...Ensure The Blessing Of God..... August 8, 2014 Todays Prayer Dear Jesus the mediator to the Father in Heaven, Glory be to You Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. I pray for a closeness to You like I have never felt before. Lord, I seek Your face and desire Your will. Please increase my thirst for Your presence. While You will always be my Heavenly Father, and I Your child through the blood atonement of Jesus Christ, I pray that You will help me to stay close and to flee from sin, that our fellowship will not be strained by sin. Lord, I ask You to bring to my mind any sin that I may repent and turn fully to You. Thank You. I love, respect, appreciate, and lift up praise to You God. Within this day Jesus, lead...guide...direct and strengthen me that I will make and be the change NOW! Thank You for the lessons I have learned. Most of all, thank You for being there with me through it all and for carrying me all the way. Lord Jesus and my heavenly Father, thank You for my help meet...Genesis 2:18, my lover and friend-my wife...Thank You for her strength and abilities given by You. Continue to be her support and guide in a time such as these...Allow us to continue the growth in You that You have begun over 40 years ago in this union...Let not anything even attempt to destroy or come between us in any shape, form nor fashion...help us to remember too, Gods Demand For Obedience and Acceptance of His call... Thank You for hearing my prayer and for working in all of our lives. In Jesus name I pray and praise You. Amen August 8, 2014 Todays Devotional Good Morning All, The Causes of Our Failure... Joshua 7: 10-15 (topic using these verses 10-15 KJV) 10 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man. 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. The first battle for the people of Israel traveling from Egypt was at Jericho; once they crossed the Jordan River. God had given them a great victory at Jericho, and Joshua was now ready to move to their next battle at Ai, read chapter 6 for reference. After they spied out the enemy camp, they determined they needed only a few thousand men to gain victory. They went up against Ai only to fail miserably. They lost 36 men in a battle that should have been an easy victory, but instead they were forced to retreat. Joshua was devastated. And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! (Josh. 7:7 KJV) In this case, the people fell short because they failed to uphold the standard God had set for them. God had told them not to take any plunder from their first battle. However, Achan hid some forbidden treasures, and God was now judging the entire nation for one mans sin. Whenever we act without Gods complete blessing on our activity, we can expect God to thwart our plans; Hes a jealous God, follow His directions totally. Gods word to Joshua was that he could not stand against his enemies as long as there was disobedience among his troops. Whenever we launch a business endeavor, we should make sure there are no unclean things in our dealings that would allow us to be vulnerable to a failed effort: unpaid vendors-directly or indirectly, disgruntled employees who were not treated fairly, lawsuits, dishonesty, lies nor deceit. Many of these things can hinder God from blessing our enterprises. These things can remove the shield of protection from our homes and workplaces, which God wants to bless, but cannot because He is committed to upholding righteousness. His name is blemished when unrighteousness is allowed to permeate our lives. Is the Lord able to bless your enterprises today? If not, you may need to go back and clean up things before He can do so. Take whatever steps are needed to ensure the blessing of God is on your life today. Be Blessed...Stand for truth as God has said it...
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:06:44 +0000
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