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Devotion – “Victory Shall Be Mine!”

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This not meant to be deep, just encouraging to all who are out there fighting today.  As I was reading in my Bible this morning I came across some very inspiring verses (as usual 🙂 ).  I was reading in the book of Joshua where conquests were being made in the name and in the power of the Lord.  Enemies continually came out to fight against God’s people.  At one point Joshua 11:4 says, “So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots,” (NKJV).

By all normal accounts, this should have been the end of God’s people.  According to the standards of man they were outnumbered and out powered.  But, God . . .

God told Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel,” (Joshua 11:6, NKJV).  Not one shall escape, but all would fall under the power of God working through and for His people.  And, if that wasn’t encouraging enough, as I continued reading I came to Joshua 12:7-24 where it lists 31 kings that fell because God was fighting for His people.

That lets me know that no matter what the odds look like that’s stacked against us, they can never out stack God.  God is a victorious God and we are meant to be victorious people in Him.  We are conquerors; we are people of conquest.  It may seem insurmountable to us, but God has already climbed the highest mountains that we face and He has already won the battles against the greatest armies of enemies that try to come against us.

Don’t let the numbers against you phase you.  “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them,” (2 Kings 6:16).  Since, we have God on our side – we have more than they!  We outnumber the enemy.  Victory shall be ours. 

“His Footsteps, Our Pathway!”

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Which pathway are we really walking down?  The times we are living in are disturbing.  Biblical prophecies are coming to pass like never before.  I have heard much preaching for us to have an awareness that we are living in the last days.  Jesus is soon to come back and escort us home, but will we be ready to follow?

There are many influences in the world today.  There are many questions being raised about this life.  There are many voices out there ready to give you their version of what the right answer is.  Many voices that want to pull you and me in this direction and that; trying to twist your arm to go along with what they believe is right for your life.

Our challenge today is to fight to stay on the true and right course that God has already preordained for each of us to walk.  A course that doesn’t always seem plain and straight; a road that may seem rocky and hard to journey on at times, leaving us to believe that we can’t make it.

Life is rough, I’ll give you that.  Nevertheless, be encouraged.  Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” (John 14:6, NKJV).  1 Peter 2:21 also tells us, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.”

Even when the way seems dim, follow His footsteps and we will travel on the pathway that leads to life.

Words to Live By – “God Calms the Storm”

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“He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. Then they are quiet; so He guides them to their desired haven,” Psalm 107:29-30, NKJV. In life, we face many challenges and ugliness that will try to rise up against what God wants you to do and where God wants to lead you. Trust Him to guide you through the storm and to make them be quiet before you.  Don’t forget to thank Him for the wonderful works He does in your life, Psalm 107:31.

 

“God Wanted More!”

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When we think of the vastness of God’s power stretching from history to history, and eternity to eternity it can leave one with an awe-inspired feeling.  As I read through the Word I am always left in amazement the strategy and planning God did to bring certain events into place, including our salvation.

When God first called Abraham out to establish a people for Himself through him, God did not rest in the satisfaction of just having one people or nation as His.  He wanted it all.  He wanted the world.

Isaiah 49:6 tells us, “It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.”  Instead of the words “light thing,” the New King James Version says, “It is too small a thing” which means the same thing but shows us a deeper level of God’s plan and His heart.  It wasn’t enough for God to be content with the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, to touch and affect the lives of a single race or family.  God wanted more!

God’s thinking for salvation was too big in scope and depth for His heart to settle for reaping the souls of just a single kindred or nationality of folk.  As far as His love (which can never be measure by human standards) reaches – that’s how far He wants to grab a hold of people, and love them as His own.  He couldn’t rest with just saving “some,” but He wanted the “sum” of humanity to have a chance to experience this awesome deliverance.

God always wanted more.  His intention was that all the families of the earth be exposed to this offer of salvation (see Genesis 12:1-3).  I don’t know about you but I’m glad God wasn’t satisfied with “some.”  In His high degree of love for people His thinking was bigger.  Because of that, everyone has the opportunity to be in the “sum” of the saved; to be a part of that heavenly number if they will answer His call.

You, my friends, are the “more” that God has always wanted.