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Whose is the Glory of Doing?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional

Are we men and women who humble ourselves before God? Humility is a characteristic that is unmistakable in a person and gives them a certain quality that allows them to care for others and walk in faith without so much as causing a ripple... They become a part of the faith that surrounds them. However, the pride of doing, this morning's message, is one that convicts me often. Sometimes I struggle with that fine line between giving God the glory for answering a prayer and feeling that MY prayer might have been the source of that miracle. When you pray for people as often as I do and God answers our prayers for the needs of others, we might begin to associate God's movements with our own. When people seek you out as if there is some cure or other miracle that you can perform for them it presents you with a spiritual danger. The truth of course is that God performs all miracles and a person's faith is the catalyst that makes him worthy.

How God Rewards Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Rewards and Prayer

As I read a devotional one morning, and I contemplated its theme... “God Rewards”. It caused me to take pause, and think about the ways that statement was true, and to compare it to the many ways that this broad statement was not. On this particular morning E.M. Bounds had written the words "Faith believes that God rewards.", and although that is true, it is not unconditionally true. Some tie this way of thinking to a religion of prosperity, but this is a deadly trap.

Humility, or Denying God His glory in Our Life?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Denying God’s Glory

God works in us each and every day. He brings us to the doorstep of His will, and then perfects us as our efforts join with His in accomplishing it. However, none of this achievement is possible without His efforts in us, and none is possible by our own doing. So when His will is done, in some manner, how should we respond to others when they acknowledge it in gratitude or amazement?

The Magnificence of Offered Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Praying for Others

Who will we come into contact with today? Will there be some chance happening in our life that isn’t quite as chance as it might seem, and that the Lord will orchestrate for His purposes, and glory? There are many intercessions that occur during what we think are less than significant meetings and encounters, and in those brief moments when we witness someone’s need or struggle, our minds often wander to God as we think such prayerful things as “Oh God.”, or “Jesus!”. Have you ever considered these instant utterances to be moments of prayerful intercession?

Living Water and the Simple Vessels of Clay

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Selflessness

09/02/2023 - Living Water and the Simple Vessels of Clay

Are we satisfied with all that God has done in us? When we look in the mirror in the morning are we pleased, and at ease, with the fact that Jesus has filled us with His teaching, and that the Holy Spirit has expanded our understanding to overflowing? All of this is beyond wonderful, but what is really asked of us isn't to simply reach a degree of self-fulfillment, or to impress others with our command of scripture, but rather that we deliver the good news of Jesus Christ to the lost souls around us. Our measure is in obediently doing God’s will by sharing the living water He has sent to us in Christ with the lost and thirsty of the world. Let’s look inward today and ask ourselves if we are a vessel from which many drink this living water.

Will We Glow Like Jesus?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Glorified Body

I am lost in thought this morning regarding the gift that was given us from the cross. As believers we all know that Jesus suffered, died, was resurrected, and ascended into heaven, to release us from sin and death, but there is more. Through our faith and relationship with Him we will be resurrected and receive a glorified body just as He did. Are you ready to glow, just as the scripture we discussed yesterday revealed that Jesus did while talking with Elijah and Moses?

All Glory to God in Our Lives, and Fires

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Glory

When we go through trials, and are suffering terribly, do we only give the Lord the glory once we have emerged from them? Do we look back on what has happened and glorify the Lord for having rescued us? As we approach Easter it is a good time to look not only on the risen Christ, but on the glory He brought His Father in every moment of His suffering. His obedience, dedication to the will of God, and unwavering faith in the midst of horrific suffering. The pentacle of His Glorification of God was most certainly in the completion of God’s will, but He also glorified Him by suffering on the cross, or as Isaiah wrote… “in the fires” themselves. How do we personally endure our fires? Do we glorify God in them, or only after they have been extinguished?

Living Forevermore in God’s Glory

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , God’s Glory

What do you see in your mind’s eye when you envision Jesus? When at last you behold God’s glory will it be all that you have imagined, greater than you could have possibly guessed, or do you fear that His appearance will disappoint you in some way? Well, in this world we see with our eyes, but on that day when we behold Him face to face, our eyesight will yield to our other senses, and we will see Him more completely with our entire being, our heart, and our soul… it will overwhelm us like lightning. On that day all of creation will meet us in Him, and Him in us, for the first magnificent time.

The Closed Doors that lead us to Glory

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Closed Doors

As we do God’s will, or obey Jesus by going into the world to delver His gospel, we come to various crossroads, and we ask to be shown which way to go. This is the proper thing to do, but quite often, as we approach these places of decision, all we hear are slamming doors, and the only one that remains open leads us down the same tiresome road we have been walking. This is often disappointing when we want to do new and great things, but God, through the Holy Spirit, desires something different… something that eventually will be more advantageous to Him, His kingdom, and will lead us into eternity as we glorify Him.

Glory to God for every answered prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Glorify God in Prayer

We pray in expectant intercession for others, and when God has answered our prayers for them, we should thank the Lord in prayer, and celebration, just as intensely as we first prayed for His help, His goodness, and for His mercy. Answered prayer, whether for ourselves, or others, is meant to serve God’s will, and to glorify Him. Are we as diligent in giving Him thanks as we once were in asking for His help? Do all of the intercessors give thanks as one… glorifying Him for all to see, and giving each witness the opportunity to join in the blessing by saying Amen?

Praying Rightly in the Will of God

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Praying God’s Will

When we pray and do not receive it can be because we are meant to wait, but many times it is because our motives are not right, and we are not praying for those things that are in accordance with the will of God. When we are preparing to ask Him for something have we examined our own desires, and insured that we are not asking out of our selfish earthly vanities, or wants? Are we asking as we should for something meant to glorify God? Are we praying rightly?

Our Weighty Prayers, and God’s Eternal Glory

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Weight of Prayer

When we pray, how do we envision our prayers? Do we see them as merely being sound waves going out in every direction? Perhaps we visualize them as vapor, or maybe as invisible words that are spoken, and that make tiny ripples like those of a pebble which we have thrown into a pond; insignificantly small. However, none of these imagined manifestations of prayer could be further from the truth because our prayers have substance, and are brought like treasure before God… highly valued, pleasing in their scent, and prepared as an offering for the weight of His glory.

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