Daily Devotional

Promise Keeping God

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:21:45 +0000

The bible says that the Lord will not break his promises. It also declares that he will repay those that look away from him and keep those that follow his commands 9. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10. And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face, Deut 7:9-10 KJV. The Lord even swears by his own holiness that He will not break his word of covenant that he speaks to his children 33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips, Psalm 89:33-34 KJV . It says He is Faithful to the Word He has spoken and He will never suffer his faithfulness to fail in our lives, and he is a very present help in the time of trouble. If we acknowledge the Lord in our going forth, then we can be assured that He will establish us. Another reason we can hold on to the word of God is because the scripture speaks to the fact that God cannot lie. 1. Paul, A servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began Titus 1:1-2 KJV. He is not slack concerning His promises. As we go through our days and deal with the issues of life, we can know that he is not like men that are truce breakers. He is a God that will be steadfast concerning His word for us.II Peter 3:9 says, 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance KJV.

As far as God is concerned a promise is an unbreakable oath. Therefore the things He has promised us in our lives must come to pass. They cannot fail, because the Lord never fails. Just as we can depend on the sun rising in the morning and the moon in the evening, so can we hold fast and rely on the Lord to be faithful to His word.

Speak Lord

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:48:19 +0000

There are some things you are looking for, and the answer is going to be found when you get on your knees. For many, the only way you really walk in your place of true promise, is to walk there on your knees. For what you are desiring, you are going to have to change your stance in order to get the answer. .The way you were doing it will not work. Your desire is great, so your heart’s cry must be great. God says, “Time out for cheap grace, this one is going to cost you something”. What are you willing to pay, for the blessing of the Lord? What are you willing to pay, for God to answer your cry?

In the bible we have the story of a woman named Hannah. Hannah wanted to have a son, but she was barren. So when it came time for her family to go to the temple, here Hannah is, coming in the house of God, crying and weeping for the move of God. The bible said she was praying and crying so wildly that Eli asks her if she is drunk. I guess in a way she was. She was drunk with the power of determined purpose. Determined to touch God at all cost. Determined to see the result of her prayers and not let God go until he blessed her. Have you ever been to the point that you asked God, “Give me a Word lest I die! Speak to me, or I will not live. I can’t live on the outside of your heart any longer.” I truly believe that when the church begins to cry like that, then we are going to see a move of God, that the earth will not be able to contain.

If we don’t watch it, we will live our entire lives without experiencing a genuine move of God in our midst. And instead of going into our promise land, God is going to have to judge us, and kill us in the wilderness, and the promise will be left for the next generation. Left for them, because we never dropped the weight and the sin, that so easily beset us, and their hearts remained young and tender. God wants to speak, but He’s waiting to speak to a tender heart.

He Cannot Lie

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:00:46 +0000

God makes covenant with us and the covenant is totally and completely undeserved. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ,Ex 34:6-7 KJV. His covenants are an expression of His pure love for us. Many times we miss many of the blessings the Lord has for us because of our unbelief. One of the primary reasons people sometimes find it hard to believe God is, because they don’t truly understand the very essence of who he is. Our God is a God of love & relationship, His nature and character are founded in truth and love. Although this alone is beyond human understanding and mans frail reasoning we still must yet have the faith to believe him. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6 KJV. We must remain true to our part to trust and depend on him. Our God is a GOD that does not and cannot lie. His love for us is true. This love is perfectly expressed in the scripture in I Corinthians 13:4-8, ⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; ⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. ⁸Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away KJV. His promises to us never fail, because Love never ends. Love is love, in spite of our response.

Once we learn that he is a God of truth, our expectation will then be based on His word, which is truth. The perception of our circumstances does not change the truth of God’s intention nor His faithfulness concerning his promises. It’s not until we exchange our nature and character for His that we will begin to believe and see the results of his promises for our lives.

To show us that He was serious about the promises that He has made to us, and that beyond a shadow of a doubt He is sure to perform the word that comes out of his mouth, the Lord confirmed the word by an oath, Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. This was so that, by two unchangeable things (His promise and His oath) in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled (to Him) for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before (us). Heb 6:17-18 AMP We which have come and run to him for refuge and help in the time of trouble can know that he is not only able to keep us, but is willing and desires to shield us by His grace.

Choose Me

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:43:36 +0000

The principles of success are, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you”. Many of us think it to mean that we don’t need to do anything other than spiritual things, that the natural world is against the things of the Lord. That is not so. The only way something can come into the natural, is if it was once spiritual. All that is natural has its origin from another place. Natural is the result. The Spirit is the cause or the place of inception.

If business, family or life is to be successful, then you must forst seek what is the purpose for it in the kingdom, and the way the kingdom would operate in that capacity. Next you apply kingdom principles to that desire, and all of the pleasure, fulfillment, and prosperity from the kingdom will be added to it. Then, and only then will it never fail.

It is when we apply the principle of “kingdom first” that will determine that we have planted in good soil, and what you plant will have no choice but to grow. Remember there are no “chance” occurrences. You are and shall be what you have determined and applied in your life to be. God has given you the ability to choose what you shall become. Whatever the circumstances of your beginning, they have nothing to do with the outcome of your ending. You have the ability though the spirit to create and be whatever is in your heart to be. You can accomplish anything that you desire to accomplish. There is no man, people group, or force that can stop the desire of a man that has the Lord’s heart. We truly were created in the image and likeness of God. We are creators by nature, and will be so until we die. Create the life and the surroundings you desire by choosing God first, and watch things change according to your will. God is best pleased when you who has free will and free choice, use it to glorify Him. He is blessed by your choosing to bless Him. Not made by force, but willing choice.

He’ll Never Change His Mind

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:00:48 +0000

The promise that we have in Christ is an eternal, unblemished promise. Christs’ office was established upon, saluted with, and rests in the power of oath and covenant. ²⁰And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: ²¹(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) ²²By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. ²³And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: ²⁴But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. ²⁵Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. ²⁶For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ²⁷Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself, Heb 7:20-27 KJV.

The scripture reveals that before Christ came, he took an oath before God to be a priest unto the people. God says that he will never change His mind in regards to the oath Christ made. It further states in the oath that He swore to Christ and Christ accepts the responsibility to be an eternal High Priest for us.

Now because of that oath and the sworn Word of God, Christ is able to make intercession and intervention for us, and we can know that we are standing in the power and force of a better covenant. Christ is now the strength and guarantee of this new covenant, because it is sworn by God to God. The Lord further swears to Himself through His Son, that he will always be for us and keep his children in His divine power and love.

Christ is longsuffering toward us, because he will not break the oath He swore to himself to keep us from falling. The power of the promises of the Lord is found in the assurance that He is a God of truth. Because Christs’ priesthood is unchanging, he is therefore able to save us completely, perfectly, and finally. This guarantee is not only for today but for all time into eternity. Our hope is fortified by Christs’ power to keep us. Because He is timeless, limitless, totally undefiled, and victorious over death. His word spoken to us is complete and unbroken. We should always live in the confidence that the original words of his intention will be performed throughout our lives.

Whatever issues you may be facing in life, you can rest in the fact that the Lord is greater than them all. Search the scriptures for in them are all the answers for your life. Find your peace and safety, in The Loving Arms of the Father.

Not child… But Son!

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:51:58 +0000

When we are led by the Spirit of God, we can awaken to a new level of authority in our lives. The witness of our growth and Sonship is with the Holy Ghost (Act 1:8). The Spirit of God will testify and openly declare you are a child of the King. Not a child only, but an heir. Heirs, and joint heirs with Christ (Romans 8:14-17). It is the Spirit of God’s testimony of our authority, that give us the confidence to know that because you have chosen Him you also will now reign with Him in the earth and in Glory.

When you were a child it was okay for you to stand back and wait for your parents to just do it, but now that you are walking in your sonship, you must take on another level of responsibility and authority. You are to now cause things to move in the earth, and shape your envionment for the ways of God’s kingdom. As you walk men will be astonished at the things you say, because your words now have power behind them. They are not mere syllables coming from flesh, but you will begin to speak like Christ, because you are one that has authority (Matt 7:29).

Time is at Hand

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:41:37 +0000

Daniel 7:18,27 Romans 8:17, Ephesians 1:18-20, 2:19-22, Ephesians 2:2:7, Gal 2:20, Col3:1-3, I John 2:15, Luke 17-21, Rom 8:16, Col 1:12,13, I Peter 2:9

Those that will have God’s heart, will watch as well as pray that the Lord give them divine eyesight into the place that He is taking His children, and what He would have us do in this day to prepare for His triumphant return. You will ask Him to enlighten and intensify the yearning of your heart for Him in this day.

We are called to be Saints. Saints are those purposed to will inherit the things of God, and administrate His ways in the earth. We are called to be the ones who hold the strength of His might and usher in the ways of the Lord. As it tates in Isaiah 40:1 – 31, before the coming of the Lord, the people of God, will prepare the way for His return.

Don’t think it a light thing that people in the church now speak of things like healing and prophecy, and of the many different spiritual giftings. The Lord is doing something. He is awakening a level of faith in men and women in the earth so that their expectation will be for the Lord to show up, just as in the days of the early church. Once this becomes the true cry of the people of God then the ways of God are going to become commonplace.

The bible says that before the coming of the Lord, there will be a great harvest of souls, the greatest that the world has ever seen. That means, the Lord is going to pour out His spirit in a greater measure than men have yet seen. (John 14:12-14). The members of the body of Christ are the ones who will handle and nurture that harvest in the things of the Lord.

The word Saint is mentioned 96 times in the bible to describe the people of God. In the Greek the word is hagios, which mean, sanctified, holy separated. When the Lord looks at His people He looks at the holy ones, the ones that have been set a part for His purposes. In the old testament, when they sanctified the items for the tabernacle and the sanctuary, they were considered clean, and not to be mingled with the “common things” anymore. We are the now the instruments of Gods’ design, and as such we are separated, and set aside for the Lord’s ways.

We all have a purpose and a design to fulfill in life. Some in the pulpit, others in the marketplace, hospital, some in the schools, etc. but definitely a work to do for the Lord. We must be like the Sons of Issachar who understand the times, and know that our time is now. I Chron 12:32. Time is at hand.