Morning by Morning, July 23 - Fed by the Goodness of God
Good morning, Lord Jesus. With an unveiled face and an unhurried heart, I look to You and wait for the leading of Your Holy Spirit, here in the embrace of my Father God (2 Corinthians 3:18). ...
Last night a friend was sharing some Scriptures with me reminding me about the goodness of God -- how You feed us and bless us and provide for us in every season and every challenge of our lives. And how You always invite us to remember You’re the Source of every good thing we have and You’re the Supply of every good thing we need. You’re always leading us into the fullness of our Promised Land, which is now fulfilled in our personal relationship with You through Christ, our Lord, who supplies all our needs according to Your riches in glory” (Philippians 4:19).
What a gift of God we have in You! And what a gift of God we should always remember, with hearts full of thanks, no matter the challenges we’ve gone through, that we’re going through, or about to go through. As expressed in the Message Translation in Deuteronomy of our instructions to live out our inheritance -- instructions for the Israelites in their days and instructions for us to live in our day by the Spirt of Christ at work within us:
“Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors. Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that He would know what you were made of, whether you would keep His commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then He fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.
So it’s paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads He shows you and reverently respect Him. God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It’s a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It’s land where you’ll never go hungry -- always food on the table and a roof over your head. It’s a land where you’ll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills.
After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land He has given you.
Make sure you don’t forget God, your God, by not keeping His commandments, His rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up -- make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God,
the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery;
the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions;
the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock;
the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you.
If you start thinking to yourselves, ‘I did all this. And all by myself. I’m rich. It’s all mine!’ -- well, think again. Remember that God, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that He promised to your ancestors -- as it is today” (Deuteronomy 8:1-18).
I do remember You and thank You, O Lord my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I do acknowledge You are my Source and Supply of all I need, as a child of God living in daily, intimate covenant with You. It’s not by my power or strength or goodness or righteousness; it’s all by You and Your Spirit, who is abiding and at work within me (Zechariah 4:6; Philippians 2:13). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you remember the Lord our God, thanking Him for all He is in you as your Source and Supply for every good thing He has for you, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624
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