30/04/2024
Beginning My Day In God.
By Praying with the Word.
"...by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
Matt. 4:2-4: "And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, 'If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.' But He answered and said, It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"
Let me eat your Word in the morning, and live, Lord. Open your Word to me — my daily bread, Matt. 6:11. May my soul love the Word that proceeds from your mouth. May my heart thirst for the Your Word — the living Word, even Christ, John 6:57. Amen.
â—Ź Jesus was answering the devil by quoting Deut. 8:3: "So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD." God's Word is heavenly manna for the humble. Let us gather it first thing in the morning as Israel gathered the manna.
â—Ź Feeding on Christ (bread from heaven) sustains our spiritual life, John 6:57: "As ...I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. Lord, may I hunger for the bread from heaven, and eat of it early in the morning. Amen.
â—Ź Jer. 15:16: "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts." Lord, may I find your words as Jeremiah did, and eat them, and experience the same joy and the rejoicing.
George Muller's Testimony on Meditating on God's Word
"I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil." (Psalm 119:162)
"...Now I saw that the most important thing that I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditate on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warmed, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, whilst meditating on it, my heart might be brought into experimental communion with the Lord.
I began therefore to meditate on the New Testament from the beginning, early in the morning. The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord's blessing upon His precious Word, was to begin to meditate on the Word of God, searching as it were every verse to get a blessing out of it, not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word, not for the sake of preaching upon what I had meditated upon, but for obtaining food for my own soul. The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that, though I did not as it were give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer. When thus I have been for a while making confession or intercession or supplication, or have given thanks, I go on to the next words or verse, turning all as I go on into prayer for myself or others as the Word may lead to it, but still continually keeping before me that food for my own soul is the object of my meditation." --George Muller, as quoted in Springs in the Valley, May 27
Testimony: God gave me a love for His word from young age. It is my joy to this day, and I am thankful. I ask for grace to devote myself more to the word and to prayer.
Memory Verse: Ps. 119:105: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."