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Jehovah Jireh - The LORD Our Provider
The Lord promises to provide ALL of our needs and that all we have to do is just trust (believe in) Him. That sounds very simple but it is also very deep. He provides all of our needs in ways that we don’t even understand. He provides for needs that we didn’t even realize we
needed and He also provides them right on time (He knew we would need them even before we did). All we have to do is trust and truly believe and He takes care of the rest in a very deep way. Here is a famous example:
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in
a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. 14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
- Genesis 22:13-14
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This is How We Fight Our Battles
In these days of unprecedented events (both good blessings and extreme conflicts and rebellion), there is a continuous strong temptation to lash out with words of correction or retaliation. I have struggled with that intently over this past weekend watching local, national and
global events and wanting to call out people by name making a case and an argument for their rebellion, hypocrisy, lies and manipulation. Any time spent watching the news media immediately fills anyone with these desires. I have found that it doesn’t really matter which news
This simple four-word message or theme is what the Lord woke me up with this morning as yet another burden on my heart. As I contemplated and reflected, I saw it as a reminder to you and me today of some important truths that will keep us focused and not distracted. The
characteristic of His goodness is shown as a theme permeating the entire bible from Genesis to Revelation (His goodness and mercy which endures forever). His intentions and plans for us are always good and never change (even when we do). His commands are always for our good.
Today’s devotional is about one of my favorite bible verses. A dearly beloved brother who serves along side of me had a lanyard made for me with my name on one side and this verse on the other. I wear this lanyard daily in service as a reminder for me and often as a way to
generate conversation with others.
It is a verse that has kept me as a reminder even at times when I thought the sky was falling in and all was lost. During those times, it has reminded me of from where my help and strength come. It has also kept me when I have tended to stray
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Fear God – The Beginning of Wisdom?
In yesterday’s devotional, I explored the idea that there is no fear in love and that God’s perfect love casts out fear. Yet the bible also teaches us in Proverbs 9:10 that “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Is this a contradiction? I would submit to you that it
is not at all a contradiction and here is my reason for you to consider.
It is ironic that Proverbs 9:10 was written by Solomon whom God blessed with great wisdom. When we look at the whole of Solomon’s life, we see that he lived a life of great excess with somewhat of a selfish
“Faith, Hope and Love… the greatest of these is love…” When we have given our lives completely to God, His perfect love overshadows us and begins to develop a love like His in us. That type of love (based on faith in Him) can not co-exist with fear. What do we tend to fear
these days? The list goes on and on. One of the long-established fears is that of death.
The good news is that when it comes to death, we go back to the title of this devotional. Death was never part of God’s design in creation (what He described as “very good” in Genesis 2).
Six years ago today as I awoke, the Lord showed me the famous word He gave to Jeremiah in chapter 18 about the Potter and the clay. He showed me some basic things about this famous metaphor to give insight and comfort. First, just as He did in the beginning when the LORD created
man, here again He gets very personal with the clay, getting His hands involved in the shaping and molding (getting them dirty). There are two very opposing laws at work during this process. 1) The law of sin and death which is always trying to remind the clay that it is simple