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EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY JULY 27, 2026.

SUBJECT: BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL!

Memory verse: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5 vs 7.)

READ: Ephesians 5 vs 1 - 2:

5:1: Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 

5:2: And walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 

INTIMATION:

Mercy is the outward manifestation of pity; it assumes need on the part of him who receives it, and resources adequate to meet the need on the part of him who shows it. Often it is used of God, who is rich in mercy, and has provided salvation for all. Mercy signifies, in general, to feel sympathy with the misery of another, and especially sympathy manifested in act. 

Mercy also is showing active compassion, kindness, or forgiveness to others, especially when they do not deserve it. People who show grace and forgiveness to others will also receive God's grace and mercy. It is a godlike characteristic, one that is in the heart and mind of those who have been recreated in Christ. Those who have received mercy will show mercy.

As believers in Christ, we can show mercy by advocacy; pleading on behalf of others and defending their cause. We can be active in assisting and helping by taking action to relieve someone's distress. We can also show mercy by providing funding or material support for the needy. We can show mercy spiritually by ministering to the soul of others through prayer, encouragement, and forgiveness. 

The works of mercy include things like: feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick, and the imprisoned, ransoming the captive, and burying the dead. Mercy consists of treating people better than they deserve from us. Forgiveness is a type of mercy. So is aiding someone whom we have no obligation to help, or forbearing to exploit someone’s vulnerability. 

Those who recognize their own spiritual poverty are merciful to others. They sympathize and have pity on others. They thus seek to relieve the suffering of others because God has had mercy on them in relation to their sins. Contrary to the legalistically proud who seek to judge, the meek have mercy. Their mercy will reap mercy from God.

God shows us mercy primarily by withholding the punishment we deserve, providing continuous and unfailing love, and offering the ultimate gift of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ. Here are three specific ways the divine mercy of God impacts our lives daily:

1. Forgiveness of sins; Instead of holding our mistakes and shortcomings against us, God extends grace and removes the guilt of wrongdoing. Through sincere repentance, believers can experience a clean slate and freedom from spiritual shame. 

2. Physical and Emotional Healing; Divine mercy operates as a comforting presence during times of pain, sadness, or anxiety. God provides restoration by showering us with undeserved blessings, answering prayers, and gently guiding us through personal trials. 

3. The Gift of Eternal Life. The ultimate demonstration of God's mercy is the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for humanity's sins. This ensures that, rather than facing eternal separation from God, we are given the confidence of salvation and a renewed spiritual life. 

Mercy, in all these senses, is the driving force of Christ’s incarnation, death, and resurrection. Through him, our sins are forgiven and we ourselves receive aid by the gift of God’s spirit. The Spirit’s reason for showing us this mercy is simply that God loves us.

Prayer: Abba Father, You are ever merciful and loving, always desiring to show mercy to the guilty according to Your loving kindness and tender mercies. Your mercy endures forever, and great is Your faithfulness. Endue me with the grace to show mercy to others as You have always shown mercy to me, in Jesus' mighty Name I have prayed, Amen

PRAISE THE LORD!

If You Don’t Fight Lust

 If You Don’t Fight Lust

Abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. (1 Peter 2:11)

When I confronted a man about the adultery he was living in, I tried to understand his situation, and I pled with him to return to his wife. Then I said, “You know, Jesus says that if you don’t fight this sin with the kind of seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer there forever.”

As a professing Christian, he looked at me in utter disbelief, as though he had never heard anything like this in his life, and said, “You mean you think a person can lose his salvation?” 

So, I have learned again and again from firsthand experience that there are many professing Christians who have a view of salvation that disconnects it from real life, and that nullifies the threats of the Bible, and that puts the sinning person who claims to be a Christian beyond the reach of biblical warnings. I believe this view of the Christian life is comforting thousands who are on the broad way that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13). 

Jesus said, if you don’t fight lust, you won’t go to heaven. “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell” (Matthew 5:29). The point is not that true Christians always succeed in every battle. The issue is that we resolve to fight, not that we succeed flawlessly. We don’t make peace with sin. We make war.

The stakes are much higher than whether the world is blown up by a thousand long-range missiles, or terrorists bomb your city, or global warming melts the ice caps, or AIDS sweeps the nations. All these calamities can kill only the body. But if we don’t fight lust, we lose our souls. Forever.

Peter says the passions of the flesh wage war against our souls (1 Peter 2:11). The stakes in this war are infinitely higher than in any threat of world war or terrorism. The apostle Paul listed “immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness,” then said it is “on account of these the wrath of God is coming” (Colossians 3:5–6). And the wrath of God is immeasurably more fearful than the wrath of all the nations of the world put together.

May God give us grace to take our souls and others’ souls seriously and keep up the fight.

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 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY JULY 26, 2026.

SUBJECT: BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Memory verse: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5 vs 6.)

READ: Isaiah 55 vs 1 - 3:

55:1: Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and you who have no money; come buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 

55:2: Why do you spend money for what is not bread? and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. 

55:3: Incline your ear, and come to Me, hear and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you--the sure mercies of David.

INTIMATION:

To hunger and thirst for righteousness means to have the deep desire to be in right-standing with God. Those who hunger and thirsts for righteousness have a deep desire, and strong wish for God's right-standing with them. Their focus is on wanting God's justice, holiness, and a clean heart instead of worldly things. And they are assured that God will completely satisfy this spiritual longing. If disciples know their sin and weakness, they will also ask God to meet their need for righteousness.

Those who realize their sinful condition and mourn over their sin, hunger and thirst after the justification (righteousness) that can come only from God by His grace. They seek the knowledge of God through His Word. It is the Word of God that will supply the knowledge of how to be justified of one’s sin. God is the source of all righteousness.

Jesus says that in order to experience fullness, a hunger and thirst for righteousness must be present inside a person. Put another way, the people who experience true satisfaction in life are those who have a deep, driving desire to be right before Almighty God.

But Jesus wasn’t talking about natural hunger and thirst; He was talking about spiritual hunger and thirst—a hunger and thirst that everyone experiences, but not everyone fills with what will eternally satisfy. The lost consume the wrong things in the hopes of finding happiness: wealth, status, pleasure, power.

Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, our sin can be canceled and we can stand blameless before the Father. Experiencing this freely given gift of God through regular confession and repentance—a turning away from sin and toward righteousness—will produce fullness in us.

Through his way of life and teaching, Jesus is slowly but surely changing our hearts, teaching us to love one another like he does and leading us to an incorruptible home where right relating—righteousness—will be our daily fare.

Now see, when the poor in spirit continually mourn their sin, the Holy Spirit grows them in meekness—in submission to and trust of God. And as their relationship with the Lord deepens, they hunger and thirst for more righteousness, more of God and less of themselves. 

It is not a pretentious longing for righteousness—it is an internal longing that flows from an understanding of one’s utter unworthiness of God’s grace. It is this kind of longing that God promises to satisfy. And with such a promise, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are surely happy, for they will be filled.

Physical food costs money, lasts only a short time, and meets only physical needs. But God offers us free spiritual nourishment that feeds our soul. How do we get it? We are to come, listen, seek, and call on God. God's salvation is freely offered, but to nourish our souls we must eagerly receive the spiritual food. We will starve spiritually without this food as surely as we will starve physically without our daily food. 

Prayer: Abba Father, forgive me for chasing after things that do not satisfy. I know only You can fill me with joy and purpose. I long for more of You. May Christ increase in me as I decrease, and may I draw the lost to You with the transformation You work in my heart, in Jesus' most precious Name I have prayed, Amen

PRAISE THE LORD!

What It Means to Love Money

 What It Means to Love Money

The love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. (1 Timothy 6:10)

What did Paul mean when he wrote this? He couldn’t have meant that money is always on your mind when you sin. A lot of sin happens when we are not thinking about money. 

My suggestion is this: He meant that all the evils in the world come from a kind of heart, namely, the kind of heart that loves money. 

So what does it mean to love money? It doesn’t mean to admire the green paper or the copper coins or the silver shekels. To know what it means to love money, you have to ask, What is money? I would answer that question like this: Money is simply a symbol that stands for human resources. Money stands for what you can get from man — other human beings — instead of God. 

God deals in the currency of grace, not money: “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!” (Isaiah 55:1). Money is the currency of human resources. So, the heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer. 

So, the love of money is virtually the same as faith in money — belief (trust, confidence, assurance) that money will meet your needs and make you happy. 

Love of money is the alternative to faith in God’s future grace. It is faith in future human resources — the kind of thing you can obtain or secure with money. Therefore the love of money, or trust in money, is the underside of unbelief in the promises of God. Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters. . . . You cannot serve God and money.” 

You can’t trust in God and in money at the same time. Belief in one is unbelief in the other. A heart that loves money — that banks on money for happiness — is not banking on all that God is for us in Jesus as the satisfaction of our souls.

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 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY JULY 25, 2026.

SUBJECT: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK!

Memory verse: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5 vs 5.)

READ: Psalm 37 vs 5 - 11:

37:5: Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 

37:6: He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

37:7: Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him, do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. 

37:8: Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret--it only causes harm. 

37:9: For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. 

37:10: For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more. 

37:11: But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 

INTIMATION:

The meek is lowly in heart, mild, gentle, unselfish, not arrogant or self-seeking. When one mourns over his sin, his relationship with others changes. Meekness, in its use in Scriptures, in which it has a fuller, and deeper significance, it consists not in a person's "outward behavior only; nor yet in his relations to his fellow-men, as little as in his mere natural disposition. Rather it is an inwrought grace of the soul, and the exercises of it are first and chiefly toward God. It is that temper of spirit in which we accept God's dealings with us as good, and therefore, without disputing or resisting, and does not struggle and contend with Him. 

To be meek is to accept our strengths and limitations for what they truly are, instead of constantly trying to portray ourselves in the best possible light. But it does not mean that we should deny our strengths and abilities. 

For instance, when Jesus was asked if he was the Messiah, He replied, “The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me” (Matt. 11 vs 4 - 6). Jesus, our perfect example, never portrayed an inflated self-image nor an inferiority complex, but a servant’s heart. Meek people see themselves as servants of God, not thinking more highly of themselves than they ought to think.

The promise of the meek inheriting the earth is both a present and future reality. In the immediate sense, the meek experience a sense of peace and contentment, living in harmony with God's creation. This inheritance is not earned by force or power but is a gift from God, aligning with the biblical theme of divine grace.

The meek will inherit the earth in the sense that they will enjoy the greatest things that life has to offer. This is because they understand the brevity of life and the temporary nature of material things, they concentrate their thoughts on those things that are above.

The meek has a servant’s heart, never asserts himself in any situation. He exercises power, not for self, but for the benefit of all people. This aspect is captured by the passage of Psalm we read today, which begins with, “Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him..." and ends with “the meek shall inherit the land.” It means they curb their urge to avenge the wrongs done against them, and instead use whatever power they have to serve others. It flows from the sorrow for their own weaknesses that comprises the mourning for their sins. If we feel sorrow for our own sins, can we really feel vengeful over the sins of others?

In God's kingdom, we receive by God’s grace the good things the arrogant fruitlessly strive for in the present earth, and more. In this broken world, those who recognize their true strengths and weaknesses can find peace by living realistically. Those who exercise power for the benefit of others are often admired. The meek engage others in decision making and experience better results and deeper relationships.

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of meekness; knowing that outside of You I am nothing. Give me the grace to humbly follow You, obeying You in all things, that it shall be well with me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense

Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith. (1 Peter 5:8–9) 

The two great enemies of our souls are sin and Satan. And sin is the worst enemy, because the only way that Satan can destroy us is by getting us to sin, and keeping us from repenting. The only thing that damns us is unforgiven sin. Not Satan.

God may give him leash enough to rough us up, the way he did Job, or even to kill us, the way he did the saints in Smyrna (Revelation 2:10); but Satan cannot condemn us or rob us of eternal life. The only way he can do us ultimate harm is by influencing us to sin, and keep us from repentance. Which is exactly what he aims to do.

So, Satan’s main business is to advocate, promote, assist, titillate, and confirm our bent to sinning. And to keep us from faith and repentance.

We see this in Ephesians 2:1–2: “You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked . . . according to the prince of the power of the air” (NASB). Sinning “accords” with Satan’s power in the world. When he brings about moral evil, it is through sin. When we sin, we move in his sphere. We come into accord with him. When we sin, we give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). 

The only thing that will condemn us at the judgment day is unforgiven sin — not sickness or afflictions or persecutions or intimidations or apparitions or nightmares. Satan knows this. Therefore, his great focus is not primarily on how to scare Christians with weird phenomena (though there’s plenty of that), but on how to corrupt Christians with worthless fads and evil thoughts.

Satan wants to catch us at a time when our faith is not firm, when it is vulnerable. It makes sense that the very thing Satan wants to destroy would also be the means of our resisting his efforts. That’s why Peter says, “Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Peter 5:9). It is also why Paul says that the “shield of faith” can “extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one” (Ephesians 6:16). 

The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.

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FRIDAY JULY 24, 2026.

SUBJECT: BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN!

Memory verse: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5 vs 4.)

READ: Isaiah 61 vs 1 - 3:

61:1: The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me; because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

61:2: To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

61:3: To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

INTIMATION:

The word “mourning” means “to feel deep sorrow, to show great concern, or to deplore some existing wrong.” It means “to experience deep grief.” It is important to realize that Jesus was speaking to His disciples, and not to the public. Jesus did not imply that mourning is about those who have a morbid view of life; He was speaking to people who were seeking to live fuller lives with God in the center. Jesus' sermon was a collection of truths designed to prepare His followers for His kingdom, which involved a lifestyle radically different from the world’s.

Therefore, happy are those who recognize their spiritual poverty, and thus, humbly grieve over their sinfulness. The humble person recognizes his spiritual poverty and thus mourns over his inadequacies before God. In the Scriptures, blessed usually means "happy." But in keeping with His theme of spiritual blessedness, blessed most likely indicates "an enviable state."

When a person has acquired good fortune, we call him “blessed.” But in His sermon, Jesus calls some people “blessed” who appear to be quite the opposite. People who “mourn” don’t seem to be “blessed,” according to most other people. Jesus is contrasting the world’s idea of happiness with true blessedness—spiritual prosperity—which comes from a right relationship with God.

The people who agree with God about the evil of their own hearts can attain an "enviable state of blessedness," due to the comfort they receive from communion with the Holy Spirit. Jesus called the Holy Spirit the Comforter (John 14 vs 16, 26; 15 vs 26). The Spirit comforts those who are honest about their own sin and humble enough to ask for forgiveness and healing. 

Those who hide their sin or try to justify it before God can never know the comfort that comes from a pure heart. The Scriptures in Proverbs 28 vs 13 say, "He who covers his sins will not prosper; but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy."

Before we can become strong, we must first realize that we are weak. Before we can become wise, we must realize that we are foolish. Before we can receive power, we must first confess that we are powerless. We must lament our sins before God before we can rejoice in a Savior. Mourning always comes before exultation. Blessed are those who mourn their unworthiness, their helplessness, and their inadequacy. If we have no sense of sorrow for sin, how can we know the need of repentance?

It is noteworthy that before God, we must go down into the valley of grief before we can scale the heights of spiritual glory. We must become tired and weary of living without Christ before seeking and finding His salvation. We must come to the end of “self” before we can really begin to live. The Psalmist says, “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit” (Psalm 34 vs 18).

Jesus reminds His followers that they cannot seek happiness the way the world does. True joy is not found in selfish ambition, excuses, or self-justification. An enviable state of blessedness comes to those who mourn over their own sin. The Scriptures, in Isaiah 66 vs 2, the Lord says, "...But on this one will I look; on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trenbles at My Word." The Lord says that the ones He will look on with favor are those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word. 

When we agree with God about how bad our sin is, repent of it, and seek His power to walk away from it, He promises comfort from the Holy Spirit. This kind of "mourning" leads to repentance is truly blessed. 

The Scripture, in Second Corinthians 7 vs 10, says, "For godly sorrow produced repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death." Repentance results in forgiveness and cleansing from God. When we have confessed Jesus, and trusted in Him as our personal substitute for sin, we no longer stand condemned (Romans 8 vs 1). 

Rather than wallow in guilt and shame, we realize that we stand justified before God (Second Corinthians 5 vs 21; Galatians 3 vs 24). Those who learn to mourn over their own sin find the heart of God. And intimate fellowship with God is the very foundation of true happiness.

Our anchor notes that those who mourn shall be comforted by the Lord. Many think that when God comforts us, our troubles should go away. But if that where always so, people would turn to God only out of a desire to be relieved of pain and not out of love for Him. However, we must understand that being "comforted" can also mean receiving strength, encouragement, and hope to deal with our troubles. The more we suffer, the more comfort God gives us. If you are feeling overwhelmed, allow God to comfort you. Remember that every trial you endure will help you comfort other people who are suffering similar troubles. 

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with the spirit of mourning over my sins; showing my spiritual poverty and great concern over my wrongdoings which displeases You. Forgive me O Lord and comfort me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!