Grow In Glory • Daily Devo 209
Grow through it.
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Psalm 42:1-5 KJV
The Message For Today (November 20, 2024):
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Growth looks a little different when you consider the spiritual ramifications of growth. The spiritual ramifications of growth are centered in internal beliefs, internal foundations, and internal decisions that you make day in and day out. Each step compounding one upon another to follow the Lord. This is a journey.
Your faith in your walk with God is a journey. Only you and God know where you are on that journey and how He's calling you to grow in this season. No one else can critique or judge because man judges by the outer appearance, but it is God who judges man by the heart. He knows what heart issues you're dealing with. He knows what fears you grapple with.
He knows what concerns you have. He knows about the habits that you've developed to protect yourself and to control your environment. He knows about the proclivity you have for whatever your habits may be, whether it's procrastination, whether it's over-performing, people-pleasing, whether it's insecurities rooted in doubt and abandonment, whatever the issues may be in your heart. God knows where you are on your journey and he knows that not one of us is perfect.
So our job is not to work on ourselves and better ourselves. That's not the way God has called us to walk. He's called us to walk with him, to be in communion with him. Revelation chapter 3:20 says,
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. - revelation 3:20 KJV
We're in that season in time where God desires to fellowship with us. The Bible says to pray without ceasing and in doing so, having that real relationship with God, we step into communion with him and relationship with him.
We begin to see our lives change when we grow in the glory of God versus growing in the systems and ideals that we believe will prosper us in the earth. Not one thing in the earth can compare to our God. Not one organization, not one system of beliefs, not one certification program. Nothing can replace the love of God and nothing can replace your walk with God.
On this day, make a commitment after your gratitude time, after listening to this devotional, to sit with God. If you don't have a time to express gratitude, if you don't have a journaling time, get into that journaling time. Get into it completely. Release the fear objectively of looking at yourself daily and write. Hear God. Hear his heart for you. Sit with Him in communion. Grow in glory.
Nobody can do this for you. No one can commit to that work for you. It's time to see the elevation and revelation of the Lord come forth in a mighty way. This is the will of the Father that we would see it, that there will be an outpouring of his spirit. There is nobody like Him. There is no other God. He's able to do what he said he would do.
Time out for being afraid. Time out for being overwhelmed. Our God is able to do what he said he would do. He's able to shift, to break, and to make way for you. Those who desire to see the glory of God in the land of the living, fellowship with him, grow with him, be at peace in his presence, write down the thoughts, listen with your whole heart, and be careful for nothing but through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests known before the Lord.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. - Philippians 4:6 KJV
That is what the Bible says. Now it is time for us to see the fullness of God. It's time for us to grow in glory, in peace, and in the power of His love and his presence. It's time for restoration, and it's time for joy, in Jesus' name.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, I thank you for the mighty woman of God. I thank you for this devotional. I thank you, God, that ways are being made, nothing missing and nothing broken. Lord, you are the king of glory. The great I am. You are mighty in battle, O God. I thank you, God, for transforming the mighty woman of God.
You say in the word that we are to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we may know the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Well, Lord, I thank you for that scripture today. I thank you, God, that you are making all things new.
I thank you, O God, that you're giving us the opportunity through this devotional to get back, to come back, to make room for you in our lives, to put down the business of this world, and to commit to growing in your presence, growing with you, Lord. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.
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