The LORD loves...

Psalm 33:5
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His unfailing love.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake His faithful ones.

Psalm 146:8
The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.

2 Corinthians 9:7
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me find Me.

Matthew 12:18
“Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

Deuteronomy 23:5
However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

Psalm 87:2
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.

Lord! I'll wait....

2Thes 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

1Cor 1:7 So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Mic 7:7 Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Hos 12:6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on your God continually.

Lam 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Lam 3:25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

Jer 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait on you: for you have made all these things.

Isa 40:31 But they that wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isa 33:2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be you their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Pss 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until that he have mercy on us.

Pss 104:27 These wait all on you; that you may give them their meat in due season.

Pss 62:5 My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him.

Pss 52:9 I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

Pss 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

Pss 25:3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Pss 25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

Pss 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

Pss 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Pss 33:20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Pss 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

Pss 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.Pss 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Pss 59:9 Because of his strength will I wait on you: for God is my defense.

Pray for....

Pss 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.

Mt 9:38 Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.

Lk 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which spitefully use you.

Lk 22:40 ....Pray that you enter not into temptation.

Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

2Thes 3:1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Tim 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1Tim 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

Jas 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Jas 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

God plan for me...

Pss 22:9 ...You are He that took me out of the womb: You did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts.

Pss 22:10 I was cast on You from the womb: You are my God from my mother's belly.

Pss 71:6 By you have I been held up from the womb: You are He that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of You.

Pss 139:13 ...You have possessed my reins: You have covered me in my mother's womb.

Isa 44:2 Thus said the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, which will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

Isa 44:24 Thus said the LORD, your redeemer, and He that formed you from the womb, I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

Isa 46:3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by Me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

Isa 49:1 Listen, O isles, to Me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has He made mention of my name.

Jer 1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

Gal 1:15 ....it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace,

Live & be led by the Spirit to bear the fruit of the Spirit

1. Gal 5:16  ...Live by the Spirit you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

2. Gal 5:18 .... if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

3. Gal 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law.

The problem of sin

If God had left Adam in the Garden of Eden, Adam would not have known that he had the fatal infection of sin, and he would not have sought the remedy for sin, which he found in the shedding of blood.

Problems are designed not to crush us, but to crowd us to Christ who provided the remedy for sin by shedding His blood on the cross. The problem of sin is real and terrible, but it brings with it the possibility that we can be forgiven and clothed in the righteousness of Christ.

Daily Devotional

Living by Faith

                  But if I go to the east, He is not there; If I go to the west, I do not find Him. When He is at work in the north, I do not see Him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of Him. But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. Job 23:8-10

                                   How can God be omnipresent (present everywhere) and at the same time be so difficult to find? Have you ever had times when you wanted to see God and be close to Him, but it just didn’t happen? That was Job’s experience. In these verses, Job said that he was actively seeking out God, but the results were discouraging. In the end though, Job’s desires for God were fulfilled. But clearly, the timing is God’s. And for us the emptiness of the search is a reality and part of the journey.                                         

                                       Loss may call the existence of God into question. Pain seems to conceal him from us, making it hard for us to believe that there could be a God in the midst of our suffering. In our pain we are tempted to reject God…we wrestle in our souls to believe.
                             

                                  God doesn’t abandon us, even when we can’t sense Him there. This confidence in God allows us to move forward in life, knowing we are not alone. The Bible says that there are times in our lives when God just carries us (Exodus 19:4, Deuteronomy 1:31, Isaiah 40:11, and Isaiah 63:9). There are other times when we are at a crossroad in life, and God wants us to continue to walk forward in the direction He guides (Isaiah 30:21). His whisper is the reassurance our ears are longing to hear! As we choose to continue along the path with Him in spite of pain, we bring Him glory. We learn that His grace is not just for our present situation, He goes before us with grace into our future.