Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY JULY 28, 2026.

SUBJECT: BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART!

Memory verse: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5 vs 8.)

READ: Psalm 24 vs 3 - 4; 51 vs 10:

24:3: Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place?

24:3: He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully.

51:10: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

INTIMATION:

The heart is the center of a person's thoughts, desires, and will. The Scriptures, in Proverbs 4 vs 23, say, "Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life." Purity implies having no hidden motives, hypocrisy, or mixed loyalties. It means pursuing God with integrity, even when no one is watching.

Purity of Heart refers to inner sincerity, unselfish motives, and a life undivided in loyalty and love for God, rather than merely external ritual cleanliness. Therefore, pure heart is characterized by honesty, lack of hidden motives, genuine love, and total sincerity. 

Pure-hearted individuals show consistent kindness, humility, and joy in the success of others. And it brings deep inner peace, relief from guilt, and authentic relationships. It cultivates a clean conscience, boosts emotional resilience, and allows you to find joy in everyday moments rather than chasing superficial desires. 

Those with a pure heart do not seek evil, but are sincere. Without guile or a vile heart of evil motives, they do not seek to find evil in others. The pure in heart will understand the pure nature of God.

Having a pure heart for God isn't about achieving flawless perfection; it is about cultivating sincerity, integrity, and singleness of focus. It means letting go of hidden motives and allowing God to transform you from the inside out. 

Those who have undivided loyalty, honest intentions, and singular devotion to God are spiritually blessed and will intimately experience God's presence—both in this life and in eternity. 

To see God signifies ultimate spiritual intimacy, experiencing God's presence in this life, and eternal fellowship with Him in the next. This does not just refer to seeing God physically in heaven. It also means experiencing a spiritual awareness of God, understanding His Will, and having a deep, intimate relationship with Him right now. 

Those who are pure in heart will see God, not just in heaven—even now, we will see God for who He is. In other words, we will come to know Him. We will come to know Him intimately.

In pursuit of a pure heart one shall the following: (1) Daily surrendering and confession one's struggles and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal and remove hidden sins such as pride, jealousy, and anger. 

(2) Daily devotion to study of the Scriptures. God’s word is a powerful tool to wash away toxic thoughts and align your desires with His. Spend time reading and meditating on verses that challenge you to grow. 

(3) Practice obedience to God and His Word. True purity requires action and integrity—being the same person in private that you appear to be in public. Focus on living out your faith genuinely, without hypocrisy or deceit. 

(4) Guard what you let into your heart and mind because out of the heart flow the issues of life. Be mindful of your influences. Protect your mind from content that promotes selfishness, bitterness, or immorality, and choose to surround yourself with people who encourage your spiritual growth. 

Prayer: Abba Father, my utmost heart desire is an intimate relationship with You where I will experience Your leading and companionship daily. Endue me with the spirit and grace of total devotion to You all my life, in Jesus' mighty Name I have prayed, Amen

PRAISE THE LORD!

Why We Don’t Lose Heart

 Why We Don’t Lose Heart

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16–18) 

Paul can’t see the way he used to (and there were no glasses). He can’t hear the way he used to (and there were no hearing aids). He doesn’t recover from beatings the way he used to (and there were no antibiotics). His strength, walking from town to town, doesn’t hold up the way it used to. He sees the wrinkles in his face and neck. His memory is not as good. And he admits that this is a threat to his faith and joy and courage. 

But he does not lose heart. Why? 

He doesn’t lose heart because his inner man is being renewed. How? 

The renewing of his heart comes from something very strange: it comes from looking at what he can’t see. 

We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18)

This is Paul’s way of not losing heart: looking at what he cannot see. What, then, did he see when he looked? 

A few verses later in 2 Corinthians 5:7, he says, “We walk by faith, not by sight.” This doesn’t mean that he leaps into the dark without evidence of what’s there. It means that for now the most precious and important realities in the world are beyond our physical senses. 

We “look” at these unseen things through the gospel. We strengthen our hearts — we renew our courage — by fixing our gaze on the invisible, objective truth that we see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.

“God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). “The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” We see this as it shines in our heart through the gospel. 

We became Christians when this happened — whether we understood this or not. And with Paul we need to go on seeing with the eyes of the heart, so that we do not lose heart.

Every day in the God's Word

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.

Every day in the God's Word

 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.

Every day in the God's Word

 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!