Welcome to Daily Moments with God, an online sanctuary written by Christian author R. Lynn Moore. This space is a dedicated resource for your everyday walk with Jesus. Through daily devotionals, scriptural studies, and deep reflections, this blog aims to build, edify, and exhort believers. Our mission is to help you silence the noise of the world, stay rooted in faith, and trust God's sovereign hand through life's unexpected turns.
Who or what is it that you love the "most"? Do you love God more or should I say do you love God enough? Enough to stop doing anything that you know is against His will. Enough to stop saying anything that you know that doesn't line up with His word. Enough to trust Him. Enough to let go of the hurt and the pain. Understand that God's love is all consuming. It is all powerful. It is all knowing and all forgiving. Everything that He is .... He is in you. So the same love that He gives to us .... resides on the inside of us.
So now the question remains .... do you love Him enough to let go? He loved you to the point of sacrifice. So we know that love is sacrificial. He loved you to the point of forgiving you for all your sins. So we know that love is forgiving. He loved you to the point death. So we know that some things must die in us ... in order for us to love Him fully.
Make it a point to love God more .... more than anything or anyone.
What is experience saying to you? Is experience saying don't go that way or don't do that thing? Is it saying the outcome has already been revealed? Are you listening to the voice of experience or are you listening to the voice of God? Understand that the voice you should always hear is the voice of God. God overrides experience. What happened before does not determine what will happen today. What someone else did does not determined what the person you encounter today will do. Experience is a teacher and we should learn from our experiences. But understand that your "God Outcome" is not determined by what has happened in your past.
The Bible says in Isaiah 43:19 .... Behold I do a new thing and it shall spring forth .... shall you not know it? Understand the newness of God. Understand the new thing that He wants to do in your life. Understand His power that is at work in you. Your past does not control your future.
Do you have confident assurance today? To be confident and assured means to have certainty and security about something. God wants you to have confidence and assurance in Him. He wants you to trust Him. He wants you to believe Him. When He tells you something He wants you to know without doubt that His word is true. We need to begin to rest in I John 5:14-15 .....
I John 5:14-15 (Amplified) 14And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. 15And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.
We tend to say we believe Him .... but when it comes to trusting what He has said, we back up. We turn around and eventually turn away from His word. We try to work it out or figure it out on our own. We have to rest in the assurance. We have to stop after the request and enter into a place of rest. We have to take on the attitude that says Father I have asked you .... now I will wait for you to do the rest. That's what God wants. His desire is that you step into rest after the request. Step into peace after the request. Step into trust after the request.
Know this today .... God hears you. God knows what you are going through. God loves you. If He hears you .... if He knows .... if He loves you ...... There should be no doubt that He will take care of you.
It's time to wake up. We keep sleep walking. We walk around "stuff" with our eyes closed. We walk around the truth with our friends and our family with fear of offending someone. Yes .... we need to be aware of how we present God and His word to people ..... because we want Him to be presented in a way in which people can receive and understand who He is and what He desires to do in their lives. But we can not and should not avoid bringing Him into our conversations and into our day to day walk based on fear of what others will think. Remember the Jesus said in Mark 8:38 if we be ashamed of Him before man .... then He would be ashamed of us before the Father. How sad it would be to have your Mediator .... the one who was sent just for you .... to be ashamed to represent you.
Just think about it. A Mediator is a link between two parties. The two parties that Jesus represents are you and God. He was sent just for us. To provide us with a blood covering. When someone is ashamed ... they feel guilt, reluctance, or disgrace based on something that has been done. To disgrace means to lose your reputation or respect. Do you really want to be in a place where Jesus feels guilty for what you have done after all He has done for you? For your refusal to represent Him before those in your circle of influence.
It's time to count the cost and value the word inside of you and what has be done for you. Don't deny the one who died for you .... be sure you represent Him well. Your representation of Him will play a part in His final representation of you. Amen.....
What is it that you are holding on to? What they said or what they did? Or are you still trying to figure out why they did what they did? Let it go. Thoughts can be hindrances. They can hinder you from moving on to your next level. Your progression. When you progress, it means that you move towards a more advanced state. God wants us to progress in Him. He wants us to understand who He is and what He has called us to do. He wants us to come closer to Him. To come up higher with Him. To abide in Him. But we can't do that if we are still holding on to our past hurts and disappointments. If we are not willing to let go .... we can never move forward. Understand today that it is not that those things are holding us .... we are the ones holding those things. We are the ones who have to let go. So that means we are the ones holding on.
Change your position today and make today a day of release. Releasing all those things that tend to consume your heart and your mind. Those things that you continue to carry with you no matter where you go in God. Let them go today. Understand that God is trying to bring you up higher in Him. Higher in your walk and higher in your talk. He wants your knowledge in Him and your thoughts to switch positions. We have allowed our thoughts to rule over us .... whereas He wants us to take authority over our thoughts. It's time for a shift to take place. Use the knowledge and authority you have been given and begin to cast down the thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of who He is.
Don't spend time worrying about what others are doing to you. Don't spend time worrying about what they say against you. Talk to God about it. In Psalms 35 David talked to God. He asked God to fight for him.
Psalm 35:1-4 (Amplified) CONTEND, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help! 3Draw out also the spear and javelin and close up the way of those who pursue and persecute me. Say to me, I am your deliverance! 4Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek and require my life; let them be turned back and confounded who plan my hurt!
How often do we try to fight for ourselves and defend ourselves? That is not what God wants us to do. He wants us to trust Him. To come to Him. To invite Him in and to step back and allow Him to move in our situations. So stop trying to do it on your own. Stop trying to figure it out on your own. Stop trying to live this life on your own. You are God's child. You are covered by Him and He is your shield and buckler. Learn how to come into His presence and rest. While you are resting .... He will fight your battle. Amen.....
It is easy to accept the promise that God has set before us when we are sure in who He is. The hard part is maintaining your hunger and continuing to seek God even when your promise cannot be seen yet. In the 37th Chapter of Psalms, we are encouraged to keep hold of the promise until we receive. We are warned to turn and stay away from all of our evil ways. In verse 23 it reads, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and He delighteth in his way." It is true that it can become hard to wait for the promise on your own but with the help of the Father and Him guiding your way, it will become easy!
God is not a man that He should lie. He is giving and forgiving and all He wants from us is to be obedient and wait. This is an easy requirement for such a big reward. Think about it the Creator of the universe promises something to you. It is a privilege and an honor to worship such a wonderful God, who after giving his Son would still keep giving. In Psalms 37 verse 25 says "I have been young, and now am old; yet have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread". Hold to your promise today, and believe that you shall receive. Amen
