Daily Devotional

GOD IS LORD AND MASTER OF ALL

February 3

hildren of God, some people have the idea that the Devil has the power and authority to run around causing havoc and working misery at his own disposal. This is not true! Since my "eye is on the sparrow," (Matthew 10:29) and "not one hair falls from your head without my noting it," (Matthew 10:30 NKJV) there is nothing that does not escape my view. You may say then, "Why did you allow the tragic things of life to happen to me or others without intervening?" This is a good and allowable question. Your Father's glory shines the brightest when you and your fellow believers allow Him to intervene in your lives to change the tragic hurt into majestic victory for you! Can your Father heal, transform and renew broken lives, emotions and bodies? Indeed, He can! In fact, that is the amazing state that you and all others who receive the Lord Jesus as Savior and Lord enter. You have passed from death (the death blow of Satan) unto Life “(old things have passed away, and behold all things are made new!)” (II Corinthians 5:17) This "life" means that the past cannot be change--- that is, the damage that was done will remain a fact of history. However, you are not under sentence of this damage to live in misery because of it. You may do one of two things: You may use the hurts of the past to nurse your bitterness and belief in the unfairness of your Father for allowing the hurt, thus again sentencing yourself unnecessarily to a life of complaint, anger and frustration; Or, you would do well to choose to receive the gift of your present moment and all future moments as new gifts from your Father in Heaven, and thus, you will receive the holy presence of the Spirit of the Lord to pour in His healing oil to heal the wounds and broken emotions. Thus healed, you then will have an amazing and irresistible testimony of the power of God to work miracles in the lives of other broken people to whom you are a witness. Child of God, this is how it works! However, if you could see (and one day you will "see" in heaven) the thousands of times the Father shielded you from injury and danger you would literally leap for joy and sing of His faithfulness to you! You are greatly loved by your Father!

Prayer

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Father, In the name of Jesus, I choose to allow you to pour into me your healing oil and heal the wounds of the past, and to make full use of my life to glorify you and reach others bound by the darkness of this world, in Jesus’ name, amen!