Daily Bible Reading - Monday Feb. 2nd

When I read the devotional this morning I thought back to the dreams and desires I had that never did work out.  I know we all have been disappointed and had setbacks with dreams and desires we’ve had.  Praise God that He is a God of second, third, forth chances and so on.  I’ve  come to realize that God still gives up the desires of our hearts and its time for me to have new desires and dreams.  There is a dream in my life that I’ve never really pursued, after reading this and reading the daily scriptures I think its time to awaken the dreams and desires and after them like God wants me too.

 

In reading in Exodus verse 26 stuck out to me, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you."   Am I really listening to the voice of the Lord?  Am I paying attention to what He really has to say to me? That sure has me thinking and looking at myself to make sure I’m paying attention to God.  He has been speaking to me about different areas of my life and now its time to make sure I am doing what He says I need to do.  If we only sit still and listen we will hear His voice and know without a doubt that it’s Him speaking to us.

 

***Bec*** I remember that song “I will sing unto the Lord for He has triumphed over me the horse and the rider thrown into the sea" We used to sing that in church often, I wish we’d bring back some of those old chorus’s they are good.  I’m like you, I just love the story of Moses parting the red sea,  I always picture Charleton Heston,  I wonder if Moses looked a lot like that,  I know its silly but I do always picture Moses like that, what an amazing story though and a tremendous miracle it was for the sea to be parted for them to cross.  You if we had been there and walked through the sea like that I don’t see how we could ever doubt God again, even though after that happened they still questioned God abou****er and food.

 

Today’s Reading

 

Exodus 15:19-17:7
Matthew 22:1-33
Psalm 27:1-6
Proverbs 6:20-26

 

Daily Devotional for Dieters

2 Timothy 1:6
"Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you…".

Do you need some freshness in your life today? It’s probably time to stir up what God has placed on the inside of you. It’s time to stir up those gifts, stir up those dreams, and stir up those talents inside. Start stretching yourself. You are meant to dream and to pursue the desires God has placed in your heart.

The Scripture tells us that without vision, people perish. If you don’t have a dream, you’re not really living the way God intends. You’re merely existing. Maybe at one time you had a dream, but you went through some disappointments or setbacks. Things didn’t turn out the way you planned. But here’s a key: when one dream dies, dream another dream.

Just because it didn’t work out the way you had it planned doesn’t mean that God doesn’t have another plan. You cannot allow one disappointment or even a series of disappointments to convince you that your dream is over. It’s time to dig your heals in and hold on to the promises in your heart. As you stir up those God-given dreams and desires, He’ll pour out His favor and blessings and fulfill every desire in your heart!

 

Today's thought: Give past disappointments and failures to God and walk in the dreams and desires He has for you.

 

Tee Hee... Andy wouldn't it be funny if Moses was this scrawny little wimp of a man and the red sea was but a mere stream like some try to say and not the huge wall of water depicted on the movie... it wouldn't matter one bit.... it was obvious that the Lord had His mighty hand on His people! 

Can you even imagine what it would of been like to do what Moses did?  In the face of so much adversity... from his difficulties with Pharaoh to the constant grumblings of the Israelites... and then after seeing such wonderful miracles they still still still had unbelief... Another thing is I didn't realize they ate 40 years worth of manna... maybe there was some years between each miracle? 

I know the Lord did a wonderful wonderful thing for me one time on a mountain hiking trip and I just knew I would forever be changed and I was... but at times I have looked back and realized that even though that was shown to me in the most powerful way possible... time dulled the experience... but... when I go back and "re~dig" that "well" so to speak it does have the power to encourage me all over again and renew my spirit in the most awesome way! 

Those Israelites sure were a grumbling people!  Makes me wonder where I stand in light of what I go thru and how much I complain of my cir****tances?  I stall for 5 weeks and am in the "depths of despair" ~tee hee as Anne of Green Gables said...

Can't you imagine Moses wanted to wring those Israelites necks! ~ha  Maybe the Lord ought to wring my neck!  Heaven forbid, makes me ever so glad for His grace and mercy!

Proverbs tell us today to not forsake the teaching we know... for they will guide us and watch over us, they will speak to us, they are a lamp, a light and the corrections of discipline are the way to life... keeping us from troubles! 

Boy oh Boy there is that "D" word again ~ it's almost getting to be humorous how many times this is brought up... in my spirit I am feeling the surrender to some degree anyway. Hopefully when this time is over I will be much much better at following it's principles!

Have a good, peaceful, blessed day.

Bec

Hahahaha That would be just like the Lord if Moses was a scrawny lil man, your right tho no matter how he looked he sure did the job that the Lord set him out to do,  I dont think I could of put up with Pharaoh and then all the Israelites grumbling, I would of had to of bopped them on the head with my staff hehehe.

You know I dont think we'll ever get away from that "D" word, seems every where I read in the bible one thing or another brings it up.  Guess the Lord wants to instill that into us more then alot of things.

Andy and all,
Regarding prayers that aren't answered as we would like, remember "some of Gods greatest blessings are unanswered prayers". Garth Brooks signs a song that says that and it really is true. We pray and hope and when God doesn't do what we wanted we say he didn't answer forgetting that maybe His answer was "wait" or "no". And, as I've found personally, He always knows best in His perfect will - which doesn't always coincide with my imperfect one.
Hugs,
Lana

Lana thanks so much for sharing that. Your so right, we do tend to forget or rather dont want to see that sometimes God's answer to our prayers is "wait" or "no" or even "not right now"  but He does always answer us.  I really love that song Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks, it always tears me up when I hear it, no matter how many times I've heard it, its words are so true. 

Thanks again for sharing that with us, it truly means alot.

Andy