Simple Devotions

Tag: daily dose of good

  • devoted

    What is something you are devoted to?

    What are the benefits of you being devoted to it?

    It would be nice to read your first thoughts about each question asked, but once you finish this short post you may have a new answer. But your always welcomed to leave me a comment.

    Here’s my answers to these questions. My life was wrapped up as a parent to two boys and a girl, who are now young adults. Devoted to their needs. It was my first ministry and mission to give them a home that loved Jesus.

    And now that they are grown it became obvious that I had a void that needed filling. I remember telling the family one evening jokingly, “I’m going to write a devotional book and call it “cooking with God- recipes for a healthy relationship with God.” They all said “do it.”

    Then I started praying more purposely about it, and one night after prayer I was impressed to look up in the scripture what it means to be devoted. This is when I came across Leviticus 27:28 and here’s what became obvious to me, if you devote something totally to God’s service, you are not allowed to redeem it or buy it back. Whoever or whatever it is belongs to God and is most holy; nothing can be substituted for it. Never to be sold or traded, because it is holy. So if I was going to do this devotional book, I knew it would not become a published book for sell, but a lifestyle.

    I am still learning how to be devoted to His call, it’s a daily surrender in the process of trial and error. I really like to ask Him to help me to abide in Him and I love when He gives me a task to do because it feeds my soul. I have a thirst for the knowledge of His word and I thank Him for filling my days now with opportunities to minister and give His word to those who are seeking. His truths set us free, and to live devoted to Him is to be set free from guilt and shame.

    Here’s something I also learned while seeking for directions.

    “Our Father who is in Heaven, HOLY is your name.”

    Think on this..if His name is Holy, and He tells us that He makes things Holy that are devoted to Him, then His name must also mean this:

    “Our Father who is in Heaven, DEVOTED is your name.”

    All through the Word of God – He is totally devoted to us, and He longs to have us for Himself.

    Today, He devotedly stands at the door of your heart knocking, let Him come in. He will make all things work together for your good.

    In Christ Love, Amen

  • benefits

    While reading this Psalm116 I felt impressed by the question in v.12 and it seemed fitting to answer it here and now.

    What can I give to the Lord for all He has done for me?

    I look back at my past and remember how thankful I am today for what He has done in my life. He delivered me from such uncertainty. Dark days filled with many trials and sorrows. He opened doors in ways I never knew I would get to walk through.

    Even now I can remember in my preteen years of life we had a paper game we’d play about our future, it was folded up in a square way and you would write four numbers on one side and inside each would have the names of four cars; four styles of homes. You may know what I’m referring to if not it was like a chance game you played by picking numbers and the other person would fold it in and out until you hit the number you picked, and it would begin answering questions about your future.

    I specifically remember always wanting a two story home with 3 to 4 kids, which I have today. I always hoped to have a good marriage but didn’t know if that would happen as I was growing up in a broken home.

    Looking back I knew when I started looking at the numbers and pages of Gods Word putting my hope in His promises that my life would greatly benefit to stay in it, and it has especially eternally.

    So like the verses in 13-14 this is what I can give Him for His benefits, my devotion.

    The bible is the spoken word of God, I don’t’ have to wonder or guess about life.

    It is truth, it is life and it gives hope.

    I chose Him, you can too!

    In Christ Love, Amen.