GOD’S WORD FOR NOVEMBER 7

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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DRINKING FREELY FROM THE WATER OF LIFE

Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1

D.L. MOODY

I pity those people who are all the time looking to see what they will have to give up. God wants to bestow His marvelous grace on His people, and there is not a soul who has believed on Jesus for whom God has not an abundance of grace in store.

What would you say of a man dying of thirst on the banks of a beautiful river with the stream flowing past his feet? You would think he was mad! The river of God’s grace flows on without ceasing; why should we not partake of it, and go on our way rejoicing?

ERWIN LUTZER

Centuries ago, Blaise Pascal, a French theologian, wrote about our inborn desire to find hope and meaning, and concluded, “the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to  say, only by God Himself.”

When Jesus was at the Feast of Tabernacles, He watched the people bringing jugs of water as a part of their prescribed ritual, yet, they were missing the deeper meaning of their worship. Hear Him, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’” (John 7:37–38).

Just as water is needed for physical life, so living water is needed for spiritual life. We may come for an initial drink, but then we come again and again to partake of God’s grace and the power of the Holy Spirit!

PRAYER

Father, teach me to drink from the fountain of living water so my soul can be refreshed.

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2 Cor 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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2 Peter 1:3

as His divine power has given to 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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Psalm 68:19

Blessed be the Lord,

Who daily loads us with benefits, and bears our burdens

The God of our salvation!

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Proverbs 3:5-6

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

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Luke 12:31

“But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.”

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Ephesians 3:20

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”

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John 6:27 — “Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

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John 10:27–28 — “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.”

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Philippians 4:19

“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”

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Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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John 4:14

“..whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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1 John 5:11–12

“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

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Matthew 6:33

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

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2 Corinthians 4:18

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

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Luke 18:30

who will not receive many times as much at this time, and in the age to come, eternal life.

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