Spend Time with God EVERY Day

[Simon Peter]

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[AngeliaTurner]

great devotion thank you for posting

 

[ThinkOnIt]

May I showcase your post on my website's main page? I enjoyed it so much I'd like to share with others.

 

[ivory]

Nice post! Thank you for sharing

 

[Simon Peter]

May I showcase your post on my website's main page? I enjoyed it so much I'd like to share with others.

Hi ThinkOnIt,

I'm glad you enjoyed this devo; and if you'd like to you may certainly post it on your website. I took a quick look and your site looks cool If you'd just include my copyright info:

Copyright: Simon Whitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org

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God Bless,
Simon

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[Simon Peter]

Copyright: SWhitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

Simon​

 

[bigdAddyweAve423]

Awsome posts Simon!!

May God continue to bless you & instruct you!!!

 

[Simon Peter]

Copyright: SWhitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org

 

[ivory]

"Satan hated Christ with such overwhelming rage he couldn’t stop himself from viciously persecuting Him, eventually resulting in Jesus’ execution…and resurrection."


Yes, and that same haterd he has for me and you .

 

[Simon Peter]

Copyright: SWhitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

 

[Simon Peter]

No Looking Back​

 

[ivory]

Once you have placed your future in God’s hands and have stepped out on the road of faith, it won’t matter what comes your way; you will able to say with calm confidence, ‘It is the Lord who has brought me to this place’ even if ‘this place’ is burial in a foreign land among strangers, then so be it, ‘not as I will, but as You will’.

 

[JPPT1974]

We need to spend time with God
In order to make it through the day!

 

[Simon Peter]

Season of Drought

by SWhitton



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5 This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.

8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

Jer 17:5-8 (NIV)

This passage is about the hard places and the difficult times in life. The description is of a parched area of desert, wastelands or salt land where no one lives. Perhaps your life looks bleak in some way; you don’t see the provision you need, or you are lonely, distressed about something. Maybe you see life receding or being wasted. You just can’t see the point. Even the circumstances of nature may seem like they are against you. This is a period of drought.

With every passing day, a drought can sap your strength, leaving you dry and needy. How do you respond to this? In the past I have focused on the circumstances, struggling to control them or the people involved, and have even seen myself as a victim. But when we do this, we are trusting in men or our own strength, and our heart turns away from the Lord, or we disregard Him.

God is not only God when our circumstances are good. Isn’t it God who controls the forces of nature, the position of the sun and moon; how much more can he control our circumstances. He brings all the seasons, the rain and the sun. He makes some places lush and well-watered, others barren and dry. It is God who has planted you where you are, and it is God who has brought about this drought. He orchestrates the seasons of your life.

Why has God brought this difficult season upon you? Above all else God wants a deeper relationship with you, and that means you have to trust Him. It means having faith despite your circumstances. God would have you turn away from fighting for control, and instead put your faith and confidence in Him. He is the source of all you need. Do not fear the drought, but learn to trust God in it; because that’s probably the reason for trial that has come upon you. Once the hardship has accomplished the Lord’s purposes, the rains will come again.

If the Lord allowed constant moisture, our root system would be shallow and easily uprooted by a gust of wind. It’s during dry periods you put down deep roots in your relationship with God. When you trust in the Lord and put your confidence in Him, you are sending out roots into living water, a source of life that will nourish and sustain your soul in times of need.

Spend some time in prayer, and turn your heart towards the Lord. Give your circumstances over to Him, and seek Him for the sustenance you need. Then, as you put your confidence and your trust in Him you will thrive and bear fruit despite the drought.

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Copyright: SWhitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

God Bless,
Simon​

 

[angelwind]

Season of Drought


by Simon Whitton



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5 This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.

8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

Jer 17:5-8 (NIV)

This passage is about the hard places and the difficult times in life. The description is of a parched area of desert, wastelands or salt land where no one lives. Perhaps your life looks bleak in some way; you don’t see the provision you need, or you are lonely, distressed about something. Maybe you see life receding or being wasted. You just can’t see the point. Even the circumstances of nature may seem like they are against you. This is a period of drought.

With every passing day, a drought can sap your strength, leaving you dry and needy. How do you respond to this? In the past I have focused on the circumstances, struggling to control them or the people involved, and have even seen myself as a victim. But when we do this, we are trusting in men or our own strength, and our heart turns away from the Lord, or we disregard Him.

God is not only God when our circumstances are good. Isn’t it God who controls the forces of nature, the position of the sun and moon; how much more can he control our circumstances. He brings all the seasons, the rain and the sun. He makes some places lush and well-watered, others barren and dry. It is God who has planted you where you are, and it is God who has brought about this drought. He orchestrates the seasons of your life.

Why has God brought this difficult season upon you? Above all else God wants a deeper relationship with you, and that means you have to trust Him. It means having faith despite your circumstances. God would have you turn away from fighting for control, and instead put your faith and confidence in Him. He is the source of all you need. Do not fear the drought, but learn to trust God in it; because that’s probably the reason for trial that has come upon you. Once the hardship has accomplished the Lord’s purposes, the rains will come again.

If the Lord allowed constant moisture, our root system would be shallow and easily uprooted by a gust of wind. It’s during dry periods you put down deep roots in your relationship with God. When you trust in the Lord and put your confidence in Him, you are sending out roots into living water, a source of life that will nourish and sustain your soul in times of need.

Spend some time in prayer, and turn your heart towards the Lord. Give your circumstances over to Him, and seek Him for the sustenance you need. Then, as you put your confidence and your trust in Him you will thrive and bear fruit despite the drought.

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Copyright: Simon Whitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

God Bless,

Simon​

This is such good wisdom...I have been living in a wasteland for several years now...but as I have sought the Lord...and His grace has worked in my heart...now my soul feels like it is beginning to flourish...flourish like the palm tree in the desert.

I keep saying this a lot when I post, but it is true...His grace is amazing!!!!

 

[Simon Peter]

‘Friendly Fire’ in the Church​

 

[Simon Peter]

Compassion at a Checkout Counter ​

Copyright: Simon Whitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

 

[Simon Peter]

Copyright: SWhitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org

 

[Simon Peter]

Fall Down Before God​

 

[angelwind]

Fall Down Before God​

by Simon Whitton​

Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."​

Mark 3:11 (NIV)​

My great grandfather was a Baptist minister, and I recently read this excerpt he had written:

A blind man about 40 had been to several of the meetings and had listened very attentively to the message, but not until this last meeting did he yield his heart to Jesus. He sat in the back seat. I heard his cry for mercy. I went to him and asked him if he would like to come out boldly for Christ. “I would, sir, I would.” There were forms (people) all down the aisles and I had to get assistance to get this man out of his seat and we had to push our way through the crowd to get to the communion rail. When we did get there, there were very few dry faces in that chapel. They all knew the blind man. They knew that he had hardened his heart against religion before, but now he had prostrated himself before God and soon he rose up and gripped my hand and sang “Tis done, the great transaction done.” ​

This man did it properly, he demonstrated an appropriate response to the King of the universe; he prostrated himself, he fell on his face before God. In the Bible people often fell on their faces before kings, usually to honour them, or because they feared them; but more importantly people fell prostrate before God.

This is a practice that we must not overlook. We find it in the first book of the Bible, the last book and most books in between. When God made His covenant with Abraham, his response was to fall facedown before God. Moses fell prostrate before God for forty days and forty nights praying for mercy for the Israelites. Joshua fell face down before God after Israel had lost a battle, and David after he had sinned. Elijah called fire down on the sacrifice, then ‘all the people’ fell prostrate crying “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!” Job fell to the ground in worship after he had lost everything, even his family.
Many others also prostrated themselves in the Old Testament.

Once in the New Testament you can hardly get through a chapter of the gospels without someone falling at the feet of Jesus. A man wanting salvation, a Samaritan, a prostitute, a woman whose daughter needed deliverance, a demon-possessed man, a woman in mourning, a synagogue ruler, a leper, a woman who’d been healed, even a whole detachment of soldiers and some officials.

Later Saul and his companions fell to the ground when confronted by Jesus. Then in the book of Revelation the 24 elders leave their thrones and fall on their faces to worship God, along with the angels.

Now is not the time to harden our hearts, now is the time to fall prostrate, whether in worship, fear or with a request. Fall before the one who has all the answers, all the power and all the mercy you need. Then like the blind man of a century ago, you will be able to rise up and say “Tis done, the great transaction done.”

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Copyright: Simon Whitton ©2006-2007 www.spiritsword.org​

I just heard a message yesterday speaking of this very thing.

Dear Lord, grant us this grace again...personally and as a nation to prostrate ourselves before You...in worship, in humility, in wisdom Lord...open our hearts to Your glory again...Who You really are...