Daily Bread - June 23, 2004

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

I am leading you in a plain path because of your enemies. Come and follow me. Simply follow me in the paths of righteousness for my name's sake. Do not be disturbed by the strange events that are happening. I have allowed all these things. I know the way that you take. Your steps are ordered. The path before your feet has been prearranged. I prepared a big fish to swallow up Jonah. It was working together for his good. The big thing that I have prepared for you is working together for your good also. It will vomit you up on the dry land of victory; therefore, fear not. You have been consumed with this problem, and now you are in the belly of it. Offer praise unto me from the depth of this thing, and it will become nauseated by your praises and vomit you up on the dry land of obedience. If you had obeyed when I first spoke to you about the direction to take concerning this situation, this big problem would not have been necessary.

You followed human reasoning, conveniences, and the voice of man. These voices took you in the wrong direction. This big problem is removing you from a wrong direction and placing you in the will of God that I may bless you and souls may be won to my kingdom. Do not be filled with lack of trust. Distrust is a big enemy. Distrust is void of conviction and certainty. Incertitude is at the heart of distrust. You cannot make the right choices by using distrust as a compass. There is no assurance or confidence in distrust. Go from the presence of men that you cannot trust. Liars all have the same father, and a leopard cannot change his spots. A liar gives ear to a naughty tongue. Why listen to it?

A poor man is better than a liar. They will falsify anything to justify themselves. I have allowed experience to be your teacher. Now sit at the feet of experience, and eat the bitter herbs of learning with the sweet. These bitter things are good for you. You have learned to eat the sweet bread of obedience and to refuse the bitter, good-looking bread of disobedience. I am true. Every man is a liar. The truth of God does not abound through lies unto my glory. You do not do evil that good may come. Record the bad things that have happened to you in the ledger of man, for there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understands. There is none that seeks after me. They are all gone out of the way, and they are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher and with their tongues, they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Many have fallen from grace seeking to justify themselves through lies and self-righteousness. Pick yourself up from the way of self-justification, for the entire world is guilty before me. No one is justified in my sight by the deeds of the law. The righteousness of God without the law is manifested. All have sinned and come short of my glory, but you are justified freely by my grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. I am declaring to you again, my righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God. Do you believe in Jesus?

Then I have justified you. Embrace grace, and be saved from the hand of your enemies. I have not delivered you over to their will. Though false witnesses are raised up against you, even breathing out cruelty, you have believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on me. Be of good courage. I will strengthen your heart. Wait on me.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?