Genesis 21:8-34 :: God Is With You

Reader:

God is with you.

Before you knew it, He was there. On that mountaintop, He was there. In that pit, He was there. In the normal hum of life, His is there. Whatever will happen in the future, He will be there. He is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come! Always present.

God was with always Abraham – and Sarah, and Isaac, and Hagar, and Ishmael.

God is with you – always.

“Our Father, we know that You are present with us, but our knowledge is but a figure and shadow of truth and has little of the spiritual savor and inward sweetness such knowledge should afford. This is for us a great loss and the cause of much weakness of heart. Help us to make at once such amendment of life as is necessary before we can experience the true meaning of the words ‘In Your presence is fulness of joy.’ Amen.” – A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 74

Genesis 17 :: Narrow

Reader:

“Allegiance to God means to condition the entire range of human experience by the awareness of His presence and in response to His demands.”

From the beginning God has been revealing Himself to those whom He created in His image.

As He has revealed Himself He has given promises, confirmations, and demands.

If He is our God, we are to live our lives in the knowledge of His presence and in His perfection through faith in Jesus Christ.

As for Him, He can and will do all that He has promised.

As for us, we can and will – only in Jesus – do all that He has demanded.

Who He is causes us to humbly fall before Him in awe and submission.

What He demands causes us to respond without hesitation.

Today is the day.

(Ex 6:3; Isa 62:2; Rev 2:19, 3:12; Rom 2:28-29; Gal 6:12-13; Eph 2:11; Phil 3:3; Col 2:11; Lev 26:41; Deut 10:16; Ex 6:12, 30; Jer 6:10; Acts 7:51; Lev 20:1-6)

Haggai 1:12-2:5 :: Face Strong

1 John 2:3; Prov 1:7; Zech 4:6, 10; John 7:37-39; 1 Kgs 8; Ezra 3:12-13; Deut 31:6, 7, 23; Josh 1:6, 7, 9, 10:25; Dan 10:19; James 2:14-26; Ex 29:45-46, 33:14-15