Manna for Your Morning

“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.” — Romans 12:2 (TPT) Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  (1 John 2:15 AMP) Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]; (Ephesians 5:1 AMP) Our heavenly Father is loving, patient, kind, compassionate and generous. May we be like Him.

And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose. — Romans 8:28 (AMP) When things do not go as you had planned, remember we are called according to His plan and purpose. Yahweh is deeply concerned about you and His plans for you are good. His plans are for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (See Jeremiah 29:11 AMP) Only He knows the plans, and the appointed time for each event, and He reveals them to us step-by-step. The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.” (Psalms 32:8 NLT) Let us take each step by faith in our loving God and in His good plan for our lives. Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You. ...

Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me. — Psalms 139:17-18 (TPT) When you woke up today, Yahweh was still with you. He is a very present help in trouble. (See Psalms 46:1) He is the initiator and sustainer of our lives. Our heavenly Father has not forgotten about you for one second. He formed your innermost being, shaping your delicate inside and your intricate outside, and wove them all together in your mother’s womb. (See Psalms 139:13 TPT) Psalms 71:6 (NASB1995) says: By You I have been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; My praise is continually of You. Psalms 54:4 (NASB1995) says: Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul. Before you were born, the number of days He planned for you were already recorded ...

“Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel? I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn back and live!” — Ezekiel 18:31-32 (NLT) The Lord GOD has no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies. In Ezekiel 18:23 (NLT), He says: “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.” Sooner or later, the Most High God will be obeyed. (See Ezekiel 20:39 NLT) So set your heart and mind on following the Lord GOD and doing His will. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9 NASB1995) For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You. — Psalm 86:5 (NASB1995)

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days…” — Deuteronomy 30:19-20a (NASB1995) Set before each and every person is a path that leads to death and the curse and a path that leads to life and the blessing. Joshua 24:15 (NASB1995) says: “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve… as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” The choices we make every day are very important and they have consequences, not only for ourselves, but for others as well. And it is a choice we make, in every situation and area of life. God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. (See 1 John 1:5) There is a path that light travels. It is not the way of revenge, hatred or ...

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; — 1 Peter 2:9 (NASB) We have been called out of darkness. We are accepted and chosen to be children of Elohim, the all-powerful Creator of the universe. We are to be set apart from the darkness of this world, not succumb to it. Be holy and live in the light as our heavenly Father is holy. This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 5:7 NLT)

“ 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. ” — Acts 17:27 (NLT) Seek after God. …for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ (Acts 17:28 NKJV) Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children... (1 John 3:1 TPT) As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? (Psalm 42:1-2 NASB) How lovely are Your dwelling places, LORD of armies! My soul longed and even yearned for the courtyards of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. (Psalm 84:1-2 NASB)