in Him. Never run dry of spiritual water!

 

Holy Spirit, perfect provider of living water, with thanks, I drink from Your free-flowing fountain. Amen!

     

Read Isaiah 12: 1 - 3

 

 

Potter And Clay

 

September 18

POTTER AND CLAY – When one stands and stares at the potter at work, and sees how she or he takes an unshaped, ugly lump of clay and begins to shape and mould it, there is always amazement. The clay yields itself up to the skilled, firm, but loving hands of the potter, so that it can be made into something beautiful and useful. Sin has made you ugly. Place your life in God’s Hands, for He is the Supreme Potter. He will do wonders with you.

 

Lord, You are the Potter and I am the clay. I will be made into the works of Your Hand. Amen!

 

Read Isaiah 64: 8 - 9

 

Keep God's Words Before You

 

September 17

KEEP GOD’S WORDS BEFORE YOU – As God instructed His children in times past, to keep His words ever before them, in like manner, He instructs us also.  He admonishes us to do the same. God’s words should ever be before us, so that we will always remember His great mercies to us and how He has never failed in His promises to watch over us and keep us. It is the Lord who, with a mighty, outstretched Hand, has brought us to this day.

 

Thank You God for our salvation. Help us never to forget who You are to us. Amen!

 

    

Read Deuteronomy 11: 18 - 21

 

 

 

Keep Trusting God

 

September 16

KEEP TRUSTING GOD – None of us knows what today holds for us, but we must put all our hope and trust in the God who created us. He is the God who came to earth in human clay, and who gave His precious life to save us. Will He who loved us with such life-giving love abandon us and no longer care for us? Absolutely not. Let His love encourage us to keep trusting Him.

 

Holy God, thank You for loving us. Grant us response, to love and trust You with our lives. Amen!

 

        

Read Psalm 28: 7

 

Never Test The Holy Spirit

 

September 15

NEVER TEST THE HOLY SPIRIT – Sad but true. Never ever, under any circumstances, test God the Holy Spirit. To do such a dastardly act, is to hastily bring on your own demise. The story of Sapphira is painfully true. To please her husband Ananias, and be one with him in crime, she tested the Holy Spirit. Let no one, be it for love or money, cause you to be an accomplice in this unpardonable sin. Conspiracy to test the Spirit of God is a gigantic, No! No!

 

Holy Spirit, I don’t ever want to sin against You. Keep me true and right in You, please. Amen!

 

Read Acts 5: 7 - 11

 

Obey And Follow

 

September 14

OBEY AND FOLLOW – Peter is as a caged tiger, no way of escape, chained and bound with no hope of release. In this humanly impossible situation, God sends His angel to free Peter. Without asking a question Peter follows all the instructions given to him, without fault. When he comes to his senses he realizes that he is a free man. God still uses angels, in many ways, in our day, to lead His captive children out of captivity. Do like Peter. Obey without question, and receive release from your captors.

 

Omnipotent Father, thank You for being so powerful to save me. Amen! 

 

Read Acts 12: 8 - 11

 

 

 

Persistent Faith

 

Persistent Faith can save another,

If you let nothing this faith hinder,

For many things will stand in the way,

Causing you from faith’s path to stray.

But know this fact, whatever you do,

Faith is the response God wants from you,

A simple, stubborn faith in His Son,

Whereby life’s many battles are won,

A stubborn faith that knows not, no,

Like the man’s, who to his friend did go,

Seeking bread, for a needy neighbour,

Refusing, ‘Not now’, as an answer.

Write this lesson deep down in your mind,

Persistent faith, its answer will find.

And if you keep on in faith’s sure way,

Some waiting soul, will be saved today.

Amen!