“Come you children, listen to me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit, depart from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it; for the eyes of the Lord is on the righteous and His ears are open to their cries. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in Him. Oh, fear the Lord you His saints, there is no want to those who fear Him. Let your mercy O lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You.”

“Now with the newborn day I give myself anew to thee, that as thou wills that I may live, and what thou wills I’ll be. Whatever I do, things great or small, whatever I speak or frame, thy glory may I seek in all, and do all in Jesus Name. My Father, for His sake I pray, thy child accept and bless; and lead me by thy grace today in paths of righteousness.” Thank you, Lord!

My brothers and sisters in Christ, we have been enslaved to sin and the evil way for far too long, we have been under the yoke, bounded and entrapped, but God promised that He will break our bonds apart and cast away the cords from us, but, many of us are unwilling to claim the chains that have us bounded, we are ashamed to confess them before God, our God who knows that these strongholds could be broken. He said, they are like fig trees, and if they are shaken they will fall into the mouth of the eater. Are you ready for God to shake the strongholds in your life? Claim them, surrender them today and let God have his way, allow Him to give you a brand new start, trust Him; for He is the potter and we are the clay and He could make all things new. Praise the Lord!

“New mercies, each returning day, hover around us while we pray; new perils past, new sins forgiven, new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind, be set to hallow all we find, new treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, as more of heaven in each we see; some softening gleam of love and prayer, shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, will furnish all we ought to ask: room to deny ourselves; a road, to bring us daily nearer God. Only, O Lord, in thy dear love, fit us for perfect rest above; and help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.” Amen!

My brothers and sisters in Christ, many of us are modern day children of Israel, we have no faith in God, nor do we trust in His saving power, we have food in our mouths that God provided for us, yet, we cannot seem to stop our cravings, we test God at every turn, our hearts are not steadfast towards Him and we are not faithful to His covenant. How long, how long will we continue this way, how much more will God’s spirit strive with us? He has given us what we asked and we want more, He has healed our backsliding, yet we turn against Him, He has delivered us from storms that should have destroyed us, but we have forgotten, He has done the impossible for us, yet we doubt His abilities because of our lack of faith. Turn, my brothers and sisters in Christ, turn your hearts back to the Lord, for He is merciful but His spirit will not always strive with us. Praise the Lord!

“The hosts of God encamp around the dwellings of the just; deliverance He affords to all who on His succor trust. O make but trial of his love; experience will decide, how blest are they, and only they who in his truth confide. Fear Him all ye saints below, and you will have nothing else to fear; make you His service, your delight; your wants shall be His care. For God preserves the souls of those who on His truth depend; to them and their posterity His blessing shall descend.” Oh praise the Lord, praise the Lord with me. He knew I needed this assurance this morning, and He placed this song of praise on my lips. Thank you, Lord!

“In this the love of God was manifested towards us that God sent His only Son into the world that we might live through Him. In this love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears has not been made perfect in love. If someone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from God that he who loves Him must love his brother also.” Praise the Lord!

“And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.” Dear God, show us how to sow good seeds, help us to never get weary in doing good for this is your will for us. Lord, help us to put to death all things which causes us to walk out of your will, so that we will do only what is right and pleasing to you always. Lord, we can do nothing in our own strength, but we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Thank you, Lord!