Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Genesis 18:14

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

A little boy was trying to roll a rock as his father watched from a distance. The boy was heaving and sighing, but he couldn’t turn the stone over. 

His dad with a smile said, “Son, are you using all of your strength?” He said, “Yes, Daddy, I’m using all my strength.” And the father said, “No, you’re not, because you haven’t asked me to help you. My strength is your strength.” 

Sometimes we wrestle with problems and say, “I don’t know what to do.” Our Father wants us to say, “I’ve run out of my strength,” and run to His. He is there. 

There is no problem too big for Jesus to solve. 

Do you believe that? I hope so.

ACTION POINT:

Is there a problem too big for you to solve? Give it to Jesus. He can handle it.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Proving God in Finances

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” Malachi 3:10

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

You can say all you want about getting right with God, but if you don’t get right with God in your finances, you are not right with God. The kind of repentance that does not reach the bank account, has never reached the heart. 

In Malachi 3:7, God says, “Return unto me, and I will return unto you.”

And the people said, “Wherein shall we return?” 

God’s answer in verse 8 reveals that they were to return in tithes and offerings. The point of return is the point of departure. If you’re going to come back to God and if you’re going to renew your fellowship, you’re going to have to begin with the tithe.

How are you doing in the area of your tithes and offerings to the Lord? 

ACTION POINT:

It’s time to put the good book to the checkbook! 

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

No Offense, No Effect

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

A pulpit committee approached me one time and said, “We need a pastor for our church.” 

I said, “I know just the guy. He is a fantastic preacher and has a fiery evangelistic spirit, but he has health problems and he’s kind of old.” I continued, “He’s also been in jail several times.” 

They began to shake their heads, and one said, “Well, we don’t know whether he’s the man we want or not.”

I said, “Well, don’t worry; you couldn’t get him. He’s already in heaven, and his name is Paul.”

You don’t want a guy who can rub shoulders with the people of this world and not rub any salt in their wounds. Where there is no offense, there is no effect.

ACTION POINT:

Pray for the men who occupy the pulpits in our churches that they would not water down the truth of God’s Word, but be strong to proclaim its power.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

God Will Always Answer

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” Jeremiah 33:3

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

I read about some children in a Sunday School class who wrote letters to a missionary to let him know they were praying for him. The teacher of the class said, “Now, children, the missionary is a very busy person, so don’t expect him to write you back.” One little girl’s letter read, “Dear Brother Brown, We’re praying for you. We don’t expect an answer.” 

Sadly, this is how we pray! We don’t really expect an answer. But God has promised He will answer us when we call upon His name.
Psalm 91:15 says, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.”

ACTION POINT:

• What are you praying for today? 

• Do you believe that God can answer? 

• Do you believe that He will answer? 

• Then thank Him now for answering. 

 LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Calling Good Evil and Evil Good

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

People can become so warped in their thinking that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong. 

I was listening to the radio one morning, and they were talking about what scientists want to do with the tissue of aborted babies. They said that some women are thinking about having babies, aborting them, then selling the tissue for research. The scientific community is promoting this propaganda because of the good they say the research will have on the whole of humanity! But what about the whole of humanity that begins in the womb? 

People today will play enough tricks on their minds that they will literally approve evil with a good conscience.

Where do you stand on this issue? What is right and what is wrong?

ACTION POINT:

Take some time this morning to read Psalm 139 and ask God to show you His truth.

Ps.139:
1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 
10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. 
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 
20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 
22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. 
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! 

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Letting God Work In and Through You

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

One of the greatest secrets I have ever learned is this: God doesn’t want me to do anything for Him. He wants to do something through me. 

People say, “Well, I just serve God in my poor, little, old weak way.” 

I feel like saying, “Well, quit it.  He doesn’t want you to serve Him in your poor, little, old weak way. He wants you out of the way, so He can flow through you!”

We need to make ourselves available to God and say, “God, I’m tired of being inhibited. I want to be inhabited by You. I want You to live Your life through me.”

ACTION POINT:

Where have you been standing in the way of God instead of surrendering to God and letting Him live through you? 

 LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Grateful—for We Are Blessed!

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

Sometimes we complain when we shouldn’t. 

I remember one time driving across the country with a gentleman. At the time, all of our children were in private schools and Joyce and I were “dying of maltuition.” I began complaining a little bit to the man about the great cost of sending a son to college.

He looked at me and said, “I’d give anything in the world if my son would go to college.” 

I thought, “Oh, what an ungrateful spirit I have!” 

Do you ever complain about dirty dishes? There are lots of folks in Third World countries that would like to have some dirty dishes. We are to be thankful in all things.

ACTION POINT:

Rejoice in God’s blessings in your life. Nip that temptation in the bud to complain and grumble about your life today.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers