Category: Devotions

Heard My Cry

“Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.” Psalm 50:15

Throughout the book of Psalms, many times the Psalmist (often thought to be David or someone else) cries out to God for deliverance. We have all done it at some point—I’ve been crying out to God daily because of so many mixed feelings and just a need for guidance, direction, and clarity. We need to cry out to God and let Him know we need Him—that’s called humility and reverence! Revere God and let Him know He is supremely able to do everything you need because that is what He wants to do.

All of us will or have experienced sorrow. We have lost loved ones, experienced attacks in our physical bodies, been tried at work, been broken-hearted and desolate, lost friends, and witnessed the brokenness of our families. We have had many things to cry about to come against us. Yet because of this verse and 5 others, we can cry out to God and trust that He hears us. We can trust that if we know that God hears us, we can know that we have what we ask for (1 John 5:15). Here God tells us that He will rescue us whenever we call upon Him, so do not be afraid to cry out to God for help. Quite frankly, He is the only one that can help us!

“”You called in trouble and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.” Psalm 81:7

Sorry for the delay…I hadn’t had an opportunity to copy and paste this over…sigh!

Living in the Right Now

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34

Hi everyone! Well I am back! I have a list of titles and plan to write them all! Anyway, one of my new mantras is to live in the moment, courtesy of the persistent hammering of a friend. But I really thought about this. I cannot spend my life worrying about tomorrow, next week, next year, or anytime after that. All I have is today, this very second, this minute, the very time now. I just at first took this living in the moment thing as something someone says to get away with just doing whatever they feel—which is not the case.

As a child of God, to live in the right now, this very moment, we are supposed to die to self and surrender all of ourselves, every area of our lives to Him. Not just our finances, but our relationships. Not just our families, but our careers. Not just our dreams, but the emotions and feelings that propels us in the wrong directions. But let me explain it this way: God tells us in the Ten Commandments to never have any other gods before Him. If there is some area of your life that you refuse to surrender to God, you are deeming yourself more important than God and quite frankly discounting the miracles He can perform for you. So, in essence, you are idolizing that thing—worshipping that thing, and what is that doing? Dishonoring God! You can’t live right and straddle the fence on any area of life! Dying to self is total surrender to God. So living in the right now should be lived with God leading you every moment, guiding your every footstep and trusting His every instruction to you. It is only in this way, in the true and supreme wisdom of God that you can truly live in the moment!