The Lord makes his face shine on you and be gracious to you. Numbers 6:25.
From 4:00 to 6:00 a.m. I spend time in prayer and devotion. I find it the best time to engage in conversation with God, praising and thanking God for each new day. As I was meditating one morning, I thought: What does God’s smile look like? What can we do to make God smile? Just then, I remembered Jesus pictures and seeing smiles with the little children. As I set here writing this devotional I see in my mind his wonderful smile and imagine God smile on me. And remember we are children of God, as children God his smiling is filled with encouragement and lots of love. I thank you Father for a love and warmth I have of your smile in mt heart.
A smile can bring encouragement to someone who is sad or lonely, a way of saying to someone who is heartbroken you are not alone. God loves you and so do I in Jesus. No matter the deed. When people see you smile they want to know why your smiling. I have been asked why I smile, I tell them, my Heavenly Father has given me a wonderfully blessed day.
The days are not about me they are about our loving Father in heaven. An unconditional I just can’t explain. And when I can’t explain It’s ALL GOD.
Nearly everyone wants to feel they belong that they are part of a group have a cultural Identity or acceptance. Through this need is so just need is often associated with teenage years we all have it. Despite having the same surname some people do not experience the joy of belonging to a family of being part of a joint history. Many people have no one with whom they can share their joy and hope or their sorrow and fear. In my Ministry I meet many people who come to church along alone and because and become part of a new family the family of God. In Christ we become new air are the kingdom of God. The family of faith can create space for new beginners renewed hope for living in this life in New Hope in life eternal. It is God’s wish that we become part of his family Jesus taught this when he in instructed the disciples to begin this Prayer by saying our father Jesus share the glory of the father with his disciples as with all of us. Everyone is welcome in the family of faith because our heavenly father loves us.
I dropped my forehead to my hand with the side I don’t know how I’m going to get it all done my friends Voice crackled through the phone you had to give yourself some credit you’re doing a lot he then list list of the things I was trying to do maintain a healthy lifestyle work do well in graduate school right and at end of Bible study I wanted to do all these things for God but instead of instead I was more focused on what I was doing then how I was doing it or that perhaps I was trying to do too much Paul reminded the church and collision that they were to live in a way that glorify God ultimately that what day specifically did on a day-to-day basis was not as important as how they did it they were to do their work with compassion kindness humility gentleness and patience Colossians 3:12 to be giving and above all the love into do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus their work wasn’t to be separated from christ-like living what we do matters but how we do it why and who we do it for matters more each day we can choose to work in a stress stressed out way or in a way that honors God and seek out the meaning Jesus added to our work when we pursue the ladder we find satisfaction in what ways do you do things out of Need for obligation rather than for God’s glory how do you think meaning is found in Christ rather than accomplishment prayer Jesus forgive me for the time I stress over what I’m trying to accomplish help me to indeed seek to accomplish the things for your glory in Jesus name amen.
You can generally tell where a map was drawn by what lies in its middle. We tend to think our home is in the center of the world so we put a. In the middle and stretch out stretch it out from there nearby towns might be 50 miles to the North or half a day drives itself for all are described in relation to where we are the song Thomas Drew this map from God’s Earthly home in the Old Testament so the center the biological Geographic Geographic is Jerusalem sounds 48 is one of many Psalms that praise Jerusalem this city of our God is cold is his holy mountain is beautiful in its lost list the joy of the whole earth because God is in her Citadel Citadel s he makes her secure forever God’s famed begins in Jerusalem’s Temple and spreads outward to the end of ends of the Earth unless you’re reading this in Jerusalem your house home is in the center is not in the center of the biblical world yet your region matters immensely because God will not rest until his praise reaches to the ends of the Earth. Would you like to be part of the way God reaches his goal? Worship each week with God’s people and openly live each day for his glory. God’s Fame extends to the ends of the Earth when we devote all that we are and have in him. How have you sprayed godsbane this week? What else might you do?
When money gets tight it’s always a temptation to cut down on your giving. After all it seems like the logical thing to do. Don’t do that! You’ll end up cutting off the flow of God’s Financial blessing just when you need them most. I face that kind of situation just a few years ago. This ministry had fallen behind financially $1000000 to be exact. Gloria and I had been living by faith for 20 years at that time. We knew firsthand that God would meet our needs according to his riches in Glory by Christ Jesus Philippians 4:19 you seen God proved that over and over again not only in our personal living but in the life of our ministry as well. Yet this particular time all the prayers and the faith that had brought as victory before just didn’t seem to do the job get the job done. In fact as time went on the situation grew worse instead of being bitter. Instead of getting better. By the end of the year our deficit had grown to be a million dollars frustrated and weary I finally went to God one day and lay the situation out before him Lord I said you see the condition of this ministry I need a million dollars just to break even oh no you don’t the Lord replied I could hardly believe it how could he possibly be telling me that I don’t need a million dollars? How didn’t he looked at the books? Hadn’t he talked to my accountant? I was stumbled. All I could figure was that I’d misunderstood something. So I went through it all again and again he said no you don’t. Despite my intentional confusion as I kept asking and listening I began to understand what the Lord was telling me. He was saying that the red ink on the books wasn’t the only thing wrong. There was a bigger problem behind it. Then he showed me what I needed to do was to start giving 10% of the Ministries income into Ministries administering to the poor. To the Natural mind that look like no solution at all. How do you solve a deficit by giving away what money you got? But when I applied this to solution the $1000000 deficit begin to disappear remember the next time the devil tries to put the squeeze on you. Break his hold on your finance’s by give them more instead of blessed it wouldn’t be long until the prosperity of God is proud pour it out on you.
Jesus Saved Mankind 