Daily Bread - July 7, 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.

Man or spirit cannot oppose the blessedness that is on your side successfully. No one can persuade me to abandon my word, for I am God, and I cannot lie. I have promised you and given you my word concerning your life. What I have promised, shall be done. Do not abandon your faith in my voice, for in this confidence, lies the roots of true faith. Abraham did not refer to a written account of his reason for leaving Ur of the Chaldees. He heard my voice and forsook all to follow me. He believed my promises to him. I counted his faith as righteousness. If you abandon your confidence in my voice for man's way, then you will have your roots in instability, lies, deceit, and human frailty. I am not a man that I should lie. All men are liars. Not one is good but God. Make not flesh your arm lest you follow the curse of the last days. It is written, "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."

Lean not to your own understanding. Lean on the arm of the Lord. Who has an arm like mine?

I will thunder for you. Give me your burdens, and rest from your own labors. The work of my rest is activated in your life. Now behold the benefits of the rest of God. Out of my rest comes the strong arm of the Lord God. I rule with all power. I rule the raging sea. When the waves of the sea rise, I cause it to be still. I will scatter your enemies with my strong arm, for the heavens are mine and also the earth. I founded the world and the fullness thereof. My mighty arm is strong. I rule with a strong hand. My strong hand is high. It is called the right hand of God. From everlasting to everlasting, mercy and truth go before my face. Justice and judgment are the habitation of my throne. Come and hear the joyful sound again then will you walk in the light of my countenance and not the dismal light of man's way. I am causing you to rejoice in my name. All things are working together for good, and my righteousness is exalted.

I am your defense. My glory is your strength, so sing unto me a new song, for I have done marvelous things. My right hand and my holy arm have gotten you the victory. I have made known my salvation. My righteousness has been shown openly in the sight of the heathen. I will show the salvation of God, for I have remembered my mercy and my truth toward you. My mercy endures forever. I will bring you out again with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm, for my mercy endures forever. My own arm has brought salvation unto you. Behold the finished work of salvation on your behalf.

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?