Devotional for March 19

Our Promise for the Sure Mercies of David

89 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. Psalm 89:1-4 (KJV)

The Prayer Appointed for This Week

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring us again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. from the Book of Common Prayer

The Morning Exhortation

Faith is spiritual muscle. Just as protein provides the essential amino acids necessary to build muscle, so does the Holy Bile provide the essential Word of God necessary to build spiritual life. Complacency is a sedative that causes one to permit what should be resisted. Idleness, despair, and ruin follow it in proportion to the dose shallowed, like a hangover follows strong drink. Christ died to set us free. Now He lives so that we too may live before God in righteousness through our Lord Jesus Christ. God’s free gift of righteousness works in us by our faith in God. We are called to live and walk in the Spirit, predestined to inherit eternal life in the holy city prepared by God for all those who love Him. Let us standfast in the freedom of a willing obedience to God like a sea-washed lighthouse in the mist of the darkness of this present world. The Light of the gospel has shown us the way through this dark world: deny self, pick up your cross, and follow our Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart. 

Question

What is the hearing of faith?

Answer

The hearing of faith is the process of receiving the engrafted Word sown in a receptive heart. Being watered daily, it produces a crop some 30, some 60, some 100 fold. Not all at once. First the blade, then the ear, than the full corn in the ear.