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Great Peace
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE:
"Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble."
(Psalm 119:165, NIV).
TODAY'S WORD:
God not only wants to give you peace, He wants to give you great peace! When you love His law, nothing can make you stumble, and you will have great peace!
Great peace gives you joy when it doesn’t make sense for you to be happy. It’s peace that passes understanding. Great peace keeps you stable and strong no matter what may come against you. When you focus your attention on God’s Word and discipline yourself in the scriptures, you will hunger for more of Him. That love for His law will naturally develop. His Word will direct your path. His Word will protect you. You can always find security in His Word. Today, choose to put His Word first and have the great peace and blessing God has in store for you!
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word that gives me peace. I choose to focus on Your Word today so that You can protect me and guide me. I give You praise today for working in my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Miracles Always Come from Unexpected Sources
BY RICK WARREN — JUNE 27, 2014
“‘My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.’” (Isaiah 55:8 NLT)
Most of us have some need in our lives that we want met. And many of us try to figure how to get them fulfilled. You may be looking around saying, “Maybe God could do it that way” or “Maybe I could help God along with this” or “Maybe I could give a suggestion here.”
You’re trying to manipulate God, and it doesn’t work!
The source of a miracle will not be where you think it’s going to come from. It’s always unexpected.
God told Abraham that he was going to have a son, and that son was going to be the father of a great nation. Abraham was nearly 100 years old and had a little trouble believing God’s promise. So he took matters into his own hands and had sex with a woman who wasn’t his wife, and they had a son named Ishmael. Bu God said, “No! That’s not the one I promised. That’s the one you came up with using your plan, but that’s not my plan. My plan is I’m going to use your wife Sarah and do a miracle long after she’s capable of having children.”
The way you want to meet the need in your life is not the way God wants to meet the need in your life. Your way is second best. God’s way is always best.
If you could understand God, you’d be God. But you’re not! Let me give you a little stress reliever. Repeat this 10 times: “God is God, and I’m not.” Isaiah 55:8 says,“’My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine’” (NLT).
The path to a miracle is always through uncomfortable territory. The source of a miracle always comes in an unexpected way.
So what do you do when you’re on this road? You don’t fret. You don’t fear. You don’t try to figure it out.
You just have faith. You trust God, and say, “I don’t know how God is going to do it, but he will do it.” If God tells you to do it, even if it doesn’t make sense, you do it. Even if going in that direction, or to that location, or to talk to that person doesn’t make sense, you simply obey God and do what he tells you to do. And then, you get ready for a miracle.
Talk It Over
- What are you looking at as the source of your expected miracle? Or, is there a person you’re looking to?
- How do you think God wants you to show your faith in him to provide your miracle?
- What is God telling you to do that doesn’t make sense but that you know you should obey?
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