Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY JUNE 18, 2026.

SUBJECT : DIVINE GUIDANCE!

Memory verse: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go: I will guide you with My eye.” (Psalm 32 vs 8.) 

READ: Psalm 25 vs 9 - 15: 

25:9: The Humble He guides in justice: and the humble He teaches His way.

2:10: All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

25:11: For Your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

25:12: Who is the man that fears the LORD? him shall He teach in the way He chooses.

25:13: He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

25:14: The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him; and He will show them His covenant.

25:15: My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

INTIMATION:

The greatest guide of any human being is divine guidance; the special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings; the ability to be guided by or hear God and be lead by Him. This is because you are guided by the One who knows the road you are traveling on and all of the problems that lay ahead; the end is already known to Him from the beginning, therefore, He can give you dependable advice. He is able to help you be all that you can be, and can enable you either to avoid or overcome every obstacle or problem in your lives. 

Events do not occur by luck or coincidence. We should have faith that God is directing our lives for His purpose. What you call ‘coincidence,’ somebody calls it ‘Godincidence.’ Stop now and think about the events in your life leading up to where you are now. Obviously, as a child of God, He has led you to the point you are right now. He never promised us a trouble-free life, but rather He promised to be with us even in our troubles. As you grow older, you will look back and see God’s involvement more clearly than you do now. He will make all things work together for the good for those who love Him.

When you follow God’s guidance, you know you are where He wants you, whether you’re moving or staying in one place, and you are sure of achieving the purpose for which you are created because the Creator and determinant of the purpose is guiding you. As you go about your daily tasks, God is working in your life in ways you may not even notice. You are physically somewhere now. He has a purpose in placing you where you are right now. Begin to understand God’s purpose for your life by discovering what He wants you to do now where you are. We must not close the door on what God can do. 

How do we receive God’s guidance? The first step is that you must be spiritual, and desire to be guided. You must realize that God’s primary guiding system is in His Word—the Bible. Psalm 119 tells of the endless knowledge found in God’s Word. By reading the Bible and constantly learning from it, we will gain the wisdom to perceive God’s direction for our lives. When we are willing to seek God, learn from His Word, and obey His commands, then we will receive His specific guidance. 

We need both a map that gives us directions and a constant companion who has an intimate knowledge of the way, and will make sure we interpret the map correctly. The Bible is such a map, and the Holy Spirit is our constant Companion and Guide. As you make your way through life, use both the map and your Guide.

God has not left us in the dark to wonder and guess. He has clearly revealed His purposes for our lives in the Bible. It tells us why we are alive, how life works, how the owner of life governs it, what to do, what to avoid, and what to expect now, and in the future. And it is only in Him, and His Manual you can find these answers. If that is the case, it makes no sense to center your life on yourself, but rather on the Owner of that life, and the determinant of how best to lead that life of yours.

God describes some people as being like horses or mules that have to be controlled by bits and bridles (Psalm 32 vs 9). Rather than letting God guide them step by step, they stubbornly leave God with only one option—chastisement. If God wants to keep them useful for Him, He must use discipline and punishment. God longs to guide us with love and wisdom rather than punishment. He offers to teach us the best way to go. Accept the advice written in God’s Word and don’t let your stubbornness keep you from obeying Him.

Prayer: Abba Father, I desire my help to come from you Who created the heaven and the earth; Who has all knowledge, and knows the end from the beginning. My absolute trust is in You. Guide me, O Lord, that I may remain in the path You fashioned for me, and fulfill Your ordained purpose for my life, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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How to Plead for Unbelievers

 How to Plead for Unbelievers

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. (Romans 10:1)

Paul prays that God would convert Israel. He prays for her salvation! He does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too. 

We should take the new covenant promises of God and plead with God to bring them to pass in our children and our neighbors and on all the mission fields of the world. 

God, take out of their flesh the heart of stone and give them a new heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 11:19)

Circumcise their heart so that they love you! (Deuteronomy 30:6)

Father, put your Spirit within them and cause them to walk in your statutes. (Ezekiel 36:27)

Grant them repentance and a knowledge of the truth that they may escape from the snare of the devil. (2 Timothy 2:25–26)

Open their hearts so that they believe the gospel! (Acts 16:14) 

When we believe in the sovereignty of God — in the right and power of God to elect and then bring hardened sinners to faith and salvation — then we will be able to pray with no inconsistency, and with the confidence of great biblical promises for the conversion of the lost.

Thus, God has pleasure in this kind of praying because it ascribes to him the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is in election and salvation.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 2026.

SUBJECT: CUTTING YOURSELF OFF FROM GOD!

Memory verse: "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." (Mark 11 vs 25).

READ: Isaiah 59 vs 1 - 2:

59:1: Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 

59:2: but your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

INTIMATION:

God does not leave us. We leave Him. He doesn’t stop listening to us. We stop talking to Him in prayer. When in sin, we cease our communication with, and dependence on God. We thus separate ourselves from Him. When in sin, God feels distant from us because we have distanced ourselves from Him. The face of God is toward us to help. But when we turn our back on Him, we walk in the darkness of our own shadow of sin. God cannot look upon sin, for sin is against who God is. As long as one continues to live in sin, God cannot look upon him or her.

The dictionary definition of sin is "a moral offense or shortcoming, especially from the point of view of religion." It is a rebellion against God's laws, a perversion of heart. "Sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14 vs 34), as well as to God. It is noteworthy that the sins that easily beset us are sins out of wrong emotions. 

When a Christian is unable to talk to God, it is a terrible condition. When we understand what our wrong emotions do to us, we see how much better it is for us to allow our enemies to get away with their cruelty, even if it is murder, and forgive them, rather than hold a grudge and cut ourselves off from God. 

Though we may have been dragged into such emotions by wrongdoing to us by another, but these emotions hurt us more than they hurt the ones who have wronged us. This is because, if our faith is strong and our prayer is persistent, there is only one thing that can stand in the way of answered prayer (getting what you ask) and that is un-repented sin.

When we bear loads of grudges, resentment, envy, hatred, anger, un-forgivenesses, and the likes, we are burdened. The loads of such emotions are very heavy and costly to our relationship with God, because they are regarded as sin. Wrong that is committed against another originates from Satan. Followers of Christ must resist the temptation of Satan. It’s noteworthy that retaliation against those whom Satan used to promote his work is not a Christian principle. 

The Scripture says, "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him" (Proverbs 24 vs 17 - 18). A person should not rejoice in the calamity of any person, including your enemy or whoever wronged you. If you do, you are seeking revenge. But vengeance belongs to God. He may lift up the unfortunate incidence over whom one rejoices in order to rebuke the person who has rejoiced over the misfortune of another. 

The Bible tells us that vengeance is God's business, not ours; "Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' says the Lord" (Romans 12 vs 19). God takes vengeance on our enemies because He is just, and because He loves us. God knows the heart of our enemy, and repays accordingly without needing any helps from us. 

Once you understand the destructiveness of "getting even," you will be able to ask God to keep you from resentment in all its forms. In Matthew 5 vs 39, Jesus commanded us, "But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also." Jesus is suggesting that our response to injustice should not be demanding our right, but to give it up freely! According to Him it is more important to give justice and mercy than to receive it.

Jesus said in Mark 11 vs 25; "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." Only in so doing that you receive what you ask in prayers. God does not answer the prayer that comes from an unforgiving heart. God will judge without mercy the one who has shown no mercy. One should simply do good, and not allow an evil environment to influence his or her attitude. 

Study Acts 13 on the account of two God's steadfast servants, both spirit-filled men, Paul and Barnabas in Antioch where they preached and taught. The Gentiles heard and were glad and glorified God, and all those who believed received the Spirit and were ordained to eternal life. The Jews, however, incited the devout men and women against Paul and Barnabas and drove them from the city. They left, and they were filled with joy in the Holy Spirit, and never had any desire for retaliation. The Spirit-filled life doesn't seek revenge but joyously reflects the presence of God within.

Prayer: Abba Father, endue me with Your excellent spirit, that I will not succumb to wrong emotions that will cause me to sin against You, so that I will be free from iniquities and my prayers will be unhindered, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

 What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?

“This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” (Isaiah 66:2)

The first mark of the upright heart is that it trembles at the word of the Lord. 

Isaiah 66 deals with the problem of some who worship in a way that pleases God and some who worship in a way that doesn’t. Verse 3 describes the wicked who bring their sacrifices, “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man.” Their sacrifices are an abomination to God — on a par with murder. Why? 

In verse 4 God explains, “When I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen.” Their sacrifices were abominations to God because the people were deaf to his voice. But what about those whose prayers God heard? God says in verse 2, “This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” 

I conclude from this that the first mark of the upright, whose prayers are a delight to God, is that they tremble at God’s word. These are the people to whom the Lord will look. 

So, the prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at the hearing of God’s word, because it feels so far from God’s ideal and so vulnerable to his judgment and so helpless and so sorry for its failings. 

This is just what David said in Psalm 51:17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” The first thing that makes a prayer acceptable to God is the brokenness and humility of the one who prays. They tremble at his word.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY JUNE 16, 2026.

SUBJECT : GOD’S LOVE IS CONSISTENT! 

Memory verse: "For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob." (Malachi 3 vs 6.)

READ: Luke 15 vs 11 - 20:

15:11: Then He said, “A certain man had two sons. 

15:12: And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.

15:13: And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

15:14: But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15:15: Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

15:16: And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. 

15:17: And when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

15:18: I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

15:19: and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”

15:20: And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

INTIMATION:

God’s love for you and I is consistent in accordance with His nature. God’s character will never change. He persistently shows His love for us. He does not change in reference to His promises. God’s promises cannot be changed because they came from the One who cannot lie. God cannot lie, neither has He ever broken His oath. He is always fair, just, and merciful to us who are undeserving. 

In the passage we read today, the prodigal son left out of selfishness (Luke 15 vs 12). He went to a foreign country wasted his life and resources, and sunk to the depths. The young man, like many who are rebellious and immature, wanted to be free to live as he pleased, and he had to hit the bottom before he came to himself. The father watched and waited with his love for the son consistent and intact. He was dealing with a human being with a will of his own, but he was ready to receive his son back if he returned. 

In the same way, God’s love is constant, patient and welcoming. He will search for us and give us opportunities to respond, but He will not force us to come to Him. Like the father in the story above, God waits patiently for us to come to our senses. God’s great love reaches out and finds sinners no matter why or how they got lost. Be thankful that God is changeless, He will always help you when you need it and offer forgiveness when you fall. 

Once the prodigal son had made the decision to return, and was in the process of returning to his father, the father embraced him and accepted him back into the family. However, when the prodigal son was in the pig pen, the father did not search him out and drag him back home. The son had to make the decision for himself in order that his repentance bring forth fruit in his life. This is exactly how God relates with us. He loves us consistently and will always be available to receive us in love whenever we come to Him. 

God loved man in his state of being unlovable. The agape (love) of God, therefore, was given without conditions. It was not that man was righteous, and thus, deserved the righteous act of God through the sacrifice of the cross. It was unearned love. Therefore, our state at anytime will not hinder His consistent love for us because He never loved us because of our lovable state or conditions. 

Now, look at the conclusion of the whole matter as the apostle Paul says, “....We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor power, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8 vs 37 - 39.)

These verses contain one of the most comforting promises in all Scriptures. Believers have always had to face hardships in many forms: persecution, illness, imprisonment, and even death. These sometimes cause them to fear that they have been abandoned by Christ. But the apostle Paul exclaims that it is impossible to be separated from Christ. His death for us is proof of His unconquerable love. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s presence. God tells us how great His love is so that we will feel totally secure in Him. 

Prayer: Abba Father, I thank You for Your consistent love for me. My utmost heart desire is to consistently trust and obey You in all things, at all times, and in all circumstances in my journey of life. Endue me with the spirit of consistent obedience and love for You, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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Serve God with Your Thirst

 Serve God with Your Thirst

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. (2 Corinthians 5:9)

What if you discovered (like the Pharisees did) that you had devoted your whole life to trying to please God, but all the while had been doing things that in God’s sight were abominations (Luke 16:14–15)? 

Someone may question this and say, “I don’t think that’s possible; God wouldn’t reject a person who has been trying to please him.” But do you see what this questioner has done? He has based his conviction about what would please God on his idea of what God is like. That is precisely why we must begin with the character of God revealed in Scripture.

God is a mountain spring, not a watering trough. A mountain spring is self-replenishing. It constantly overflows and supplies others. But a watering trough needs to be filled with a pump or bucket. So, the great question is: How do you serve a spring? And: How do you serve a watering trough? How do you glorify God the way he really is?

If you want to glorify the worth of a watering trough, you work hard to keep it full and useful. But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring, you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart’s satisfaction, until you have the refreshment and strength to go back down in the valley and tell the people what you’ve found.

My hope as a desperate sinner hangs on this biblical truth: that God is the kind of God who will be pleased with the one thing I have to offer: my thirst. That’s why the sovereign freedom and self-sufficiency of God are so precious to me: they are the foundation of my hope that God is delighted not by the resourcefulness of bucket brigades, but by the bending down of broken sinners to drink at the fountain of grace.

By all means we should seek to please God, now and forever. But woe to us if our whole life proves to be based on a false view of what pleases God. The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring. As Psalm 147:11 says, “The Lord takes pleasure . . . in those who hope in his steadfast love.”

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY JUNE 15, 2026.

SUBJECT : MEDITATING ON THE WORD!

Memory verse: "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1 vs 8.)

READ: Psalm 1 vs 1 - 6:

1:1: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

1:2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

1:3: He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

1:4: The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

1:5: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

1:6: For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

INTIMATION:

Meditation is to consider thoughtfully; engage in contemplation; an act of deep thought or consideration. It’s giving yourself entirely to acquiring an in-depth understanding. Meditating on the Word of God is very essential for drawing closer to God. Studying and meditating on the Word take time and effort, but it is the prerequisite for acquiring the revelational knowledge about God. 

Meditation is like digesting food you ate. It helps to process the Word of God that has been taken in and applying it to the appropriate part of your spiritual life. Just as food digested strengthens and nourishes your body, meditation and understanding of the Word also builds up reserves for you to draw some nourishment and strength from when you need it.

We are to learn how to follow God by meditating on His Word. This means spending time reading and thinking about what you have read. It means asking yourself how you should change so you will live as God wants. Knowing and thinking about God’s Word are the first steps toward applying it to your everyday life. If you want to follow God more closely, you must know what He says. 

Jesus said, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15 vs 7.) It is only through studying and meditating on the Word of God that the Word truly abides in you as you understand God better. Consequently, you shall receive your desires from the Lord because you will always ask according to His Will revealed to you.

Remember you know how to meditate as you are already doing it when you worry; constantly dwelling on a subject, thinking about it from every angle. Now, use this same skill in a constructive way, that is, a godly way to analyze and digest the Word. Believers know the Word is important, they read it, learn it, and at times become excited about what they read. But they may not have real attraction to the Word. 

When you meditate on the Word and grasp the real import or revelational knowledge of the Word, it becomes more like your daily spiritual vitamin pill to stay healthy. You will then begin to appreciate how it impacts on their life, and would not think of missing its input. 

David caught the revelation on God’s Word, and he said, “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119 vs 103.) When the Word is as sweet as honey to the believers' mouth, their desire for the Word is more than even their food, just like Job and David. Meditation on the Word becomes major part of their lives.

The more we know of the scope of God’s Word, the more resources we will have to guide us in our daily decisions and struggles. The psalmist says that meditation in the Word engenders fruitfulness, resourcefulness, and prosperous living: “But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditate day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” (Psalm 1 vs 2 - 3.) 

In our memory verse, God assured Joshua of prosperity and good success if he makes the Word of God His permanent companion, meditating on it always, and observe to do all contained in it. A natural outflow of reading and meditating on the Word from a fresh perspective is deepening praise and worship. Scriptures provides a rich source for both. In addition, songs that once were humdrum should now seem more meaningful and touch your heart in a fresh way. 

Let your main focus of close relationship with God be on spending quality time with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. Then you will experience increased sensitivity to His voice, and become more God-centered in your life and desires.

Prayer: Abba Father, my soul thirst for You, and Your Word is sweet to me as honey. Give me the grace, hunger, and desire to meditate on it always, and the strength and heart desire to do all that is contained therein, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

The Honeymoon That Never Ends

 The Honeymoon That Never Ends

As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. (Isaiah 62:5)

When God does good to his people, it is not so much like a reluctant judge showing kindness to a criminal whom he finds despicable. It is like a bridegroom showing affection to his bride. 

Sometimes we joke and say about a marriage, “The honeymoon is over.” But that’s because we are finite. We can’t sustain a honeymoon level of intensity and affection. But God says that his joy over his people is like a bridegroom over a bride. And he doesn’t mean it starts out that way and then fades.

He is talking about honeymoon intensity and honeymoon pleasures and honeymoon energy and excitement and enthusiasm and enjoyment. He is trying to get into our hearts what he means when he says he rejoices over us with all his heart. Jeremiah 32:41, “I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.” Zephaniah 3:17, “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”

With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2026.

SUBJECT : POVERTY IS PART OF THE CURSE OF THE LAW!

Memory verse: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree") (Galatians 3 vs 13.)

READ: Deuteronomy 28 vs 15 - 20:

28:15: But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

28:16: Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

28:17: Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

28:18: Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

28:19: Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

28:20: The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

INTIMATION:

Poverty is a curse. It is part of the curse of the law. The passage we read today reveals the curse of poverty inherent in disobedience to God’s law. In the beginning God placed everything that man could use and enjoy in the Garden of Eden. His Will is for us to lack nothing, and be in abundance. God saw to it that Adam lacked no good thing. Haven created Adam in his own image and after His likeness (as we are also created) left nothing to be desired, but asked for their obedience to a single command; “Do not eat of the of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2 vs 17). Adam was the master of the kingdom given to him. God only placed Himself above Adam as his Master.

God's Will of abundance for Adam was supreme until that fatal day he committed high treason against God, haven believed the devil with his wife, Eve, and doubted God’s integrity. When Adam partook of the deadly tree, he died, not physically but spiritually. Spiritual death—the nature of Satan—overtook his once righteous spirit, and he became one with Satan. Every phase of Adam's life came under the curse of his new god, Satan. He was driven from the Garden; abundance was no longer his to enjoy. He had to toil and sweat in order to survive. His beautiful life was overrun by thorns and thistles both in the physical and in the spiritual world.

God's heart yearns for His people to be free, and in His infinite wisdom and mercy, sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, as a propitiation for our sins. He paid the supreme price for our sins, and redeemed us from the curse of the law, when He was nailed to, and hung on the cross, and shed His blood for the remission of our sins. The Scripture says, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree") (Galatians 3 vs 13.)

The Scripture reveals that Jesus bore the curse of poverty at the same time He bore the curse of sickness (Isaiah 53 vs 4 - 5). You can believe for divine prosperity just as you believe for divine health. Both blessings already belong to you. You should refuse lack just as quickly as you refuse sickness because they both are the curse of the law, and Christ has already redeemed you from that curse. The blessing of Abraham is ours, as well as the promises of the Spirit. God’s wish is that we shall prosper in all things and be in health, just as our soul prospers (Third John 2). 

Prosperity is God's Will for us. Most of us usually look at prosperity in a different way from other things, such as divine health. There are Word principles for divine health, healing, deliverance etc., as well as divine prosperity and abundance, and they all work the same way.

But we have not been using the Word to believe for divine prosperity as we had for divine health. We usually live in the laws of prosperity (paying tithes, give offering, make kingdom investments etc.), but we don't take authority in the Word for prosperity. If you have obeyed the laws, and then refuse to take what belongs to you, you will miss it. 

We have been acting on prosperity differently from other provisions of the Word. In this way, we would allow symptoms of lack to come on us and stay there. We are willing to tolerate it, and sometimes claim is God's Will. But the word is very clear on the Will of God (Jeremiah 29 vs 11 & Third John vs 2). If you have obeyed the laws of prosperity, then take authority in the Word over it because it belongs to you.

Satan will always come to us with the thoughts of doubt and say; "There is no way you can have your needs met." "There is no way you can come out of your debts because you are poor, your salary cannot carry you through." "There is no way you can do all you ought to do, build a house, by a car, marry etc., There is just no way." Your answer to him should be "No Satan, my God is able! Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, and the blessing of Abraham are mine in Christ Jesus." You will hang your faith completely in the Scriptures.

Confess continually the Word in Second Corinthians 9 vs 8 and personalize it; "And God is able to make all grace abound toward me; that me, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” The Amplified Version is more revealing on this verse, “:And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to me in abundance, so that I may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need, be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donations]. 

The Word says that God is able to get it to you. Don't look up to natural sources. Don't look at your job, your present position, your natural capabilities, and present financial position, but look up to God. Keep your eyes single on the Word. Trust Him in whatever your hands have found to do, He will prosper you there. You have to realize and know that He can and will work on your behalf. God is real! He is able to get things done!

Prayer: Abba Father, thank you for all you have given me in redemption. Through the grace of our Messiah, Jesus Christ; though He was rich, yet for my sake He became poor, that I through His poverty might become rich. I refuse the lies of the devil, and embrace the truth of my abundant life in Christ Jesus: Abraham blessings are mine, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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How Much God Wants to Bless You

 How Much God Wants to Bless You

“The Lord will again take delight in prospering you.” (Deuteronomy 30:9)

God does not bless us begrudgingly. There is a kind of eagerness about the beneficence of God. He does not wait for us to come to him. He seeks us out, because it is his pleasure to do us good. God is not waiting for us; he is pursuing us. That, in fact, is the literal translation of Psalm 23:6, “Surely goodness and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life.”

God loves to show mercy. Let me say it again. God loves to show mercy. He is not hesitant or indecisive or tentative in his desires to do good to his people. His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. That’s what he meant when he came down on Mount Sinai and said to Moses, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” (Exodus 34:6). It’s what he meant when he said in Jeremiah 9:24, “I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” 

God is never irritable or edgy. His anger never has a short fuse. Instead he is infinitely energetic with absolutely unbounded and unending enthusiasm for the fulfillment of his delights.

This is hard for us to comprehend, because we have to sleep every day just to cope, not to mention thrive. Our emotions go up and down. We get bored and discouraged one day and feel hopeful and excited another. 

We are like little geysers that gurgle and sputter and pop erratically. But God is like a great Niagara Falls — you look at 186,000 tons of water crashing over the precipice every minute, and think: Surely this can’t keep going at this force year after year after year. Yet it does.

That’s the way God is about doing us good. He never grows weary of it. It never gets boring to him. The Niagara of his grace has no end.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY JUNE 13, 2026.

SUBJECT: OUR BOAST IS ONLY IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST!

Memory verse: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves; it is the gift kf God," (Ephesians 2 vs 8.)

READ: Romans 3 vs 27 - 31:

3:27: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 

3:28: Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 

3:29: Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes of the Gentiles also,

3:30: since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 

3:31: Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. 

INTIMATION:

We become Christians through God's unmerited grace, not as the result of any effort, ability, intelligent choice, or act of service on our part. However, out of gratitude for this free gift, we will seek to help and serve others with kindness, love, and gentleness, and not merely to please ourselves. While no action or work we do can help us obtain salvation, God's intention is that our salvation will result in acts of service. We are not saved merely for our own benefit but to serve Christ and build up the church--the body of Christ. 

The plan of salvation was initiated by God without any meritoriously devised good works of man or perfect keeping of the law. Because man could not live in a manner to save themselves, salvation had to be by grace in conjunction with man's faith response. God extended grace to man regardless of the sin of man. In this way, therefore, grace is a gift. It is a gift because it was not given as a payment of debt by God to those who demanded such through their meritorious keeping of law and good works. The law of works demanded that man live flawlessly in order to gain his acquittal from sin. 

The condition upon which the grace of God is made effective for the salvation of man is that one must receive or accept the free gift. For this reason, the effect of God's grace in reference to the salvation of man must be conditioned on the response of man. If grace was without condition toward all men, then all men would thus be saved without having to respond. All humanity would thus be saved while living after the course of this world. Therefore, the application of grace in one's life must be based on some condition. The condition is obedient faith, and thus we are saved by grace through obedience of faith. Our obedient faith is our response to the grace of God. 

God's grace is not subsidized by our works, it is not perfected or completed by our works. Works are the response to grace. Christians work, not in order to be saved, but because they are saved. Therefore, we only boast in the Lord Jesus Christ who made the availability of the grace to man through the cross. 

When someone gives you a gift, do you say, "That's very nice--now how much do I owe you?" No, the appropriate response to a gift is "Thank you." Yet how often Christians, even after they have been given the gift of salvation, feel obligated to try to work their way to God. Because our salvation and even our faith are gifts, we should respond with gratitude, praise, and joy. 

Most religions require specific duties that must be performed to make a person acceptable to a god. Christianity is unique in that no good that we do will make us right with God. No amount of human achievement or personal goodness will close the gap between God's moral perfection and our imperfect daily performance. Good deeds are important, but they will not earn us eternal life. Because of grace God initiated the cross. Therefore, no man can boast in order to claim that he earned God's grace. We are saved only by trusting in what God has done for us through Jesus Christ. 

Why does God save us by faith alone? (1) Faith eliminates the pride of human effort, because faith is not a deed that we do. (2) Faith exalts what God has done not what we do. (3) Faith admits that we can't keep the law or measure up to God's standards--we need help. (4) Faith is based on our relationship with God, not our performance for God. 

Acceptable faith responds to the actions of God to save man. Law, therefore, is not aborted by faith. The fact is that when faith responds to the work of God through the cross, the faithful seek respond to the directions of God. In this way, therefore, those who are of faith seek God's directions. 

We love because He loved us first (First John 4 vs 19). Therefore, Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments" (John 14 vs 15). In this way law is established. It is established in the hearts of those who respond by faith and love because they seek to return the love that was manifested toward them through the cross. Consequently, those who obediently respond to the grace of God, seek to obey God's directions, and thus law is established in their lives. 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for our privilege of election by Your grace, for Your justification of the elect, for Christ's propitiation for our sins, for our redemption in Christ. You demonstrated Your love for us on the cross. Give me the enablement to keep Your commandments in response to Your love, and give me the grace to be steadfast in following You to the end, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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Who Killed Jesus?

 Who Killed Jesus?

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32) 

One of my friends who used to be a pastor in Illinois was preaching to a group of prisoners in a state prison during Holy Week several years ago. At one point in his message, he paused and asked the men if they knew who killed Jesus. 

Some said the soldiers did. Some said the Jews did. Some said Pilate. After there was silence, my friend said simply, “His Father killed him.” 

That’s what the first half of Romans 8:32 says: God did not spare his own Son but handed him over — to death. “This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). Isaiah 53 puts it even more bluntly, “We esteemed him stricken, smitten by God. . . . It was the will of the Lord to crush him; he (his Father!) has put him to grief” (Isaiah 53:4, 10).

Or as Romans 3:25 says, “God put [him] forward as a propitiation by his blood.” Just as Abraham lifted the knife over the chest of his son Isaac, but then spared his son because there was a ram in the thicket, so God the Father lifted his knife over the chest of his own Son, Jesus — but did not spare him, because he was the ram; he was the substitute.

God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God. The guilt of our transgressions, the punishment of our iniquities, the curse of our sin would have brought us inescapably to the destruction of hell. But God did not spare his own Son; he gave him up to be pierced for our transgressions, and crushed for our iniquities, and crucified for our sins. 

This verse — Romans 8:32 — is the most precious verse in the Bible to me because the foundation of the all-encompassing promise of God’s future grace is that the Son of God bore in his body all my punishment and all my guilt and all my condemnation and all my blame and all my fault and all my corruption, so that I might stand before a great and holy God, forgiven, reconciled, justified, accepted, and the beneficiary of unspeakable promises of pleasure forever and ever at his right hand.

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

FRIDAY JUNE 12, 2026.

SUBJECT: WHY THE LAW WAS GIVEN!

Memory verse: "What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator." (Galatians 3 vs 19.) 

READ: Romans 7 vs 7 - 9:

7:7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

7:8: But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

7:9: I was alive once without law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

INTIMATION: 

The ostensible aim of the law is to restrain the evil tendencies natural to man in his fallen estate. Yet in experience law finds itself not merely ineffective, it actually provokes those tendencies to greater activity. 

In the passage we read today, the apostle Paul says that he would not have known that sin existed in his life unless the law stated that his behavior was against the law. Therefore, the law “was added because of transgressions” (Galatians 3 vs 19). It made us realize that we were all sinners (Romans 3 vs 23). When men followed after the lusts of the flesh, the coming of the law exemplified the sinful behavior of the individual. 

When there was no law, one would not be aware of the intensity of the sin of his life. Where there is no law, there is no violation of law. Without the presence of the written law, one is deceived into thinking that his life is right with God. Where there is no law, there is no sin, because people cannot know that their actions are sinful unless a law forbids those actions. God’s law makes people realize that they are sinners doomed to die, yet it offers no help. Sin is real, and it is dangerous. 

Imagine a sunny day at the beach. You plunge into the surf, then you notice a sign on the pier: “No swimming, Sharks.” Your day is ruined. Is it the sign’s fault? Are you angry with the people who put it up? The law is like the sign. It is essential, and we are grateful for it—but it doesn’t get rid of the sharks.

The law still has an important role to play in the life of a Christian. The law (1) guards us from sin by giving us standards for behavior; (2) convicts us of sin, leaving us the opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness, and (3) drives us to trust in the sufficiency of Christ, because we can never keep the "Ten Commandments" perfectly. The law cannot possibly save us. But after we become Christians, it can guide us to live as God requires. 

God gave rules to His people for some reasons. He did not withhold good from them; He only prohibited those acts that would bring them to ruin. All of us understand God’s physical laws of nature. For example, jumping off a 10-storey building means death because of the law of gravity. 

But some of us don’t understand how God’s spiritual laws work. God forbids us to do certain things because He wants to keep us from self-destruction. The next time you are drawn to a forbidden physical or emotional pleasure, remind yourself that it’s consequences might be suffering and separation from God, Who is trying to help you.

Most of us chafe under rules, for we think they restrict us from doing what we want. But God’s laws were given to free us to be all He wants us to be. They restrict us from doing what might cripple us and keep us from being our best. God’s guidelines help us follow His path and avoid paths that lead to destruction.

In the Old Testament there were three categories of law: ceremonial, civil, and moral: (1) The ceremonial law related specifically to Israel’s worship. Its primary purpose was to point forward to Jesus Christ; these laws, therefore, were no longer necessary after Jesus’ death and resurrection. While we are no longer bound by ceremonial law, the principles behind them—to worship and love a holy God—still apply.

(2)) The civil law applied to daily living in Israel. Because modern society and culture are so radically different from that time and setting, all of these guidelines cannot be followed specifically. But the principles behind the commands are timeless and should guide our conduct. Jesus demonstrated these principles by example.

(3) The moral law (such as the Ten Commandments) is the direct command from God, and it requires strict obedience. The moral law reveals the nature and Will of God, and it still applies today. Jesus obeyed the moral law completely,

The functions of God’s law is first, to show us where we go wrong. Because of the law, we know that we are helpless sinners and that we must come to Jesus Christ for mercy. Second, the moral code revealed in the law can serve to guide our actions by holding up God’s moral standards. We do not earn salvation by keeping the law (no one except Jesus ever kept or could keep God’s law perfectly), but we do please God when our life conforms to His revealed Will for us.

We miss the intent of God’s Word when we read His rules for living without trying to understand why He made them. Most people do keep God’s rules but close their eyes to His intent. For example, God’s moral and ceremonial laws were given to help people love God with all their hearts and minds. 

Prayer: Abba Father, Your law is holy, good, and just; a great compass to direct my path in life in righteousness and moral uprightness with You. Though meritorious law-keeping cannot earn me salvation but enables me to be in constant fellowship with You after been saved by grace in Jesus Christ. Empower me in my inner man to live above those presumptuous sins that usually have dominion over me that I may lead a life pleasing to You at all times, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

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Help My Unbelief

 Help My Unbelief

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. (Romans 12:3)

In the context of this verse, Paul is concerned that people were thinking of themselves “more highly than [they] ought to think.” His final remedy for this pride is to say that not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts. “. . . each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”

This means that every possible ground of boasting is taken away from us. How can we boast if even the qualification for receiving gifts is also a gift?

This truth has a profound impact on how we pray. Jesus gives us the example in Luke 22:31–32. Before Peter denies him three times Jesus says to him, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” 

Jesus prays for Peter’s faith to be sustained even through the sin of denial, because he knows that God is the one who gives faith. So we should pray the way Jesus did — for ourselves and for others that God would sustain our faith. 

Thus, the man with the epileptic son cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). This is a good prayer. It acknowledges that without God we cannot believe as we ought to believe.

Let us pray daily, “O Lord, thank you for my faith. Sustain it. Strengthen it. Deepen it. Don’t let it fail. Make it the power of my life, so that in everything I do, you get the glory as the great Giver. Amen.”

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Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY JUNE 11, 2026.

SUBJECT: GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH!

Memory verse: "For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith." (Romans 1 vs 17.)

READ: Romans 3 vs 21 - 26:

3:21: But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 

3:22: even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe. For there is no difference, 

3:23: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 

3:24: being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 

3:25: whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 

3:26: to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 

INTIMATION:

Through the Sinai law and the prophets the promises were made by God to save mankind. And through His faithfulness the promises were accomplished. The promises were not fulfilled because of man's perfect obedience of law, but because of the grace of God to do such regardless of the sinfulness of man, and it was in the plan of God from the beginning.

All humanity, because of sin, has fallen short of that which is required for one to dwell in the presence of God. The result of law is that we are made sinners. The result of sin is separation from God. And the result of separation from God is spiritual death which eventually lead to a second death. 

The righteousness of God means essentially the same as His faithfulness, or truthfulness, which is consistent with His own nature and promises. Also, it is the justification of those who obediently respond to the grace of God that was revealed on the cross through the death of Jesus on the cross as a propitiation for our sins. 

God is just because He has revealed the means by which men can be made righteous. From the Scriptures we read today, His righteousness is exibited in the death of Christ, which is sufficient to show man that God is neither indifferent to sin nor regards it lightly. On the contrary, it demonstrats that quality of holiness in Him which must find expression in His condemnation of sin. And ensures that the right penalty of death is paid for sin as it is in His law. 

The gospel shows both how righteous God is in His plan for us to be saved and also how we may be made fit for eternal life. By trusting Christ, our relationship with God is made right. From "faith to faith" means that from the start to finish God declares us to be right with Him because of faith and faith alone. As we trust God, we are saved, we have life both now and forever. 

It was through Jesus' faithfulness to go to the cross that the righteousness of God was accomplished. Man's justification was also accomplished because of the faith of those who believed in the cross; in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross as a propitiation for our sins. Both the faithfulness of Jesus in going to the cross, and man's faith response to the cross, were necessary in order to accomplish God's eternal plan to reconcile men to Himself through Jesus. 

In Jesus' death on the cross, He was God's offering to appease His wrath that would eventually have to be poured out on sinners. In order for God to stand just in judgement of free-moral man, there had to be a choice for man to be saved from condemnation. Through the offering of the blood of Jesus, God gave that choice. 

Christ died in our place, for our sins. God is justifiably angry as sinners. They have rebelled against Him and cut themselves off from His life-giving power. But God declares Christ's death to be the appropriate, designated sacrifice for our sins. Christ then stands in our place, having paid the penalty of death for our sins, as He completely satisfies God's demands. His sacrifice brings pardon, deliverance, and freedom. 

There are two functions of God's law. First, it shows us where we go wrong. Because of the law, we know that we are helpless sinners and that we must come to Jesus Christ for mercy. Second, the moral code revealed in the law can serve to guide our actions by holding up God's moral standards. We do not earn salvation by keeping the law (no one except Christ ever kept or could keep God's law perfectly), but we do please God when our life conforms to His revealed Will for us. 

The Scriptures gave us the way to be declared not guilty--by trusting Jesus Christ to take away our sins. Trusting here means putting our confidence in Christ to forgive our sins, to make us right with God, and empower us to live the way He taught us. God's solution is available to all of us regardless of our background or past behavior. 

Therefore, we are saved by grace through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross for our sins. The grace was freely given regardless of the spiritual condition of all humanity. It had to be freely given because man could not work in order to earn grace. Sin blocks any efforts to meritoriously earn the gift. Therefore, grace was given to take care of man's sin problem. Once justified from sin by grace, we are then reconciled again to His presence and glory. 

Some sins seem bigger than others because their obvious consequences are much more serious. Murder, for example, seems to us to be worse than hatred, and adultery seems worse than lust. But this doesn't mean that because we only commit "little" sin we deserve eternal life. All sins make us sinners, and all sins cut us off from our holy God. All sins, therefore, lead to death (because they disqualify us from living with God), regardless of how great or small they seem. Don't minimize "little" sins or overrate "big" sins. They all separate us from God, but they all can be forgiven. 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for our privilege of election by Your grace, for Your justification of the elect, for Christ's propitiation for our sins, for our redemption in Christ. Everlasting Father who showed us Your righteousness in keeping Your promise to save us, give me the grace to be steadfast in followiing You to the end, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

Faith for the Future

 Faith for the Future

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. (2 Corinthians 1:20)

If “all the promises of God find their Yes in [Jesus],” then to trust him now in the present is to believe that his promises will come true. 

Those are not two separate faiths — trusting him, and believing in his promises. Trusting Jesus — believing in Jesus for salvation — means believing that he keeps his word. Being satisfied in the crucified and risen Jesus includes the belief that at every future moment, to all eternity, nothing will separate us from his love, or keep him from working all things together for our good. And that “good” is ultimately seeing and savoring the beauty and worth of God in Christ as our supreme Treasure.

The confidence that this all-satisfying good will be there for us forever is based on all the glorious grace of the past, especially the grace that God did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all (Romans 8:32). 

We need to taste now the spiritual beauty of God in all his past achievements — especially the death and resurrection of Christ for our sins — and in all his promises. Rooted in this past grace, our confidence and trust lay hold on all that God himself will be for us in the next moment, and in the next month, and in the endless ages of eternity.

It is he and he alone who will satisfy the soul in the future. And we must be sure of this future, if we are to live the radical Christian lives that Christ calls us to live here and now. 

If our present enjoyment of Christ now — our present faith — does not have in it the Yes to all God’s promises, it will not embrace the power for radical service in the strength that God (in every future moment) will supply (1 Peter 4:11).

My prayer is that reflecting like this on the nature of faith in future grace will help us avoid superficial, oversimplified statements about believing the promises of God. It is a deep and wonderful thing.

Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 2026.

SUBJECT: BECOMING LIKE CHRIST!

Memory verse: "Till we all come to the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." (Ephesians 4 vs 13.)

READ: Ephesians 3 vs 16 - 19:

3:16: that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

3:17: that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

3:18: may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the width and length, and depth and height—

3:19: to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

INTIMATION:

God created us to grow. His ultimate goal is for us to mature and develop the characteristics of Jesus Christ. Becoming like Christ, is neither instant nor automatic; it is a gradual, progressive development that will take the rest of one's life. It calls for an intentional commitment. You must want to grow, decide to grow, make an effort to grow, and persist in growing. 

Discipleship—the process of becoming like Christ—always begins with a decision, the decision to respond when Jesus calls you. Even your response is not automatic, it may take some time. Peter, James, and John were called on three different occasions by Jesus Christ before they eventually got committed (John 1 vs 35 - 42, at the Sea of Galilee; Mark 1 vs 16 - 18, and at the Lake of Gennesaret; Luke 5 vs 1 - 11).

Accepting the invitation is all you need to start. When you accept the invitation, you become a work in progress. Your spiritual transformation commences, and developing the character of Jesus would take the rest of your life. And even then, it won't be completed here on earth. It will only be finished when you get to heaven or when Jesus returns. At that point, whatever unfinished work on your character would be wrapped up.

Sadly, millions of Christians grow older but never grow up. They are stuck in perpetual spiritual infancy, remaining in diapers and booties. The reason is that they never intended to grow. They never allow the world to pass through them while passing through the world. The Word of God they hear, the people they interact with, and the circumstances they encounter in life hardly influence them from shifting their position. 

God is more interested in building your character than He is in anything else. God is more interested in what you are than in what you do or what you have. We are human beings, not human doings. God is much more concerned about your character than your career or any other thing, because you only take your character to eternity. There can be many different careers that could be in God's Will for your life, but His utmost care is that whatever you do, you do it in a Christlike manner: (First Corinthians 10 vs 31; Colossians 3 vs 17; Colossians 3 vs 23.) 

The Scripture in First Corinthians 16 vs 14 says, “Let all you do be done with love.” In becoming like Christ, our actions must be motivated by God’s love, and His love will so permeate our motives that all we do would be for His glory, that is, “doing all in the name of the Lord Jesus." And for it to be our guiding principle, we would always ask, "Is this action glorifying God?" or "How can I honor God through this action?" You endeavor to do things to bring honor to Christ in every aspect and activity of your daily living. 

As a Christian, you represent Christ at all times, therefore, whatever you do, wherever you go, and whatever you say let it demonstrate christlikeness in your lives. Always ask yourself these pertinent questions, "What impression do people have of Christ when they see or talk with me?" "What changes would I make in my life in order to honor Christ?" Regard whatever you do or say as an act of worship or service to God. 

So many people are in love with themselves, and put self before anything else, including God. They have abandoned living for God's great purposes and settled for personal fulfillment and their emotional stability. Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could lead a comfortable, an well-adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper. He wants to make us like Himself before taking us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.

Prayer: Abba Father, I love you. All I have is Yours, Yours I am, and Yours I want to be. Do with me as it is pleasing to You. Endue me with the mind of Christ that I may live a fulfilling life in Christ, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

When Reason Serves Rebellion

 When Reason Serves Rebellion

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!” (Proverbs 22:13)

This is not what I expected the proverb to say. I would have expected it to say, “The coward says, ‘There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!’” But it says, “sluggard,” not “coward.” So, the controlling emotion here is laziness, not fear. 

But what does laziness have to do with the danger of a lion in the street? We don’t usually say, “This man is too lazy to go do his work because there is a lion outside.”

The point is that the sluggard creates imaginary circumstances to justify not doing his work, and thus shifts the focus from the vice of his laziness to the danger of lions. No one will approve his staying in the house all day just because he is lazy. But they might excuse him if there is a lion in the street.

One profound biblical insight we need to learn from this is that our heart exploits our mind to justify what we want. That is, our deepest desires precede the rational functioning of our minds and incline the mind to perceive and think in a way that will make the desires look right, even if they’re wrong.

This is what the sluggard is doing. He deeply desires to stay at home and not work. There is no good reason to stay at home. So, what does he do? Does he overcome his bad desire — his laziness? No, he uses his mind to create unreal circumstances to justify his desire.

Jesus said, “The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19). We love the darkness so that we can keep on doing what we want without exposure. In this condition, the mind becomes a factory of darkness — a fountain of half-truths, equivocations, sophistries, evasions, and lies — anything to protect the evil desires of the heart from exposure and destruction.

Consider and be wise.

Every day in the God's Word

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY JUNE 09, 2026.

SUBJECT: GOD WORKS ALL THINGS FOR THE GOOD OF THE BELIEVER!

Memory verse: "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His porpuse." (Romans 8 vs 28.)

READ: Romans 8 vs 28 - 30:

8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His porpuse.

8:29: For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 

8:30: Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called, whom He called, these He also justified, and whom He justified, these He also glorified. 

INTIMATION:

God works in "all things," not just in isolated incidents, for our good. This does not mean that all that happens to us is good. Evil is prevalent in our fallen world, but God is able to turn every circumstance around for our long-range good. Note that God is not working to make us happy but to fulfill His purpose 

Note also that this promise is not for everybody. It can be claimed only by those who love God and are called by Him, that is, those whom the Holy Spirit convinces to receive Christ. Such people have a new perspective, a new mind-set. They trust in God, not in worldly treasures; their security is in heaven, not on earth. Their faith in God does not waver in pain or persecution because they know God is with them. 

We often cannot see the good that comes from immediate trials and sufferings. Therefore, we must assume that the good that God brings is within our lifetime. God views things from His eternal perspective. The final good of God will come with the reward of eternal heaven. It is in this context that the apostle Paul is asking us to view the final results from our sufferings from the eternal perspective of God. Though there is good that comes from God in the suffering of our lifetime, there is the final good of glory that will come after the end of this world. 

Some believe these verses we read today mean that before the beginning of the world, God chose certain people to receive His gift of salvation. They point to verses such Ephesians 1 vs 11, which says that we are "predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His Will." Others believe that God knew in advance who would respond to Him, and upon those He set His mark (He chose them). 

What is clear is that God's purpose for people was not an afterthought. It was settled before the foundation of the world. People are to serve and honor God. If you believe in Christ, you can rejoice in the fact that God has always known you. God's love is eternal. His wisdom and power are supreme. He will guide you and protect you until one day you stand in His presence. 

We must not assume that the foreknowledge of God presupposes the individual predestination of individuals to either heaven or hell. God's reference is to those who will be glorified. Before the creation of the world, God foreknew the body of believers He would glorify in eternal heaven. He foreknew the body because He predestined the existence of the church. Therefore, those who would free-morally choose to be a part of this group (the church) by voluntary obedience to the gospel in order to conform to the image of the Son would also be destined to glorification in eternal heaven.

Therefore, the group of believers that God predestined to be glorified, were first justified by the predestined plan of God on the cross. Those who are justified He called through the gospel. At the end of time, He will call these out of the world for eternal glory. Those who will be called out of the world are now predestined because they are a part of the predestined group of believers who will in the end be called out of the world for eternal glory. God foreknew this plan because He foreplanned redemption in Christ before the creation of the world. 

The final "calling" of God of Christians out of the world will occur at the end of time. The finality of all things, therefore, will end for good for the Christian when he is called out of this world into eternal glory. Through the preaching of the gospel, men are also called out of the world of sin through their obedience to the gospel. 

God ultimate goal for us is to make us like Christ (First John 3 vs 2). As we become more and more like Him, we discover our true selves, the persons we were created to be. 

How can we become like Christ? By reading and heeding the Word, by studying His life on earth through the Gospels, by spending time in prayer, by being filled with His Spirit, and by doing His work in the world. 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for our privilege of election by Your grace, for Your justification of the elect, for Christ's propitiation for our sins, for our redemption in Christ, for our sanctification through Your Word, and for Your preplanned glorification of the elect in Him. I am persuaded that all things are working together for me by privilege of election and my love for You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!

Prayer Is for Sinners

 Prayer Is for Sinners

“Lord, teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1)

God answers the prayers of sinners, not perfect people. And you can become perfectly paralyzed in your praying if you do not focus on the cross and realize this. 

I could show it from numerous Old Testament texts where God hears the cry of his sinful people, whose very sins had gotten them into the trouble from which they are crying for deliverance (for example, Psalm 38:4, 15; 40:12–13; 107:11–13). But let me show it from Luke 11 — in two ways:

In this version of the Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11:2–4), Jesus says, “When you pray, say . . . ” and then in verse 4 he includes this petition, “and forgive us our sins.” So, if you connect the beginning of the prayer with the middle, what he says is, “Whenever you pray, say . . . forgive us our sins.”

I take this to mean that this should be as much a part of all our praying as, “Hallowed be your name.” Which means that Jesus assumes that we need to seek forgiveness virtually every time we pray. 

In other words, we are always sinners. Nothing we do is perfect. As Martin Luther said, on his deathbed, “We are beggars. This is true.” Even if we have achieved some measure of obedience before we pray, we always come to the Lord as sinners — all of us. And God does not turn away the prayers of sinners when they pray like this.

The second place we can see this is in Luke 11:13: “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Jesus calls his disciples “evil.” Pretty strong language. And he did not mean that they were out of fellowship with him. He did not mean that their prayers could not be answered. 

He meant that as long as this fallen age lasts, even his own disciples will have an evil bent that pollutes everything they do, but doesn’t keep them from doing much good as they rely on his grace and power. 

We are simultaneously evil and redeemed. We are gradually overcoming our evil by the power of the Holy Spirit. But our native corruption is not obliterated by conversion. 

We are sinners and we are beggars. And if we recognize this sin, renounce it, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.