Persistent Love

 

July 5

PERSISTENT LOVE - Our Father’s love is love that persists, despite our unloveliness. It is love that perseveres, in spite of our rudeness and blatant arrogance. His is love that continues working for us, even when we have turned our backs on Him, living lascivious, idolatrous and adulterous lives, without concern for Him. Our Father’s Love seeks us, wooing us back to Him. We all need to acknowledge such love and seek to love Him more, in response.

 

O Love that will not let me go, please teach me how to love and serve You more faithfully. Amen!

 

Read Jeremiah 31: 3

 

Keep Knocking

 

   Keep knocking, yes keep knocking, at the closed door,

   Do not stop knocking, give more knocks and still more,

Hearers are behind the door, keep knocking for

They’ll hear you, and will soon open up for sure.

 

Keep knocking, keep knocking, if you continue,

Someone will respond and open up to you,

Keep knocking, each knock you make is of value,

Persistence makes the virtue of knocking true.

 

Keep knocking, keep knocking, at the door of prayer,

God’s behind the door, your every knock He’ll hear,

In sure faith, keep on knocking, do not despair,

God’s promise is to answer you, have no fear.

 

Keep knocking, grow not weary: Do not give up!

Persevere, continue knocking and don’t stop,

Keep knocking, remain at that one knocking spot,

Importune prayer will pleasing faith develop.

 

Keep knocking, you did it without wavering,

Faith kept you believing that God was hearing,

His pure grace gave you unshadowed welcoming,  

Keep knocking! Give thanks! The door is opening.

Amen!

One Father

 

July 4

ONE FATHER – We go to our Heavenly Father, because He first came to us. We call Him Father, because He first called us sons and daughters. Who then is our Father? He is God, whose Name is Love, whose Nature is Love and whose Nurturing of all His children is Love. We all have one loving Father, and in His nurturing and with His example, our response ought to be one of love to Him and each other.

 

Our Father in heaven, teach me how to love You more and others also. Amen!

 

Read Malachi 2: 10

 

Your Unfamiliar

 

July 3

YOUR UNFAMILIAR - When the road you’ve been called to travel is unfamiliar, you become anxious and all kinds of unwanted thoughts vie for control of your mind. You even feel lost at times and crippling fears begin to set in. Stop! Encourage yourself in the Lord, for what is unfamiliar to you, is familiar to Him. Always remember! God knows the way He takes. He is the Omniscient Authority, whom to follow, is always gain and victory.

 

Omniscient Authority, teach me to trust You more and more. Amen!

 

Read Isaiah 45: 2 - 3

 

 

Outrider God

 

July 2

OUTRIDER GOD – Why not let God be your outrider? He will carry you, clear a way for you, and control all laws for you. God also chooses the best path for you to take, in your circumstance. Just like outriders, He will go ahead of you to lead and guide you. Follow not your ordinary ways, but the way of the One of Authority, who is ahead of you. Follow God as your outrider today. In faith, believe that He goes ahead of you. 

 

Father, I do not boast of great faith, but with my growing faith, please let me know, as an Outrider, You have gone ahead of me, to make it alright for me. Amen! 

 

Read Judges 4: 14

 

 

God Goes Ahead Of You

 

This month begins the second half of the year and with it comes great anxiety to many, of a galloping year. It seems as though time is slipping away from us and O how this brings all kinds of negative vibes. I encourage you with the words of Deborah to a servant of God who was facing some very crippling fears about the road before him that must be travelled. Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you? So Barak went down Mount Tabor, followed by ten thousand men. Judges 4: 14b

Here are three faith-strengthening and fear-removing truths received from this text, about our Lord God.

God carries you. Has not God gone ahead of you? Then He who is the Almighty Power, goes ahead of you to carry you or take you to where you need to be.

God clears the way for you. Has not God gone ahead of you? Then He who is the Supreme Authority, with His controlling Powers, clears impossible paths and makes a clear way for you.

God’s outrider chooses the path for you. Has not God gone ahead of you?  You may be taken through what is unfamiliar to you, but God, the Omniscient Authority, knows the way He takes. To follow Him is always gain and victory.

Believe! Face this time in the Name of our Trustworthy and Faithful God, who has already gone ahead of you.

As you receive each, Devotional Delicacy, may every word, phrase, and sentence be used by our ever present Holy Spirit, to strengthen your faith, encourage your heart and quicken your feet.

 

Look To Jesus

 

July 1

LOOK TO JESUS - On this day, we have come to the beginning of the second half of the year and this brings pangs of fear and anxiety to many. All that occupies the mind is that the year will soon come to an end. Do you feel threatened by its fast-moving speed? You feel as though you’re unable to keep up, asking, where has the time gone? I encourage you to turn your heart, mind and soul to Jesus, seeking His peace and assurance. Travel this time with Him leading you.

 

Holy Spirit, help me to keep my mind stayed on You, in this fast moving world. Amen! 

 

Read Psalm 63: 8

 

 

God's Ways

 

June 30

GOD’S WAYS – What is our worship of God like? When we celebrate feasts and festivals to the Lord, as we worship Him, are we doing it all according to God or according to us? Our God is a very particular God and He prefers obedience, rather than sacrifice. Read how very particular He is in how His people are to celebrate the Passover, for example. Ensure that your worship to God pleases Him, in obedience, respect and reverence.

 

Teach us Lord not to opt for sacrifices above obedience to You. Remind us always that worship is to You, so it must be pleasing to You, first and foremost. Amen! 

 

Read Deuteronomy 16: 5 – 8

 

Public Opinions

 

June 29

PUBLIC OPINIONS – Do you care about people’s opinions? Whatever is your response, do you know that Jesus was interested in what people were saying about Him? He once asked His disciples who people were saying He is. He did not ask about what believers were saying, but about the general public. What are people seeing of you, in relation to the God you confess as Your Heavenly Father? Make sure that your life does not betray you.

 

Holy Lord, let me not, in my daily living, bear false testimony about You. Amen! 

 

Read Matthew 16: 13 - 14

 

Power Of Death

 

June 28

POWER OF DEATH – Death comes in many ways. We all have tasted and still taste the bitterness of the deaths of fear, hopelessness, depression and uselessness. God chose to accomplish victory over all deaths, in a most different and utterly strange way, which no human mind could ever comprehend. With the coming of a baby, a most helpless, innocent, and vulnerable human, the most powerful was shaken. See death as the most powerful ruler on the earth then.  Death held reign and threw its weight around. Then the most powerless comes to earth and the powerful begins to weaken and lose ground.

Heavenly Father, help me in my faith to accept that You still use this world’s weak to overcome this world’s strong. Amen!

Read Isaiah 40: 28 - 31