THE LETTER F

FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How are we to have fellowship with our father God, many of you have bad experiences with your fathers, some have been beaten by your father, some have been abandoned by theirs.

This verse taken at face value, maybe brings back bad thoughts to your mind, but it shouldn’t.

This is not human fear, this is reverential fear. The whole focus of the book of Proverbs is to share the truth of this verse.

We need to remember, who God is and who we are, he is the creator of the universe, we are his created beings, sinful beings, who were alienated from him Ephesians 2, but those who are now sons and daughters of His.

Therefore, we can come not trembling and in terror, but in reverential fear, knowing exactly who God is, but knowing that God is our father, the best father.

We can come to the father with confidence Hebrews 10:19-25, yes with confidence, but with reverence.

We can come as little children, the parents in Luke 18:15, were bringing their children to Jesus, people tried to stop them, we are to come as little children humbly and childlike, running to the father, every need brought to him, every problem brought to him.

We are to come for communion with Him, in Luke 10:38-42, Mary had the best part, she was sat at the feet of Jesus. 

He wants us to sit and learn of Him, for us to be teachable. I envy two people in scripture, those two guys on the road to Emanus, what a blessing that was to them, wish I could of been there.

We are to come continually, never stop coming to Him, everyday seek him, run to daddy. Fellowship with your father God is the best thing, spending one minute in his presence is like spending twenty four hours with anyone else, spending ten minutes in his word, is better than reading twenty books.

Run for fellowship with your father, come with reverential fear, knowing that He is God, but also that he opens his arms and wants you to sit at his feet and learn of Him.

He’s waiting to welcome you, what’s stopping you?

God bless you

KK

EMBRACE THE LORD

PSALM 18

18 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

I love the psalms, this one especially, it is so personal.

All the promises of God are Yes and Amen, they are not Yes and No.

Look at all the things, that the psalmist is saying, he makes God personal.

Over and over, he uses the words, my and mine.

God is not some being far off, he is right here with us, he is personal to us.

Every one of these mighty My’s are so wonderful. Make these personal to yourself.

Embrace these words, cling to these words and make them personal to yourself.

The bible and it’s promises are not abstract, they are personal to us.

Every time, you read the bible SIMPLY ASK, what promise does GOD have for me today and then embrace it, bring it close to your heart.

God’s promises are for his people corporately, but they are also personal to me and you, embrace the power of each one.

God bless you

Keith

Psalm 37

4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

These are some of the greatest verses in the whole bible, they have words such as commit and trust, but right in the middle is this verse, which has the word delight.

We should commit everything to God, we should trust fully in him, but do we truly delight in him.

Do we delight in his beauty?

Do we delight in his love?

Do we delight in his awesomeness?

To do this means to take pleasure in, we look at the following verses: 

Psalm 43

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

Psalm 90

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 29

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

God and him alone, should be our hearts delight, the true heart, will want nothing but God, everything else is a bonus.

If we truly delight in God, we will have our true hears desire, which is HIM.

What does your heart truly delight in? If it is God alone, then we will have our hearts desire.

Jesus says as much in Matthew 6

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seek God, delight in him, make him your first priority and everything will follow.

We serve and do things for God, but do we ever take time to delight in him, to dwell in his majesty, to be quiet before him.

Take time to just be completely silent, before God, that would mean turning off all electronic devices and social media.. oh no, say some people.

God wants us to delight in Him, because in doing that our deepest desires of our hearts can be satisfied and the one who can satisfy is God himself.

God bless you

Keith

COME UNTO ME

28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

The whole of the bible can be summed up in one word, COME.

We read in Genesis 3, that after man sinned, he hid and ran from God.

The constant call of GOD throughout the bible is to come to him,  man is still seeking to hide from God.

The story of the bible is one of redemption, it is like a game of hide and seek, of man hiding and running from God and God to seeking to redeem and buy back his chosen people.

Throughout the OT, God showed many signs of his coming salvation, through the ark, through the Passover, through the feasts and through prophecy.

The call has always been come. Jesus says come to me, he made it personal.

We can now come to God on a personal level, because of what Jesus has done on the cross, he has made a new and living way, as it states in Hebrews 10:

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh

Now, we can come freely to God, because of what Christ has done.

Some of the final words of the bible are probably the best, in Revelation 22, we read these words:

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

This sums up the offer, God is making through the whole bible.

May you today COME.

55 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

God bless you

KK

THE LETTER B  

Believe, be saved.

Acts 16

30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Romans 10

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

What great verses these are.

There are many beliefs in the world, but there is only one that saves a man. Belief in the finished work of the cross and the resurrection brings salvation.

It is the only belief that counts, belief in Christ brings salvation, because it focuses on a person and not on ourselves.

The Philippian jailer, the servant girl, Lydia and many others throughout scripture, believed and were saved.

My question is:

Have you believed in Jesus, like the people above have. John 3:16-19

BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOOD

Jeremiah 29:11-13 and Romans 8:28

When we walk with the Lord, sometimes things happen that are not good. We start to think, that God doesn’t have our best interests at heart. 

This is a prime attack method that the devil uses to spread lies into the Christian’s life. 

But we have to believe and trust that God, will never do anything to hurt his children, even his discipline is for a purpose Hebrews 12.

God’s will is always, good and perfect, we sometimes think that God has made a mistake, but remember that he never has and never will make a mistake.

Praise God, that he can be trusted, if we give God our lives, we can truly believe that everything he does in our lives is good and perfect. Romans 12:1-2

God bless you

KK

The Letter A

Admit you can do nothing.

Ephesians 2

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

John 15

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 

As we start our journey through the alphabet, let’s start at the beginning.

To become a Christian, you need to admit that you are unable to save yourself, you cannot reach God, you cannot come to God, because you are dead in your sin.

Physically you are alive, but spiritually, you are as dead as a do-do.

Unless the Lord quickens your heart, unless the spirit of God shines upon you, there is no hope for you. Jesus confronted the self righteous pharisees in the gospels, they thought that they were going to heaven.

All our so called righteousness is useless, we have to admit, that it is like dirty rags Isaiah 64:6, when the spirit of God moves in our hearts, it convicts us that we are sinners before a holy God.

My question is:

Have you ever admitted that you are lost and totally without hope?

That is one of the first things, that will lead you to the foot of the cross. You now can fling yourself upon Christ.

So admit, you are a sinner, cry out in repentance and faith to God.

A word to believers, we need to admit, that we can do nothing without CHRIST.

So often, we try and serve God in our own strength, we need to admit, that without Christ, we can do nothing.

The five bad churches in Revelation 2-3, thought they could do service without Christ. Remember Christian, what verse 5 says, you have to be connected to Christ.

He and he alone, is your power source.

If you are trying to serve him, in your own strength then admit you are wrong and repent.

I hope this series, will be a blessing to you, as we continue through the alphabet.

God bless you

KK

THE ALPHABET

2 Timothy 3

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Peter 1

21 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 

The word of God is so precious, it is not just another book, it is the very breath of God, breathed through human authors.

Some of these human authors were highly educated, some were not, some were kings and some came from the lowest rungs of society and yet God breathed his word through them, as verse 21 says, they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

We are going to start on a series of twenty six devotions, using every letter of our English alphabet, to focus on various aspects of the Christian life.

One of my heroes, is a man called William Tyndale, he was the man, who translated the bible from the Greek and Hebrew to English and he lived in the 1400’s. He was able to speak seven languages and he had degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, if you read the KJV as I do, much of what you read was translated by Tyndale. We owe this man a great debt.

Every word of the bible has deep meaning, every verse, every sentence, speaks of or points to Christ.

It is the only book that can make you wise unto salvation, others book are self help, but this book is God help, it tells how God and him alone can save a person  from the power, penalty and finally the presence of sin.

It is like having our own gold mine, full of gold nuggets, which person who has such a mine, doesn’t spend all their time, mining and digging each precious nugget out of that mine and know this, that mine is inexhaustible.

What person leaves that mine and doesn’t go into it or only takes a few minutes to go in, scratching the surface and comes out again, with nothing?

What person doesn’t go in at all, but wastes his/her time on trifles and worldly things, instead of drinking deeply of the pure water of God’s word?

At home, we have two full bottles of clean and pure drinking water, what would you think if I started to drink water from the toilet, you would think I was mad and you would be right, so why Christian, do you drink in the filth of the world, instead of the pure sincere milk of the word. Jeremiah 2 and 1 Peter 2.

Drink deeply, dig deeply, delve deeper than ever before believer.

Ezra and Josiah said Bring the book, will you today:

BRING THE BOOK.

GOD BLESS YOU

KEITH