GOD’S WORD FOR FEBRUARY 14

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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PLEADING FOR JESUS

Psalm 51:15

“O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.”

D.L. MOODY

It is a very sad thing that so any of God’s children are mute, yet it is true.  The churches are full of them.  They can talk about politics, art, and science; they can speak well enough and fast enough about the fashions of the day, but they have no voice for the Son of God.

Dear friend, if Christ is your Savior, confess Him.  Every follower of Jesus should bear testimony for Him.  How many opportunities each one has in society and in business to speak a word for Him!  How many opportunities occur daily wherein every Christian might be “instant in season and out of season”  pleading for Jesus, as Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 4:2.  In so doing, we receive blessing for ourselves and also become a means of blessing others.

ERWIN LUTZER

The famous atheist, Bertrand Russell, was asked, “What if ….when the time comes, you should meet Him?  What will you say?”  He said, “God, you gave us insufficient evidence.”

Russel was wrong.  The Bible teaches that God is not hiding Himself from humanity.  We are hiding ourselves from God.  Every person is created in God’s image and intuitively knows they are sinners and God is holy.  In his preaching, Moody appealed to sinners with the confidence that God had already gone ahead of him, preparing hearts to hear the message.  Many rejected Moody’s message, but tens of thousands responded.

Moody gives us a challenge:  Are we pleading with others to accept Jesus?  Your friends and relatives might be more open to the gospel than you realize.  There is plenty of evidence for the existence of God and the death and resurrection of Jesus.  Let’s not be ashamed of the one message able to save sinners.

PRAYER

Father, please help me to share the gospel with others.  Like Moody, let me plead for people in prayer, and witness with confidence.

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    1 Corinthians 6:9-10

    For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation

Job 15:17

“I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,

Psalm 9:11

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion! Declare His deeds among the people.

Psalm 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.

Psalm 22:31

They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, That He has done this.

    Psalm 40:5

    Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

    Psalm 66:16

    Come and hear, all you who fear God, And I will declare what He has done for my soul.

    Psalm 71:17

    O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.

    Psalm 75:1

        We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.

Psalm 78:6

    That the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children,

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