It Is Good 

OCTOBER 04, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 4:1-2 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    “Someday son, you will see I am right,” or “when will you learn child, that when I tell you something, I know what I am talking about?” These words have rung in my ears for years. My dad would tell me something, and I would for some silly reason, believe my way was better. Guess what, it was not!

    Proverbs 4:1 says, “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father.” The word instruction here, in Hebrew, carried the meaning of discipline. It could say the discipline of your father.

    What did you just think of when you read the word discipline? I know I think of getting a spanking. That is one form of discipline used when I would not obey. However, that is a discipline I received for a discipline I would not obey. You see the word “discipline,” also includes the meaning of a controlled behavior. The father in today’s passage is telling his son, using one word, you choose which it will be? If you will hear of the disciplines, which I, your father has learned by years of practice, and then apply them as directed, you can avoid the disciplines that come from of disobedience.

    This is exactly what all of life is about. It is about learning to live with disciplines. In fact, that is what Jesus was doing while here on earth. He was teaching the disciplines of life to His disciples. If they would learn, and then adhere to them, the blessing from God would follow. If they went about their own way, they would also suffer the consequence of disobedience. When God, in Genesis 1, created this earth and everything on it, it was all set in order, disciplined. And He said, “it is good.”  

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

  How many times do you need to bump your head on something before you learn to duck? How many times must we see, God’s ways are always the best, before we will obey? When we do His will and willingly follow His disciplines for life, “It is Good.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  OCTOBER 04, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Jeremiah 35, 36     /     Psalm 82     /     Proverbs 3-4     /     Acts 12-14

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Song of So. 1-4      /      Gal. 5

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Is There Anything Too Hard For God? 

OCTOBER 2 & 3, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Jeremiah 32:27  Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    Some days it may feel as though the weight of the whole world falls on your shoulders. Problems seem to arise at every turn. Family situations keep coming one after another. Friends appear to have turned a deaf ear to your concerns and problems. Pressures from work and co-workers keep growing day after day. It may even look as if there is no way out. However, God says there is. As our never-changing God spoke these words to the people of Israel, you might want to bend an ear to what they say even today.

    Is there anything too hard for God, Anything? Could the God who created such a complex and wonderful creation as you also handle the daily cares you may have? The answer is YES! Can the God who created heaven and earth and keeps it all working, also handle your pressures at work? YES! Is the God who overthrew Satan’s plans at the cross of Calvary and destroyed the yoke of sin forever able to help you deal with your family matters? Again, it is YES!

    Jeremiah understood this. In fact, our verse today is just a confirmation from God of what Jeremiah had said back in verse 17 when he said: “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:” God’s answer was: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” The answer…NO! NOTHING!

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    When the world seems to surround you as a tomb, go to the Lord who conquered the tomb. Jesus said it best in John 10:10 when He said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

GOD TALKING TO ME:  OCTOBER 2, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Jeremiah 32-34     /     Psalm 80-81     /     Proverbs 2     /     James 3-5

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Ecc. 11-12           /      Gal. 4

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Like It Or Not, We Need Trials 

OCTOBER 01, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    One Sunday morning in our church service, I spoke on patience. I was saying we should all be more patient with one another and the burdens they bear. I spoke of how trials will help work in us patience if we will listen to God during the trial. I also mentioned how we should pray one for another. That is all Biblical, right.

    With the morning service over, I headed home to get some lunch and prepare for our afternoon baptismal service. At the time, we did not have a baptistery in our church so we would go to another church during cold months for baptismal services. When I got home, I found my finished basement had about 1 inch of standing water in most of it. Our sump pump had quit working. I quick called a friend who knew about plumbing and he and I got the water pretty much cleaned up and the pump temporarily working again. When I joined the church service that afternoon, I half-jokingly asked them, “Which one of you yahoos decided to pray for the Pastor to have more patience? Well, whoever you are cut it out.” Everyone laughed.

    Since then when I have heard people praying, “God, please give me patience,” I often wondered what might be coming their way to help them gain patience. I have long stopped praying for patience. My life has enough trials in it to help me learn patience on a daily basis. I now pray for peace.
   

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

  Today, as the burdens of life begin to bear upon you, think back on things you do now with ease which once were trials in your life. Walking was a trial when you were a one-year-old and driving when you were sixteen. Things that once seemed almost impossible, trials of the past you now do with ease. The trials you face today may also be the very things that makes you a much better Christian for tomorrow.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  OCTOBER 01, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Jeremiah 30, 31     /     Psalm 79     /     Proverbs 1     /     James 1, 2

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Ecc. 9-10           /  Gal. 3

Living In His Word Ministries

What Happened To The Popular Crowd?

SEPT 30, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    What has happened to all those popular kids from High School? You know, the ones everyone seemed to like. Admit it, somewhere deep inside even you liked them just a little too. I wonder what they are doing now. I do not see many of them on TV or read about them in the papers. All that popularity was good for a short time. However, what is it good for today? What about that knockout beautiful girl, or the drop-dead good-looking guy, have you seen any of them lately?

    The fact is that popularity, or the favor of man comes and goes. It seems to change from year to year. Beauty, physical outer beauty that is, also changes. This does not mean that people are no longer attractive, but it is a simple biological fact that our bodies change with time.

    However, the character of a person, who they really are is often remembered. A man or woman who loves the Lord and has deep-rooted Godly morals seems to have a special quality about them others cannot imitate or explain. They are often referred to by phrases like “He is a good man,” “she is a godly woman,” or “there is something about them that is different.”

    The book of Proverbs ends with an admonition to let the inner beauty from God shine through our lives. Why, because that displays our character, and that goes on forever. People respect God-fearing people even if it appears that they do not. Let God shine through you.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    Today, people are going to form an opinion about you. You, and only you can choose what that opinion may be. Nevertheless, you do not have to develop your character alone. Ask God today to help you be all that you can possibly be for Him. Then people will automatically see the best “YOU” ever, because they will see “JESUS” in you.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  SEPT 01, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Jeremiah 28, 29     /     Psalm 78:56-72     /     Proverbs 30, 31     /     Acts 11 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Ecc. 7-8           /        Gal. 2

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

Can You Control God?

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Psalm 78:40-41 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

THOUGHT ON GOD’S WORD:

    Here is a good question to start the day. Be sure and think just a bit before you answer because you know it is a trick question. Here it is. Do you think it is possible for you to control God? The all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere at every moment God. The one who can do anything He desires. Can you control Him? Well, we know we cannot have total control of Him, I mean get real, He is God. However, you can control His actions toward you.

    Imagine that. You can have full control of how the Almighty reacts to you. How? Well, the Bible says that if you harbor sin in your life, God will not hear you (Psalm 66:18). In Proverbs 1:23 it says if we will listen to His voice of correction and wisdom, His Spirit will help us in understanding His Words. What do you think God’s View is on the “Get Rich Quick schemes” in life? You did not think He noticed, did you? However, in Proverbs 28:20 God says His blessing are on the people who are faithful or consistent, but the ones who are always trying to make it in the lottery or trying to trick some other person for quick cash deal… well, you read it and figure it out. In each of these passages of scripture and many more God has given us a part in the decisions of what He will do toward us.

    The Children of Israel limited the “Holy One of Israel,” God, when they turned their back on Him. What might you be allowing or stopping God from doing for you?

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    God’s desire is for us to have a rewarding life. Not always happy, fun, or exciting, but rewarding. Taking us through the valleys of life, helps us depend on Him even more. Trust and obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus. (Remind you of a tune you have sung? Well, sing it again and believe it. It is true.) When we do our part, God always keeps His promises. Trust him.

GOD TALKING TO ME:  SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING  (O.T.-1/N.T. & PS.-2/Prov.-Monthly)
Jeremiah 26, 27     /     Psalm 78:34-55     /     Proverbs 29     /     Acts 10

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Ecc. 5-6           /       Gal. 1

Living In His Word Ministries

       “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12