Your Word is like a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105 NCV
The stars, that in their courses roll,
Have much instruction given;
But thy good Word informs my soul
How I may climb to heaven.
Isaac Watts - The Excellency of the Bible
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
August 15
Someone we love deeply is in trouble of mind and body. Let us pray for our friend by using
the words "our" and "we" and "us" to our Father: "[We]
love you, O Lord, [our] strength...In [our] distress [we] called to the Lord; [we] cried
to [our] God for help. From his temple he hear [our] voices; [our] cry came before him
into his ears" (Psalm 18:1,6).
Our cherished one may be too ill in body and heart to pray, so let us take his or her
prayer before the throne and offer it to the One who can understand all hurts and relieve
all burdens. Yes, "The Lord is [our] rock...and [our] deliverer..." (Psalm
18:2).
Pat Nordman ©
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| "Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide." – Genesis 24:63 |
"And I will give you an heart of flesh." — Ezekiel 36:26 |
We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. When Jesus is the theme, meditation is sweet indeed. |
A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to make a heart of flesh grieve before the Lord. |
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August 15 Jer 4:1 - 6:30 |
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But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
Substance by Cathy Vinson
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It is awesome to realize anything we grasp of God can only be known through His self-revelation to us. Anything revealed must therefore come with the decision of our God to GIVE. Isn't this what occurs in prayer with faith? C Peter Wagner writes "What is faith? 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen' (Heb 11:1). Naturally, we do not ask God for something we already have but for something that we do not as yet have. We hope for it. We do not see it. But if we have faith, the unseen things we hope for will have substance. This substance cannot be material, it must be spiritual, but it is substance nonetheless..." We reach out our bare arm as an extension of hope, and draw it back only to find a sleeve upon it. Something substantial has been added to it. Something substantial has occurred. We have reached forth a hope, and it has come back to us with the substance of firm persuasion. Who would clothe substance upon our naked hopes? "He is a REWARDER of those who do diligently seek Him" (Heb 11:6). Like a powerful electric current that arcs through the air between two conductors...the energy of God's love through Jesus Christ must arc across from Heaven waiting to give substance to our hopes. With this we bear responsibility. Jack Hayford has said, "If we don't, He won't." Let us not hold back our desired hopes from the One who responds..."more things are wrought in prayer than man every dreamed." If God's creative acts seem to allow room for our intervention, let a good heart abound with hope and, in turn, find substance that will create in His name! Cathy Vinson©
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