GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 27

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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GROUNDED AND SECURE

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. Isaiah 12:2

D.L. MOODY

Don’t be watching your feelings. There is not one verse from Genesis to Revelation about being saved by feeling. When the devil sees a poor soul in agony in the waves of sin and getting close to the Rock of Ages, he just holds out the plank of “feeling” to him and says, “There, get on that; you feel more comfortable now, don’t you?”

And while the man is getting his breath again, out goes the plank from under him, and he is worse off than ever. Accept no refuge but the Rock—the Everlasting Strength.

ERWIN LUTZER

Have you ever been in a pit? I’m not talking about the sand dunes, but an emotional pit of your own experience, the mire and the muck. This was David’s experience in Psalm 40:1–2, “I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog.” This kind of pit is too deep to get out of alone; as the saying goes: If you want to get out of a pit, quit digging.

Verse 2 ends with David saying that God “set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.” The solid rock is, basically, confidence in God. In the midst of circumstances over which we have no control, even there, God gives us the deep settled confidence that He will walk with us and can stand again.

You have heard this before: Feelings are not facts. Depression is a terrible experience, but it does not change God’s love for us or the trustworthiness of His promises.

PRAYER

Father, root me in your promises and keep me from rooting myself in my feelings.

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Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

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2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

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James 2:17

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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James 1:3

Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

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1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

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Romans 10:17

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Romans 5:1

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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