Daily Devotional Day & Night

HAPPY TUESDAY!

I pray all is well with everyone, and you're enjoying your day. I'm doing well, and am looking forward to the weekend again, although this is a 6-day workweek for me. Things are starting to slow down a little more, but I've created a habit of getting started with the devotionals late. I have to break this habit and get back into the swing of getting it out earlier. Everyone is getting the kids ready to go back to school. The fall is quickly approaching, and I'm a little sad, I like to hold on to the spring and summer months. I don't do the cold weather too well, but I couldn't imagine life without the season changes. I get to see the glory of God, in the different ways nature evolve to fit the weather it's awesome. I guess I'll have to get ready to bundle up. A friend just sent me this link to send our troops thank you cards for their service. It’s free and an awesome gift. Please take the 10 seconds and send one, I just did it, and it was quick and easy. http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html Have a wonderful day!

Today's scriptures are about escaping death. What does it mean to escape death? We're all mere mortal human beings, and the one thing that's certain is that we will all one day die. Every one of us has to do it, and some will go sooner than others. Our flesh will surely die but our Spirits will live on forever. God created man for companionship, and after He created Adam and Eve, He set them up in a beautiful garden, with everything they would ever need to be happy. It's written in Gen 3:1-5: Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” At this time, what did Adam or Eve know about death? Neither of them had experienced anything like it, but the enemy was out to destroy mankind from the beginning. Now when Adam and Eve ate the fruit they didn't physically die, but there Spiritual connection with God died, and so did every human being after them, up until we received our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When Jesus conquered death, by His resurrection from the dead, it was the turning point for all mankind. He gave us life, and we live because Jesus lives forever! Let's go back to the most popular, yet most relevant scripture to the Christian, John 3:16: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting. All we have to do is believe in Him, and our Spirits will go on to live forever. That's a reason to rejoice and shout right now! Hallelujah! Jesus said in John 6:48-50: I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. My Pastor preached about “surviving your wilderness” last weekend. This story is found in Exodus 16, after Moses freed the slaves and led them out to the wilderness, they traveled several days without food or water. They started to complain to Moses, telling him if they had stayed with Pharaoh at least they would have plenty of food. They thought Moses had lead them out there to die, because they was scared, tired, and hungry. God needed them to believe and trust in, and rely on Him, so He told Moses to tell them that in the morning He send them bread and meat. Sure enough, He rained manna from the skies, and sent a flock of quail for the meat. They sat around and roasted quail and made bread out of the manna, and ate well for years. In John 6:48 when Jesus says, "I am the bread of life", He wants us to understand that He's our Savior, and whoever believes in Him and follow God’s will, He'll make sure we have whatever we need forever. Not just for the time we spend in the flesh on earth, as the people with Moses, but forever. Heaven and Hell are real, and Jesus saves us from the fire of hell, and provides a land flowing with "Milk and Honey", and our own personalized mansion (John 14:2). We've inherited Heaven and earth through Him, and where we're going there will be no more pain or crying, and nothing but peace and happiness forever. Death just means we lose something, and the wages of sin is death. When we sin, something will die, maybe not physically but spiritually or materially, and Jesus has come to redeem us from all types of death. We learned yesterday that God leads us away from evil things, so as we grow in our Faith walk sin shouldn’t consume us either. Physical death is the only thing that we can be sure of; we don't know how or when we'll go, but we do know that we will. If you've accepted Jesus as your Savior you have nothing to fear, because absent from the body, means that you're present with the Lord (2 Cor. 5:6-8). However, if you don't know Jesus as your Savior then you need to worry, because your fate is uncertain. I strongly urge you to say that prayer right now, and be assured that through Jesus, you'll have everlasting life. My favorite verse today is: He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away the tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 25:8)

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