Keep the Faith Now

S.E.E.D. For Today___ Restore Scripture "Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me." Psalms 51:12 NIV David was a man who definitely journaled and talked to God this is why we have the psalms today. In his brokenness of admitting his sin he pens these words unto to the Lord. He starts out by crying out to God to have mercy upon, according to His unfailing love and great compassion, with that to please blot out his transgressions to wash away all of his iniquity and cleanse him from his sin. Sin leaves us ripped and broken. Ripped and torn in our wants, pleasure vs. God's will. Broken when we fail to choose the latter and needing His grace to bring us back into the previous state we were in our hearts and minds wth Him. Sin interrupts experiencing the joy we had in receiving salvation how special it was, how excited we were the joy was so great it was hard to contain, but in our walk we fall and during those ...

S.E.E.D. For Today___ Reconcile Scripture "and through Him God reconciled everything to Himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by mean's of Christ blood on the cross." Colossians 1:20 NLT We were God's enemies separated from Him by our evil thoughts and actions. Yet He reconciled us to Himself with the physical death of His Son Jesus Christ, as a result of this, He brought us into His presence to clear the record make us holy, blameless, cleared of all charges, without a single fault. God's justice requires full settlement of the debt, instead of being a debt collector, He forgave the debt in His Son's blood. It pleased God to reconcile us, for while in sin without any admittance of wrong doing towards God He was already making peace with everything. To reconcile us was a deal already established in heaven by the Father and Son, this arrangement was pre-planned to bring the world back into harmony and unity with ...

S. E.E.D. For Today___ Grace Scripture "Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God's glorious standard, and all need to be made right with God by His grace, which is a free gift." Romans 3:23-24a New Century Vision This is the gift from God that through Jesus Christ men are made free from sin. God sent Him to die in our place to take away our sins, to receive forgiveness through faith in the blood of Jesus death. "But the scripture declares that whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe." (Gal.3:22) Grace is the gift of God, we were all doomed but God grants us this unmerited favor and bestow us with His great love and justifies us with the life of His only begotten Son. When we think of this it is rather hard to fathom because of how we are and the world in which we live but it's true. While in sin God gave Jesus to take on our debt and gave us grac...

S E.E.D. For Today___ Grace Scripture "Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God's glorious standard, and all need to be made right with God by His grace, which is a free gift." Romans 3:23-24a New Century Vision This is the gift from God that through Jesus Christ men are made free from sin. God sent Him to die in our place to take away our sins, to receive forgiveness through faith in the blood of Jesus death. "But the scripture declares that whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe." (Gal.3:22) Grace is the gift of God, we were all doomed but God grants us this unmerited favor and bestow us with His great love and justifies us with the life of His only begotten Son. When we think of this it is rather hard to fathom because of how we are and the world in which we live but it's true. While in sin God gave Jesus to take on our deb...

S.E.E.D. For Today___ Glory Scripture "Arise shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you." Isaiah 60:1 NIV Light is the metaphor for salvation and spiritual awakening, it appears that right now the world is a dark, evil and gloomy place, full of distress and confusion. We need God to shine His light which He will and send revival to our worn torn land. Sin will not hinder God's ability to shine on us, He has already through Christ overcome sin and we are depending on God's transforming glory to rise upon every nation. God is the initiator in relationship with His people and without that God's will would never be accomplished. Right now we are suffocating amongst the darkness and unbelief that covers our world but God will arise for His glory will be seen upon His people. It's time for us to wake up for our light has come. God let Your glory reign upon Your people and send us a sign of Your favor upon us, let u...

S.E.E.D. For Today___ Daily Bread Scripture " Give us this day our daily bread" Matthew 6:11 ESV The Lord's Prayer is not a long prayer, but the petitions are so full of what it is that we should come to God for day and night. The beginning of the prayer admonishes and honors the Father, the request of the activity of heaven to operate in this realm, but then it goes to the physical or the human nature and necessities of man. The daily bread is not just about our daily provision and trusting God for it, but in it is so much more. In this command we metaphorically become bread as well because this prayer is a way that God uses us to build a mutuality between one another. He commands us to pray, give us, not give me. Every time we pray this prayer we are affirming our solidarity with our brothers and sisters, we commit ourselves to be part of God's answer for other's in need. I studied a commencement speech given by Arch Bishop William, his ke...

S.E.E.D. For Today___ Devotion Scripture "Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a loyal spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 NLT David's sins had affected his whole person, his eyes, his mind, his ear and bones, his heart and spirit, his hands and his lips. David knew this, so he asks for more than cleansing, he wanted his entire being to be restored so he could be totally devoted, acceptable to the Lord. David understood that the  inner person the heart was the source of his trouble and that he was incapable of changing his heart on his own. He wanted God to cleanse him and to give him a spirit of devotion that in his heart he would not waver in his ways towards God. David loved God and knew God was faithful to him no matter what and he did not want to lose the blessing and help of the Holy Spirit. David's devotion unto God was true and relentless to him. Often times the hopelessness of human nature can break our devotion and honor unto God. It miss...