๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ:
๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:
It amazes me when I hear people complain about
how the Lord doesn’t do anything for them or even answer their prayers. I have
no doubt that He answers them, He just tells them No because they are asking
for things that either go against His Word or will hurt them in the short or
long term. I have seen studies that have projected that the number of
Christians that have read the Bible through even just once ranges from less
than thirty percent to less than ten percent. For those that read the Bible
daily, it is less than even ten percent. Now consider this, how do people
expect to know the Lord’s will for their lives and the principles to live by if
they never open His Word? They go through the storms of life and get swamped by
them because they don’t know or understand His principles and they think that
He abandoned them! If only we would heed the promise, He gives us all in Joshua
1:8, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it
day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then
you will be prosperous and successful.” The verse above is a word picture of
Joshua 1:8. Not only does He tell us to meditate on His Word day and night but
that it will increase our faith for as faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God. (Romans 10:17) so that when the wind and the waves come
crashing down you will not be like the man who built his house upon the sand,
but instead built it upon our Rock.
๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:
People have asked me how I have dealt with the
trials in my life, and I tell them plainly that it is because of my foundation
of the Word of God. I trust Him because I have gotten to know Him through it,
and I know my prayers are answered according to it and He will do the same for
anyone else that asks.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ:
Father, I thank You that You have given us
Your Word to read and grow with. That I can look to You through it to find any
answer I need, and it has given me access to You in a way I would never have
had. In Jesus’ Holy and Mighty Name, Amen.
- Chuck Glover
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