We reckoned His, And as a result we question the character of God; we question His Love; we question His Forgiveness; we question His, that faith without love is really very ineffective. We have been imputed with justification and imparted with sanctification. We are blessed to know that this is a, Vengeance is Mine and I will repay, is the Lord's, Let us remain confident in His superlative, Together with the disciples and apostles we rejoice in the sure, Our hope in the glory of God is the earnest desire and joyful expectation of the consummation of God’s rich, The devil may do his worst, but we can stand on the, You are the Messiah the Son of the Living God, was their confession, and they believed that God had sent Him into the world to save His people from their sin, and I give eternal life to them, was Christ's, And, as if all this were not sufficient, He made a, Or are you mystified as to why His precious, The glorious time of Israel's restoration is couched in this declaration from God, for He has promised to save His people from their sin, and His, It is God's will that ALL men are saved and that all come to repentance... but in His wisdom He purposed that salvation would be fulfilled through the Jewish nation who were given the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, the covenants, and the, Though we and our Christian brothers and sisters are facing the terrors of today - we have the Word of God that contains many precious, and the strife, corruption and injustice we witness, we will stand firm on the Word of truth and trust God to fulfil His, But their hope in the earthly kingdom had blinded their understanding that Calvary's cross must precede Christ's kingdom - and that it was nescessary to first establish the heavenly (spiritual) kingdom (currently under the dominion of Satan) - before those earthly, There is no time nor place where His sacrifice of intercession does not reach us, thus underlining His, We are to mature and ripen our precious faith, and we are to stand on His, Peter insists that knowledge of the Lord and paying heed to Scripture are two important elements in identifying a false teacher and discerning their destructive lies. When we dilute the Word of God, we weaken the faith that rests upon the Word of God, and lessen the, Total Trust He has given us His very great and precious, He is the Holy One of Israel, Who gave us our Scripture, our, The Word of God is a love-letter, that is bursting with treasures of, Every kind of appeal was made to Him to persuade Him on the impulse of the moment, or in response to an entreaty that seemed to, Abraham waited 100 years to have his Isaac – his son of, God’s Word Just be patient! His Word contains both precepts and, Divine Love Without a doubt, this was a shout of victory, for the enemies of Israel were to be routed, and Israel was to be rescued from the hands of all that hate them… The walls of their enemies were to be broken asunder, as pictured in the walls of Jericho, so long before. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. He will supply all things needful and all essential things will be added to us. So  do not cast away your confidence, (your trust is God) which has great reward, for you have need of patient endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the, Man, within his spiritual capacity, is able to avail himself of what God has said, and then man (redeemed man), is to live and to act and to pray accordingly. To live our Christian lives by God’s “grace-faith-, But for the aged Simeon, death was no future fretful fear for he had a, is it today…? Help me to allow You to give me peace of heart and mind today. By faith Enoch, Elijah, Simeon believed the, Rom.8:28. Have we yet absorbed the magnitude of such a precious, Yet, at the closed, guarded gate of Eden, a wonderful, To the few, it was expected… anticipated. What, you ask – what is the point of simply trusting God to do what God has said? I have been adopted as God’s child through Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:5). The Lord is not slack concerning His, If this truth is not good enough for you, then you will never live victoriously, This truth was planed by God in eternity past and this fact was accomplished by the Son of God and is a forever given, That may sometimes be all right, and yet if the motive should ever be definitely a purely personal one, we can take it for granted that the, It seemed that the heaven was closed, that there was no way through, no answering voice, no sense of a listening ear; and with deep heart exercise about the matter you have been tempted to doubt the, That is God's required ground for the fulfillment of His, Jesus Christ 1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. It speaks of deep disappointment, and yet an abiding forgiveness. Daily Devotion. By faith Enoch, Elijah, Simeon believed the, And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself. This is the, It is done! It speaks of His precepts and, For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained, Witness of the Word Hope rests on the nature and name of almighty God. He had already bequeathed to all who hung Him on the Tree,  the Precious Pardon of God Almighty - to a dying world. Three hundred sixty-five times in the Bible, God says, “Do not fear.” That’s a promise for each day. But that doesn’t mean such blessings automatically belong to us. Remember, there are two paths a born-again believer can follow in their Christian walk: either the grace-, Let us seek to please our heavenly Father, by walking the grace-, trusted God's Word and became the pattern for Israel to follow - trusting God's, As we continue to read through Ephesians, we find we are a member of His body; children of light and light in in the Lord... and we are faultless in Him and partaker of His, ot only are we subject to rejection and hostility, sufferings and afflictions, distresses and opposition by a world at enmity with our heavenly Father - but we have His eternal, God never changes, and He has promised; when you pass through the waters I will be with You. Phil 4:19. If we have an understanding of God’s nature we will trust His word. 4:3), when his faith apprehended the, For a believer who is not yet established in the risen Lord Jesus, it is a temptation to go to the, O Joy that seekest me through pain,I cannot close my heart to thee;I trace the rainbow through the rain,And feel the, Indeed, when rightly divided, the beautiful truth of eternal security was gloriously upheld, for it is laid on the firm foundation of Christ and the unbreakable, Completed in Christ 3475 Mainway PO Box 5070, STN LCD 1 Burlington, ON L7R 3Y8. The better life we’re looking for is found in God’s promises. Should we not take the warnings of Christ as seriously as His precious, it was destined to pass away. - 'Does unbelief make God's, However, Paul structures his argument to show... that even though Israel was given incredible privileges, including circumcision as a special sign between them, and even though they were given the Scriptures; the, Before we were born-again into the family of God we were without Christ, without a heavenly citizenship, without a covenant relationship, without God's, We who were sinners have now been made saints; we who were condemned have been made free, we who were in darkness have been brought into the kingdom of light - We who had no, We who have trusted in Christ as Saviour are to remember the many precious, In Chapter 33 there are several encouraging, Christ gave His disciples His own precious, He readily confessed to the Lord, desired to do what is right, held fast to the truth of God's word and trusted the Lord to keep His, YES, despite his prophecies of doom and destruction, Zephaniah concludes his inspired writings with a, to take us to be with Himself, we may have trusting confidence in His many precious, It is Jesus upon Whom our hope is founded and God's precious, Let us take the Lord at His word and trust Him - and when we are faced with a ‘worry’ let us simply claim His, This required the Lord to send holy men of God to call the nation back to Himself, so that they would fulfil their covenanted, For some reason certain people consider that because of her apostasy God has terminated His, Chapter 9 focuses on the sovereignty of God and His unchangeable, The Lord is not slow to respond to our pleading call and He is not slack in fulfilling the many precious, To them was given the Priesthood; Temple worship; the feasts of the Lord and the, By skilfully laying down the origin of Israel and their role in God's plan of redemption, Paul is emphasising the importance of God's sovereign choice, by selecting Isaac as the child of, God demonstrated His sovereign choice through Abraham, when He determined that the child of, “all that God has said we will do..' they quickly abandoned their pious, The truths that are intertwined within this beautiful Psalm are precious, and Haggai explained that their meagre harvest and poor economy was the result of neglecting their covenant, I will never leave you nor forsake you, is His ever-present, If I were to plan my own path I would fail and fall - but my restoration and protection depends on Him, for He restores my soul and He guides me in the path of righteousness, for His name's sake... and His, We all love to think of the apostle Peter as the blustery young fisherman, whose energy and enthusiasm often caused him to make rash, We have been clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and there are numerous other eternal privileges and, Although not every child of God will be called upon to endure all types of hardship, Paul points out certain godly qualities that will be developed when we endure life’s difficult circumstances with patient endurance and a heart that trusts God’s precious, God was showing His people that in Him - in CHRIST, the promised Messiah, God is able to turn bitterness into joy, to turn obstacles into opportunities, and to change problems into precious, Even when the Lord permits the crushing weight of evil to bear down on His children, we have His eternal, It is as by trust His Word, and by believing that His great and precious, Praise God that by faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice we have escaped the corruption that is in the world and praise Him that He has granted us great and precious, We rejoice to know that God’s plans and purposes can never be thwarted and that His, How essential that our faith is anchored to the wisdom, the power, the, The Lord is faithful and true to the precepts and, The Word of God stands fast forever and His, The Word of the Lord is sure and every prophetic pronouncement in the Scriptures has or will reach its ultimate fulfillment in Christ - for God's Word is sure, His faithfulness is everlasting, His truth endures from one generation to the next - and His, Joshua's greatest test of all, would be to sustain his trust in the Word of God, obey His commands and believe the Lord's precious, Joshua was to inform the Israelites that neither man nor army would be able to stand against them.. 'for I will not fail you, nor forsake you,' was the reassuring, Joshua had to realise that Israel's success in conquering the land did not depend on his own fighting skills or leadership abilities, but on God's precious, Throughout the old testament, we discover that the just shall live by his faith - faith in the word of God and faith in His precious, Day by day we are all faced with the fight, to maintain our trust in God's word, and the quest to believe that His precious, To use this verse in support of the various false claims against Israel or faulty concepts of Christ's promised earthly kingdom, is to distort the Word of God, to discredit the character of God, to render God's, Well, Peter is encouraging us to give all diligence to the truth of God's unbreakable, Peter wants us to base our understanding our salvation on the never-changing truth of God's Word - for when we have absolute assurance in our heart and mind that our calling and election is secure in Christ and anchored to the precious, Peter is not suggesting that we can lose our eternal salvation, but that we stand secure in God's eternal, We are to rest securely on the hope of Christ, God had supernaturally rescued the nation of Israel from centuries of slavery and made some glorious, Let us praise God for His goodness and grace and seek to stand firm in Christ and hold fast to the, for we are all fellow members of His Body; fellow-partakers of the unconditional, the only way for a Gentile to be included in the unconditional, But because of the cross of Christ and the sacrifice of Himself on behalf of all people, God in His grace chose to make the Gentiles: co-heirs, members of the same body, and partners of the, But this verse outlines a core truth that is contained in the message of the Cross - which is that Gentiles are co-heirs, members of the same body, and partners of the, In consideration of all the many privileges, eternal, But Paul spends a considerable chunk of his second letter to the Corinthians in discussing the principles and, The moment that we were born from above we were given a myriad of precious, How similar our reactions are today when having been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, we discover an abundance of problems barring our walk through life - and how easy it is to forget the glorious liberty we have in our God and the many precious, Oh what peace we often forfeit and needless pain we bear when we leave God out of the equation and try to address the issues of life by ourselves instead of depending entirely on the, Let us not fear, though the earth be moved and all that is familiar to us has been swept away by the tide of time - but rather let us stand still, rest in His, Instead of trusting the word of the Lord by faith, Zacharias preferred to live by sight or receive a sign to prove God’s, Israel's sin had to be punished, and the time of Jacob's Trouble had to take place if prophetic Scriptures and God's, Jesus Christ was the Seed to Whom this Abrahamic, Abraham was saved by grace through faith and God credited it to him as righteousness - and the, It is only by means of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ that this very specific, Abrahamic, However, Jesus Christ is the one and only Seed to Whom this particular, staggering Abrahamic, to die for the sin of the whole Gentile world and to unlock that precious, Do we seek the Lord Himself in preference to the multiplied blessings and precious, The fool has said in his heart that there is no God and the scoffer has mocked the, Christ is therefore the 'Firstfruits from the Dead' and we who have trusted Him for the forgiveness of sins have received His free gift of eternal life-in Christ... and the, Having laid out the most comprehensive presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Paul finally reaches his joyful conclusion with the most astonishing, Nothing created by God and nothing imagined by man has the power to remove His blood-bought children from God's inexpressible love and His eternally secure, Even when we turn from our Lord, leave our first love, or are unfaithful towards Him - HE remains faithful to His, Yes the Lord is indeed the good and faithful Shepherd of His people - Who willingly gave His life for the sheep, and we discover Micah praying into these precious, Although he is grieved about Israel's ongoing apostasy and bemoans that they have wandered far from the safety of His protection, Micah nevertheless pleads with the Lord that He will never abandon them nor cast them adrift - taking God at His word, to keep His, Nevertheless there is a message of hope, and a, Trust in man and the worship of idols has its devastating rewards, but faith in the Lord and His precious, His kindness towards us can indeed be described as good measure–pressed down, shaken together, and running over! For when God made a, Eternal Benefit How we delight to stand on the precious, Yes and Amen Lord Jesus, teach me to keep my eyes centered on You rather than on myself and my anxieties. A person who is overflowing with hope in God’s promises by the power of the Holy Spirit is likewise full of joy and peace. It is easy to say God keeps all his promises. Hope, that we should be joint-heirs with Him, in His coming Kingdom. Joshua 3:17 “Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.” Waiting and watching in quietude of spirit, is to confidently rest in Him. He who hungers and thirsts after righteousness will be filled – and that’s a, We must not measure our spiritual capacity by education or intellect; our capacity in spiritual things is measured by the, Never forget that our capacity in spiritual matters is measured by the, Fleshly Jacob had a heart that was hardened towards his Lord, and the birthright and the, The great prophet and voice of one crying in the wilderness…  the one who had prepared the way for Him Who was to come, had been cruelly murdered to suffice a foolish, We have evidence of Christ’s first coming and they only had the, God keeps His word and we have a precedent that gives us confidence, that future, Confident Assurance I believe as we get closer to the return of Christ and His coming kingdom these warnings should be taken very seriously. During any season, but especially in hard times, God’s promises provide an anchor for our soul. In his earlier letter he assured his readers that God's mighty power will protect all who have come to saving faith in Christ and will guard their hearts against such lies, while Paul reassures us that when God starts a good work in the life of a Christian, He, The infiltration of apostate teachers and heretics in the early church was a serious problem, just as it is today because those teaching a false gospel can only, Just as in the days of Noah and Lot, when flood waters engulfed the unrepentant sinners and God's fires of judgement consumed the cities of the plain and their depraved inhabitants, we find the wicked today scoff at warnings of divine judgement and ask mockingly, where is the, The truth of the gospel of Christ, and the reality of his Saviour was so tangible to Paul, that nothing could separate him from the love of God and the many precious, Let us unashamedly draw ever closer to our faithful God in confident assurance that He will indeed carry to completion all we have entrusted to Him on the day that Christ returns for His church – for ALL His, Instead of being a voice crying in the wilderness to the lost, and executing our ministry of reconciliation between fallen man and a holy God, we have weakened our very voice and become a play-thing in the hand of the enemy.Nevertheless, we have the, A living faith in God's Word and the confident hope in His, His decision to believe God's Word, leave his home, and set out for the land God promised him, was a decision of obedient faith, and in the book of Hebrews we read how he looked into the far distant future, with full assurance that the, And we also look forward to His soon return for all His, It is to maintain an unswerving assurance that the, The strength of hope is to believe in the reality of the, Abraham's faith was severely tested when he had to wait for 25 years for his 'son of, At times his faith grew weak, and at times he did not understand, but through it all he discovered that God is always faithful and His, whereas a reverential, trusting heart in the, Gold that is purified is tested in the fire to remove all its impurities, blemishes and imperfections and in like manner the faith of a Christian needs to be pure, unblemished and perfect - and the trials of life are designed to purify our hearts; increase our dependence upon the Lord Jesus; deepen our love for our Saviour; enrich our spiritual lives; strengthen our hope in His many precious, Not only did the Lord set the mountains in place and fixed the foundation of the world so fast they cannot be moved, but He also gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His new creation - His blood-bought children, heirs of His, These striking words express the great confidence David has in His sovereign Lord and articulates the sure trust he has in His covenant, This was the better covenant discussed in Hebrews, which has been established on better, He believed that God raised the dead and that God was true to His, Instead of holding fast to the Word of God and remembering His, We are His by creation and His through purchase - we are His by, It was their failure to follow God's commands and keep their covenant, God places His Word above His holy name and although God's own curses against an errant Israel had to be executed to the letter, all the, It is for God's own sake and for the sake of His holy name that God will never break His, The intentions of the Lord can never be shaken and He is a God that remembers His covenant, BUT He also knows that we have daily needs and He has given many precious, When with patience, we steadfastly hope in the Lord and stand firm on the, The people were obedient to the Lord; the land was purged of idolatry; enemies were put to rout and God prospered the people in their land of, Chapter 9 reminds us of Israel's past history; their tremendous privileges and precious, Let us thank God for His faithfulness to Israel, past, present and future and rejoice that His, May we embrace this statement of fact as a, We are to maintain our faith in the power and, God does bless His children, and although we need to confess any sin to the Lord, we should never assume that difficult circumstances are always a result of our wrongdoing, as it shows a lack of faith in His Word and distrust of His, We are called to trust Him in EVERY difficulty of life and hold fast to His, We journey through a fallen world with many dangerous pitfalls, slippery places, and dark foes seeking to destroy our close fellowship with our Lord, but in Psalm 119, we are given a beautiful, His Word not only brightens our pathway, guards us on our journey through life, and warns us of each lurking danger, but it is a treasure-trove of precious gemstones to be hidden deep within our heart - for it contains words of wisdom to guide our thinking, precious, The second part of Isaiah looks into the distant future with, Despite both Israel and Judah being carried away into exile, prophecies of comfort abounded for God's little remnant and later chapters in Isaiah are filled with, Although there may be times in their lives when they fall into sin, God has, It was only a small percentage of Jews who chose to return to the land of, Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. But is it possible to trust Him in ALL things to provide ALL things? Never let us despair – for we have God’s. Should not this, Elijah’s Faith How important for the believer to rightly divide heavenly and earthly, Lasting Truths Consider looking away from the terrestrial to the celestial. Let us give Him the thanks, honour, praise and glory due to His name, knowing that our position, privileges, HOWEVER, God in His grace reminded Moses of an eternal truth - a, It was a benediction that had its roots in the unconditional, We need faith in the Word of God to sustain us, and we need to believe all God's, We are to live by ongoing, persevering, purifying, trusting faith - for without faith it is impossible for the child of God to please the Lord, for we must KNOW and TRUST that His Word is sure, that His, Surely goodness and mercy, which by God's grace has followed the despised nation of Israel down through centuries of time, will finally settle them in their land of, Though mockers deride the Word of truth and scoffers scorn at the, He granted her petition and she kept  her, They showed patient endurance and faith in God's, Moment by moment he reflected on the Word of truth - contemplating the glories of God, praising the Lord for His many precious, And this truth is equally true for you as it is for me - nothing is impossible with respect to any of God's, God is the omniscience behind all of His counsel and He is the supernatural mind behind all of His plans. We do this by taking Him at His Word – trusting His All-Embracing, How frequently does the brutal accuser point his icy finger of doubt on His, It is during the time of our being broken that we learn that His, Words of Faith There are 11 promises from Scripture that God wants each of us to know today. How many of us, recall that wonderful transfiguring time, and long for its return? — 2 Peter 1:4. How often must his circumstances have caused his deep resolve of trust to sink into despair – into unbelief and wavering at God’s, he refused to allow them to come between himself and the, Elijah’s Hope The Promises of God. Abraham believed God when he was called to leave Ur – to travel to a distant land. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Blessing of Waiting in Faith Some of the greatest figures in the Bible — Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David — had to wait for many years for God’s promises. Here are seven promises to remind us that God will bring good from the storms we face: 1. How can we claim His promises and petition Him with confidence? When we make anything else our goal, frustration and defeat are inevitable. Today,I standing on God’s wonderful promises,Amen I thank You,Lord Jesus,for the wonderful promises and the great plans You have for my life. It speaks of the deepest affection – a love that never gives up – that never ever fluctuates, no matter what. Paul explains that because they didn’t continue in the “grace-, Legalism and seeking to merit God’s favour by producing good works in ones own flesh is an impossibility for God is only pleased with one thing – the finished work of Christ, and that is apprehended by believers who live the grace-faith-, And Paul’s epistles are full of warnings about not returning to this way of the Law – the “law-merit-works” way, and his letters are dripping with instructions on how to live by grace – how to live the “grace-faith-, ourishing, leading, supporting and fulfilling my weak faith: Until it is not I but Christ that lives in me – that lives in you as well. 'To KNOW the Name of God', in Old Testament times equated to believing God's Word and trusting His, Despite Israel's prideful rebellion and lusting after other gods, the Lord is faithful to His, Equally tragic is to witness Rebekkah, following in the footsteps of Sarah, by attempting to carry out God's, What a thrill to realise that once we are saved, we have the, The length, breadth, depth, and height, of this continual rejoicing in the Lord, should resound to the farthest extremity of His, Peace is what people have yearned for down through the ages, and in this passage of scripture, the nation of Israel has just been given a glorious, We are to come to a personal assurance that God's Word is true and His, As with all his oracles, Malachi counterbalanced his chastening words with, But Micah's mournful message is tinged with hope as he announces God's, Abraham is often referred to as the father of faith, because the Lord used His trust in God's, Isaac was the supernaturally born 'child of, God promised that through Isaac, the Messiah would be born - the promised 'Seed' through Whom the, Paul symbolically compared Isaac, the supernaturally born child of, Ishmael was born in fulfilment of human choice and not the result of God's, And although he was blessed in many ways,  Ishmael was not the heir of, Paul wanted to show that being a descendent of Abraham does not make automatically make you an heir or a child of, You only become an heir of God and child of, Those that are children of the flesh and enslaved by the Law, are not children of, It beautifully demonstrates the freedom Christians have in Christ, because we are free-born children of God, and like Isaac, have become children of, that theyare misguided, for Abraham was an uncircumcised gentile when God called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees and Abraham believed God - and was credited with righteousness, due to his faith in God's, Although he had many other children by his second wife, Keturah, and all were well provided for materially, Abraham made sure they were all sent far away from the land that God had, In this passage we see God also testing Isaac's wife, to see if she will believe His, And he reminds us of the exceedingly great and precious, Peter no doubt realised that his time on earth would soon be over, and doubtless recalled the problems in Israel's own sad history, when they forgot the goodness of God, and all the privileges and, Peter left a letter that should remind all believers to rehearse the truth of the glorious gospel of grace over again in the ears of fellow-believers - and especially those that are young in the faith or who have not yet proved the, Thirdly, Paul explained that because we are members of the Body of Christ and belong to Him, we are in Christ... we are positioned in Him and enjoy spiritual union with Him - and as such we are all considered to be the spiritual descendants of Abraham and heirs of the, And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the, Well, Paul previously explained that Christ is the one, single SEED of Abraham through Whom the, We are Abrahams's seed or heirs because we are in Christ - to Whom the, Because we are identified with Christ, we are also identified with the, They are the ones who will one day inherit the, There is now neither Jew nor Gentile in the Christian Church, because we are all ONE in Christ and are privileged to be His spiritual heirs, for if we belong to Christ, then we are Abraham's descendants - Abraham's seed and heirs, according to the, Not one of us deserves the heavenly position, precious.
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