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.
Are you enduring? To endure means to suffer something painful or difficult patiently. Now my question is why are your enduring? Are you enduring because you have done everything that you can do (including applying God's word to the situation)? Or are you enduring because you have failed to apply God's word to the situation? Sometimes the things we are consistently going through are just because we are failing to apply God's word. We are failing to truly trust Him for the outcome.
Make sure the suffering you are going through is not self inflicted based on failure to fully apply the word of God to the situation. If this happens to be the case .... the good thing is .... you can still apply the word. You can still cause things to change once you speak the word to the situation.
Understand there will be times when you will have to endure and you will have to wait on His word to come to pass. Just be sure that you are not enduring unnecessarily.
4th of July. Today is the day we call "Independence Day". Praise God for our freedom in Him. Praise Him for what He has done to declair our freedom. But understand .... you are free "in" Him but you were not created to be independent from Him. Understand the word independent means to be free from outside control and not depending on another's authority. It means to be self contained and self sufficient. That we are not. Outside of God .... we lack what we need in order to be survive. He is our sufficiency. He is our source.
Today we praise God for freedom from bondage, freedom from slavery, and freedom from another man's control and we must also praise Him for our sufficiency in Him and Him alone. For it is only in Him that we live, breathe, and have our being. It is only in Him that we are healed, set free, and delivered. It is not something that we have done or accomplished on our own. Our freedom is in Him and Him alone.
As you celebrate today .... celebrate it knowing that you are independent from the world but totally dependent on the Father. Celebrate it knowing that your Father, your Creator, and your King has made you free "in" Him and that your sufficiency has and always will be in Him. He has not left you to fend on your own. Amen.....
Are you voting God? To vote means to make a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands or by voice. What is it that you are formally choosing. Taking a stand on? Selecting? What is it that your ballot, hands, and voice are confirming? Are your hands lifted in praise to your God. If the ballot was the picture of your life ..... would it reflect that you are choosing to live for and in God? Or would it reflect no representation or undecided? Understand in the Kingdom .... there is no undecided vote. Either you choose to live for God or not.
We have to get tothe place where we understand that voting is not just about public elections. Yes that is important. Understand when you vote you put a seal on what you say you believe and what you stand for. You sign the petition to co-labor with whomever or whatever you are voting for. You are saying that you back up their beliefs or way of doing things. Make sure that your seal is only placed on things that represent who your Daddy is. What your Daddy does and what your Daddy has said that you "must" believe. There is no in between.
Your life is a representation of a vote. What you say, what you do, and what you believe seal what you stand for. Make sure your representative .... the one you put in charge of your life .... is God.
What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for God to make the first move? His word says if you draw nigh to Him, He will draw nigh to you. Are you drawing nigh to God? Near in your thoughts, near in your motives, near in your actions and your reactions. Is He the first and foremost thing on your mind? Your priority? Understand that priority determines positioning. We position things we do and say based on how we prioritze them. The thing that is priority in your life is the thing that you consider to be most important.
Take time to analyze your life. What is the first thing you do in the morning? Do you thank Him for waking you up? Do you pray? What about when you have a need? Do go to God first about the need? Or do you try to figure out a way to get it done? What if you get sick? Is the first route you take one of praying for healing? It's time we make God our priority. Put Him first in everything we do, think, or say. Amen.....
God will do whatever you need Him to do .... as long as what you need Him to do lines up with His word, His will, His purpose, and His plan. Understand that every blessing that you have is "in" God. "In" His word. "In" His will. "In" His plan. Sin is not "in" Him. How can you expect Him to bless you with something that is "outside" of who He is.
We have many requests to God. We have to look at those requests and ask ourselves. Is this a part of who God is? We have to determine whether or not our lives will remain pleasing to the Father if we were to receive our petition. Will we still be walking holy? Will we still be walking pure? Will we still be seeking His face, His power, and His plan? What will our actions and reactions be as a result of receiving our petition.
God wants to bless you and there are many blessings stored "in" Him. It all goes back to the outer court, inner court, and holy of holies. God's perfect will resides inside of the holy of holies. There are things that He will do for you while you are in the outer court. Then when you come closer to Him ... there are things that He will do in the inner court. But there are things that you need from Him that can only be accessed in the holy of holies. They dwell within Him and that is the place where your heart and your mind has to be determined that it is all about Him ... His will, His purpose, and His plan. There is a requirement of sacrifice before you can get to that place and the sacrifice requires that you trust Him and lay it all down in order to pick up His purpose, His plan, and His will for your life.
Have you gotten to the place where you understand that God is real? That He is watching over you. That He is keeping you.... Or are you still stuck in self? What you can do by yourself? What you feel you accomplished on your own. Are you acknowledging Him for your successes, accomplishments, and achievements? It's not that God needs recognition .... for He is God. We must recognize Him so that we don't become self consumed and selfish. It is God's desire that we become selfless. That we be in a place where there is "less" of ourselves that is being reflected.
Take a moment today to think on the things that have been accomplished in your life. Take time to give God thanks for them. Thank Him for your home, for your job, for your car, for your shoes, for food, for life, for health, for the ability to read this blog. There is so much to be thankful for .... even in the midst of trials .... your praise and recognition of God is important.
Where is it that you are going and what is it you are trying to do? Are you going in the direction God has told you or are you trying to walk this walk alone? Understand today that God has outlined a plan for your life. The question is ... are you willing to follow the plan? Are you willing to do it the way He has ordained for your life? Are you willing to let go of your predetermined ways that you have decided that you want to be blessed and just step into the blessing that He has prepared for you.
Today is a new day. A new opportunity for you to do it God's way. A new opportunity to live out God's plan. A day of new experiences in God. Why not just trust Him today. Believe Him today. Experience His blessings for you today.
Understand that you were never created to walk alone. From the very beginning man was designed to commune with God. We walk with God when we walk in obedience. When we walk in disobedience .... we walk alone. Amen....
