Dailies ~in the Word
November 2019
My God shall supply all my
needs according to His riches in glory.
Why do I always think that my
needs to be supplied are smaller than that? We ask for such small things all the time;
healing, financial breakthrough, directions. Yet, when He gives us directions
to live by, we falter and think it’s too much for us! We think we know better
what to eat, what to drink, where to work, how to spend our money; but our God
has directions for all of this in His word!
It starts with us walking
worthy of our calling and being untied in keeping ourselves pure like Christ,
not allowing the world or Satan's cronies to affect our walk; that means even
the political views of other people too!
We need to remember that God wants us to, “love everyone in the whole
wide world” as I used to sing as a child.
He wants us to love our neighbors and pray or those who spitefully use
us. It does not say only people of a certain type, or a certain style, but that
we love everyone.
Not that we should join them
in their sin, but we should love them enough to pray for them, to lift them up
to God and to be full of His mercy and grace!
“Father forgive them for they
know not what they do,” should be our echo of Jesus’ prayer over those who do
really mean, rude or stupid things that offend us. We should not go around
slandering them, because how does that keep our hearts pure before Him?
How is that walking humbly
before our God and man?
But to each one of us grace was given according to the
measure of Christ’s gift.
Therefore,
He says: “When
He ascended on high, He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men, Now this, “He
ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower
parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.)
Ephesians 4:7-10
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no
longer walk as the rest of the
Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding
darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that
is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who,
being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all
uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if
indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in
Jesus: that
you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows
corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed
in the spirit of your mind, and that you put
on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and
holiness.
Ephesians 4:17-24
To truly be the person God
wants or us to be we must daily work to put on that new person that God showed
us in the beginning, the one who longs to be closer to God, to know Him better
than we know ourselves! Remember that
you? I do! I remember when I could love the Lord with all my heart and not even
think of what to do to please Him. I remember when I could allow my life to
shine as one who knew Him, today I find I falter depending on how my body
feels. Between injuries, and though I hate to admit it misuse of my muscles I
feel my age occasionally. I work to focus on God not self some days and on those
days, I find myself lead to His word! I find that when I am down, I get back up
again by looking to Jesus the author and the finisher of my faith! The leader
and ruler of my days and my nights, my redeemer my love, my Lord! When my thoughts re focused up ward, my mind
is restored, my faith is renewing and I know the Love of Jesus is better than
anything else, or anyone else giving me attention, it shows me just who I am to
Him! 
Let’s make it a plan to focus
on Him today! Let’s not focus on our problems, or our pile of papers to get to,
but let’s focus on Jesus and all He has done for us! Let’s ask Him to renew our
strength; both physically and spiritually today! Let’s walk according to and
worthy of our calling basking in His presence!
Heavenly Father, make it so! Draw
us nearer to You via Your holy Spirit today, we hear You call our name and we
come running to You today and ask or your strength in us. Pour out Your spirit
upon us, draw us nearer, and prepare us with a new us to face today, in Jesus’ name,
amen!
Suggested reading Ephesians
4: 1-32, Ephesians 6:1-24, 2 Peter 3:1-18, and John 14:1-31
Teresa M. Wilson