Daily Devotions
"I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3 NLT
FEBRUARY 24
"Bring me an offering of every man that gives it willingly with his heart."- Exodus 25:2
The Israelites had few worldly goods while they were slaves in Egypt. But when God asked them to give what they had to build the Tabernacle, including the valuable gold and jewels the Egyptians had given them when they left Egypt, they willingly gave more than was needed. Eventually God asked them to bring no more! What a good example for us to follow! 2 Corinthians 9:7
February 24
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:3, 4)
WHAT comfort and consolation are in these assurances! These are wonderful words of life, indeed! They inspire us with hope. If God will accept perfect heart-intentions, as instead of the absolute perfection of the flesh--then indeed we have hope of attaining to the standard which He has marked for us--the standard of perfection....We can walk after the Spirit, though, so far as our mortal bodies are concerned, we cannot walk up to the Spirit's requirements. Our minds can walk up to the Spirit, our intentions can be perfect; and this is what our Heavenly Father seeks in us, perfection of intention.
February 24
Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11
TO SUPPOSE that the Lord here is merely referring to the natural food would imply that the petitioners were merely natural men, whereas we know that the prayer was taught only to those who were reckonedly new creatures in Christ by a covenant to walk in his steps in the narrow way. It must be understood, therefore, that it is the new creature that is offering the petition, and this will imply that it is the nourishment of the new creature that is chiefly under consideration--with whatever provision for temporal necessities the Heavenly Father may see best.
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
Poems of Dawn
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