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Special time in my secret place

It would be hard for me to express, what my labor of love is like here in these writings every morning now for going on three months. Some days are difficult, some easy, but they all have come through His provision, and my diligent pursuit. This morning was easy for I awoke with “secret place” just streaming through my thoughts. It was crystal clear that was where God wanted me today, sharing my glue that holds me together. These devo’s have come as a result of probably six years ago saying “I have got to read my bible every day.” That building of a habit, that started at maybe a verse or two, has turned into these and my calling from God. One of my closest friends told me, “If you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what you have been getting.” Those few words speak volumes. If you are unhappy with your God, ask yourself how much time have you been spending with Him. Are you getting out, what you have been putting in? To experience a change, make one first. Your life will never be the same…….I promise.

Special time in my secret place

Psalm 91:1-2 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”

What do you do, where do you go, what do you lean on to get you through this thing called life? We all have a “go to” for escape, to recharge our batteries to face the day. It could be a sport, a book, entertainment, and hopefully not alcohol or drugs as I did for years. Now for me it is my time alone with God early every morning where I recharge. There is something special about the silence of the early day and hearing the voice of God. Matthew Henry put it well, “he acquaints himself with inward religion, and makes heart-work of the service of God, worships within the veil, and loves to be alone with God, to converse with him in solitude.” I simply cannot face the day, without facing God in prayer and His Word every morning.

Matthew 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. I do believe it is biblical for early morning time with God, for all throughout the bible it is spoken of. If there was only one thing I could say to a believer, it would be to spend daily time with God, for everything else will fall into place as a result of it. You will never truly abide in Him, hear His voice, discern His will for your life until you humbly seek Him every day. Once He sees that reverence that you place on your daily time with Him, your relationship will grow as never before. You will have no trouble arising from bed early, for your heart will have that expectation of a conversation with God.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 8, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Tags: church, diligent pursuit, psalm 91, religion, shadow of the almighty, spirituality

Stresses and Strains

07 Mar

Stresses and Strains.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 7, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Stresses and Strains

07 Mar

I am under a huge stress and strain myself right now. Being stretched to my mental limits in many ways, being pulled down many roads, many of them difficult in ways I cannot describe here. All of these culminate in how I feel every day. By the end of the day, I am mentally spent, and many time retreat to bed. But the glue, the Enabler, is right here every morning very early with God. If it were not for my glue, I would be back to my old ways, back to how I dealt with the stresses of life. This time every day enables me to recharge to face the battles and enemies of the day with the strength He has given me to start the day. You can have it too!

Stresses and Strains

Jeremiah 29:11-13 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

We all feel and deal with the pressures of life every day. These pressures effect how we handle every situation that we encounter every moment of every day. The stress of the first pressure wells into the next encounter, and may well into the remainder of the day depending on the stress of the first situation. It falls into the “more to see, than what you see” understanding. Much of what arises is the forks in the road, which deflect our well thought out plans so it seems. Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. God’s direction for our lives most likely will take a different path than we would intend, but that will enable us to reach where He intends, that which we alone could not attain.

Satan will try to thwart God’s plans for us by many means, both by evil and many ways that which seem to make us feel good about ourselves, but do they take our eyes off Christ? Satan is the pinnacle of deception, but always motivated to “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). The key to discerning the deception is spending time with God and taking all things to God. The more time you spend, the greater the discernment you are given. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. When we take all our trials of life to Him in prayer and His Word, He will open our eyes, and we will hear Him in our hearts. All things happen for a reason, and they all pass through His hands. Romans 5:3-5 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 7, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Tags: faith, future and a hope, jeremiah 29 11, many roads, religion, spirituality

Do you have a heart to hear?

06 Mar

Do you have a heart to hear?.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 6, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Do you have a heart to hear?

06 Mar

Such an awesome morning with God, wishing I did not have to stop. Ohhhh how I hope you will respond to that instant when He knocks at your door. It is never too late, until it is.

Do you have a heart to hear?

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Do you have an ear to hear? When you hear things of God, do you immediately put up a wall, or does something first stir inside you before put up your fight, or your reasoning for dismissal? That instant, that second of stirring before your pride steps in, is God knocking at your door. If you never have that second of curiosity, then my prayer is that one day you will. We are told in 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. God must first seek you, and you must respond, as an act of free will to His invitation by humbling yourself before Him. These things are the first things to changing your life for an eternity.

The revelation of that stirring inside you, that the Creator of the universe is pursuing you, should provoke humility and acceptance on it alone. How could you deny the one whom breathed the stars into existence, and life into your lungs? How could pride step in and deny that stirring you feel is greater than Him? 1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us. With the understanding of Whom is knocking at the door of our souls, comes an eternal gift of spiritual wisdom from the Holy Spirit that will reside in you, and reveal God to you for eternity. Your ears will be opened through the ability to hear the voice of God in your heart, not entering as all the static this world brings to our ears. Do you have a heart to hear?

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 6, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Tags: 1 corinthians 2, eternal gift, faith, religion, spiritual wisdom, spirituality

Yep, we can’t do it ourselves

05 Mar

Yep, we can’t do it ourselves.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 5, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Yep, we can’t do it ourselves

05 Mar

Much of what I have been watching and listening to recently has dealt with this. The feelings in today’s society of the “deaf ears” to sin. The idea that we are living overall good, overall better through our good deeds, and finding ourselves in Gods favor. There is even the idea out there that all ways lead to God, that Coexist idea. All ideas do not lead to God, and that idea is WRONG. Their is only one way, through Christ, and all others will pay for their mistakes for eternity.

Yep, we can’t do it ourselves

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

I say this in love, or as Adrian Rogers says in anguish, we really are all that bad. We all have, and all will sin every day of our lives. If we awake a day determined to make that day perfect we fail and sin in that beginning thought. There was only One, that could and did achieve that, Christ. We must realize and accept our depravity, for we are born into sin from the great falling away in the Garden of Eden. But if God only accepts perfection, He also provides the Way to become justified in His sight. Justified is a legal term that means declared righteous, or not guilty.

Romans 24-25 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. Through the sacrifice of His perfect Son, the door was opened for us to spend eternity in paradise with Him. We must realize our sin, and the unattaiaibility of our justification through any good works that simply make us feel better about ourselves. That comfort that you feel when you do your good work to attain Gods favor outside of the acceptance of His Son as the only pathway; that comfort is from Satan. Satan wants you to feel as though you can earn your way into heaven. He places those thoughts inside your head. Once you humble yourself realizing you cannot obtain God’s grace outside Christ through any good deed, you can accept Christ knocking at your door as the only Way. John 14:6 I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but through Me. You can’t do it by yourself….you can’t.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 5, 2012 in Daily Devotions

Tags: adrian rogers, faith, garden of eden, religion, satan satan, theology

We can’t do it

04 Mar

We can’t do it.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 4, 2012 in Daily Devotions

We can’t do it

04 Mar

It has been an interesting morning, a difficult morning in a few personal ways. Maybe because I am spending the time out here writing of pride, and that is one of my struggles, God will always convict me when I speak of it. I always pray for a humble spirit, and seek no glory, but pride is the root of all sins, and it rears it’s head whenever it pleases. Lord help me, for I cannot help myself…..only through You.

We can’t do it

Matthew 12:14-16 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him. But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all. Yet He warned them not to make Him known,

What drives you? Is it the ideas that make you great, the ideas of self glorification to show others what you have accomplished? The new car, the new house, the new toy? I believe we all have been guilty of that, for no other generation has seen the life of excess as ours has. But with it being removed, has brought a humility. In these scriptures, when they began to seek to plot to kill Him, Christ could have performed any miracle to change our remove Himself to alter the situation. He chose to take the lowly path, and flee. He was setting an example for us to follow. Matthew10:23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another.

Our hearts may burn with the desire to convert, to lead others to Christ. Those feelings that well inside us are the Holy Spirit, and an assurance of Salvation. But there are those that have deaf ears, hard hearts, and just refuse to hear. Our pride will lead us down the path of pursuit, which may lead to persecution through those we are seeking to show the Light. We must be able to swallow our pride and as in Matthew 10:14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. The work is never accomplished by us, but only through Christ. Beware of pride creeping into the most glorious message out there, that should carry a humble tone to all those that can and will listen. John 14:6 I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father but by Me.

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Posted by oneminuteministry on March 4, 2012 in Daily Devotions