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"Cause us to hear Your lovingkindness for on You do we lean and in You do we trust. Cause us to know the way wherein we should walk, for we lift up our inner self to You." Psalm 143:8
"Cause us to hear Your lovingkindness for on You do we lean and in You do we trust. Cause us to know the way wherein we should walk, for we lift up our inner self to You." Psalm 143:8
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Matthew 7:26 "But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." It's so easy to forget what I read in devotions as I go about my day..it's so easy to forget about God xT..I read recently that God redeemed all things, so there really shouldn't be religious things and secular things. God should be apart of everything we do and every moment of life.
Acts 10:25-26 "As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. 'Stand up,' he said, 'I am only a man myself.'" It's also so easy to pride in myself and think that I'm so holy or w/e esp since I've grown a lot recently.
verse 28 "...'But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.'" It's definitely not my place to judge others...
verse 38 "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him." I need to draw strength and power from the Spirit.
verse 45 "...the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles." I'm humbled and so grateful that God has even chosen me.
Just some of the Psalm 18 verses I liked:
16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he drew me out of deep waters.
19...he rescued me because he delighted in me.
24 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
Genesis 39:20-21 "But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden." Even in rough times God is surely with us.
The Genesis reading is my favourite within the book so far. Joseph who was greatly attuned to God and found favor with all the people around Him despite his situation. I think I once prayed for that, to find favor with my teachers, but right now I much rather find favor with God first and foremost.
And in Psalms, David shows how one can achieve this: "He delivered me becasue He delighted in me" (v19)
"The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands". I used to ask myself, if I already earned salvation, what do I need to struggle against some more? But this is a reminder that we need to earn God's favor, just as Jacob realized the value of a birthright and did something to earn it and Esau didn't.
The Acts verse was powerful to me as well because I often do not evangelise to friends that I have known for a long time or been a good testimony yet as "those of the circumcision who beleived were astonished" when the "gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles", I am reminded that God reaches out and touches ALL.
Again verse 21 in Matt 7 reinforces the idea that we have to work out the Will of God in our lives ,"Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. I really liked the parable that Jesus gave, that of wisdom, and of preparing ourselves for times of need, so when we are besieged by evil or by sin (bad times) we will be prepared because we have God in us.
Matthew 7:17 "Even so every good tree bring forth evil fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit" I am always asking God to make me fruitful, but here I think it is telling us that before we can bring forth good fruit, we must first allow God to make us into a good tree.
Psalm 18:19 is humbling. "He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me." I have nothing to offer, yet the all powerful God chooses to delight in me. He delights in us more so than we ever delight in Him, yet that seems so backwards, because we are the ones who should delight in Him.
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