Daily Meditation - August 24, 2013 - I will go before you. And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. - Deuteronomy 31:8 This is how Moses instructed Joshua before his death. These words help Joshua to guide the people of Israel in the place of Moses. Moses confirmed that The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee,(Deut 31:3). for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.,(Josh 1:9). Beloved, today the Lord God of Israel promises you that he will go before you and you shall not be afraid. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.(Isa 45:2). Always seek the guidance and the approval of the Lord for all the decisions you make in your life. Then the Lord will go before you and the crooked places straight. Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.(Deut 1:32-33). Do not walk according to the will of your own flesh, but walk by the ways of the Lord. David proclaimed that Lord is his shepherd. There fore David kept always the Lord before him. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.(Ps 23:1-2). Like a sheep which follow the shepherd David followed the Lord always. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.(Ps 16:8). Our God is not the shepherd only for David but for any one who trusts in him and you become his flock. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.(1Pet 2:25). All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.(Isa 53:6). Because the God is your shepherd he walks before you – sheep. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.(Jn 10:4). On many occasions you meet with failures because you do not keep the before you to guide you. To turn your failures in to success God promises that he will before you and fight to gain victory over your failures. The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;(Deut 1:30). You want the Lord to fight for you and give you victory – then you have obligations to fulfill. You have to wait for the Lord in his presence for his counsel and obey his commandments. In the life of David we observe how he obeyed God and in humility submitted himself to the Lord. God guided David the line of attack that he should fight with Philistines. When David has to fight the next time even then he waited upon God for guidance and the approach to attack his enemies. And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself.(2Sam 5:23-24). Beloved you have battle fields in this world. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(Eph 6:12). In this battle you have to seek His guidance to win your enemy - Satan. Confess your selves that you obey God in all your ways? If you say yes then you will always be the winner in life. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. – Exodus 33:14 - Rev. Daniel Karthikeyan
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 02:32:45 +0000
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