His Gentleness Makes Great

Meditation on 2 Samuel 22:36:

David said:  "You have assigned to me, committed to me the protective defense of Your liberty, deliverance, prosperity.  Your gentle patience nourishes and enables me to grow up, multiplying Your goodness."

God Speaks To My Heart:

When your spirit is nourished by My gentleness, the evil done you in the past can be viewed through the veil of forgiveness.  You can see your own failures and grievous sins through My burning eyes, which cleanse and make right.  Yes, gently I set you free to be!

"And Thy gentleness makes me great."  Psalm 18:35 (NAS)

*Devotion taken from "The Fruit Of The Spirit" by Sarah Hornsby

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*

Gentle Among You!

Meditation on 1 Thessalonians 2:7~8:

Paul said: "But we were mild, kind among you even as a nurse nourishes her children with warmth.  Thus yearning with affection for you, we were well pleased to share with you not only the good news of God, but also our own vital spirit because you were dearly beloved by us."

God speaks to my heart:

Those who come to know Me through you will always be responsive to your tender concern.  As you share yourself with them, as you are open, vulnerable, honest, they will realize saints are human beings, frail and faulty, who have persistently held onto Me through every kind of circumstance and found Me faithful, worthy of trust.

"The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle." 2 Tim. 2:24 (kjv)

*Devotion taken from "The Fruit Of The Spirit" by Sarah Hornsby

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*

Septembers Daily Devotional #4

His Name Shall Endure

Meditation on Psalm 72:17

His authority and character shall endure forever; His character shall sprout new life perpetually--as long as the sun and human beings shall kneel, blessing God in thanksgiving, adoration, and praise. All nations shall call Him blessed!

God Speaks To My Heart

What is most valuable to you? What is most precious? Keep searching for what really lasts, for the value that grows forever. You will find Me!

"The Lord shall endure forever." Psalm 9:7 (KJV)

*Devotion taken from "The Fruit Of The Spirit" by Sarah Hornsby*

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*

September Daily Devotional 3

Longsuffering Of God

1 Peter 3:18-20.. (18)For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, (19)Through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,  (20)who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water...

Meditation

The Messiah experienced extreme pain and died once for all our offenses. But He was made alive by God's Spirit, through whom Jesus went and preached to the souls imprisoned in hell, who had been willfully and perversely disobedient in the old days of Noah when God waited with patient forbearance.

God speaks to my heart

When moral and ethical standards of the world go down, there is less and less acknowledgment of a living relationship with Me, the patient but just God. Too easily My name can be used to "bless" many actions that are not according to My nature. So you much be in that listening place, like Noah. You can hear My direction for you today, and be cleansed of those false ways.

"The Lord knows how to rescue godly men." 2 Peter 2:9 (NIV)

*Devotion taken from The Fruit Of The Spirit by Sarah Hornsby*

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*