I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF US TODAY!
THIS MORNING, I READ THE DEVOTIONAL, FOR TODAY'S DATE (APRIL 22) FROM:
"STREAMS IN THE DESERT", by MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN, copyright 1928 and 1965 by COWMAN PUBLICATIONS, PUBLISHED BY BARBOUR PUBLISHING. (there is a newer publication of this devotional available)
IT IS A RICH COMMENTARY OUT OF GOD'S WORD..ENCOURAGING US TO KNOW, TRUST AND BELIEVE THAT:
"HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE." (JOB 23:10 nklv)
JOB WAS A MAN WHO TOTALLY TRUSTED GOD..WHO LIVED A LIFE OF FAITHFULNESS AND DEVOTION TO HIM..BUT THEN, EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIMES CAME UPON JOB.
JOB LOST EVERYTHING..ALL OF HIS FAMILY..HIS PROPERTY..HIS HEALTH..HIS CHARACTER WAS ATTACKED BY HIS FRIENDS...NEEDLESS TO SAY, JOB'S SORROW AND SUFFERING WAS IMMENSE.
DID JOB CRY OUT IN HIS SUFFERING, DID HE ASK GOD "WHAT IS GOING ON, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS LOSS OF EVERYTHING?" YES, MOST DEFINITELY! BUT IN THE VERY CORE OF JOB'S HEART... HIS SPIRIT...HE KNEW THE GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD. IN HIS DEEPEST DESPAIR, JOB BELIEVED THAT GOD'S HAND, HIS EYE WAS STILL UPON HIM!
I BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTS TO REMIND US ALL TODAY:
"THAT HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE..KNOWS EVERY STEP THAT WE ARE TAKING..THAT NOTHING WE ARE GOING TROUGH IS A SURPRISE TO HIM.....THAT THOUGH HEARTACHE, SORROW, LOSS, PAIN WILL COME....HE "KNOWS" AND IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT WITH US! AND THAT IF WE "CHOOSE" TO PUT OUR HAND, OUR LIFE, IN HIS, "HE WILL USE IT ALL AND MAKE OUR LIVES INTO MORE THAN WE COULD EVER HOPE OR IMAGINE!"
A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE BOUGHT THE DEVOTIONAL FOR ME IN 2004...IT IS HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF WISDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT..I HAVE READ IT THROUGH A FEW TIMES.. ON THIS SAME DAY..APRIL 22...IN 2009, GOD MADE THIS WORD PERSONAL TO ME WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS:
"HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE"
(Job 23:10 nkjv)
HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE
FOR IT IS HIS HAND THAT IS TAKING ME THERE!
IN THE NATURAL, IT MAY LOOK LIKE
MY LIFE HAS GONE "HELTER-SKELTER"
AND MAY FEEL AS THOUGH......
I HAVE COME TO "UTTER DESPAIR"
BUT IT IS:
"NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT
BY MY SPIRIT SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS"
(Zechariah 4:6 nkjv)
AND THE WAY THAT "I LEAD" YOU, TAKES
YOU DEEPER INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF ME
AND "HIGHER TO THE OUTERMOST"
THE "OUTERMOST PLACE" WHERE
SPIRIT TO SPIRIT WE MEET, AND IN THIS
PLACE YOUR JOURNEY IS MADE COMPLETE!
hs/DH 4/22/09 8:30 A.M.
HAVE YOU SAID YES TO JESUS, HIS GIFT OF SALVATION AND MADE HIM LORD OF YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU GOING THROUGH SOME EXTREME DIFFICULTIES RIGHT NOW? PERHAPS THEY MAKE NO SENSE AND HAVE CAUSED YOU TO QUESTION OR WONDER. WELL, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LIFT UP YOUR HEAD.
DO AS JOB DID AND CONTINUE TO TRUST IN YOUR REDEEMER. IN JOB 19:25 (nkjv), JOB SAYS: "FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, AND HE SHALL STAND AT LAST ON THE EARTH;..."
PERHAPS YOU HAVE NOT YET "CHOSEN" TO SAY YES TO JESUS VOICE CALLING YOU UNTO HIMSELF. NO MATTER WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, HE LOVES YOU AND HAS NOT TAKEN HIS "EYE" OFF OF YOU. HE HAS GOOD PLANS FOR YOU AND WILL USE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, YOUR LIFE, TO ACCOMPLISH THEM! HE KNOWS EVERYTHING WE HAVE DONE OR WILL EVER DO!
"HE KNOWS THE WAY THAT WE TAKE."
THE ENEMY OF OUR SOUL WANTS TO ROB US OF TRUTH AND HOPE. HE WANTS TO BRING US INTO A PLACE OF BEING DOWNCAST IN OUR SPIRIT.
PSALM 42:5
WHY ARE YOU CAST DOWN, O MY INNER SELF? AND WHY SHOULD YOU MOAN OVER ME AND BE DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? HOPE IN GOD AND WAIT EXPECTANTLY FOR HIM, FOR I SHALL YET PRAISE HIM, MY HELP AND MY GOD.
IT WAS JOB'S TRUST AND FAITH IN GOD, THAT GOD USED TO BRING HIM BACK TO THE PLACE OF PRAISING GOD FOR WHO HE IS. JOB IS AN EXCELLENT WITNESS OF THE TRUTH OF GOD'S PROMISES TO US..HIS LOVE FOR US!
NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, NO MATTER WHERE YOU'VE BEEN OR WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW...
"HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS THE WAY THAT YOU TAKE."
love and blessings in Jesus Name,
Drema
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