Sunday, 3 May 2009

Teach me Lord!

Daily Promises
Blue Letter Bible
May 3, 2009

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. (Psalms 32:8)

God promises to instruct His children into every righteous path. He sent us His very Spirit to guide us in His ways. God cares for us beyond measure imaginable and His Spirit will be faithful to illuminate the glorious treasures of His truth. Ask God to teach you. Ask God to make you teachable. He shall faithfully do both! And by your growth God will use you to edify others in the body of Christ!

Never, never neglect the Word of God

The Word will make your heart rich with truth, rich with understanding, and then your conversation, when it flows from your mouth, will be like your heart-- rich, soothing, and sweet. Make your heart full of rich, generous love, and then the stream that flows from your hand will be just as rich and generous as your heart. Above all, get Jesus to live in your heart, and then out of your heart shall flow rivers of living water, more rich, more satisfying than the water of the well of Sychar of which Jacob drank. Oh! go, Christian, to the great mine of riches, and cry to the Holy Spirit to make your heart rich unto salvation. So shall your life and conversations be a boon to your fellow man; and when they see you, your face will be like an angel of God. Wise men will stand up when they see you, and men will give you reverence.

By C.H. Spurgeon

Friday, 1 May 2009

Thank you God!

Thank you God for caring for me and my children! Thank you for carrying us through the hard times and the good times in our life! Thank you for the strength, the faith and the healing you have imparted in my heart and in my life! Thank you for being my God and making the impossible come through in my life despite everything! Thank you for the good times and the bad times that you used to make me who I am, for growing faith and peace in my heart, for building trust in You as my all sufficient God! Thank you for Tamara and Joshua, the precious children you have given me! Thank you for giving us good health! Thank you for teaching us who You are in very special ways through our trials and blessings! Thank you for Your Holy Word! Thank you for being able to study Your word! Thank you for letting us worship You! Thank you for who you are, for Your grace and mercy and love! Thank you for always providing for our needs! Thank you for never forsaking us! Thank you for our friends and our foes for I know You use them both for our good! Thank you for who I am and you made me! Thank you for Calvary for if Jesus didn't die to buy my redemption I would be hopeless indeed! Thank you for always manifesting Yourself to me in nature's beauty and all the details you carefully placed in my life and my children's! Thank you for making Tamara and Joshua and I who we are by Your bountiful and unceasing grace! Thank you for guiding our path! We trust you and we commit ourselves to you and want to live in You for Your glory! Please pour out Your grace and blessings upon us that we might be a blessing to others. Bless our brethren, bless our families, our friends and neighbours and those who make it hard for us. We love them all. Please bless them and save them if they don't know You according to Your will! We love You because You first loved us! Thank you!

The Lord is my refuge!

Daily Promises
Blue Letter Bible
May 1, 2009

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. (Psalms 9:9)

My prayer: Lord teach me to trust in you in my times of happiness and sorrow, in my struggles and triumphs. Lord, help me to have blind faith so I can walk on water and move mountains. I thank You for your faithfulness to those who seek You.

Psalm 34

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.