Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 122

Why I Believe What I Believe

Day122:

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

God always provided for His children. This provision is always exactly what is needed.  Manna was great because it was what the people needed at the time but more was now needed when they cross the Jordan River.  Both are provided by the Lord but the difference is based upon where the children of Israel were in their walk.  Before they walked in the wilderness of judgment to knock off the past in Egypt (the world), after was their walk in the promise land of victory in Christ.  (milk-meat)

Joshua 5:10-12 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Where are you walking, in the wilderness fighting off the flesh and the world or walking by faith in victory?   If you are still looking for someone at church to feed you, then you are still in the wilderness.  If you are reaching out to feed someone else as a teacher then you are walking in the promise land of victorious living.

Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 121

Why I believe What I Believe

Day 121

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

The Lord wants us to set up landmark memorials.  These memorials are not intended to talk about the “good ol’ days”   These landmarks are not to celebrate heroes of the past.  These landmarks are intended so that we can teach the next generation how great the Lord is today for them.  The Lord is not a lord of the past but always of the present. 

Joshua 4:1-7 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

God is God of the living.  This includes those who have died physically in Him as seen in this passage.  The truth here also shows that God is alive and is our God today as He was to them and is to them today.  Stop looking back… look up and forward.

Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Biblical Principles Daily Devotionals Day 120

Why I Believe What I Believe

Day 120

Biblical principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Sometimes the Lord asks us to step out by faith first then we watch the Lord do the work. This story is a practical application to this truth. The Lord would not remove the obstruction of the Jordan River until they began walking through the water to get to the Promise Land.

Joshua 3:7-13, And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. ⁸And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. ⁹And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God. ¹⁰And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. ¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. ¹²Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. ¹³And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical principle:

When we are making decisions in life, we must do so with confidence because we are walking by faith. Faith is simply believing that what God says is true and being obedient. Faith is not leaping out into the dark with no understanding of what is on the other side. The children of Israel knew what was on the other side of the Jordan. It was the task of getting there that called for faith by stepping into the water before the Lord would do great things by removing the water.

Hebrews 10:35-39, Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. ³⁶For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. ³⁷For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. ³⁸Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. ³⁹But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.