Your Daily Crossroad
14
Jan '21
Hunger and Thirst
14
Jan '21
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6)
Do you ever wonder why life isn’t like a Hallmark movie? Do you ever wish it was? Things always seem to work out perfectly for the characters in those movies. But that isn’t life.
Life is tough sometimes. And when you seek the wrong things, it just leaves you wanting more to fill the void.
However, God’s word tells us that when we give thanks to Him and turn our hearts to Him, we find fulfillment. His word is His love letter to us. It is living and new every day.
He wants you to invest time in it. He wants to meet your heart’s desires at the deepest level of your soul. God’s presence is always with you. His ways are higher than your ways. To know Him, you must spend time with Him.
What are you thirsting for? Spend time with the living God of the universe and thirst no more. He desires to spend time with you!
After reading this devotion it reminded me of something I read, “There’s a whole new frontier laid out in front of you and me. It’s called 2021. It’s a good land, filled with opportunity and good things”. What am I thirsting for? Answer that question as you venture out into this new frontier called 2021.
Have a beautiful and uplifting day in The Lord!
12
Jan '21
A Merry Heart
12
Jan '21
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
I recently read this devotion and it blessed me. I felt it needed to be shared.
Have you ever had a friend or a person who lifts your spirits? A person with a cheerful heart is kind, encouraging, and helpful. They have an enthusiasm for the job at hand and zeal or zest for life. They just seem to bring joy to those around them.
God’s word tells us that a joyful heart is good medicine because it heals the soul and mind.
But negativity and cruel words bring strife and destruction. They crush the spirit and dry up our bones.
Sometimes, life’s trials do that to us as well. But, the Lord tells us that we are not meant to carry around burdens, hurts, and unforgiveness in our hearts. Holding onto bitterness and anger only destroys us. By hiding hurt and stuffing it we don’t heal, and that prevents us from living fully. God wants to use our pain for good.
Did you know that to make perfume they have to crush the flowers? The process of perfume-making resembles what happens when we face a trial. Life may seem sweet one second and then something happens to crush us
But God can use our pain and disappointments, trials, and suffering to create in us something beautiful.
As you examine your heart, are you good medicine to those around you? Are you a beautiful fragrance to others?
Have a beautiful and uplifting day in The Lord!
07
Jan '21
Stand Strong in HIM
07
Jan '21
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. (Isaiah 25:8)
Do you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do you feel like a hamster on a wheel unable to get off? Perhaps you can’t see anything good in your life, because all you feel is disappointment, grief, betrayal, or pain.
Depression, discouragement, and suffering happen to everyone. Each of us has different struggles or painful life circumstances that cause us to bottom out from time to time.
However, God does not intend for us to live under the weight of pain and suffering for long periods. While we may feel hopeless, God is the God of hope. He desires to comfort us. He wants to be near us. His word even tells us that He will wipe away the tears from all our faces.
However, God does not intend for us to live under the weight of pain and suffering for long periods. While we may feel hopeless, God is the God of hope. He desires to comfort us. He wants to be near us. His word even tells us that He will wipe away the tears from all our faces.
Ask the Lord to lift you out of your despair and give you a firm place to stand strong in Him. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
I’m sure most people answered yes to at least one of the two questions within the first paragraph of this devotion but what I love so much about this devotion is what it says in the final paragraph, have peace, be of good cheer, He has overcome the world. Hallelujah! Welcome 2021! We win!
Have a beautiful and uplifting day in The Lord!
05
Jan '21
Pray Back Scripture
05
Jan '21
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13)
In Psalm 27, David cries out to God and reminds Him of how He protected and provided for him in the past. What a beautiful reminder to us to recall those things that God has done for us in the past.
When we pray back scripture and remember God’s goodness to us, it lifts our spirits. It gives us the encouragement we need to keep going, even under challenging circumstances.
David, himself tells God that he is turning his enemies over to Him. How often do we hold onto our worries and troubles, even when we have prayed about them? God doesn’t intend for us to carry those.
While we may not have armies coming after us today, as David did, we have diseases, financial stressors, heart pains, and emotional troubles.
However, we can go to God and ask with confidence for His goodness to us. We can expect Him to come through for us and be with us in our pain. While the outcome or answer may not be what we are anticipating or wanting, we can trust that God’s answer will always be best.
How can God use your pain to grow you so that you will be more effective for him?
When I read this devotion it blessed me. As we go into this new year may we remember this devotion, “We can trust that God’s answer will always be best”. God will always provide, it just might look different than what we had in mind.
Have a beautiful and uplifting day in The Lord!