STAND ON HIS WORD (Part 7) "A daily Replenishment of the Word"

 

 

 

 

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This is the 154^th letter:

 

Text for the day: Psalm 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

 

Our Theme for the day: STAND ON HIS

 WORD (Part 7) “A daily Replenishment of the Word”

 

Our Devotional

 

Sydney Smith once said, “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.” This principle could be applied to anything we do in life. Today we are looking at the last part in the series on “Stand on the Word,” with a special look at the importance of a daily replenishment of the word. Have you not notice that most people have a problem with remembering the last time they did sometime of any major significance in their life? To see if I’m right, let us look at the simplest object on earth, the Bible. When was the last time you read Genesis chapter one? Better still, when was the last time you looked at the replenishing text in the same chapter? You may be saying you don’t know, or I did not know there was ever a text in the Bible called the replenishing text.

Let us read it, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28. Normally when we read this text, we get excited about the fact that Adam and his wife, (Eve) were given the privilege to have children. But how many parents fully understand the responsibility that comes along with that privilege of parenting? It seems to me that in order for parents to understand their calling, they must seek God for wisdom. This opens the door to this most important fact. Although many people have children, and they become parents, not everyone who has children is called to be parents. In other words, some parents have made themselves parents with-out God’s approval because they could not restrain themselves from committing adultery or sex before marriage and now they are parents. 

Others may have gotten married but they have not looked for help on becoming parents, they are like a fish outside the water. Still another class has gotten all the right ingredients to becoming a good parent, but they have not applied the information to their lives. They are like a fresh apple pie that was left out for weeks, they have become moldy. Then there is a fourth class, they are the parents of a well to do number of children who have great parents, but poor parenting skills. This class would rather call in the nanny or day care, to watch the child, but form no relationship with their children. In the creation of mankind God had a different plan for parenting and of married couples coming into the fullness of parenthood. Historically, the Bible tells us that God’s perfect plan was destroyed, yet God had an alternate plan.

Through this modify plan, Adam and Eve did have children but not in a sinless nature, but in a sinful nature. Romans 5:12. It is clear by all studies of the Bible that God's plan for mankind to live with out seeing death was interrupted, but praise God He had an alternate plan. In order for us to see this more clearly, let us look at the reproduction of the polar bear. It is said that in order for the polar bear to survive, it must reproduce. In human terms the life span of the polar bear is not very long. In the wild, polar bears live an average15 to 18 years, although biologists have tagged a few bears in their early 30s. In captivity, they may live until their mid- to late 30s. Debby, a zoo bear in Canada, lived to be 42. Scientists recognize 19 distinct populations of polar bears. Scientists also say that polar bears have one of the slowest reproductive rates of any mammal, typically producing only five litters in their lifetime.

If our spiritual survival was basted on that rate then only a few would be saved. But John the revelator said he saw a great multitude that stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with robes, and palms in their hands; that would be saved. Revelation 7:9. In order for Christian’s to survive they must also reproduce. Eve was the mother of all human beings on earth, because she reproduced herself, and her off springs reproduced themselves also. It is time for the real child of God to grow spiritually, if they want to survive. Secondly they must study the bible, and get into a reproducing program to enlarge the kingdom of God. Finally, stand on the word. If you do these things, happy are you in this world and the world to come.

 

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Our Prayer for today:

 

Father let your word become a light unto my path and a lamp before my feet.

 

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Prayer Request

Let us pray for John Richardson of Bermuda who is in

 

Boston for medical attention.

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Miss Annie Elizabeth Morgan of Bermuda is in need of our prayer,

 

(a woman of 84 years old) is in hospital. She has pulmonary Edema.

 

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