FIRST Day 378

Isaiah 50:7  For the LORD God will help me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

As I have previously mentioned, I have always known about God, but it wasn`t until one of the most difficult times and struggles in my life that I truly surrendered "my will" to Him.  Father God, I just can`t do this anymore, please remove the burdened from my shoulders.  From that moment, my life has continually changed for the better.

Zephaniah 3:17  The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

Indeed, my soul has been quieted by his love and feelings of his rejoicing.  Once I opened his love letter in my heart, a passion of desire for the LORD took root!  Jeremiah 31:33.......after that time, "declares the LORD,"  I will put my law in their minds and write it on their minds and write it on their hearts.  I will be their God and they will be my people.

Yes, there were responsibilities on my part, I made a quality decision to serve Him and be obedient to Him.  I began to walk as His representative with everyone that I met.  Giving your all to God means living as a disciple and picking up your cross daily to follow Him.  As my dear friend Tom Davis says, "you may be the only Bible that someone reads."  Gigantic responsibility, perhaps my addictive personality has finally started to become an asset!

I began the process of putting GOD FIRST!  Ephesians 4:14-16  Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.  

FIRST---foremost, leading, chief, principal, main, prime, ranking highest, preeminent, supreme and paramount-----is GOD first in your life?  Is He in your top ten?

F-faith--Job 19:25-227  I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.  I myself will see him with my own eyes---I, and not another.  How my heart yearns within me.

I-identity--Deuteronomy 26:18-19  And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.  He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the LORD you God, as he promised.

R-restoration--Micah 7:18-19   Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance?  You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.  You will again have compassion on us; you will tread ours sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. 

S-strength--Habakkuk 3:19  The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.

T-trust--1 Peter 5:5-7  Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older.  All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble:"  Humble yourselves, therefore, under God`s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.  Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

First, I know how much God loves me, I know that I am a precious child of God, He continues to restore, refresh and renew my soul, all things are possible because He gives me strength and I will trust that He will direct my steps for his Glory!

PUT GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIFE, ALL ELSE WILL FALL INTO PLACE-----RIGHT SUE?   THE BEST ADVISE YOU CAN GIVE .........AMEN