Daily Bread_August 2, 2013

Title: Do You Know How to Live the Overcoming Life?

Text:

Psalm 31:15 (HCSB)
¹⁵ The course of my life is in Your power; deliver me from the power of my enemies and from my persecutors.

Observation:

One of the things that I have discovered over the course of my life is that things happen in life for a reason, but they only last for a season. There is a song that I remember from my youth; "I'm so glad trouble don't last always".

The key to living the overcoming life is in knowing that everything that happens to us in our lives has to pass through the hands of the Lord before it gets to us. The child of God is always in the Father's hands, and He will see us through; not part of the way, but all the way.

Your Faith will get you through it all if your faith is in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The victory comes to those who know Him and who trust in Him with their whole heart. We may not be able to explain the reason for our troubles, but we can rely upon the promises of our God.

David, a man after God's own heart, was such a man. In the midst of going through his season of troubles he was able to write these words in Psalm 31.

Psalm 31:1-5 (HCSB)
¹ LORD, I seek refuge in You; let me never be disgraced. Save me by Your righteousness.
² Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly. Be a rock of refuge for me, a mountain fortress to save me.
³ For You are my rock and my fortress; You lead and guide me because of Your name.
⁴ You will free me from the net that is secretly set for me, for You are my refuge.
⁵ Into Your hand I entrust my spirit; You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.

David found in the season of his trouble that the Lord was a way maker. David trusted in the Lord, and the Lord saw him through his troubles.

"Our times are in Thy hand;
O God, we wish them there;
Our lives, our souls, our all, we leave
Entirely to Thy care."

Source: http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/h/681#ixzz2aoQnhVkA

Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so thankful for Your caring and helping hands. Whatever may come my way I would not have it any other way. Lord, I realize that sometimes life is pleasing, and sometimes life is painful; but in every case You are my God and Father, and I will trust in You to see me through it all. Amen and Amen.

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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

 

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