Our Daily Devotions While On The Road

My personal experience with Jesus Christ: January 30, 1978 at 7:30 PM, I prayed asking God to forgive me for my sins and to send His Son, Jesus Christ into my life. I asked God to make me the person He wanted me to be.

That moment I felt Jesus come inside my body and I felt Satan leave. I lost all desire for drugs and alcohol, I stoped cursing, hating and thinking only about myself. I started loving, thinking of others and most importantly I had a strong desire to know more about this amazing and powerful Jesus who just transformed me into a completely different person from the inside out.

The very next thing I did was start reading and studying the Bible to find out more about Jesus Christ and to discover what had just happened to me. I have spent the last 44 years in my quest to know more about Jesus and I haven’t even scratched the surface of the depth and power of the love contained in that name – The Lord Jesus Christ!

I invite you along to explore the powerful love of Jesus as we travel the highways and byways of North America, one day at a time…

8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Apostle Paul, Philippians 3:8-11)

Psalms 46

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.

1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed,

And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3 Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.

Selah

4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. 5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.

6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has made desolations in the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

11 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah

Introduction : To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.

= The sons of Korah, back story – Numbers 16… Korah was part of a rebellion against Moses and Aaron that ended with the ground opening up where Korah and his family were camping and swallowing the entire family with all their possessions sending them all to their deaths, then the ground quickly closed up again. There were thousands of people camped around them and next to them who went running and screaming for their lives, but Korah and his family were the only ones swallowed alive by the ground.

Some of the sons of Korah survived and several generations later became worship leaders in the temple at Jerusalem. This psalm is one of many they wrote that was recorded in the book of Psalms. I think they would’ve become embittered by what happened to their great great grandparents, but instead they are leading the worship of the God who killed their grandparents.

Alamoth – is not a person, it’s a type of melody this song was to be sung or chanted with, the book of Psalms is a song book used by the Hebrew people to worship God.

1) Psalm 46, Verse – 1: God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

a) 1 John 2:15-17

Do Not Love the World

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

– The world is a system of values, the Greek word for world in 1 John 2:15-17 is: “cosmos” – meaning “value system”- the world’s value system is and always will be contradicting and warring against God and His Son’s value system. Producing conflict and trouble for those who stand with Jesus and consequently against or contrary to the cosmos, the world system or set of values…

– Several years ago when Chick-fa-lay publicly stood against the homosexual lifestyle, the mayor of Chicago said that the value system in Chicago doesn’t match up with the value system of Chick-fa-lay, a Christian owned and operated company and he called for a boycott of all Chick-fa-lay restaurants.

The mayor of Chicago was right about one thing, Chicago and the world have a much different value system than that of the true Christian believer. There will always be conflicts between believers and nonbelievers.

b) John 16:33

33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

2) Psalm 46, Verse – (2-3) 2 Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.

Selah – means meditate on this truth…

a) Therefore ~ means, “because of what I just said…” What the psalmist just said was verse 1.

= verse 1 – God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. – therefore we will not fear…

b) Selah – means meditate on this truth…

3) Psalm 46, Verse – (4-5) 4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. 5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.

a) The River of God… There’s an old song we used to sing in Bible College – “The river of God sets our feet a dancing, the river of God fills our heart with Cheer, the river of God fills our mouth with laughter, we rejoice because the river is here…”

– we are the city and holy place of the tabernacle of God – John 14 = we are each a mansion in the house of God being built by the hands of God, so that we can enjoy the same relationship with the Father that Jesus has.

b) Revelation 22:1-5

The River of Life

1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

4) Psalm 46, Verse – (6-7) 6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah – meditate on this truth…

a) Psalms 2

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom

(Acts 4:23–31 – quotes Psalm 2)

1 Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. 5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: 6 “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”

7 “I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me,

You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. 8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ” 10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

11 Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way,

When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

b) Psalm 46, Verse 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. – We have nothing to fear, Jesus is always on the throne and always in control, nothing can happen to us that He doesn’t know about, nothing catches Jesus by surprise…

Selah – meditate on this truth…

– We are caught in the middle between two terrible and great armies warring against each other over the souls of humanity. We are war refugees trying to stay out of harms way; similar to the refugees of World War ll and other modern day wars…

But remember – “The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.”

5) Psalm 46, Verse – (8-9) 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has made desolations in the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire.

a) Ephesians 1:10

10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. – this phrase, “dispensation of the fullness of the times,” means that God has been orchestrating the history of humanity from the beginning and will continue orchestrating the history of humanity to the end of time.

b) Romans 8:28-30

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. – “all things,” means, “ALL THINGS “

Conclusion: Psalm 46, Verse – (10-11) 10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

11 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah – meditate on this truth…