Simple Devotions

Tag: daily word

  • 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

  • reset

    I went a few days without study and reflection.

    Out of routine because of the holidays, this can happen. But like any good habit you have to stop the distractions from keeping you from doing what is necessary to do good. This is one of those things that helps me to focus on Him.

    To often we let setbacks keep us from going forward, days turn to months eventually it can turn to years.

    Like a gym membership we have to use it to experience positive results. This is a temptation by the way “I’ll do it later, one day doesn’t matter; I’m just not feeling it.”

    It’s a force of will.

    The nature of human kind has the power of choice and depending on the choice then the action of our will.

    Desires to do good are right thinking but if it stops there – nothing avails. In other words nothing done is nothing gained.

    This is how the ruin comes, to those who hope God will make something good happen but they don’t move forward to yield to the will of God. This would be you still choosing not to serve God.

    Because God gives us free will (power of choice) it’s ours to exercise.

    This said we cannot change our hearts, we cannot control our thoughts, our impulses or our affections, we cannot make ourselves pure. So if you want to be fit for God’s service, it won’t happen unless you chose it.

    The first kids of Adam and Eve are the example, God was teaching Cain and Able how to abide, Cain didn’t want to bend to His will. Genesis 4

    So what good can come from free will if you don’t have freedom and peace? Romans 3:12

    The only answer is to choose to serve God (abide in Him) who is the God of peace and gives freedom in Christ Jesus. Psalm 143:10

    We can give Him our will, then He will work in us to do His good pleasure by teaching us; showing us and convicting us and yes even moving us in the right direction of His leading. Proverbs 3:6 He will not let you fail, Ish 41:10 He will lead you all the way, never leaving nor forsaking. Deut 31:6

    Our whole nature can be reset in Christ. Yield today, and everyday yield.

    In Christ Love, Amen