GOD’S WORD FOR AUGUST 18

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.

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OUR DAILY GRACE

2 Corinthians 4:15-16

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.  So we do not lose heart.  Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

D.L.MOODY

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at once to sustain life for a week to come.  We must draw upon God’s boundless stores of grace from day to day, as we need it.

ERWIN LUTZER

The moment we are born, we begin to die.  We are born and our bodies begin to slowly disintegrate.  Death, in this life, is not only continuous, it’s also visible and irreversible.  In the end, death  gets us.  Death always wins.

That’s the outer body.  But the inner soul is being renewed day by day if you have been born again.  Your soul is being perfected for eternity.  Your soul is under construction because you are going to live forever.  Eventually, your body will live forever too, but that will be a little later.  Your soul is going to eternity when you did, but in the meanwhile, it’s being renewed day by day in strength, faith, purity and holiness.  In all these different ways, the inner person is being renewed, as we are responding to God.

As for old age, “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.”  (Proverbs 4:18).

PRAYER

Father, may I daily find the grace I need in You.  By Your power, sustain me to glorify You.

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Ps 68:19

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, who daily bears our burdens.

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2 Peter 1:3

And His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.

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2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you always, having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

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Ps 107:9

He satisfies the longing of the soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

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Psalm 71:14-15

But I will hope continually and I will praise You yet more and more.  My mouth shall tell of your righteousness and Your salvation all the day.  For I do not know their limits!

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Job 29:20

My glory is ever new with me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.

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Psalm 103:5

Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

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Isaiah 57:10

You were tired out by the length of your road, Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless!’ You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not faint.

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Ephesians 4:23

and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

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Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it

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