Simple Devotions

Tag: hope

  • seeking joy?

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s a simple pleasure in life that brings you joy?
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    Being secure in hope brings the promise of joy!

    The Lord in His Word has promises which gives me protection. This is because I have hidden His words in my heart. What this means is, I look to His word and believe that He is whom He says.

    I learned to trust Him even when I didn’t understand. I decided to look deeper, spend more time and be more intentional in my searching out the truth.

    Sometime during my investigation I believed that He was who He said He was, and that He was my God and apart from Him I could do nothing good for myself.

    It is because of this I have found favor with Him as He values His devoted people.

    His greatest delight is to be with us!

    When we don’t look to Him but instead other things to bring us joy it is like looking to idols. When we try make a great life here without seeking out God. We are destined to bring trouble on ourselves. That which has your devotion will also have your heart.

    The choice is simple.

    God has made Himself available to all, every nation, every kindred and every tongue. Not one is exempted from the invite to His Kingdom.

    Through His Son Jesus Christ we are given life eternal and a joy complete with forgiveness of our sins, this makes all happy and secure that no matter what happens – death isn’t an issue. He keeps what is His.

    I am secure in my hope, this gives me the promise of joy.

    Do you have the promise joy?

    Friends, the truth of Gods Word is the beginning of wisdom and understanding. Don’t lose out on the one investment that is life changing.

    Seek His Word and you will find, ask for understanding and it will be given to you, these words are just one of the promise of the Lord God and He never breaks His promises.

    In Christ love, amen

  • His Word

    Daily writing prompt
    Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
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    The question “when have you felt loved..” is one I can answer by personal experience I have in reading and studying the Word of God. The Bible.

    Love is a word many use to describe an emotion. But the real use of the word is an action word. To understand what true love means is to know what it does.

    In the book of 1 Corinthians 13 it is written what love is and what it does. It’s also known as “the greatest gift”.

    In Romans 13:10 Love is described as the fulfillment of the law – to love your neighbor.

    1 John 4:7 says everyone who loves is born of God.

    As I sit here writing , thinking how I have felt it personally from Him ~ His words are love in the truth He teaches me. His words are life giving and freeing. This love He bestowed on the world when He gave Himself a sacrifice John 3:16-17 shows me in action what I mean to Him.

    His words of instructions leads me to safety.

    His love is everlasting not temporary but always – never ending.

    How do you describe a love that never ends a feeling that is a constant companion. His word brings rejoicing to my heart because in it I have seen how deeply He cares for His people. No one and no thing has ever given me all the feels.

    His words are the life, the way and the truth.

    His words are Love.

    In Christ LOVE, Amen

    In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 1 John 4:9

  • hope found

    Every time I try to do life on my own terms, I stumble and fall.

    And every time I come to the realization I am in need of help, the only place I have found it consistently was in the pages of God’s book, the Holy Word of God.

    The seeds of hope in those pages are what feeds my faith, its words will set my emotions straight and give clarity in moments when nothing makes sense.

    And when I surrender my will towards His ways, this is how repentance begins. It’s a process of sanctification.

    His words cause the troubled heart to lay down its brokenness, so that it may be healed.

    The only way to describe this simply is like “seeing the truth and knowing it is going to change your life.”

    This is what the Word does.

    Psalm 119:89, God’s word is eternal as the Universe. Never changing. But always changing the hearts and minds of men who would take counsel from it. His faithfulness never ends.

    He created the earth and it endures no matter what men say, because of God’s love and care. Because of His word, nothing stops, it only cycles – unending and only His word will change this.

    Everything He created serves Him. And it is because of His Word I have not given up in despair.

    So why then should we invest our thoughts and time anywhere else.

    There is no person, place or thing that would ever give what He gives. There is no void to big for Him to fill~He is the way to hope. He will make a way every time we ask. We only have to look to His Word.

    Life is fragile handle with care – His care.

    This is where HOPE IS FOUND.

    In Christ love, Amen