His Word for Today

This morning’s verses speak of His promotion and abundance, leading believers into a fall and lack. Why does this happen? One cause could be a lack of maturity to handle His blessings. Because the Lord blessed them, He must have trusted them that they would be able to handle them with wisdom, but the Israelis could not. This is one of the reasons why what matters at an eternal level is our maturity in character. We must choose to continue to grow in Christ despite all of the

This morning’s verses talk about the consequences of disobedience. The Scripture teaches us that if we choose to walk in the Spirit, we will not walk in the lust of the flesh. (See Galatians 5:16) In other words, what and where is our focus? In terms of character development, in which area do we have the most trouble and a hard time with? Is it in the area of relationships with people where we may be easily offended, seeing people negatively? In this case, love is what may be

This morning’s verses talk about obedience to the Lord so that we may experience His blessings. What have we been taught to obey as children growing up from our parents, who were in a position of authority? Were they in the areas of character or performance? This may have had a profound impact on how we obey the Lord, Who is the ultimate authority. If we look at the 10 commandments, it is about character development, including the worship of the Lord. It is not specifically

This morning's verses talk about the Lord blessing all the works of our hands, in the produce so that we can fully rejoice. What has He led us to do today? We can be assured that He will bless whatever we do today. He will also lead us to abundantly enjoy whatever He has given us through what He blessed us in doing. We are blessed in full capacity. Today, let us focus on doing what He is leading us to do. We can entrust the blessing portion onto the Lord because He blesses al

This morning's verses talk about the Lord blessings us. In the New Testament days after Jesus died on the cross, the Lord works from inside of us, through our mind, will and emotions in agreement with Him, and revealed through our bodies. (Ref 1 Thessalonians 5:23) This means that what the Lord had done in this morning's verses are released through us. The cities that are built, houses filled with good things, plants that are bearing fruit, freedom that we experience are all