Live All
of Your Days
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“The
fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction;
he will not be visited with evil”
(Proverbs
19:23, NKJV)
TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
One
thing I’ve noticed is that so many people are walking around who aren’t really
living to the full the way God intends. Do you ever notice that many people
quit living around fifty, but yet they are going to stay on the planet until
after they’re eighty? Maybe they went through a disappointment or had a
failure. Someone hurt them, and now they’ve lost their joy and settled where
they are. No, God has another victory in store! You wouldn’t be breathing
unless God had something amazing in your future. It’s time to get your passion
back and be determined to really live out all of your God-given days!
The
scripture says that God wants to bring you to a flourishing finish, not a
fizzled-out finish. Don’t let disappointment or self-pity hold you back. God
has promised that what was meant for your harm He will turn around and use for
your good. Not only will He bring you out, but He will bring you out better off
than you were before. Receive it by faith today and press forward into the
abundant, fulfilled life He has in store for you!
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father
God, thank You for the promise of living a long, satisfied life. I choose to
stay in the game and press forward to fulfill my destiny. I won’t shrink back,
give up or lose heart, but I will stand strong in You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
— Joel
& Victoria Osteen
Time To Pray?
Read: Psalm 70
One
morning, when I was a young child, I was sitting in the kitchen, watching my
mother prepare breakfast. Unexpectedly, the grease in the skillet in which she
was frying bacon caught fire. Flames shot into the air and my mother ran to the
pantry for some baking soda to throw on the blaze.
“Help!”
I shouted. And then I added, “Oh, I wish it was time to pray!” “It’s time to
pray” must have been a frequent household expression, and I took it quite
literally to mean we could pray only at certain times.
The time
to pray, of course, is any time—especially when we’re in crisis. Fear, worry,
anxiety, and care are the most common occasions for prayer. It is when we are
desolate, forsaken, and stripped of every human resource that we naturally
resort to prayer. We cry out with the words of David, “Help me, O Lord!” (Ps.
70:1).
John
Cassian, a 5th-century Christian, wrote of this verse: “This is the terrified
cry of someone who sees the snares of the enemy, the cry of someone besieged
day and night and exclaiming that he cannot escape unless his Protector comes
to the rescue.”
May this
be our simple prayer in every crisis and all day long: “Help, Lord!”
Any hour when helping others,
Or when bearing heavy care,
Is the time to call our Father,
It’s the proper time for prayer. —Zimmerman
There is no place or time we cannot pray.
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