Friday, June 24, 2016

Complete Confidence in the Lord


BIBLE MEDITATION:
 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
There must be complete confidence in the Lord to take care of us because this complete confidence will lead to constant compliance. Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us we are to trust with all our heart (not just part of it), and we’re to acknowledge Him in all our ways (not just some of our ways).
God won’t take part of it. You can’t say, “Lord, I want Your will in my social life, but I don’t want Your will in my business life.”  Or, “I want Your will in my church life, but I don’t want Your will in my relationships.” You just can’t do that. If He’s worth part of it He’s worth all of it.
ACTION POINT:
What are you holding onto today? Give it all to Jesus. Instant obedience will bring incredible blessing.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Thursday, June 23, 2016

It Is Not God

There are many false religions!
There are many false gods!
There are many idols!
Many are hand-made by man in his futile attempt to stop that feeling that something is missing from his soul! 
It just can't be explained nor stopped!
So, he continues his search!

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here I am, here I am," to a nation that was not called by my name.  - Isaiah 65:1

1 Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. 
2 To me they cry, "My God, we-Israel-know you." 
3 Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. 
4 They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. 
5 I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 
6 For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.  - Hosea 8:1-6

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the LORD your God. - Leviticus 19:4

44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." - Daniel 2:44-45

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.  - Deuteronomy 32:21

26 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens. 
27 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place. 
28 Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! 
29 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; 
30 tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. 
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"  - 1 Chronicles 16:26-31

Where Is Your Treasure?


BIBLE MEDITATION:
 “. . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
There are many people who think they are wealthy who are not. Many of us may remember the television series “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” Some thought it should have been called “Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish.”
When is a rich man poor? When he tries to find satisfaction in his money. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, said, “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
A man of modest income said to a man who was very rich, “I have more than you have.”  The rich man said, “How is that so?”  He answered, “Because I have all I want, and you don’t.”
ACTION POINT:
When you set your goal to be wealthy, then money becomes your master rather than your servant. What is your goal with your finances?


LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Nothing Less Than God’s Optimum for Your Life


BIBLE MEDITATION:
 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Do you love Christ? Do you long to please Him with all your heart? Then remember this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.
Many a Christian feels he is out in the wilderness — that all he is doing is being led about in circles. Maybe God is grooming you. He is not ready to thrust you into heavy responsibilities as yet. He has you in a holding pattern for His holy purpose. Life is a journey that does not end. God is preparing something wonderful for you. He doesn’t want you to settle for less than His optimum for your life and your work.
ACTION POINT:
Commit Jeremiah 29:11-13 to memory this week, then share this truth with a friend!

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

God’s Holiness, Love and Mercy


BIBLE MEDITATION:
 “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
God will never overlook sin. He cannot. God is holy, and by His holiness He has sworn that sin will be punished. If God were to let one half of one sin go unpunished, God would no longer be holy.
The chief attribute of God is not love — it is holiness.
The cross is God’s way to punish sin and forgive the sinner at the same time. “He who knew no sin,” God has made to be sin for us. The price that Jesus paid, only the damned in hell can begin to know, but even they’ll never know because they’re only paying their sin debt. Jesus paid for all the sin of all of the people for all time.
ACTION POINT:
Read Revelation 4:8. Let your anthem throughout the day be, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.”


LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Monday, June 20, 2016

Never Another Like the Lord Jesus Christ

BIBLE MEDITATION:
 “And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands.” Hebrews 1:10

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Nobody knows the exact date of Jesus’ birth, and yet His birth has divided all of history to A.D. and B.C.  He never, so far as we know, wrote a book, and yet more books have been written about Him than any other person. He never painted a picture or composed any poetry or music that we know of, and yet He has been the inspiration of the greatest music, art, and poetry that the world has ever known. He never had any formal education, yet more schools, colleges, universities, and seminaries have been founded in His name than any other person who ever lived.
That’s who the Lord Jesus is, and never has there been another like the Lord Jesus Christ!
ACTION POINT:
Read Hebrews 1:1-14. Marvel at His majesty! Praise His omnipotence!


LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Go and Sin No More


We must repent!
There is no forgiveness without the repenting!
What did Jesus say to the adulteress?
Go and sin no more!
He did not say continue in your life style as an adulteress!
We preach forgiveness and love in Jesus name but leave this other message out.
The message that effects his or her eternity! 
What kind of love is this to your lost brother or sister?
We love because we are loved!
We forgive because we are forgiven!
We don't judge, God will do this to all mankind!
God's word tells you how to be forgiven, you must turn from sin and become a new creation, falling before the throne for mercy and repenting before a Holy God!
It matters not the sin of your life style, whether you are in sexual sin, an abusive situation of drugs or alcohol, committing fraud, stealing, committing murder or any other sinful act you could read listed in the bible. 
That list in the bible says who will enter God's kingdom and who will not!
I can't forgive you!
God does that!
Jesus intercedes on your behalf!
What a Savior!

3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst
4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
5 Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."
8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.
9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
10 Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]] - John 8:3-11

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." - John 5:14

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. - John 3:17

15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. - John 8:15-16

1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud-even your own brothers!
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,
9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. - 1 Timothy 1:8-11

12 "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."
17 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
20 He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! - Revelation 22:12-20