GOD’S WORD FOR  MAY 12

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.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

AN ETERNAL PROMISE

2 Peter 1:4

“…Precious and very great promises.”

D.L. MOODY

Let men feed for a month on the promises of God and they will not be talking of their “leanness”  It is not leanness, it is laziness.  There is an abundant supply for us if we will only rouse ourselves to take it.

ERWIN LUTZER

Everything that God promises, He has the ability and the resources to accomplish.  Ahaziah, like the rest of us, often wondered whether God’s promise would be fulfilled.  When King Ahaziah  fell ill, he sought the false god, Baal, for answers (2 Kings 1).  Elijah confronted him three times, asking, “Is there no God in Israel to care for you?”  Now, we’re always going to turn for help to others.  The real question is whether we turn to God and His promises first.

Moody was right to identify our major problem as believing in the promise of God.  When my friend Mark was dying of cancer, I visited him and asked how he could remain at peace knowing his earthly life would soon be over.  He opened a drawer beside his bed and showed me a large sheet of paper.  On it were more than a hundred promises.  “Whenever I am filled with fear and doubt, I take this sheet and reread the promises of God,” he told me. 

Yes, we have exceedingly great and precious promises.  Let us cleave to them,  accepting the heartaches of life knowing our home is on the other side.

PRAYER

Father, please help me to know the promises of Your Word and believe them.  Please remind me that peace comes through believing what You promised.
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2 Peter 1:4

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

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2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

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Joshua 21:45

Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

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Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

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2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

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Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.

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Hebrews 8:6

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

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Psalm 77:8-13

Has his steadfast love forever ceased?

    Are his promises at an end for all time?

Has God forgotten to be gracious?

    Has he in anger shut up his compassion?”

Then I said, “I will appeal to this,

    to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

I will remember the deeds of the Lord;

    yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

I will ponder all your work,

    and meditate on your mighty deeds.

Your way, O God, is holy.

    What god is great like our God?

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