Morning by Morning, November 21 - True Children of God Hear and Obey the Word of God Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I begin my day, I seek to hear Your heart and wait for the leading of Your Spirit. “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God” (Romans 8:14). ... When You walked this earth as the Son of God to reveal the will and the ways and the words of God the Father to us by the Spirit of God abiding in You, You boldly confronted those who falsely claimed to represent the character and authority of God. They pointed to their traditions and authority and religious heritage. You pointed to God and to the words of God, declaring “Whoever is of God hears the words of God” (John 8:47). You confronted their hypocrisy and confusion, standing firm in Your convictions, telling them to their face who was the Source of Your authority and exposing who was the source of theirs: “I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” They answered Him, ‘Abraham is our father.’ Jesus said to them, ‘If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works your father did.’ They said to Him, ‘We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father -- even God.’ Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of My own accord, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God’” (John 8:38-47). I want to be one who hears the words of God. I want to be one who believes the Truth of the Word of God. I want to grow in spiritual discernment and spiritual conviction that empowers me to be courageous to stand up and speak against what’s not true and what’s not of God. I want be bold in the face the false authorities, even cloaked in religious traditions and threatening their religious power, that deny the Truth and refuse obey the Truth, thinking they know better than the One who is “the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). Your words “are spirit, they are life” (John 6:63). So let Your words get into my spirit. Let Your words guide my life. Let the Word of God be the standard and plumbline, the guiding principle and the determining factor, for the choices I make and the path that I walk on my journey of life. For You are the Word of God, revealing the will of God for all who would be true children of God, “full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-14). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you hear and obey the Word of God as a true child of God, seeking and loving and embracing the One who is the Word of God, in Jesus' name. God bless you!
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