Equipped

Donna Braman

BELIEVERS MINISTRY DAILY DEVOTIONAL

EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, for man to be adequately equipped for every good work.

Scripture:

2 Timothy 3:16-17, Isaiah 55:8, Psalm 119:17

I glorify You for giving us Your Word Lord, that wonderful written revelation that gives us You and your Plan.  As snow and rain fall from the skies to meet our needs, so You have condensed Your thoughts, which are vastly higher than all human thoughts, into Your Holy Scripture.  I'm so grateful that You cared enough to communicate with us in this clear, unchanging, always accessible way, so that Your thoughts are now available at all times to refresh and nourish and teach me -  that you are still a communicating God, speaking these words to me as I am attentive to You, as I read and meditate with a listening heart.  

What a privilege it is to store Your Word in my heart, where You can use it at any moment to bless me and guide me...to keep me from sinning against You. You are a storehouse of inspired words that the Spirit can bring to my mind to help others.

Thank You that in Your Word I can see Your face and hear Your voice.  I can discover Your will and Your seasons, Your patterns for living and serving.  I can develop deeper faith and confidence.  Thank You that the Holy Spirit inspired Your Word and uses it to enlighten and guide me, and to change me more and more into Your image, from one degree of glory to another. 

SEED WORD: The word is living and it cuts through bone and marrow, if we will speak it and preach it, it will do powerful things. It doesn't need us to correct or judge another. It convicts on its own to new converts, sinners and Christians who have stumbled. All God needs for us to do is to be faithful with His Word and to uplift others in his word and to restore those who come to us back into his favor and righteousness.