Before
Your Eyes
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
I will set no base or
wicked thing before my eyes…
Psalm 101:3, AMP.
TODAY’S
WORD
In this Psalm, David was
determined to honor the Lord with his mind. David knew that what he watched
would affect his thinking. If he didn’t guard his mind by choosing carefully
what he looked at, he would be drawn to do things that weren’t pleasing to the
Lord.
The same is true for us
today. If we are watching things on TV or reading things in books or magazines
that aren’t pleasing to the Lord, we are opening a door to the enemy. When we
look on things that aren’t pleasing to the Lord, a stronghold is built in our
thinking. We become enslaved to those wrong thoughts. But, God has given us the
power to break those strongholds through the blood of Jesus Christ!
If you are struggling with
thoughts that you don’t want anymore, today, you can be free. First, receive His
forgiveness and make the choice to change what you are looking at. Let the Lord
wash you clean and strengthen you by His Spirit. Focus your thoughts on His
Word and do not let any wicked thing before your eyes. As you determine to
honor the Lord, He will empower you by His Spirit so you can live in freedom
and victory all the days of your life!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father, today I choose to
honor You with my mind. I choose to guard my eyes and not watch anything that
isn’t pleasing to You. I ask that You set me free of every stronghold so that I
can live in peace, joy and victory in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“He should keep it with him all the time and read from it every day of his life.” (Deuteronomy 17:19a NCV)
For most of the 2,000-year history of the Church, only priests got to personally read the Bible, but now billions of us have access to it. In spite of this, many believers are more faithful to reading their daily newspaper than their Bibles.
It’s no wonder why we don’t grow. We can’t watch television for three hours, then read the Bible for three minutes and expect to grow.
Many who claim to believe the Bible “from cover to cover” have never read it from cover to cover. But if you will read the Bible just fifteen minutes a day, you will read completely through it once a year.
If you cut out one 30-minute television program a day and read your Bible instead, you will read through the entire Bible twice a year.
Daily Bible reading will keep you in range of God’s voice. This is why God instructed the kings of Israel to always keep a copy of his Word nearby: “He should keep it with him all the time and read from it every day of his life” (Deuteronomy 17:19a NCV).
But don’t just keep it near you; read it regularly! A simple tool that is helpful for this is a daily Bible reading plan. It will prevent you from just skipping around the Bible arbitrarily and overlooking sections.
Talk About It
- With what projects or hobbies do you show great discipline in your attention to them? How can you apply that same discipline to your daily Bible reading?
- How do you think 15 minutes a day in God’s Word would change the way you approach your everyday life?
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