It is so important to worship the Lord when you wake! If you give Him your attention the very first thing in the morning, your day will be ordered, and your priorities will be established. He comes first in everything, and everything you do should revolve around the LORD, and for His Glory. This is a Heavenly Order. We are bond-servants and sons and daughters. Let’s be obedient when we feel like it and when we don’t. When you wake…..
Really, LORD, are we to rejoice in our hard times? Romans 5:3 & 4 states: “…but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience [perseverance]; And patience, experience [character]; and experience, hope..” Yes, I want perseverance, character, and hope, but isn’t there another way?? Can’t You just slap these traits on us, bestow them on us when we are born again, and save the suffering? Apparently not! Just like Jesus had to go through His cross experience, we…..
God will sometimes use the strangest weapons to defeat enemies. In 2 Chronicles 20, we find the great king Jehoshaphat is faced with two armies that were greater than his. His people fasted, prayed, and asked God what to do. Then they waited. Suddenly a word came forth from a prophet that they should not be afraid, that God would fight for them on the next day, and that He would be with them. They worshiped. The next day as…..