Daily Dose of God’s Glorious Love

May 28, 2018 Monday “So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it , and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.” Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”” (Isaiah 6:5-8 NKJV)             What an amazing journey for Isaiah!   Isaiah goes from confession his sinfulness and unworthiness to answering God’s call with “Here am I! Send me.”   In truth each of us must make this journey for ourselves if we are to hear God’s call and to say SEND ME!             Why do I call this a journey?   Because a journey takes you from one place to another and God definite

God’s Great Fabric God thought of me, and fit me into the fabric of life.   I could see where I was attached to the fabric that made up my parents and their parents too.   Many others were attached to me here and there at points in the fabric.   Some I couldn’t even remember who they were, but the connections remained strong and true.   As I looked farther along I saw a great rumpled area that was pulled away from all and some other rumpled areas of fabric.   I asked God why He had messed up the fabric and He told me, “That is where you pulled away from Me!”   Farther along I saw where the fabric settled back down, leaving only little pulled places here and there.   I saw the deepest connection with Bonnie as our fabric combined to become a new fabric made brighter and more vibrant by the combination.   Then came the tiny stitches of my children.   I wept as I saw the rumpled areas of their fabric, and then celebrated as I saw it settle out farther along to combine with other f

George Conder wrote this hymn and Henry Smart wrote its tune.   Use this hymn as a beginning for your Worship. All things praise Thee All things praise Thee, Lord most high,   Heav’n and earth and sea and sky,   All were for Thy glory made,   That Thy greatness thus displayed   Should all worship bring to Thee;   All things praise Thee – Lord, may we!   All things praise Thee – night to night   Sings in silent hymns of light;   All things praise Thee – day to day   Chants Thy power in burning ray;   Time and space are praising Thee,   All things praise Thee – Lord, may we!   All things praise Thee – high and low,   Rain and dew and sparkling snow,   Crimson sunset, fleecy cloud, Rippling stream, and tempest loud;   Summer, winter, all to Thee   Glory render – Lord, may we!

            So many children in the Philippines are considered garbage dump children.   Their families live in or near garbage dumps because of poverty and the children become prey for pedophiles.   Children are picked up for sex and at times sold by their families in their desperation.             Rescue Ministries started when a group from First United Methodist Church in Jefferson City Tennessee went to the Philippines to help people.   They realized the children needed more than they could do in a short trip.               They set up a place where the children live and go to school. Currently they have someone graduating from High School and someone graduating from college.   Because of their education they can support their families and help their siblings go to school! www.therescueministries.org

            There are so many who every day is not only a struggle to survive but another day they are defiled and their soul stolen away through addiction.             Renovatus Ministries brings those enslaved to their addictions to a new life in Jesus Christ.   Through the live in ministry and training the program those involved develop a work ethic.   The program is long term as they disciple for a year and some continue to be part of the program for two years.               Where many programs are little more than places to dry out in 30 days Renovatus seeks to give time for God to make major changes in peoples life.             Renovatus also goes to jails and offer Celebrate Recovery classes and as they are released connect them to congregations to continue their studies and receive support.             My wife and I were members of the board until I was disabled and we continue to support them.   Please see if God would have you support this ministry. www.renov

May 27, 2018 Sunday “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.” (Isaiah 6:1-4 NKJV)             How do you picture God?   Do you believe God is limited to heaven?   How will you react if you saw God?             Isn’t it interesting the comparison in Isaiah that the king dies and we are shown a view of the Living God?   Isaiah presents us with a view of God we see again in the book of Revelation.   The glory of God flows through the throne room and out into creation!   God is not limited to heaven and Isaiah hears from the serap

May 26, 2018 Saturday “Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.” (Psalm 51:11-13 NKJV)             God is holy and we are not and cannot be holy by anything we do.   Our sin is a constant wall between us and God and must be dealt with.             In the Old Testament sin was forgiven by the sacrificial system which covered the sin of the priests, individuals and the nation.   A prescribed sacrifice of various animals was set by God to pay for their sins and enable them to be God’s people.   These sacrifices were only a temporary relief from sins and had to be repeated.             In the New Testament the sacrificial system involving animals was fulfilled eternally by the Lamb of God Jesus Christ.   Temporary animal sacrifices were no longer necessary and are even ag

May 25, 2018 Friday “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that , but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is , because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:22-27 NKJV)             Groaning!   Creation groans at all the blood which has been shed from the time of Abel until now!   The rampant sin and warfare cause

May 24, 2018 Thursday ““But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” (John 15:26-27 NKJV)             As Jesus promises the Holy Spirit will come to them Jesus defines the Holy Spirit as helper and the Spirit of truth. Helper – summoned or called to be on the side or beside someone and to plead their case before a judge.   To come to someone’s aid or assistance. Spirit of truth -    Here we need to look at two words. Spirit   - “ the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son”.   (This is a quote from Strong’s) Truth – what is true under God’s authority and in the circumstances in which we find ourselves.   This is not The Truth who is Jesus but the truth of who we are and what we are called to do by God.                      

May 23, 2018 Wednesday “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors — not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him , that we may also be glorified together.” (Romans 8:12-17 NKJV)             In some cultures when someone saves your life you are indebted to them and will serve them.   In such a way we are debtors to Jesus who saved our lives and freed us from slavery to sin.             Under sin we are constantly in bondage to fear but through Jesus the Christ we receive

May 22, 2018 Tuesday “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that , but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is , because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:22-27 NKJV)             As we look at the beauty we see around us it is easy to forget at times this is a fallen and broken world.   We marvel at the beauty

May 21, 2018 Monday ““Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? “No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is , the Son of Man who is in heaven. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, “that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:11-17 NKJV)             Nicodemus is a scholar and a leader of Israel but the teachings of Jesus leave him confused and this confusion about earthly things cuts him off from understanding heavenly thi

May 20, 2018 Sunday “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:1-4 NKJV)             The Christian year is an amazing way to see how God works in Israel, the Church and in your life.   Pentecost is older than Christianity and to Jews was the Feast of Weeks and celebrated God providing the harvest.   Later it was called Shavuot and celebrates the gift of the Torah which is the first five books of the Bible.             The first followers of Jesus gathered to pray and as the Jews celebrated receiving the law they received the gift of the Holy Spirit as they celebrated grace!   The Holy Spi

May 19, 2018 Saturday ““Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. “O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. “And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it , that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”” (John 17:24-26 NKJV)             The plan of redemption is that through Jesus our sins are paid for so we can be with God.   God’s desire for us to be with Him can be seen in the response to our fall.   “Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”” (Genesis 3:9 NKJV) God made the greatest of sacrifices by giving Jesus, the only begotten Son, to take on our sin and prepare us to once again be able to walk and talk with God!             Over and over Jesus would declare His obedience to the Father so

May 18, 2018 Friday ““I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” (John 17:20-23 NKJV)             As God Jesus is not limited by time even living within time and sees the Church’s growth through time to extend and complete the ministry of Jesus.   Even seeing the brokenness as the Church split into denominations and the excesses of those who claim to be Christians Jesus sees those who are always faithful and continue the lineage of the Church.             Jesus prays the world will understand God is one by the unity of Christians.

May 17, 2018 Thursday ““Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. “And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.” (John 17:17-19 NKJV)             Jesus pulls together so much in this little part of the prayer.   So much of the Gospel of John speaks about the Word and Truth.    From the very beginning we see this so clearly. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1-4 NKJV)             Jesus is the Word of God and is God and also creator!   Jesus does more than just give life but is life itself! “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6 NKJV)             I am

May 16, 2018 Wednesday ““Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are . “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. “But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” (John 17:11-16 NKJV)             Jesus should startle us with the statement that He is no longer in the world or is that something you read over?   Once again we see God is not limited b

May 15, 2018 Tuesday ““I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. “Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. “For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them , and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. “And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.” (John 17:6-10 NKJV)             Jesus who is the Living Word of God declares He has manifested God’s name to those Jesus has been given.   Jesus would declare to the disciples if you have seen me you have seen the Father.   We may struggle understanding how the Trinity works, how God can die or how God communicates within the Trinity but we can know in the life of Jesus we see God!