| Today's Word May 26, 2009 |
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Today's Word for Tuesday May 26, 2009
Faithfulness
Defined by Webster:
Steady in allegiance or affection; loyal; constant; reliable; trusted; believed; a quality of stability, dependability and devotion.
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"Great is Thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:23
"To declare Your loving kindness in the morning
and Your faithfulness every night."
Psalm 92:2.
"The Lord is faithful to all His promises and
loving to all He has made."
Psalm 145:13.
"For great is His love to us, and the faithfulness
of the Lord endures forever."
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We were trained by our parents to be first and foremost faithful to our Lord. Every act we did was to be evaluated as to whether we were faithful to God. We learned that the one thing we could always count on is God's faithfulness to us. God does not change and His love is unfailing. God is also faithful to keep all of His promises.
God has promised never to leave us nor forsake us [Hebrews 13:5]. God never leaves us, we leave Him but He is always there waiting for us to come back to Him. Our faithfulness is not reliable, loyal, constant, stable or dependable as defined above by Webster. So often parents make promises to their children to go somewhere or to do something but when the time comes something else comes up that seems more important to the parents and the promise is broken. In many cases the child is hurt and does not understand.
Faithfulness is an important quality that God expects of those who are His followers. He expects us to not only be faithful to Him but to our family, friends and neighbors. When the going gets tough are you someone that can be counted on? Faithfulness is never easy, it requires commitment.
When we were first married we made a commitment that together we would always be Faithful to our Lord, to each other and to our children. Then we made the same commitment to train our children as we were trained. God has blessed us, our children and our grand children as a result of this commitment to our Lord and Savior. Today we begin each day individually by asking God to bless us that day and help us to be faithful to Him. God does not call us to be successful; He calls us to be faithful.
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Help me dear Lord to be faithful to you in all that I do. Help me as well
to be faithful to my spouse, my children, my extended family, neighbors and
to all you allow me to meet today. I am grateful for Your faithfulness to me.
Thank you for giving me a day that I can look back on tonight and say
TO GOD BE THE GLORY, GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!
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Your Friends,
Ken and Dottie Phillips
"Today's Word" is sent to you free
to encourage you to commit today to
serve and honor God as a family.
These Family Devotional Thoughts are written by Dr.Ken Phillips, ministry director for World Bible Society, and his wife Dottie. Ken has had ministry positions with The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, World Vision, Youth For Christ, World Opportunities International, and World Bible Society. He also has consulted for more than 20 Christian ministries in management and stewardship development. Ken and Dottie have been married for 52 years, and have 6 children and 21 grandchildren. Come back regularly to enjoy their Family Devotional as they share their thoughts about living in God's Word!
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