God's Word on That

Tag: Daily Slice

A slice of God’s Word for the day

  • Quiet Times are Important

    Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace – it is the Bank of Heaven. It is from the Upper Room that we get the widest perspective.

    Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law (Psalm 119:18). Strengthen me according to Your Word (Psalm 119:28) for Your promises preserve my life (Psalm 119:50). Oh how I love Your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies (Psalm 11:97-98). The unfolding of Your Word gives light; it gives understanding to even the simple (Psalm 119:130). I have put my hope in Your Word (Psalm 119:147). All Your Words are true; all Your righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160). Great peace have they who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble (Psalm 119:165).

    All blessings come down through the channel of obedience. It is never a question of whether God can; but if He wills. If He wills, then we can, if we believe. Life is not about intellectual lessons but about integrating truth into the fabric of our lives; for you don’t teach a child, you train a child. The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the farther you go.

  • A Good Harvest

    At the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9).

    It may take a while but no prayer goes unanswered, and no good deed fails to produce good fruit. God awaits His own good time – omnipotence can afford to wait for it is always sure of success.

    “The Father sets those dates,” Jesus replied, “and they are not for you to know (Acts 1:7 TLB).

    Spiritual maturity isn’t a matter of what we know, but Who we know. It is not what you look at that matters; it is what you see. When we look at the things around us we must learn to look for the unseen things that are behind the visible things.

    We walk by faith, not by sight (1 Corinthians 5:7). For the righteous will live by their faith (Galatians 3:11).

    If you ever take God seriously, you are going to live life as it was meant to be lived! Whatever God orders, He pays for. Like the rays of the sun, a blessing always has an effect. His presence makes all things smile! In His world all things prosper – this satisfies me!

    God is always working. His grace is always flowing. Trust He knows the proper timing.

  • Failure Is Not Really Failure

    Failures are only temporary tests to prepare us for more permanent triumphs. Failure cannot happen in your life without your permission. “Success” and “failure” are both impostors and should be treated alike. Winston Churchill said: Success is never final; failure is never fatal… it’s courage that counts. If you learn from a defeat, you haven’t really lost.

    My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my spirit and my portion forever (Psalm 73:26). Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail (Lamentations 3:22).

    Ancient Proverb: He who is born in the fire will not fade in the sun. If you are beginning to encounter some hard bumps, be glad for at least you are out of the pit. There is little you can learn from doing nothing. Take what you have and use it and your talent will increase.

    Do you have eyes that fail to see and ears that fail to hear? (Mark 8:18). [For we should say] far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you, and I will teach the way that is good and right (1 Samuel 12:23).

    Failures are not detrimental, for they make us see things differently.

  • The Power of Virtue

    You will find it more difficult to uproot faults than to choke them out by gaining virtues.

    For this very reason, adding your diligent [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence), and in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety), and in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love. For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) (2 Peter 1:5-8 Amplified).

    And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity [ideal harmony] (Colossians 3:14).

    The abundance of God’s love will do more to correct you than all anxious self-contemplation.

    Let us quiet ourselves and come to Him to learn virtue. For virtue makes us beautiful.

  • Abundant Grace

    If God could grow weary of me, He would have been tired of putting up with me long before now! All Scripture testifies to the importance of each individual to God.

    God will give to each person according to what he has done (Romans 2:6). The Lord has assigned to each his task (1 Corinthians 3:5) and each will be rewarded according to his own labor (1 Corinthians 3:8). For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will reward each person according to what he has done (Matthew 16:27). At that time each will receive his praise from God Himself (1 Corinthians 4:5)!

    The unique, one-of-a-kind canvas of our existence is meant to be an inspiration to others, a true joy to behold and a heaven-sent blessing to those we meet in a day. Each of us has abilities which God wants us to pursue to give Him glory and to give us enjoyment of life.

    To each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it (Ephesians 4:7). Each should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms (1 Peter 4:10).

    Jesus has heaped up gifts and supplied you with favor, spiritual blessings, and grace out of His abundance… Take it!

    Each of us is important in making up the whole.

  • Light and Momentary Trials

    Adorable and Suffering Body, in and with which we are forever united, give me please, together with Your cross, Your Spirit of love and self-denial. Teach me to think of the privilege of suffering with You, rather than of the pangs of that suffering. What can I suffer that You have not endured? Or indeed, how do I dare to presume to speak of suffering when I remember what You bore for me? Weak mortal, be silent! See your Mater and be silent. Lord, God, my Lord, my God, teach me to love You and I will not be afraid of any cross. Then, whatever grievous and bitter pangs may come, I will never have more to bear than I am glad and willing to bear.

    We rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance (Romans 5:3), seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him (Romans 8:17). So share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 2:3).

    Do not be afraid of anything on your way. God will lead you by the hand, if only you are filled with love for Him rather than fear for yourself.

    We may not see it from our standpoint, but suffering enriches us.

  • Let Us Not Weary In Doing Good

    Every choice for doing good sets into motion other opportunities for doing good. Each choice you make in obedience will bring a greater sense of order to your life.

    A man reaps what he sows… I will not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time, I will reap a harvest if I do not give up (Galatians 6:7, 9). In response to all He has done for us, let us out-do each other in being helpful and kind to each other, and in doing good (Hebrews 10:24 Phillips).

    My Merciful God, I have the desire to do good but cannot carry it out (Romans 7:18). But in You I have the power I need. You, God, tell me to love even my enemies, to do good to those who hate me, bless those who curse me, and pray for those who mistreat me (Luke 6:27-28). I am Your workmanship, O God, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which You prepared in advance for me to do (Ephesians 2:10).

    So I will depart from evil and do good; I will seek peace and pursue it (Psalm 34:14). I will strive to keep my ways pleasing to the Lord, for then God will make even my enemies to be at peace with me (Proverbs 16:7).

  • God is For You

    Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried; but you have actually been planted. Remember: there is light behind every shadow.

    For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mothers’ womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful; I know this full well (Psalm 139:13-14).

    You were knitted together; each strand thoughtfully selected. You weren’t mass-produced. You aren’t an accident; no assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman. He has a purpose and a plan for you.

    “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11).

    Your parents may have forgotten you. Your teachers may have neglected you. Your siblings may be ashamed of you. But within reach of your prayers is the Maker of the Oceans! God is for you…

    Your life may not be an easy one, but God has placed you and skilled you for a reason.

  • According To Your Faith

    Nothing happens in the realms of life without either faith or fear. Fear saps our will-power and leaves us feeling depleted and hopeless. Look around and we shall be disheartened. Look within and we shall be discouraged. Look to Him and our fears vanish. When we look at the things around us, we must learn to look for the unseen things that are behind the visible things. This is spiritual discernment.

    Our faith must be tested, since God builds no ships except those He sends to the sea. How thankful we should be that God’s blessings are dispensed according to the riches of His grace and not according to the poverty of our faith. Faith is an action word – you cannot passively respond to God. Faith is the grit in the soul that puts the dare into dreams. Faith’s way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord in trials, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities. Faith in the future begets power in the present. Jesus responds to people who have enough faith to draw from His power.

    Faith is expectation.

    According to your faith let it be done unto you (Matthew 9:29).

    Let us soar on our wings of faith as God intended for us to do.

  • Pleasant and the Unpleasant

    There are unpleasant things which we must endure bravely, and pleasant things for which we must not stop. Those which are bitter serve to crucify what mars us, if we receive them simply with an unlimited acceptance. Those which are pleasant and which are given to support our weaknesses we must readily receive to conform to the plans of God our Father. We must use them at the moment, like a remedy, without self-satisfaction, without attachment, without possessiveness. Because the source of presumption is in growing an attachment to these passing and sensory gifts.

    To allow ourselves to be a plaything in the hands of providence, to put no limits to this submission, this is to serve Him by renouncing ourselves. This is to really treat Him as God. God of our lives and of all our situations. God, who could have saved us without crosses, has preferred to let each of us grow little by little. In this He is the Master. We have only to be silent, to fully submit, and to adore His profound wisdom without understanding it.

    I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil – this is the gift of God (Ecclesiastes 3:12-13).

    A treasure may also be a trial. It is all the same. All things are meant to remind us to trust in God.