All Day Long
By Gail Rodgers
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“Show me Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths; guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long??? (Psalm 25:4, 5).
~ Father in heaven,
Thank You for the promise and hope of Your word. Thank You that You can be counted on to guide me through my day. Today I need to walk in the hope that only You can give. My way is unclear, my path sometimes feels like it twists and turns in confusing and busy ways as I wind my way along my journey.
Show me Your ways, Lord. Show me how You would walk in these places. Teach me Your paths of grace and mercy and integrity and love. Help me to grasp Your ways so I can walk securely in them even in insecure places. I need Your perspective today.
Guide me in Your truth, Lord. Without Your Word active in my heart and mind I cannot know Your truth. Help me to make time to read my Bible. Help me to take time to think on it and let it penetrate my heart. Lord, Your Word will guide me as a beacon and a light. I need Your Word to guide me. Forgive me when I have left it on the shelf or have simply grabbed a verse and run off for the day, quickly forgetting what I read.
Thank You that You promise to guide me and teach me as I let Your truth impact my heart and my mind.
Oh Lord, You are my Savior, my rescuer and my redeemer. You alone are the One who restores and renews my spirit and brings meaning to my life. You bless me. May my heart overflow with thanksgiving to You for Your hand in my life.
I will put my hope in You today, all day long. Remind me by Your Holy Spirit to look to You to guide me. Call me into Your quiet presence to think on Your truths and may I not be distracted. This is the oxygen of my soul. Thank You that You give the hope and help and peace I need today. Thank You that You never cease to call me to Yourself. Help me to respond afresh to Your presence in my life. In Jesus’ strong name I pray, amen.
Going Deeper
1. Consider these questions: Note the four main verbs in the psalmist’s prayer request. Why do you think he used them in this prayer (are they synonyms, or do they have unique connotations)? What does it mean to hope in God our Savior “all the day long????
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Krisdee, My heart aches for you. I have such a burden for sickness. I hope our friend Jesus will show you how to get through your sorrow. Sometimes I look at life with knowledge but it doesn’t seem to help because i can’t control what’s going on. That’s when i say, Okay Lord it’s up to you now. I really believe for you that there is an answer to your families pain. God is more than able to do exceedingly more than we imagine. He says when our faith fails His does not. He sees where you are and your husband. He says What’s impossible with man is possible with God. Don’t give up even in your pain. He cares for you. He says, We will have trouble in this world but take heart I have overcome the world. I believe taking heart is submitting our hope and faith in him when we are in trouble why? because He wants to kick that enemy right out of our lives.He loves His children. He loves you. He loves your husband but He says we do not fight against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. You are a heir of the living God. Come against your enemy and see that God is building you up not destoying you. Sorry for being so bold.
Oops. Sorry. I wrote that I’ve really enjoyed ready all of them, regarding the devotionals. I meant to say that I’ve enjoyed reading all of them.
Good morning all. I am Christian and have been for quite some time now. But, I find myself struggeling to get even closer to God because of the bad things that has happened in my life. I have been divorced twice. The first divorce was something that I wanted but the second divorce was not by my choice. I waited three years to remarry and have a wonderful Christian husband. I believe that God wanted me to find someone that believes the way that I do. The devotionals from yesterday and today have been very uplifting. My husband and I have been through a lot financially in the two years that we’ve been married but I know that God has a plan for us. I have those devotionals printed out so that I can say those prayers everyday. I am not as strong in my faith as I should but I’m working on that part because I feel in my heart that God has a plan for me. I just need to stop and listen a little more than I do. Thank you everyone for these comments. I’ve really enjoyed ready all of them. Have a blessed day and May God bless each and everyone of you.
Your sister in Christ,
Pam
I always thirst for Gods grace. I want to enhance my relationship with my husband. I seek for Gods love and presence in our home and I always ask him to change my husband behaviour by making him a loving and caring person towards everybody. I always ask God to give me the patience. I ask God to give my husband the will power to stop his bad habits.
I know my good lord will not abandon me.
Todays and yesterdays devotions hit hard in my heart. Monday, my husband and I learned that he might have MS. Tuesday we received the written report of the MRI. I am studying to be a nurse and have been working in the medical field for many years. So, in essence, I know enough to be dangerous. I can understand a lot of what is going on medically, but there is no way to know for sure what is going to happen. It’s a tough road for me these days. I know that I am constantly being refined in the fire to purify me and bring out who God made me to be. Some days, though, the burden doesn’t seem to be any lighter after asking Jesus to carry it for me…casting cares doesn’t seem to take away everything and make it all good. That’s a nieve notion. So, yesterday, when I read that devotional, I had doing a lot of research on MS. Then as I read the words, tears began to flow without thinking. This isn’t an easy time for us. I know God is with us and we are in His hands, that knowledge has never left me. Though it is often difficult to understand His ways.
I am a christian girl,but happened to be in love with a non-christian guy.I am not sure if that is God’s plan and his will.How will I know
I am happy to be reminded of staying in His word. Today I read the beginning of this letter and went about my day. I read the word while the baby was sleeping but as i put it down and went about my day,I realized I still feel this ache in my heart. I have gone to councile people lately so I almost positive the lion is roaming in my brain today. I think I will go to be in my river with God.That is my prayer time when i say almost nothing and just recieve His undying grace for me. He knows where i am, how i feel, and how to councile me. Lately He has been telling me in others how his arms are around me. In His Arms of Love. He recieves me by His grace. soooo wonderful. soooooo very loving. TO be able to be with the UTMOST. WOW! I’ve noticed the more i ask Him to come especially when i am dirty and feel i don’t deserve to be with him, why go. He is there to recieve me. I challenge anybody you wants more of Jesus to go to your habitation with him and listen to music of him and rest in his presence for 2 weeks. I guarantee changes in yourself and your life.More!More!More! Yes Lord Yes! Only listen to your heart, no lists. Than pray and wait and find his touch. Picture Him loving you gently or nothing at all, just listen to your heart.
Good evening everyone!
I just received a e-mail from a very good friend requesting prayer for her daughter. I thought this devotional today was so fitting for her prayer request so I e-mailed the link to her. God is good and thank-you for your prayers and for God’s GRACE and for all the wonderful sharing. May we continue to strengthen each other through sharing. In Jesus name I pray, AMEN… Patsy
This is exactly what I needed to hear right now in my life. I have been struggling to not let God become an “ornament on the shelf”. and I have been letting the wrold just “swallow me up.”
I have been yearning for a “significant life”, one that is Christ centered and the only one who I will follow.I will continue to pray and be more disciplied!!!
What a beautiful prayer that was and God always knows what I need.
It is so wonderful to know that I am in the care of the Almighty!
God Bless you all!!!
Tracy
Jesus is our everlasting hope in God. This hope never dies
it is eternal. If this being true then we should never be
without hope. If Jesus is our hope then we truly can place
all our trust in the Lord. Regardless of what may happen
in the course of a day our trust never wavers because it is
strongly and secure in the Lord. Today’s lesson speaks to
me loud and clear, reminding me of who’s my hope. Thanks be
unto God through Jesus Christ that I have a hope that I can
always depend on any time of the day and any day of the week. During trouble times that we may experience in this
life , it good to be reminded the eternal hope God has
provided for us in Jesus, Praise his Holy Name!!!
God thank You for your abounding grace , mercy and truth that will constantly guide me in every moment of my life . Your presence within me brings me to an utter loss for words when I realize that your love consumes me and that I the debt I have is to move within the path You have chosen for me . Which I know all of us easily fall away because of our own selfishness . God grant me always the godly wisdom , compassion , patience in every situation , circumstances and in all the relationships I encounter all throughout my life. May the Holy Spirit mold me, melt and fill me to the brim to follow Him within the inner depths of my heart , mind , body and soul . God bless all that have joined this commentary blog . They have all the desire to know You , love You and to commit their lives to You . Grant us all thy blessings always more and more!!!!
To everyone who responded to my question regarding Grace:
Thank each and every one of you for taking the time to explain Grace to me. I have written down most of what was offered to me and put it in a binder I am keeping. As you can tell, I’m sure, I am just begining my Christian journey.
Bettye, You are a sweetheart. I love the way you became so excited responding to my question and Gails devotional. You made my heart smile!
Connie, thank you and your dear Pastor for your response and the offer of any more assistance I may need. You and your Pastor are true servants of the Lord, we all are blessed because of it!
Marcie, I have your acronym, along with the other’s responses in my binder, thank you for your giving spirit and childhood memory!
Marie, Your response has also given me insight to the meaning of Grace, thank you.
Everyone, have a very blessed evening!
Debbie
“My hope in You is all day long” I needed to hear that again.
And Marie, Even if we(me) are in the middle of it He has the strength to pull us out of the slimy deep pit I am in. He is so near. I need His grace. And I need it in this times of depression. Pull me out Lord. Thank You Jesus!
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Nancy
OOPS, I meant a bridge of hope to carry me over my troubles. Not od hoep, I just get so excited about the Lord’s goodnees and love for us.
To hope in God our Savior “all day long ” mean a bridge od hoep to carry me over my troubles, into God promises. I love the scripture “why art thou cast down, o my suol? and why art thou disquited in me? hope thou in God: For I shall yet praise him for the help of his counternance {Psalm 42:5}. It mean he is my hiding place and my sheild, the hope of glory. The verbs do indeed have unigue signification. Thanks Gail for these latest devotional, they are all great and uplifting and the nuggets are always what I need. Debbie, Grace is like they said {God’s unmerited, undeserved favor} For by grace are we saved through faith; and not of our own selves; it is the gift of God. God’s grace is found in his great love for us when we sin just blow it, he still long to do good for us. Even for sinners.And Jesus Christ on the cross personifies grace. Blessings to all.
GRACE, THANK GOD FOR GRACE, IT’S NOT BY OUR WORKS THAT WE ARE SAVED BUT BY HIS GRACE, THANK YOU LORD THAT YOU RESCUED ME FROM THE PIT THAT I WAS HEADING TOWARD.
THANKS FOR THE DEVONTIONAL, I HAVE JUST BEEN STUDING ABOUT THE SOVERNITY OF GOD, HE IS ARE HELPER, OUR RESCURE, OUR REEDEEMER AND THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM HE IS HOLY HOLY HOLY IS THE LORD ALMIGHTY.
EVEN WHEN WE GO THROUGH THOSE TRIALS , HE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF IT TO GIVE US THE STRENGHT TO GO THROUGH IT. PRAISE THE LORD EVERYONE.
AMEN
Debbie, Grace to me is when God accepts me as I am. It is his unmerited favor. When I was a child, I remembered it by a little acronym:
G ods
R riches
A t
C hrists
E xpense
Hope and pray that helps !
This is to Debbie asking what “grace” is. My pastor puts it this way…”Grace” is God’s un-merited (undeserved) favor (liking, approval, love) to us.
To me this means that even though I don’t deserve His love for me, he does anyway. He gave me “grace” at Calvary, sending His Son to die for me…even though I did not deserve it.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need further info and I will talk with my pastor.
Your sister in Christ,
Connie
your devotinal today really inspired and encouraged me.
i’m always saying my hope is in the Lord but sometimes i think i don’t believe it. i am a christian but get discouraged from time to time. today has been particularly difficult. thanks for uplifting my spirits. God is my hope!
Be Blessed Today and Always.
Hello all!
P. Kamalakar, many blessings on your upcoming engagement!
Gail has, once again, given all of us nurishment for our spirit, soul.
Have a very blessed day, one and all!
Debbie
p.s. I am having a hard time understanding what “grace” is. Can anyone help?
I am christian and planning to get engaged with a christian girl and marry her
with christ`s love
sincerely
kamalakar