Daily Devotional Day & Night

Happy Thursday!

I pray all is well with everyone, and you're enjoying another beautiful Friday eve. I'm doing well, looking forward to the weekend. My grandmother is in the hospital please pray for her. She has an Aneurysm, and the doctors are trying to decide how to treat it, they're saying she may be too weak to operate, but that is the only option. I need you to join together with me in prayer, that she will come out of this healed. Thank you for your support.

Today's scriptures are about the compassion of God. The love of God is nurturing, kind, sweet, strong, and full. He accepts us for who we are in Christ. Jesus is living proof of His Grace, love and mercy. We're given a certain set of commandments to live by. We have the Ten Commandments that were written by Moses, found in the book of Exodus, in the Old Testament, which we still need to obey today. However, in the New Testament, these things are summed up in Gal 5:19-21: Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. When Jesus died on that Cross, those of us who has accepted Him as our Lord and Savior have been delivered from all penalties of sin, and will inherit the Kingdom of God. He is gracious enough to wipe our slate clean, because of the blood of Jesus. We know that because of our flesh, it's very hard to walk on the path of Righteousness without falling. God knows that as well, because He came to earth in Human form, in order to experience what we experience. He loves us so much that He wanted to get in tune with us. He understands our frailty and therefore has a lot of patience with us. No matter what we do, He'll always forgive us. He’ll never turn His back on His children, and is always waiting with open arms to receive us. Just as the father in the story of the prodigal son. He knows each of us individually, and because we're made righteous through Jesus Christ, we have the Spirit of Love instilled in us. All we need to do is keep the communication open with Him. We should reverence Him enough to come to Him with all of our needs and concerns, and even share our Joys through praise. I always use the parent/child analogies because He is our Heavenly Father. In most cases if something happens to a child, i.e. they're being picked on at school, they got in trouble with a teacher, or maybe something really bad happens like they're raped or molested by someone close to them, they won't share these incidents with anyone, not even their parents. When these incidents are brought to the parents attention, the first thing they'll ask is, "Why didn't you come to me and tell me?" The child will keep these things secret mostly out of feelings of shame, guilt, or fear, and most of the times they start to act out. We've seen it numerous times before on the News, in movies, or some of us have experienced it first hand. The child doesn't doubt the fact that their parents love them, and would do anything in the world to keep them safe, they only see the shame of what's happened to them, and often times blame themselves. I know this is a dreadful example, but this is how the enemy will make us feel regarding sin. God is a loving Father who only wants what's best for us. He wants us to have a healthy, happy life, filled with the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5). He knows that sin happens, and that's why He gave His son as atonement for our sins. No matter what the sin, from being jealous to murder, we're instantly forgiven when we come to Him humbled and ready to repent. He will never deny us when we cry out to Him; He always answers our prayers. He'll be there to strengthen and lift us up, and will never turn His back on us. Once we're forgiven we're forgiven, it's never brought up again. We have a number of scriptures to confirm that today. Don't let sin separate you from your loving Heavenly Father again. Go to Him right now and confess that you're a sinner, ask Him for forgiveness, and try not to sin again. We have inherited the right to do that anytime, for anything, when we accepted Jesus as our Savior. If you don't know Him, then I suggest you immediately say that prayer, because tomorrow isn't promised to you. My favorite verse today is: As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. (Psalms 103:12)

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