IDOK DEVOTION FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010

FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:

To review the list of names for prayer, please click here.

I am coming to you this morning with the writings of Sarah Young from her book Jesus Lives.

Trials

THOUGH I BRING GRIEF, I WILL SHOW COMPASSION. No matter what trials you are enduring, you can count on My Love and My compassion–neither of which will ever fail.  I can bring good out of everything I allow in your life, but much of what I do is far beyond your understanding.  My children often misinterpret My ways with them.  When adversity strikes, they tend to feel as if I’m displeased with them.  They don’t realize that My most devoted followers are especially targeted in spiritual warfare.  The devil and his demonic underlings delight in tormenting those who live close to Me.  When you are suffering and your troubles seem endless, remember I am tenderly present in your afflictions.  Instead of lamenting the way things are, search for Me in the wreckage of adversity.  You will not fail to find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

I want you to experience more fully the greatness of My overflowing Love.  As you open yourself to My compassionate Presence, this Love flows into you more freely.  Like new wine, My Love expands within you, increasing your capacity for Me.  Another way to expand this capacity is to let My Love flow from you to others. I am so pleased when  you do this that I flood you with more of My living Presence.  As you continue this blessed adventure with Me, I fill you with ever-increasing volumes of unfailing Love.

(New American Standard Bible)

Lamentations 3: ³²For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness.

²²The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

Jeremiah 29:¹³‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  ¹⁴‘I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’

This bears pondering:Instead of lamenting the way things are, search for Me in the wreckage of adversity.  You will not fail to find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Thank You, ABBA.  I pray, Holy Spirit, You will minister these words to every heart as we have need.  I pray for our IDOK Troops, please protect them, keeping them safe in spirit, soul and body.  And our list of Praying For These, we pray Your Will be done. Thank You, ABBA, for Your Goodness, so undeserved but so freely given to us in JESUS NAME.  Amen and amen.