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Faith and Hope in God! – 1 Chronicles 5
Feb 15, 2013 - 1 Chronicles 5
Dear Saints,
Today we prayerfully Feast in 1 Chronicles 5.
We see hope here where the people have
the faith to call on God. “ 20 And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and
all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God
in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him.”1
Chronicles 5:20, English Standard Version (ESV). They are in war and they have the hope that
God will save them. That is they have
the faith that God will save them. When
I see persons with no hope it is because they do not have faith in God. “ In this is
love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be
the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10 ESV. Those that have discovered the love of God
have hope. If there is no faith in God
then there is no hope. Because we have
faith in and love for God we keep the first thing first. That is salvation through the blood of the
Lamb. This faith in God’s love, gives
us hope for all things in God..
The Feast
Wed, February 14, 2013, 1 Chronicles 5, - “Genealogies” – Matthew Henry Concise
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Devotional Series On Loving God! By
Pastor Glen Aycock. Posted 2/15/2013
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DEVOTIONAL SERIES ON LOVING GOD
SCRIPTURE: DEUTERONOMY 6: 5-9
5 Love GOD, your God, with your
whole heart: love him with all that’s in you; love him with all you’ve got!
6 Write these commandments that
I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you
7 and then get them inside your
children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in
the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when
you fall into bed at night.
8 Tie them on your hands and
foreheads as a reminder;
9 inscribe them on the doorposts
of your homes and on your city gates.
DEVOTIONAL: “LOVING GOD”
Let us consider the essential of relationship
with God. We are commanded that the foundation is to love the Lord our God.
The question is, “How”?? Let us listen carefully to the answer and think
about it in the next few minutes. The instruction given includes the answer
in verse 5. We are commanded to love Him with our whole heart. Notice there
no such thing as part time love of God. Neither is there a stop and go
angle in loving God. Certainly there is not a halfway effort. Verse urges
to love Him with all that is in us and with all the strength we have. This
means one hundred percent action employed in committing our love to Him. As
a coach I never asked my team for a little effort to be extended on the
contest field but to give every last ounce of effort and to go far beyond
the comfort zone. That is what God expects of us. We need to step outside
the door of convenience and venture forward in active Love of God. This
means absolute faith that God is with us and will keep His promises toward
us. Let us realize we are on a mission here and our home is faraway on a
golden shore; we are here on a mission for our God and King. The first job
we need to attend to is to write these commandments on our hearts and then
teach them to our children. Let our conversation be about loving God. Dear
Jesus help us to increase our Love for You today. Amen.
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God Bless you,
Brother Mike
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help
“A new commandment I
give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also
are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 ESV.
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