God's Word: Application

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Application

Talk about application. As I finished my devotional time this morning I felt God impress upon me to speak truth over my oldest son. So I sent him an email briefly explaining about my devotions and giving him a specific thing, a group of sentences, that I feel impressed to speak over him. Then the Lord brought to mind a verse and I wrote him that verse and prayed it over him as well. When I finished that I felt impressed to do something similar for my other two sons. Even though we live together, I still emailed them because the written word can be powerful. It was interesting because God gave me different things to say over each son and a different bible passage to pray over each of them.

How neat that God gave me such a practical way to apply what I saw in His word today.

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I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left. God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times. When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worst.

Ephesians 1:15-19 (The Message)

That's why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!

Ephesians 2:7-9: Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.