Daily Devotional Day & Night

HAPPY TUESDAY!

I pray all is well with everyone, and you're enjoying this beautiful terrific Tuesday. I'm doing well, the day started off early for me, so I'm a little tired, but thanking God for the strength to get through it. I've finally gotten back in the gym after a 3-week hiatus, and over those three weeks, I partied like it was 1999, eating whatever I wanted. Now it's time to buckle down and get back into the swing of things. I started working with a Personal Trainer, and he's awesome, I actually saw and felt results after our first session. I highly recommend him, so if you're looking for some help and motivation let me know, I'll get you in touch with him. My book will be out just in time for the New Year, so I pray that you'll consider taking this journey with me, to improve our mind, body, and spirit. All of the details will be coming soon, so stay tuned. Please continue to keep me lifted up in prayer, and I will do the same for you. Be blessed family!

Today's scriptures are about delighting in the Word of God. The Holy Bible is God's Living Word, and without it we cannot function properly. When we're born again, our Spirit is washed clean of all sin, and we become as clay, and God is the Potter. He begins to mold us into righteous men and women of Christ, however this transformation requires participation on our part. We're required to turn away from sin, and do our best to live righteously. The Bible will aid us, and it works hand and hand with our Holy Spirit. For some, reading the bible is like trying to read a book written in a foreign language, especially if you don't have a version that you can understand. The King James Version has the "Thou", "shall", "thinketh", "O", etc, and it could be hard to read. At the same time, it doesn't matter what version you have, you will not truly understand it without your Holy Spirit. Ask God to reveal Himself to you through the Holy Spirit. When you do that, you'll find that the Word will come alive. God will speak directly to you through certain verses. We should take some time each day to study the Word, and meditate on it. We do this because everyday comes with a different set of goals and challenges, and we must be prepared to face them. We also do it because that's a part of Loving God with all our hearts. Once again, how can you truly love someone you know nothing about? The more we read, the more we'll discover His awesome love. This will also help us grow in our Faith walk, because we're gaining wisdom from history. The bible takes us on adventures, and helps us understand that we're not alone in our ways of thinking. We face the same trials that were faced thousands of years ago, and God is still the same yesterday, today, and forever. Paul is a very good teacher, and the bible holds accounts of his letters to Nations and Churches explaining how to live Righteously and be encouraged. Paul spent a lot of time in prison or in captivity, and he spent that time reading the Word, and writing what his Spirit revealed to him. The bible holds the answers to any question we could ever have about life. You can learn about marriage, how to raise your children, how to forgive, when to go to war, when to surrender, how to overcome depression, as well as how to praise and worship. We should be excited when we open up our bible, because it's designed to enhance our lives. God's wisdom is more precious than anything we could learn. We read and study all the time, most of us read the Newspaper everyday, or have subscriptions to several popular magazines, but rarely pick up our bible to learn the true ways of life. I want to encourage you to delight yourself in the Lord (Psalms 37:4). It's written in Zephaniah 2:3: Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger. Take time for the Lord everyday, and He will reveal Himself to you. There are three major ways to properly connect with God, by reading His Word, prayer, and meditation. Fellowshipping with fellow Christians via church services, seminars, and bible study are other ways to seek Him, but building a personal relationship is most important. If you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you're missing the Holy Spirit. Words are words, but God's Word is something totally different. Are you ready to experience life through His Living Word? He's waiting to hear from you. My favorite verses today are: Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. (James 1:22-23)

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I love you!