Psalm 105:8-11 – “He remembers his covenant forever,  the word that  He commanded, for a thousand generations, ⁹ the covenant that he made with Abraham,     his sworn promise to Isaac, ¹⁰ which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,     to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan     as your portion for an inheritance.”

God’s faithfulness consumed me as I prayed, read, studied, pondered, and meditated upon the Word.   In Psalm 105:8, we are told that God keeps His Covenant to a thousand generations.   That is not so much a chronology as a revelation of God’s endless faithfulness.

God engineers our paths to bring us to His fullness.   Joseph is an example.  He put a dream in Joseph’s heart that had no human pathway to completion.  Then, He used human jealousy and hate to provide the path for completion.

God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of ‘The Land’ was fulfilled centuries later through Moses and Joshua.

Psalm 105:37 – “He brought them forth also with silver and gold…” 

Let that sink in.  God delivered from bondage but not empty-handed.  They had the wealth of the wicked in their hands as they traveled.   To whom does it all belong?  GOD!

“…AND there was not one feeble person among their tribes.”   That is a Wow Passage!  Not only were they delivered but with wealth and health.  That’s God’s way, His Promise, and Purpose.  He does not lie, forget His promises, or fail.  Never Ever Does He Fail!

In Psalm 107:19-20, when they despaired and cried to God for help, He heard and delivered them.  “He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from destruction.”   God is a covenant keeper and remembers His Covenant forever.

Our responsibility is to humble ourselves, turn from wickedness, and seek Him.   He is Ready to Respond.    He only awaits us to return, call, heed, believe, and receive.   God is forever faithful!  No matter what we face, He is always more than enough!

Jeremiah 33:3 – “Call to Me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.”

Today, I encourage you in simple confidence to ask the Father with as much specificity as possible what you desire.   He will quicken you with conviction if it is out of the wrong motive.  If it is out of pureness of heart, He will open doors, move mountains, and shake nations if necessary to provide it.

Have a Fantastic Day in Jesus, and Enjoy the Victory He has Provided!

Psalm 130:5 – “I trust the LORD, my soul waits for His Word.”

Most believers claim that as a description of their lives.   But the theme of Scripture is that trust yields to that which is trusted.   Then, once that Word comes, action follows.   What we truly believe in our hearts, we act upon.   What we believe in our heads, we look at longingly and lament that it is not consistent in us.  Theoretical belief tends to frustrate and opens the door for self-justification or explanation as to why it is absent or inconsistent.

Experiential belief sees the Word, the Promise, the Person of God as a present reality and opportunity.   It acts expectantly because the heart knows that it knows.   It is out of our oneness with God that we live the miraculous life Jesus said we are called to.

If we trust Him with our hearts, His Word propels us into action.  We see the darkness and know that God in us is light.  We see the bondage and know that God in us is the release.  We see those things Jesus addressed at the crucifixion and realize they are already done.  We are vessels through which they flow.

We know that we Are because He is.  We know we Can because He has.  Today, let’s commit our hearts to the life of Triumph and embrace the anointing He has given us.

Several things captured my heart and mind as I mused on this Word:

• The unfailingness of love.
• The Omnipotence Omniscience and Omnipresence of God.
• The Power of Trust.

It would be impossible to deal with those at length, but Agape is one of the most powerful and often missing elements in today’s world.   Agape trusts and never grows tired of loving.  Agape overlooks human fault and sees what God sees in others.  Agape never allows the self to become the center, nor does it take offense even if wronged or the appearance of wrong is done.  It loves with the heart of God.

God Knows Everything!  He knew us before Adam was created. 

Psalm 139:16 – “Thine eyes did see (past tense) my substance, yet being imperfect (not formed); And upon thy books all these things were written Even Before day was, and man was brought into existence.” 

We have been in God’s heart forever and will be forever!  He Is The Living God!

Trust is an indispensable quality and quantity in life.  We cannot know peace without trust.  A trustless life is a life of endless misery and pain.  It internalizes everything and makes self the center, always expecting the worst to come. 

Hebrews 3:14 – “For we are MADE partakers of Christ, IF (keyword) from the beginning to the very end we HOLD Steadfast to this true covenant.”

Trust, commitment, and submission allow us to love without fear and experience God’s IS-ness. God knows what we need and will enable us to experience things that require us to trust because we know He knows we trust and Agape without fear.

If All Things are blended together into a finished product that is good, then we can look at troubles, trials, and disappointments through the lens of Trust!  He does not fail.  Transform your trials into triumphs by allowing Agape to rule in your heart.  By trusting God, knowing that even if people fail and disappoint us, God is using that for our ultimate good, the finished product.

Trust, love, and rest in His infiniteness.   Have a Blessed Day, Trusting Him.  He Never Fails!

Proverbs 1:5-6 – “Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ⁶ to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.”

Today, as I read and meditated on the Word in prayer, I was reminded of a deep need.   That is “The Art of Listening.”   We all hear but do not always listen rightly. 

We listen in many ways.  We listen to formulate a response.  We listen for what we want to hear or anticipate hearing.  We listen to the words, not the content, and do not perceive the intent.  We make words more powerful than the heart.

Proverbs 1:5 tells us that a wise person listens, and in Listening, they increase in learning (knowledge and understanding).  The person who listens gains understanding, and understanding elevates them to a higher responsibility or sphere.

Wisdom is from God, and Proverbs 2:1-5 informs us that “if” we seek wisdom (which is God) as indispensable, we understand worship.  What it is and how to worship.

That opens the door to the storehouse of the knowledge of God.  That is dual knowledge of who He is and the storehouse of the knowledge He has.  He wants us to have permanent access to the storehouse of wisdom and knowledge.

Trust is the key.  But we do not trust until we know.  

Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the Lord do not trust your understanding or rely on your wisdom.  Acknowledge Him in ALL that you say, do, or think AND…”

He will be your life guide, enabling you to navigate through the seas of life.  Proverbs 3:8-10 provides an incredible promise.  The promise is healing with life-perpetuating health.   We will have full barns and possibly even full bank accounts.  God desires that we give ourselves wholly to Him, Obey Him, and pursue Him.

As we see Him, we become transformed into His likeness.   (This is not having fleshly similarly, but character and heart.)  Today, ask for help to listen.  Ask for wisdom and understanding.  Trust Him totally.

Victory is today and every day for the believer wholly surrendered to Jesus!

Proverbs 14:4 – “Where there are no oxen (bulls if you will), the crib is clean; (no bull waste), but abundant crops come by strength of the ox.  (Not pulling power but abundant waste).”

I have learned that God’s Divine appointments are helpful tools in producing Divine accomplishments and building Divine relationships.   As I read, prayed, and mused on the Word, joy, awe, trembling, and a sense of triumph flooded my heart.    I was encouraged and challenged.  I was inspired and convicted, at times, through the same passage.

A seemingly odd statement found in Proverbs 14:4 inspired and convicted me.    It is our text verse and very pertinent to this discussion.  As I read in Proverbs, the LORD spoke to my heart that we are to turn the Bull Droppings of life into fertilizer.    How do we do that?   We give it to Him totally.   We refuse to dwell on it for a millisecond.

Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” 

We want to defend ourselves, retaliate, give tit for tat, stew on it.  We fight against relying on our human ways or thoughts.   They produce death, but if we totally give it to God, it becomes fertilizer for our harvest.

Proverbs 17:9 – “He who forgets an offense (forgives and surrenders it to God) seeks friendship (fellowship); BUT he who HATES TO FORGET an offense estranges (isolates, divests of benefit, makes an adversary) himself from a friend and neighbor.”

We must never forget that breaking a three-fold chord is not easy. 

Proverbs 20:27 – “The soul of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the heart.” 

We need to heed the tugging of the soul to flee those things that defile our hearts.  Embrace God’s searchlight.  It brings it to life.  Hebrews 12:6-7 reminds us that God’s discipline is because of His love.  He corrects us so we can take the bull droppings of life and turn them into fertilizer.   Fertilizer gives the seed the nourishment needed to produce fruit.  May your harvest be abundant.  

As I said, I was inspired and convicted at the same time.  I’m inspired because I see it.  Convicted because I’ve been guilty.  My prayer is, “LORD, help us to turn the negative into fertilizer through your Holy Spirit.”   Now is the time to turn all the bull of life into fertilizer!

Have a victorious day in Jesus, and rejoice because you are more than a conqueror!

Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Today is the day the LORD has made, and I believe it is filled with victorious discoveries if we are sensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.    God wants to lead us into fullness, but we tend to trust our own wisdom and desires more than the quiet guidance of the Holy Spirit.

During my multiple decades on the planet and my decades of serving God, I have learned that when He speaks to you through the Bible, you listen.   When God gives a Rhema, a prophetic voice, and you sense the nudging of the Holy Spirit, it is vital to Hear that warning or urge.   I have received many through the years!

I wish I could say I always obeyed and heeded them quickly and fully.  I wish I could.   However, I have found that choices have consequences, and actions of obedience or disobedience have their own unique awards.  One is reward and a step into more fullness; the other is discipline and a step backward Until we obey.

Most likely, we have had times when we were disobedient to what we knew was right, but the pull of the flesh overpowered our hearts, and we walked in disobedience.   I hope I am the only one, but I suspect others have been guilty.

Today, the LORD revealed something personal to me, and I desire to walk in complete obedience to that directive.   Will it be easy?  Is solving a quantum physics problem easy if you do not know quantum physics?  However, I have also learned that if we set our hearts to following God completely, He will help us.    The key is being willing and then being obedient to Him.  The flesh says no, but the Spirit says yes!

I pray for each one today that we will all have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to us individually and have willing hearts to obey that directive.   

The declaration of Proverbs 14:12 resonates powerfully with the heart that desires to be obedient.  “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

As I read today in the George Lamsa Translation of Aramaic to English, Proverbs 15:3 leaped off the page, “Commit your works to the LORD, and He will establish your thoughts.”   That is a compelling thought.  If we commit our lives, works, actions, deeds, and pursuits to God, He will guide our thoughts and establish us in right thinking!  Right thinking leads to right believing, and right belief leads to right behavior.  I want that!  I cry, “More, Lord!  More Lord!”

May your days be filled with peace as you hear and heed the directives of the LORD!

Ecclesiastes 1:1-8 – “The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.  ² Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.  ³ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?  ⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.  ⁵ The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.  ⁶ The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits, the wind returns.  ⁷ All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.  ⁸ All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

As I read, prayed, and pondered the Word of God today, the thought of “Life” became my focus.   Life?  Yes, both the daily routine and that which is unseen and eternal.

Many live in the mundane sameness of a routine that has become who they are.   Ecclesiastes 1:1-8 speaks to the routine of life.   In verses 4-7, there is the description of the perpetual routine of day after day.   The sun comes up and goes down day after day.   There is “Sameness.”   The wind blows, goes, and returns.   Life is marked by “Sameness.”   The rivers run into the sea, but the sea is not full, and the water returns to do it again.  

Day after day, the routine, grind, and rat race continues.   If that defines us, we lose focus on the eternal and the potential beyond our routine ruts.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 is incredible.  “The thing that has been is that which shall be; AND that which has been done is that which shall be done; AND there is nothing new under the sun.”

That can mean the inevitably of mundane sameness, or it can be seen as an inspirational invitation into the endlessness of newness in God.  It can be the inspiration to dream spiritual dreams and achieve eternal visions.

In life, walking alone invites the temptation to become stuck in the ruts of life.  Partners, whether husband and wife or co-laborers, can open the door to move us off high center and being stuck in the mundane.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 should be memorized and kept before our consciousness all the time.  There is Strength in tandem.  Encouragement, inspiration, challenge, and help come from a partner who also seeks God’s best.

The enemy cannot easily defeat a tandem.  A threefold cord is not easily or quickly broken.  Wait!   A tandem is two, not three, right?  Yes, but Jesus said that where 2 or 3 were gathered in His name, He is there too.  So, in Christ 2, become three.  He multiples us.

Jesus sent them out in tandem.  The principle is everywhere.   Don’t be an island.   Open yourself to the dangers and joys of partnership in God.

We are more than conquerors because of what Jesus did and God’s words.  The only thing lacking is to believe and receive that position and condition.   Today is your day of greater victory.  Receive it.

Have a victorious day as a member of the Body of Christ, and be Victorious in Jesus!