Daily Devotional

Scripture Psalms 110:6 He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.

Observation: Our God is a loving God but more importantly He is a just God. He has given us commands and ways we are called to live and has given every opportunity for us to obey. He has set up an eternal reward of blessings and prosperity, but He has also set judgment for those who do not obey. Here on earth if we did not have laws and penalties for not keeping those laws this place would be in turmoil, with sin running aboundingly. So, with our Lord to be just He must enforce his laws and the evil will be judged.

Application: My job as a Christian is to help warn those that disobey the law of its consequences. Whether they listen or not is not up to me, but if I don’t warn them, I’m disobeying God. It’s easy to tell others of God’s love, but it takes the working of the Holy Spirit to warn them about eternal doom. If I can reach one person with the truth it would be a life well spent.

Prayer: My Lord give me the courage to be truthful to those you put in my path. Show me how to be obedient to you and be an example of your faithfulness and to share about your judgment that is coming. Help me be faithful to you.

Scripture Psalms 109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.

Observation: We should praise the Lord with our mouth and not only in silence alone. We are to let others know who we praise and why. We are to bring others to Christ and let our light show to those God surrounds us with. Our faith and praise need to be obvious to others and we need to live the life God calls us to. We are not to keep our light under a basket, but it should shine that others may see the one we praise. The only testimony we have is our life we should be sharing that with others.

Application: I’ve started a Facebook page with the group Getting Over Depression and have included as many friends as I could. Some are sharing their testimony while others are receiving that blessing. It is helping to let our light shine and is a form of praise. I need to keep going sharing the mercy God has shown me and letting my light shine through the dark.

Prayer: My Lord give me the strength to praise you to all that you place in my path. May this life be a light to someone that wouldn’t find you. Help me bring others to your loving grace and may this life praise you each day glorifying you.

Scripture Psalms 108:5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, And Your glory above all the earth;

Observation: I’ve written before how the Lord needs to be exalted in all of the earth. That this world should exalt Him and that His majesty is revealed in His creation. However, is His name exalted in my life. Do my actions, thoughts and words exalt God or are they the same as this evil world. Each day I get caught up in the pressures of this world, my mind turns to hate before love and I worry about things that I should know God has a handle on. My life does not exalt my Lord and that is the only thing that I’m in control of. I can’t change the world, but I can change me, if I so desire.

Application: I need to exalt my Lord and my God in my life and in my heart. I need to be sincere with my worship to my Lord and not to hide it. There are times I need to be by myself and pray to my God, but there are times I need to live this life that others can see my worship to my Lord. I need to exalt Christ in the way that I live and treat others.

Prayer: My Lord, I do love you and my desire is to worship you at all times and I know you know how often I fail at that. I need your strength to carry me on to fulfill my life’s purpose and to exalt You each day. Help me make you proud of you servant and that I will glorify your name.

Scripture Psalms 107:8 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

Observation: Oh, if we only would. We thank God when things are going the way we want, but how often do we thank Him for all of our daily provisions. As Christians we have so much more to be thankful for, we have the promise of eternal life with our Lord and for that we can’t thank Him enough. Can you imagine if everyone gave thanks to God for all that we have, how different the world would be? There is so much to be thankful for as we look around us, unfortunately so many of us decide to look at all the negative things instead of the blessings.

Application: I need to make it a point to start of each day remembering my Lords blessings in my life and as I go through the day thank Him as I see more. A grateful heart is what the Lord will notice and be blessed and my goal in this life is to bless my Lord. Yesterday was Thanksgiving and God gave me the strength to tell each member of my new family how blessed I was to be part of it. It blessed those who heard, it blessed me to be able to convey my thoughts and I know it blessed God to hear.

Prayer: My Lord show me how to bless you. Increase my grateful heart that I will see even more of how you bless me each day and that my heart will be full of love for you and others.

Scripture Psalms 106:13 They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,

Observation: Every day I make decisions without consulting God in what direction He wants me to go. I forget all that He has gotten me through and I make decisions in regards to my finances, my work, how to spend my time and to get the things that I want. I seem to only ask for guidance when I’m completely lost and have no idea where to go, because of poor decisions that I made earlier. It’s hard to believe at times that God wants to be involved in the trivial things of my life, but if you love someone you want them part of everything and asking for His guidance in the everyday things of life is like telling Him that you love and trust Him in everything and that honors Him.

Application: I need to always know that God is with me and desires fellowship with His child. I need to have Him involved in all aspects of my life so that I don’t stray and live a life that will please Him. I need God on my heart at all times and ask Him what He desires me to do in all situations. He has been faithful to me all of my life and I know he wants the best for me no matter what might be happening in my life. To call on my Lord is trusting Him and that honors Him. If I ask for His guidance first, I will not be in trouble later.

Prayer: My Lord, I do love you and what you as the main part of my life. I want to walk with you and talk to you and be guided by you. My Lord you are the way and the truth keep me on that path that I may come home to a proud Father.

Scripture Psalms 105:1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!

Observation: Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and you hear and see how we should give thanks, but rather do you ever hear to whom. God has provided all things to us, loves us and watches over us, He is the only one worthy of our praise and thanks. We are called as His children to let others know he is the one we owe thanks. He is the only one worthy and we owe Him everything. We are to call upon His name, not just when we need or want something, but especially to give thanks, remembering all that He has done and is doing in our lives.

Application: Each day I need to tell others who I give my thanks to. My life needs to reflect the love I have for my Lord without any compromise. Tomorrow especially anyone God puts in my path I need to point them to God and be the witness my Lord calls me to be and give thanks for all that I have and all that I am and especially my new home where I will be with my God forever.

Prayer: Thank you Lord for all that you have blessed me with. Please take the distractions from each day away that I may be focused on you and the plan you have for my life. I love you so much, help me live in a way that proves that to you.

Scripture Psalms 104:14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,

Observation: This is a wonderful Psalm the whole Psalm tells of God greatest and explains that everything exists and is cared for by God. It takes away any myth of evolution and describes God loving care over this place.

Application: I need to start looking more at God’s creation on this earth and see His mighty hand in it. I should be in awe of His greatest in the things that I see and how perfectly it was made and see the details of His creation. Then realize he created me in that same perfection that He has created everything else.

Prayer: My Lord you are worthy of all my praise and obedience. I thank you for your mercy and this home that you have provided me and look forward to being with you forever in the home you have created me for all eternity.