He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time

He has made everything beautiful in its time - Ecclesiastes 3:11.

                God makes everything beautiful in our life in its time, in due season and at the proper time. The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing - Psalm 145:15-16. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you -1 Peter 5:6-7.

Water turned into wine & God's glory manifested

             In the wedding of Cana, there was a situation that there was no more wine. But God manifested His glory by turning the water into wine that tasted so good at the right time. He made everything beautiful in its time.

 a) No wine

               On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”“Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” - John 2:1-4. 

b) Water turned into wine at proper time

               When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”. This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him - John 2:9-11.

               Let us wait for God to make everything beautiful in its time so that His glory will be manifested in our life. The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord - Lamentations 3:25-26. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord - Psalm 27:14. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose - Romans 8:28.                                                                       

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us wait for You to make everything beautiful in its time. We thank You for manifesting Your glory in our life at proper time. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Submit To God

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you - James 4:7.

Trusting God over man

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths - Proverbs 3:5,6.

Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord - Jeremiah 17:5.    

                                                                  Prayer over anxiety 

Pray without ceasing - 1 Thessalonians 5:17.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God - Philippians 4:6.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you - James 4:7.

 

                                                            Praises over worries

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth - Psalm 34:1.

Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble - Mathew 6:34.

                                                   God's Word over our words

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path -  Psalm 119:105.  Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day - Psalm 119:97. 

For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks - Mathew 12: 34. Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips - Psalm 141:3. 

                                                                     God's ways over our ways

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts - Isaiah 55: 8,9.

Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass - Psalm 37:5.

                                                                God's wisdom over our wisdom

In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Colossians 2:3.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! - Romans 11: 33.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil - Proverbs 3:7.

                                                                            Faith over fear

For we walk by faith, not by sight - 2 Corinthians 5:7.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind - 2 Timothy 1:7.

                                                                          

PRAYER: Let us submit ourselves to You by trusting, praying, praising, meditating Your Word, choosing Your ways and wisdom with faith. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

He Makes My Feet Like The Feet of A Deer

The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights- Habakkuk 3:19.

             The Sovereign Lord will make our feet like the feet of a deer to rise above every circumstances and will make us to walk on high hills without stumbling by being our strength. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze - 2 Samuel 22:34-35. 

            God made David's feet like the feet of deer to skip from one place to another and gave him the same kind of skill like deer to escape dangers brought by his enemies. It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights - Psalm 18:32,33. 

            May God give us His grace to rise above every circumstances by making our feet like deer’s feet. Then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert - Isaiah 35:6. He will enable us to tread on the heights of the earth. He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock - Deuteronomy 32:13.

                                                                                                           

PRAYER: Dear Lord, You are the Sovereign Lord who is our strength. We thank You for making our feet like the feet of a deer to rise above every circumstances and enabling us to tread on the heights. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

For He Spoke And It Was Done He Commanded And It Stood Fast

 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast - Psalm 33:9. 

                  Our God is so powerful that He created the world by His Word and gathered the waters of the sea together as a heap. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good - Genesis 1:9,10. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap - Psalm 33:6, 7.

                   God also made the sand a boundary for the sea as waves may roll and roar, but cannot pass beyond it. Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it - Jeremiah 5:22.

                   God who gathered water into one place made the sea into dry land by a strong east wind, divided the Red sea for the Israelites to cross. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left - Exodus 14:21,22. To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, For His mercy endures forever - Psalm 136:13.

                  Let us praise and thank our powerful God as whatever He speaks it will be done and what He commands it will stand fast in the things we expect miracles in our life. He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall - Psalm 78:13. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at his command they were created - Psalm 148:4,5.

                                                                    

PRAYER: Dear Lord, You are powerful God. We thank You as when You speak, it will be done and when You command and it will stand fast in the things we expect miracles in our life. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 

Looking To Jesus

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God - Hebrews 12:1,2.

Look to Jesus - For mercy

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the Lord our God, Until He has mercy on us - Psalm 123:2.

Look to Jesus - For rest and peace 

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest - Matthew 11:28. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world - John 16:33.

Look to Jesus - For help

I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth - Psalm 121:1,2. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted - Hebrews 2:18. 

Look to Jesus - For light

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed - Psalm 34:5.

Look to Jesus - For salvation

Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! - Isaiah 45:22.   

                                                                                                 

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us look to You for everything and run our race with endurance. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.   

Love One Another

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another - 1 John 4:11. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails - 1 Corinthians 13:1-8.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins - 1 Peter 4:8.

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends - Proverbs 17:9.

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love - Ephesians 4:2.

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth - 1 John 3:18. 

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart - 1 Peter 1:22. 

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also - 1 John 4:20,21. 

As you have heard from the beginning, His command is that you walk in love - 2 John 1:6.   

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another - John 13:34, 35.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love - 1 John 4:7,8.

We love because he first loved us - 1 John 4:19.

If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us - 1 John 4:12.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,  kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control - Galatians 5:22.

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins - Proverbs 5:20. 

Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ - Matthew 22: 37-39.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves - Romans 12:10.    

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you - Matthew 5:44.      

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma - Ephesians 5:2. 

                                                          

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us love one another like how You loved us and gave Yourself for us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.    

He Will Set You High Above All Nations

           He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken - Deuteronomy 26:19. 

God will set you high above all nations - Be humble 

            Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up - James 4:10. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted - Luke 14:11. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble - Luke 1:52. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time - 1 Peter 5:6.

God will set you high above all nations - Obey God & follow His commands

                  If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth - Deuteronomy 28:1. The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom - Deuteronomy 28:13.

Daniel set high above others

                   Daniel did not change his habit of praying even when the law changed. Instead he humbled himself before God, obeyed and followed His commands and prayed three times a day. So, God set Daniel high above others. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days - Daniel 6:10. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm - Daniel 6:3.                                  

                   Let us thank God for setting us high above all nations. But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head - Psalm 3:3. He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me - Psalm 18:48. Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord - Psalm 27:6. Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name - Psalm 91:14. I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies rejoice over me - Psalm 30:1.

                                                                    

PRAYER: Dear Lord,  Let us be humble, obey and follow Your commands. We thank You for setting us high above all nations. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.