Manna for Your Morning

And Nehemiah continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!” — Nehemiah 8:10 (NLT) This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalms 118:24 NASB1995) For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Romans 14:17 NLT) Yahweh has made this day and He knows the plans and thoughts that He has for you, plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (See Jeremiah 29:11 AMP) We can rejoice because Yahweh is a God of forgiveness. He is gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. He will not leave you nor forsake you. Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those who seek and require the LORD [as their most es...

“Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.” — Matthew 24:11-13 (NASB1995) In a discussion with His disciples, about the signs of the times and the end of the age, Jesus says the love of many will grow cold. In Revelation 2:4 (AMP), to the church in Ephesus, He says: “…I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].” May we never abandon the love we have for our Yeshua, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. If our love for our Savior is a burning flame that never goes out, our love for others will never grow cold. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20 NASB1995) First Peter 4:8 (AMP) says: Above all, have fervent and unfailing ...

Seek the LORD, all who are humble, and follow his commands. Seek to do what is right and to live humbly. Perhaps even yet the LORD will protect you— protect you from his anger on that day of destruction. — Zephaniah 2:3 (NLT) May we purposefully and passionately pursue to know the LORD and be known by Him. “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” (Acts 17:27-28 NLT) To know Him is to love Him and trust Him. And as we get to know Him we are to become more like Him: loving, kind, generous and gracious. Second Corinthians 3:18 (AMP) says: we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit. “I will leave in your...

Then Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” and Shaphan read it before the king. Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes. — 2 Kings 22:11 (NKJV) When king Josiah heard the Word, his heart was tender and he humbled himself before the LORD. (See 2 Kings 22:19) He did right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left. (2 King 22:2) Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. (2 Kings 23:25) With all the voices that bombard the airwaves, let us intentionally keep our ears open to hear the Word of God, and listen to what it says. Romans 10:17 (NKJV) says: faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Let us treasure the Holy Scriptures in our hearts a...

But as for me, I will look expectantly for the LORD and with confidence in Him I will keep watch; I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation.
 My God will hear me. — Micah 7:7 (AMP) Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ. (See Hebrews 3:6 NLT) Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. (See Revelation 1:8) So be alert [give strict attention, be cautious and active in faith], for you do not know which day [whether near or far] your Lord is coming. (Matthew 24:42 AMP) Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling or falling into sin, and to present you unblemished [blameless and faultless] in the presence of His glory with triumphant joy and unspeakable delight, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, domin...

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” — John 14:6 (NLT) Jesus is the only way to the Father, follow Him. He is the way to eternal life in God’s Presence and a more abundant life here on earth. Jesus is the truth. John 8:32 says, “ you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free .” It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1 NASB) May we stay in union with Jesus and remain faithful to His teachings. God always makes his grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of his endless triumph.Through our yielded lives he spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. — 2 Corinthians 2:14 (TPT)