Hope for each day is a book i read every day when i do my quiet time. i would like to share with you some of the things that has made me think.
this is what i read on June 11.
The Privilege of Prayer
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John 16:24
What privilege is ours: the privilege of prayer! Just think of it: you and i have the incredible privilege of approaching the God of the Universe, "the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy" (Isaiah57:15)! We can only do this because Jesus Christ has opened the way.
We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving.
We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud.
We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting.
We are to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.
Pray, believing, in the promise of God's Word that, "If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us" (1 John 5:14)
June 15.
Accept God's Freedom
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
James 4:8
One day a little child was playing with a valuable vase. He put his hand into it and could not take it out. His father, too, tried his best to get the little boy's hand out, but all vain. They were thinking of breaking the vase when the father said, "Now, my son, make one more try.Open your hand and hold your fingers out straight as you see me doing and then pull."
To the father's astonishment the little fellow said, "Oh no, Daddy. I couldn't put my fingers out like that because if i did i would drop my penny."
Smile if you will- but thousands of us are like that little boy,so busy holding on to the world's worthless trifles that we cannot accept God's freedom.
What "trifle" is keeping you from God? A sin you won't let go of? An unworthy goal you are determined to reach? A dishonorable relationship you won't give up? I beg you to drop that trifle in your heart. Surrender!Let go and let God have His way in your life.
June 21.
Free But Not Cheap
If anyone desires to come after Me, let him.....take up his cross, and follow Me.
Matthew 16:24
During the early years of the twentieth century, Bill Borden turned his back on one of America's great family fortunes to become a missionary to China. He only got has for as Egypt where, still in his twenties, he died of typhoid fever. Before his death he wrote, "No reserves, no retreats, no regrets!"
Discipleship is always costly. No, it may not cost us our lives. But it will cost us. It will cost us our plans, our wills, our selfish desires. Jesus' standard has not changed: "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow Me" (Matt. 16:24). Instead of controlling our lives, we turn them over to Christ as Lord.
Someone has said, "Salvation is free but not cheap." It cost Jesus His life, and it will cost us as well. But could anything be greater? Could anything be more fulfilling?
Follow Christ, and at life's end you will be able to say, "No regrets!"
So that is what i have been reading this month in Hope for each day. I hope it made you think.
