The Daily Dose

Bring our strengths together

“Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”  Hebrews 6:1-2

Perfection?  That would be nice, but pretty much unattainable.  However, this word perfection in today’s scripture is a completeness or maturity in Christ Jesus and in our salvation, not to be confused with perfect behavior.  The writer says let’s stop/leave behind the discussions (aka arguments) over the basic/beginning principles of Christ and let us grow up in the things of God.  Interestingly enough, the things he calls basic, are things that the church (body of Christ) is still arguing over today. These are questions such as works for salvation, living by faith in God’s Word, baptisms, laying on of hands, and will the dead rise?  These “discussions” are the reason we have so many different denominations in the world today.  This was not the plan of God for the New Testament church.  God never planned for divisions and denominations; in fact, He explicitly warned against them.  This explains the weakness of the body of believers in the day we live in. 

Wouldn’t it be interesting to watch the Holy Spirit bring denominations together in these last days?  Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if God would empower each denomination to put aside their differences and focus instead on their strengths?  What if we helped struggling congregations instead of watching them crash and burn because they are not of “our group?”  What would happen if we began to realize that we all agree that Jesus is LORD and we live to reach out to the lost?  We come together each week to praise and worship Him in spirit and in truth.  I know exactly what would happen, we as believers would begin to work together to accomplish the things God wants to get done around the world, regardless of our differences.  Think of it as compared to a marriage.  When two people get married, they don’t agree on everything and they never will, but what they do agree on is what holds them together.  The church would be an unstoppable force for the kingdom of heaven if we would begin to love one another! (John 15:17)  Isn’t this truly what life as a Christian is all about?

Today I want to encourage all of us to take a step of growth and love our brothers and sisters in the Lord.  Even the ones that belong to different denominations.  Let’s take care of one another and look out for the good of those in our communities.  Jesus does not want His body all divided up into pieces. He wants us to come together and begin to move in agreement with the plan of God.

Today’s scripture reading:  Hebrews 6:1-8

Spiritually mature

By this time you ought to be teachers, yet you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; you have come to need milk and not solid food.  Hebrews 5:12

Are you a mature believer? Do you live every area of your life by faith in God’s Word?  Do you know God’s ways?  I mean really know, not just what you think they are?  Do you study His Word and are you able to understand it?  Do you talk with Him each day and ask Him to walk you through your scripture reading time to give you understanding and wisdom, not just check it off the list as if it were a duty or obligation?  Are you training others in the Word?  Maybe through your church or in a small group or bible study?

Well, according to today’s passage, if you are not teaching and leading others, you are an immature believer. It says that the believers of that time were sitting and being taught regularly, but only absorbing it in for themselves and not discipling others in God’s Word of righteousness.  It seems that they were hearing the teaching, but not able to discern what was good and what was evil.

This sounds a little familiar.  Today, it is a very fine line between good and evil.  What is good and what is evil?  The only way to know is by lining your heart up with God’s Word and God’s ways.  For example, if you believe that adultery, killing and perversion are evil, is it evil to take these in through tv and other forms of media that blatantly displays them?  If you believe foul and profane language is evil, is it wrong to support a network that promotes programing full of it?  On the other hand, if you know that people are coming to Jesus through missions around the world and that you could be part of that, wouldn’t that be good?  We are living in a twisted time and we waste a lot of time and resources on ungodly feed and streaming.  How can we call this good?  I believe it is time to put away the childish things and step up into maturity and make our Heavenly Father and His ways our first priority.  Press into Him as much, if not more than you press into facebook or Netflix (for me it is cares and concerns) and I can assure you that not only will your priorities change, your life will, too!

Today I want to encourage you to take a step of faith toward your Heavenly Father and begin to talk to others about Him.  Even if it is just your family and friends, shift your focus to be all about God and His kingdom progress.  Promote the kingdom of Heaven with your time and resources instead of the world’s kingdom.  It is time for us to put away the unskilled milk and get the solid food of God’s Word on the inside until you are full and it flows out of you by teaching others everywhere you go.

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 5:12-14

What are you suffering from

He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.  Hebrews 5:8

I always thought that I could have had a better life if I had learned how to be obedient by listening and not by the mistakes I made.  I thought that I had gone through a lot of needless suffering in my life, simply because of foolish mistakes and being deceived.  However, the scripture for today inspires me because even Jesus learned obedience through His suffering.  Granted, He didn’t suffer because of foolishness, but He did suffer even though He was fulfilling all that God had called Him too.  This passage says He learned obedience through that suffering.

It is the same for each one of us.  We are going to suffer in life. Whether self-inflicted (as much of mine was) or simply because life happens, either way, trials and suffering will come.  The secret is to learn how to be obedient through the suffering and not become bitter or resentful.  Jesus called out to His Father and asked for His suffering to be removed if there was any other way to complete the plan God had set up.  Through His pleading and talking it out with God, He become obedient even to the suffering and death of the cross.  Philippians 2:8 says that Jesus humbled Himself, that is how He was able to become obedient unto death on a cross.

Here is the key!  Humility.  If we will humble ourselves to learn from the sufferings we go through, we can come out of them in obedience and fulfill what our Heavenly Father has called us to.  If we come out of struggles in pride blaming others or circumstances and determined to prove that we did the right thing, there is no obedience involved.

Today I want to encourage you in whatever you are struggling with, humble yourself before your Heavenly Father and talk it out with Him. Ask Him how this suffering can produce obedience in your life.  It may not make sense and may not seem fair, but it wasn’t fair for Jesus either.  Yet He became our ultimate example on how to both live and die.  When we humble ourselves to the plan of God through the sufferings we go through, only then will we be empowered to be obedient to all His direction.

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 5:1-11

He understands

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.  Hebrews 4:15

No matter what we go through in life, whatever test or temptation we face, we are not alone.  Our Savior knows and understands.  It’s easy to think, “I know He cares and knows what I am going through, but how could He understand?  How could Jesus understand the test that I am experiencing right now?”  This scripture says that Jesus sympathizes with our weaknesses and was in all points tempted.  Every type of test or temptation we could possibly come up against, Jesus went through.  We can see some of the things He was tempted with in Matthew 4:1-11. 

First, the devil tempted Jesus with pride.  He tried to get Him to prove who He was.  Satan said, “Prove you are the Son of God by turning the stones into bread.” Next, the devil tempted Jesus to give up.  Jesus was fasting and preparing for the ministry He was about to enter.  Satan said, “give up this fast and turn the stones to bread.”  He tried to tempt Jesus to give up on that preparation and to eat something because He was hungry right now.  Thirdly, Satan appealed to Jesus’ self-worth.  He tempted Jesus to jump from a great height to try to end His life early.  Last of all, He tried to lure Jesus away from His ministry by showing Him all the kingdoms of the world and telling Jesus he would give Jesus what He came to earth for in a simpler way than dying for them.  He only had to bow down to Satan. 

Jesus, of course, overcame all these temptations, but not because He was God’s Son.  It was because He used God’s weapon, His Word (Scripture).  You can defeat the enemy too by speaking God’s Word.  It is the one thing that Satan hates and speaking God’s Word in faith will chase him away quicker than anything.  So, the next time you are tempted to quit and give up, speak the Word of God to that temptation and chase your enemy away in defeat and terror.  Remember the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.  Piercing even to dividing soul and spirit and joint and marrow.  It is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

Today I encourage you to do three things.  One, be on your guard against temptation by recognizing when temptation comes and call it what it is.  Don’t justify it by making it a small thing (i.e. lying, cheating, worrying).  Second, prepare scriptures ahead of time for the temptations you know that you easily give in to.  Third, boldly declare the Word of God when temptation does come.  You can even say it like Jesus did, “It is written” or “get away from here, Satan” before the scripture you have prepared.  Don’t be overcome with evil/temptation, overcome it with the sword of the spirit, God’s Word.  Remember that Jesus also sympathizes with us and has given us a way to escape every time through His Words.

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 4:14-16

Focus on the details

“He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ” Luke 24:6-7

Today we celebrate Resurrection Sunday!  It was the day that Jesus got up from being dead and walked out of a dead man’s tomb.  Throughout this previous week we all have probably thought about Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection many times.  We have all probably had different thoughts about the details of the things Jesus went through leading up to His death.  Some may have focused on the beating He took, others may have thought about the crowd jeering and mocking Him.  Still you may have thought about Jesus carrying His own cross to be nailed to.  There may have been thoughts of His suffering as He hung on the cross.  Probably some were reminded of the words He spoke on the cross, then the tomb and the three days He spent lying there lifeless.  My point is that this is the one week each year that we really take time to focus on all the details of what Jesus actually did to save us from an eternity of separation from God and without Him we would spend our eternal life suffering in hell.  

However, what details will you be focused on tomorrow?  Will you immediately shift your attention back to the world and the current crisis we are in?  Will you scan the headlines to see what the greatest threat is for this week?  Will you learn every detail and possible outcome to discuss in every conversation you have?  Why does our focus have to change?  Why do we have to turn our attention away from the price Jesus paid to free us from the current world circumstances?  Why don’t we instead keep our attention on the details of heaven?  Can we keep our focus on the details of our God and the details of our Savior, Jesus?

Think about this:  What if you spent as much time studying and getting to know your Heavenly Father as you spend watching the news or learning about current events this week?  What if you focused on the details of heaven and the joy that is waiting for you there?  Why not learn down to the last detail about the love of God?  How He created us to have dominion over this world?  How He sent Jesus to defeat His enemy and every evil work he ever did in this world or ever will do?  Sin has been defeated!  Death has been defeated!  Sickness has been defeated!  Disease has been defeated!  Anxiety, worry, doubt, fear, all defeated.  He hung on a cross so we wouldn’t be crushed or even threatened by any attack of the enemy, right now, here in this world! The work Jesus did on the cross was so big, there is nothing that can stand against it.  Nothing!!!  It wasn’t just a partial work of Salvation for after we die, it was a complete work of redemption so we can live this life in total victory!  Evil is not our focus, Victory is!  

Today I want to encourage you to keep your focus on the details of your Savior, Jesus!  You already have the victory!  Please stop looking at the things that have already been defeated!  They are not a threat to God or His people, but the only way to believe that is to focus on the God details, not the world details.  Jesus redeemed us from the curse, but that redemption plan of God didn’t end there. Now you have a part in that plan and that is to continue His message. Stop the spread of the bad news and begin to make the good news your focus and what you are talking about.  

Today’s scripture reading:  Luke 23:44-49

He Was Determined

“Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus.” Luke 23:26

I have heard many messages about how Jesus sweat drops of blood in the garden the night before His crucifixion.  It certainly was one of the most difficult moments of His life here on earth.  The anxiety He experienced as He anticipated the events that were about to take place was outwardly and obviously expressed in His sweat drops of blood.  As He pleaded with His Father in His last minute alone with Him to remove this cup if there was any other possible way to accomplish God’s plan.  He finished the conversation by declaring “Not my will but Yours be done!”   Even as I write these words my heart is heavy with sorrow, but also filled with thankfulness and appreciation for Jesus’ sacrifice once again.

As difficult as that moment of prayer in the garden was for Jesus, I believe the turning point or most difficult steps were at the point He fell down on the road, carrying the cross.  Someone else had to come and carry it for Him.  At that point, Jesus showed His true determination to accomplish God’s plan to carry away the curse of sin in the world.  When He could no longer take another step, God stepped in and brought help for Him to get to the top of the hill to be that sacrifice.  It was at that point when Jesus could have said, “That’s all I got, I cannot take another step.  I cannot get up and move any further on this path.  I have been beaten until there is no strength left in this human body and I will lay down here and die.”  I’m sure He could have died right there if He hadn’t gone on.  However, He was determined to make it to His destination.  There was nothing that was going to hold Him back from getting to the place He was assigned to be.  He set His eyes on the top of that hill at Calvary and thought within Himself:  just a little further, just another step.  I imagined at that point He was probably down on hands and knees fixated on that spot where He was to be crucified for me.  He was obsessed to get there for us all, to carry away our sin, our sickness, our disease, and our pain and suffering.  Thank you LORD Jesus for being determined to succeed in the purpose for the breath You were given here on earth.  Your purpose was to be beaten, suffer, die, be buried, get the keys of hell and death, raise up from the dead, and ascend into Heaven to be with your Father at His right hand, to be the head of His church, to rescue us from an eternity of suffering and separation from You.

Today I want to encourage you to be thankful once again for your salvation, for the price that was paid for your freedom and abundant life.  Then become determined to succeed in the plan that Your Heavenly Father has for your life.  If you do not know what the plan is, ask and He will show you because He said, “you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart”.(Jer. 29:13)  If you have never accepted the gift of salvation through His sacrifice for you, do it today by praying this prayer:

Pray:  God in heaven, I know I’m a sinner and I need a Savior.  I want to turn away from my sinful life to the life You have planned for me.  Please forgive me for my sins, cleanse me from my past, and make me new.  I know your Son, Jesus died for me.  I believe in my heart that You raised Him form the dead.  At this very moment, I accept, confess and proclaim Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior . . . to be Lord of my life from this day forward.  Thank you, Jesus for Your grace that has saved me from my sin and has given me eternal life.  I now have a right relationship with God my Father. I also ask for Your Holy Spirit to guide me and to empower me to do the things that You have planned for my life in Jesus name, Amen

Now ask Him to make His plan and path plain and clear so you can follow Him from this day forward.

Today’s scripture reading:  Isaiah 53

Behold your Lamb

“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.  It is the LORD’s Passover.”  Exodus12:5, 11

I want to talk a little about why we celebrate and observe this spring holiday.  We call it Easter, but what we are really celebrating is Jesus crucifixion and resurrection.  Most of us know that Passover was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified to pay the debt of our sin so we could receive freedom.  Then three days later He rose up from the dead and walked out of the grave and defeated His enemy and ours for all eternity. 

I want to take just a few minutes today to focus on “Passover”.  It was a holiday the Jewish people celebrated to remember how God brought them out of bondage and slavery in Egypt under the leadership of God’s servant, Moses.  It was a prophetic holy day they kept each year to remind them that someday the Messiah would come to free them out from the bondage of sin.  The Passover that was celebrated the year Jesus was crucified was the fulfillment of that Passover prophecy.  

Today’s key verse in Exodus 12 is talking about the sacrificial lamb that was to be sacrificed for the sin of the people each year.  It had to be a male without blemish.  The lamb was examined by the high priest before it could be accepted as the sin offering.  I want to make a note here that when the people were on their way to Jerusalem for the Passover feast each year, they were not thinking about the sin they were offering up their sacrifice for.  They were not concerned about the extent of their sin and if it could be atoned for.  They were only interested in bringing a lamb without blemish so it would be accepted by the priest and pass the examination of the high priest to qualify as the sin offering to atone for their sins of the previous year.  

Now, to bring this into our relationship with God today. He has given us a spotless Lamb that was examined and sacrificed for our sin, no blemishes, pure, and clean.  This sacrifice did not atone (means to cover) but He completely eradicated (restored God’s original intent for people) the sin of the world. We don’t have to worry if we have blown it too many times to be forgiven because we have the perfect Lamb of God that paid the price for all sin for all eternity.  Our part now is simply receive that sacrificial gift. God no longer looks at our sin to correct or cover it, He looks at the sacrifice, the spotless Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world.  He has examined and accepted the payment of His perfect Son.  This is God’s complete expression of His love for us, He spared no expense!  He gave us His very own Lamb without spot or blemish.  “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”  (John 1:29)

So today, as we celebrate this resurrection season, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes on the perfect Lamb of God that paid the price for all sin, for all people, for all eternity!  Take some time this week to be thankful for Jesus and His sacrifice that bridges the gap between mankind and God. If you have never received this wonderful gift of God’s love and freedom from sin, do it today.  

Simply Pray:  God in heaven, I know I’m a sinner and I need a Savior.  I want to turn away from my sinful life to the life You have planned for me.  Please forgive me for my sins, cleanse me from my past, and make me new.  I know your Son, Jesus died for me.  I believe in my heart that You raised Him form the dead.  At this very moment, I accept, confess, and proclaim Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior . . . to be Lord of my life from this day forward.  I now have a right relationship with God my Father. I also ask for Your Holy Spirit to guide and empower me to do the things that You have planned for my life in Jesus name, Amen

Today’s scripture reading:  Luke 23:13-25

Be diligent

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.  Hebrews 4:11

Be diligent.  That is how our reading starts out today.  It is the way we are to be in every area of our lives.  Diligent to pursue God, diligent to go after His peace and diligent to enter His rest.  It means to be consistent at making the things of God the priority of your life.  Not out of fear or obligation, but out of love for your Heavenly Father because you know by faith that He loves you and only wants the best in life for you.

The entire chapter 4 of Hebrews is about entering His rest.  However, verse 12 seems to be the only verse that isn’t talking about rest.  I know this verse and refer to it often, but have never used it in relating to rest.  It says: For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

I will apply verse 12 within its context to rest but recognize that it is a scripture that we can apply in every area of life.  God’s word is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of our heart.  Jeremiah 17:9 says that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?  This is where the word of God comes in.  By lining up every thought and motive of your heart with God’s word, you can purge out the deceitful and wicked schemes from it. 

God’s word is God’s love for us.  When we begin to diligently seek Him through His love letter to us, (His word) only then will we be able to trust the thoughts and motives of our inner spirit because it is being transformed by His powerful word.  God’s word is the doorway to enter His rest!

Today I want to encourage you to become more diligent in every area of your life by setting aside quiet time with God and His word.  Let the word of God penetrate your soul, spirit, joints, marrow, thoughts and intentions.  It is alive, powerful and reaches not only into the spirit, emotional parts of your life, it is also for the natural physical parts.  God’s word is the truth and ultimate authority and when you line every area of your life up with that word, you can be sure that you are entering through the doorway of His complete rest.

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 4:11-13

A day of rest

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.  Hebrews 4:1

Have you ever had a problem getting rest?  Maybe you couldn’t sleep or maybe you just couldn’t relax?  Our bodies were designed to be re-energized through rest and relaxation.  That is why God gave us the gift of a day off.  He established the 7^th day of the week for a day of rest.  This was not a harsh law to be obeyed or there would be consequences, it was a gift that God gave to people after all the work of the week was done.

Yes, there are consequences if you do not receive the gift of rest.  This passage actually says you should be afraid if you do not enter His gift of rest.  For sure it is an act of disobedience, but there is so much more to it.  It is a law of how you were created not a law to control your activity.  God knew that our bodies would need down time to restore strength and mental energy, so He gave people an entire day to do that.  It was as if God was saying “you have my permission to take a day off and not push yourself beyond the limits you were created with.”  God wants what is best for us and He knows that the desire inside of a person for success would drive them to an unhealthy level of living, both physically and mentally.

Maybe you are thinking “that sounds great, but I don’t even know what a day of rest should look like.”  Because God called it a day of rest, many perceive it as a day of doing nothing.  However, this is just not the case.  It is a day of separation.  Separating yourself from the things that have consumed you for the entire week and putting your focus on your relationship with God and your family.  God doesn’t intend for you to sit in a dark quiet room for 8 hours doing nothing, although if that’s what charges you, have at it.  God’s intention was for you to have an entire day of a different focus.  Step away from business and your normal routine, step away from your cell phone and let you email fill up for a day.  In this way, you not only give your body a day of rest, your mind and spirit will rest too.

Today I want to encourage you if you don’t already have one day of the week designated to rest, purposefully schedule one each week.  It doesn’t have to be Saturday or Sunday, just a day that you can block off to spend special time with God and family.  If your work schedules you for the weekend, just make Monday your day of rest.  Wherever works best for you and your family.  The important thing is to have that day set aside, not having a specific day to do it.  I promise you it will make a difference in your life.  You will have more strength, energy and joy for the rest of the week when you honor God with following the pattern He established you to live by.  Enter into His rest, it is the healthy way to live.

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 4:1-10

Get rid of unbelief

So we see that they could not enter in (the promised land) because of their unbelief.  Hebrews 3:19

Unbelief.  It’s the reason God’s people were unable to enter the land God had promised them.  I always thought it was because of disobedience.  However, this passage says it was because the didn’t believe God.  It makes sense that it was in their unbelief, they were unwilling to take the land because they didn’t believe that God would do His part in the conquering so they disobeyed His direction.

It is the same way with us today.  Often, we disobey the direction God may be leading because we are afraid that He will leave us on our own to sink or swim.  Like He is going to point in one direction and then go another way to be far from us.  It just isn’t the case.  God is leading us to the paths and places where He is.  He wants us to be successful and is attempting to lead us away from our own destructive path to a road of His blessings and success.

Another example of unbelief limiting what God can do in your life is displayed in the life of Jesus.  Matthew 13:58 is the account of Jesus ministering to the people in His hometown, Nazareth.  It says that He could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief.  They knew Jesus as the carpenter’s son and that is all they were willing to believe about Him.  Therefore, they missed out on all the goodness that Jesus wanted to do for them because they were unwilling to open their hearts to receive it from Him.

I have many personal examples of times in my life where God was leading and I was unwilling to follow.  One particular time was when I was asking God about buying a home and I had my own idea of the area where I wanted it to be. It was in a place that I thought would make my life easier and better for my family.  As I continued to pray about it, there just seemed to be nothing happening.  I was getting frustrated and starting to be under pressure to find a place.  Finally, one day as I was praying about it once again, I remembered a house that was not in the area I wanted to be in.  It seemed like every time I started praying where to move, I would start thinking about this place that I had absolutely no interest in.  Now I was realizing that every time I thought about it, I dismissed it and said, “Nope, that’s not it.”  This day when it came to my thoughts again, I finally said: “LORD, is that you?”  I still had no interest in the place but asked God that if that was where He was trying to lead us that my desire would change, and I would begin to consider moving in that direction.  It wasn’t long after that, I started thinking about the place more often and the potential of it.  We went and took another look and now my heart had completely changed where the house was concerned, and I knew that this was what God was trying to get over to me all along, I just wasn’t listening because I thought I knew better than God what I wanted.  Following God’s direction and believing He knows what He is doing has turned out to be such a wonderful blessing for our entire family.  God definitely knows what He is doing, and He knows what I will love even better than I do.

We as God’s children often do the same thing.  We ask for God’s help in an area, but when it comes from a person or in a way that we didn’t expect, we don’t believe or recognize the answer.  What ever we receive from God will require faith and obedience, so the next time you pray and then sense in your heart the next step you should take, go ahead and ask God to give you the grace and desire to take it.  If that is where He is leading, He will put that desire in your heart as long as you are open to it.  It will not happen automatically, faith is intentionally following the direction of God, even when it doesn’t make sense in the natural world.  God is faithful and He has the perfect plan to get you to His greatest blessings in life.

Today I want to encourage you to ask the Lord if there is any unbelief or disobedience in your life.  Ask Him to expose it and empower you to get rid of it.  Then ask Him if there is any direction He has given that you have disobeyed because you didn’t believe or understand how it could be possible.  It could be things as simple as humbling yourself at your job and doing your best instead of the minimum requirement.  It could be becoming consistent at attending your local church and serving faithfully.  Maybe it is tithing or giving to missions.  All of these things require faith and believe that doing them will bring you closer to the purpose and mission God has for you.  Decide today to take a step closer in your walk with God and begin believing by faith that He is leading you to your blessed and promised land. 

Today’s scripture reading: Hebrews 3:16-19