Teach Me Discernment
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Psalm 119:65-72 (KJV)
The Morning Exhortation
The comfort zone is a sedative for the soul that rocks one to sleep with a false expectation of victory at some unidentified point in the future. You may not always get what you deserve, but never expect to get more than what you have earned in this temporal world. Don’t expect to start at the top, don’t expect to move up by only doing the bare minimum, and don’t expect to get something extra for doing only what is required. Thank God Almighty that through the redemptive work of Christ Jesus, we escape what we truly deserve. Now the children of God need to hunger and thirst for righteousness with the whole heart in full assurance that He who promised that they will be filled is faithful. Wait for the Lord. We are sons and daughters of the God of all comfort, and from Him all blessing flow. (Proverbs 26:14; Ecclesiastes 4:5; Isaiah 51:17; Proverbs 23:29-35; Malachi 4:2; Ephesians 5:14; ; Isaiah 60:1; 1 John 2:15-17; Psalm 75:6-9; 1 Chronicles 29:9-13; Matthew 5:6; Isaiah 23:15-18; 2 Timothy 2:19-22; Romans 8:28; 1 Peter 5:6; Psalm 27:14; Proverbs 16:3; Psalm 94:19; 1 Timothy 6:17-21)
Today’s Bible Reading
Numbers 33; Psalms 78:1-37
Isaiah 25; 1 John 3
The Prayer Appointed for This Week
Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep me, I pray, from all things that may hurt me, that I, being ready both in mind and body, may accomplish with a free heart those things which belong to your purpose; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Book of Common Prayer
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