April 25, 2022
If you have read the first chapters of 1 Chronicles, you realize it is one long genealogical list. It seems like boring reading, but every little bit you come to something that, for some reason, God desires to highlight. One of these is a tribe of men who won great a great victory for God.
The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were skillful in battle, were 44,760, who went to war. They made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him. (1 Chronicles 5:18-20)
Notice what set these valiant men apart in human history. What made them valiant and victorious?
We are all facing battles. You will have some today! Where will you turn? How will you respond? Will you rely on your mere human ability, or will you be a valiant warrior, who trusts in God and cries out to God in the battle? Such men will be highlighted in human history.
Father, thank You that You never planned for me to live on my own. You created me to live in dependency upon You. Give me the wisdom to pray without ceasing. To invite You into every moment of my day today—every decision, every conversation, every battle. Let me show the world that You are a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God!
January 17, 2025
The one who does what invites the presence of God into the situation has the ultimate reward.
January 16, 2025
Everything in your life and your future depends upon where you place the Lord. Notice the Psalmist David indicateD it is our deliberate choice and no one else’s. No one can do this for you. “I have SET … I PLACE the Lord in front of me.”
January 15, 2025
Imagine a child created by God and for whom He had sent His only begotten Son to redeem and His Spirit to indwell. And then imagine that child ignoring Him, never communing, never praying, never listening, never obeying. And then realize how an attentive, unceasing life of prayer would delight the heart of the Father who made you.