Word of the Day
Beloved, I warned My children as they transitioned from a life of bondage in Egypt, after their journey through the wilderness, not to forget Me when they entered the land of milk and honey and yet in time they did. What is the lesson to be learned in all I have been saying?
Remember the good things I have done and use them as fuel to ignite your heart…to ignite your faith in difficult times or overcome those little foxes before they make mountains out of molehills. Thanksgiving and praise are a must in order to remember what I have done so the leaven of doubt cannot spoil the promise. The only way to store old manna is through a thankful heart which makes way for increased faith…this is the proper way to value daily manna…daily provision…to remember and be thankful.
I gave My children manna in the desert. When the dew fell in the night manna fell with it. It fell ready for the eating…ready to build faith in their hearts on a daily basis. Seasoned with the honey of Heaven and having the appearance of precious stones, it came as the bread I desired for them to eat (Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:7 AMP).
I gave them instruction, manna and water to drink. I took care of every need until there was no more need once they entered the Promised Land. Manna ceased on the day they ate of the fruit of the land. I desired for My past provision to so build faith that they could conquer any giant and never give way to a mindset of bondage ever again. Yet, they wondered so many times about My faithfulness even though the ground shone with provision…shone with new mercies each and every morning.
Though My children ate manna in the desert they still died….though they ate manna seasoned with Heaven’s honey…thought they received instruction and did not thirst, they still died. Now there is a more excellent way. I have given My Son as eternal manna for you and all your generations. He gave Himself to be partaken of as the Fresh Bread of Heaven on a moment by moment basis.
Beloved, no longer is it necessary to wait for the dew to fall in order to have fresh manna. You now have ever-present living manna, Holy Spirit instruction and Living Water on a moment by moment basis. The choice is yours…to eat from the manna of negative thinking which leads to death or the manna of communion with Me which overcomes the little foxes and cast mountains into the sea…Read Complete Love Letter
I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Exodus 6:7 Amplified
Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His precepts, and His statutes which I command you today, Deuteronomy 8:11 Amplified
You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and withheld not Your manna from them, and gave water for their thirst (Nehemiah 9:20 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, thank you for making a way out of bondage…for making a way out of Egypt and placing me in the land of milk and honey…for taking me out of the kingdom of darkness and placing me in the Kingdom of Light. May I always remember the constant demonstration of your faithfulness I have experienced throughout my life. I offer you a thankful and contrite heart. I offer you a grateful heart full of praise and adoration for all the manna You have given me from the smallest bite to the greatest feast.
Father, Your children ate of manna in the desert; yet, when they entered into the Promised Land forgot about Your faithfulness and provision. They forgot about Your new mercies and how they fell with the honey sweetened dew of Heaven. I pray I never forget…that I never forsake a thankful heart and remain ever grateful for all You have done.
It is my heart’s desire to eat from Your hand…to drink from Your living water and to walk according to Your instruction with a grateful and obedient heart. Therefore, I choose to ignite my faith by rehearsing the good things You have done…to speak them with faith-building courage. All giants in the land of my life are being conquered as my mind is steadfastly set on You. My life is shining with new mercies like the jewel like manna glistened on the desert ground. When I feast on the manna of communion with You, as I do, the little foxes are vanquished….as I do my mountains are cast into the sea. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
1. What lessons have you or can your learn from the children of God and the manna they received in the desert on a daily basis?
2. In what ways do you have a tendency to forget the good manna He has given you in your lifetime?
3. How has your perspective of the things God has done for you changed by reading this devotion? How on a practical level can you value the things He has done in a more faith-building way?
4. Have you ever thought of the blessings and goodness you have received as ingredients for future success?
PRAISE THE LORD!!! SISTER BRENDA, I BELIEVE YOU SENT ME THIS LOVE LETTER FROM CHRIST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, MRS. BRENDA, WHEN I GOTTEN THIS LETTER FROM YOU IT REMINDED ME OF A CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF MY SISTER’S IN CHRIST. YOU KNOW I RECEIVED CHRIST IN MY LIFE IN 1983 AND I REMEMBER WE USE TO SING A SONG IN CHURCH CALLED, GOD’S WORD WILL FIND YOU. WELL SIS, TO THE GLORY AND HONOR TO ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S WORD NOT ONLT FOUND ME A FEW DAYS AGO BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT WERE USING ME TO SAY THESE VERY SAME WORDS TO OUR SISTER IN CHRIST BUT IT CAME TO ME FIRST. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THATS GOING ON AROUND US AND HOW CLOSE IT IS BEFORE OUR LORD WILL RETURN AND THAT THE PEOPLE OF GOD NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENTS. WELL, THATS WHEN OUR LORD JESUS INSPIRED ME TO ASK THIS QUESTON. BY SAYING, WE HAVE A HOLIDAY THATS CALLED MEMORIAL DAY, AND WE CELEBRATE ALL THAT WE FEEL WE NEED TO FOLLOWED BY BAR-B-CUES AND MORE, PEOPLE COMES AROUND, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS ALIKE AND WE CELEBRATE BIG TIME. NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING FROM MEMORIAL DAY, BUT THE LORD PLACED IT IN MY SPIRIT TO ASK, WHY DONT WE HAVE A MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE JUST TO CELEBRATE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST FOR ALL HE HAS IS AND GOING TO DO FOR US? AND BY THE SAME TOKEN, REMINDING THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK BACK OVER THEIR LIVES AS A MORIAL TO REMEBER JUST HOW FAR CHRIST HAS BROUGHT US. REMEMBERING HOW CHRIST TOLD HIS PEOPLE TO PLACE STONES IN THEIR PATH SO THAT WHEN THEY HAD TO COME BACK THAT WAY SO TO SPEAK, THE STONES WOULD BE A MEMORIAL TO THEM OF HOW FAR CHRIST HAS BROUGHT THEM AND SO THAT THEY WOULDN’T BE LOST BECAUSE HE IS OUR CONSUMING FIRE BY NIGHT, A LAMP UNTO OUR FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH, AND OUR STEPS ARE ORDERED BY HIM. HE IS OUR CHEIF CORNERSTONE, HE WAS THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED OF MEN FOR OUR SAKE. HE PROMISED NEVER TO LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US. CALLING HIS WORD TO OUR REMEMBRANCE THAT BEFORE HIS WORD SHOULD FAIL THE HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY FIRST, AND THAT NO MATTER WHAT WE GO THROUGH, HE WILL BE THERE WITH US TO BRING US THROUGH. IT WAS LIKE THE LORD WAS SAYING,PLACE HIM AND HIS WORD ON THE FOURFRONT OF OUR HEARTS AND MINDS, TRUSTING THAT HE SEES AND HE KNOWS. SOMETIMES LIKE PETER, WHEN WE TAKE OUR EYES AND MIND OFF GOD WHEN THE STROMS COME, IS CAUSES US TO SURRENDER TO, LISTEN TO AND FEAR AND FORGET ALL ABOUT THE GOD WE ARE SERVING. THE LORD TOLD ME THAT OUR SALVATION IS SEALED FOR ALL ETERNALTY BUT IT’S OUR FAITH THATS UNDER ATTACK. OUR FAITH IS IN JEOPARDY BUT THANK GOD FOR JESUS THAT HE PRAYS FOR US DAILY THAT OUR FAITH FAILS US NOT. OUR FAITH IS WHAT THE ENEMY WANTS TO DESTROY. THE LORD GAVE ME A WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE A LONG WHILE AGO AND IT WAS TITLED,CHRISTIAN WOMEN USING EFFECTIVE WEAPON WHEN FACING ADVERSITY IN THIS PRESENT WORLD. PROPHET JEREMIAH SAID, CALL FOR THE MOURNING WOMEN, THE PRAYING WOMEN, THE SEED OF THE WORD WOMEN AND MEN TO PROCLAIMING THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH PRAYER AND THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD, LAYING THE STONES AS A MEMORIAL FOR HIS PEOPLE CAUSING THEM TO LOOK BACK OVER THEIR LIVES REMEMBERING, PONDERING, AND MEDITATING OG THE GOODNESS OF OUR GOD AND HOW GOOD HE HAS BEEN TO US. THE CHRIST IN YOU SISTER BRENDA, IS SPOT ON ABOUT ME. YES, GOD HAS BEEN TRULY FAITHFUL IN MY LIFE, HE HAS BROUGHT ME FROM A MIGHTY LONG WAYS, HE HAS SHOWN ME HIS UNLIMITED MERCIES AND EXTENTED GRACE. HIS LOVE FOR ME IS NOT QUIT UNDERSTANDABLE BUT I GIVE ALL THE GLORY HONOR AND PRAISES FOR HIS UNFAILING AND UNDENYING LOVE FOR ME. TRULY I CAN SAY, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE LORD ON MY SIDE, LITERALLY, I KNOW I WOULDN’T MAKE IT NOR BE HERE. I KNOW AND CONFESS THAT I AM NOTHING AND NOBODY WITHOUT CHRIST, NOT FIT TO LIVE NOR FIT TO DIE BUT WHEN I WAS WALLOWING AND POLUTED IN MY OWN BLOOD, THE LORD REACHED WAY DOWN AND HE PICKED ME UP AND WASHED ME IN HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD. HE HAS BROUGHT ME FROM WHERE I WAS TO WHERE I AM TODAY, HE HAS TAUGHT ME WHAT I KNOW, HE HAS GAVE ME WHAT I HAVE AND HE CALLS ME HIS OWN, THE APPLE OF HIS EYE, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS CHILD, HIS DAUGHTER, HIS PRIEST AND ROYALTY, HIS HOLINESS. I DON’T DESERVE IT BUT IT WAS HIM THAT CHOSE ME AND I AM SOOOO GLAD HE DID. YES, HE HAS FOUGHT FOR ME OFTEN TIMES AND HE’S YET FIGHTING FOR ME, HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ME AND I WASN’T WORTH IT BUT HE SAID I WAS AND STILL IS. YES, WHEN TROUBLE COMES, I FALL WEAK AND FEARFUL AND I TAKE MY EYES AND MIND OFF OF CHRIST JESUS. I AM SOO GUILTY OF ALL THE WORDS ABOVE IN YOUR LETTER TO ME AND THEN SOME BUT I ASK CHRIST TO HELP ME AND TO RESTORE MY TESTAMONY AND WITNESS FOR HIM AND HELP ME TO BE STRONG AND EFFECTIVE IN HIM AND ALLOW HIM TO BE WHO HE IS IN ME. I AM WRONG FOR DOUBTING GOD AND FOR BEING DOUBLE MINDED. I LOVE HIM AND NEED HIM MORE THAN I NEED LIFE ITSELF BECAUSE I CAN’T DO NOTHING WITHOUT HIM. LORD PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR NOT TAKING YOU AT YOUR WORD AS I USE TO AND YOU DESIRE ME TO, FORGIVE ME FOR NOT TRUSTING YOU AND LIVING FOR YOU LIKE I SHOULD. LORD, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU BUT I HAVE FALLEN WAYYYYYYY SHORT OF YOUR WORD BUT PLEASE DON’T TAKE YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME. MY PRAYER TO YOU JESUS IS PS.51:1-OUT GOD BLESS YOU SIS AND THANKS FOR ALL THE ENCOURAGEMENTS IN JESUS NAME.