The Daily Verse

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.
Psalm 40:8

Let us maintain this kind of attitude and posture.

Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him…
Genesis 17:3a

Sometimes, being on our faces is the only time we can really hear God. So if you’re there, raise your head and listen.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
John 5:6,7

Change is hard, even when it’s going from being lame, sick and broken, to completely healed. As the opportunity for healing comes, in all aspects of your life, embrace the change rather than making excuses about lying in the same pool you’ve been in for years.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
Amos 5:14

Don’t over-complicate your theology to the point of missing the most critical messages. Allow the simplicity of passages like this be solid reminders of what’s important, for example, “Seek good, and not evil.” Simple yet vital.

“Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:28b,29-31

Adjust your priorities accordingly.

Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.
Deuteronomy 4:9

Don’t lose sight of the work God has done and is doing in and around you. Beyond keeping it close to your heart, be intentional to share it. Sharing God’s work will ingrain it in your mind and heart, and encourage those with whom you share it.

But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.
2 Kings 5:11

Naaman was expecting God’s work in his life to be an elaborate show of pomp and circumstance, when all he needed to do was be obedient to the simple instructions God sent him. Let his story remind us to obey God’s call, no matter how simple.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.”
Matthew 23:13

Let us be cognizant of this stern reminder. Simply love God, love each other and humbly walk out your salvation. Don’t throw your religion, theology and personal revelation in people’s faces, lest you be unable to live up to it.

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!
Ezekiel 18:31a

Let us constantly endeavor toward a new heart and a new spirit, refreshed by God’s mercy and forgiveness.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”
Matthew 7:7,8

Live like you believe this.