Morning Devotions!

I must share our morning devotion with you. We have picked up these daily devotionals for kids from our church. I have searched bookstores and online bookstores for a great daily devotional and had no luck, but have finally found one that is fabulous. They are short, but extremely good! I haven't checked out these websites yet, but it could be possible that you could get these devotional booklets off these websites. www.keysforkids.org or www.cbhministries.org They have 2 months worth of daily devotionals. They give you a passage of Scripture to read from your Bible and then they have a short story to read. They recommend after the story to read the passage of Scripture again. At the conclusion it has a couple of questions to go over. They have a key verse to learn. Our kids are young so learning a key verse every day is a little tough, but we will get there eventually!

Anyways, our devotion this morning was titled "Wonderfully Made". The passage of Scripture in Psalm 139:13-16. I will share it with you from Jaycee's NIrV Adventure Bible for kids. You created the deepest parts of my being. You put me together inside my mother's body. How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well. None of my bones was hidden from you when you made me inside my mother's body. That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth. When you were putting me together there, your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.

WOW!!!! Seriously how amazingly incredible are those verses. Read them over and over again. Let them soak in. I think so often we loose sight of this. We stumble around in our walk with the Lord. If we thought about this passage of Scripture everyday and read it like it should be read that these our God's own spoken words to us how much different our lives would be? God made me! God made you! We weren't just thrown together. He knew us before we were even formed. He knows our life. He knows every single day of our lives before we even lived ONE of them. WOW!!!!! How can we not fall on our knees and worship God our Creator. How can we not trust Him? How can we ever think our ways are better? I know many of us believe in Him, but do we believe Him?!?! This is what I am learning in Chapter 2 of the Beth Moore book Praying God's Word. Think about that, I don't just want to believe in Him I want to believe Him!!!
Here is one prayer that I know I will be praying everyday. "Father, so often I feel like the boy's father who first exclaimed, 'I do believe!' then in a flood of sincerity cried out, 'Help me overcome my unbelief!' (Mark 9:24) Please help me to overcome my own unbelief, Lord, so I can start taking You at Your Word." I don't want to believe the lies anymore that flood my mind. Just like this passage from Psalm 139 I want to take God at His Word that I am truly fearfully and wonderfully made. That He made me! Also, take that to every person I meet and every person in the world. EVERY SINGLE PERSON on this earth was fearfully and wonderfully made by God. So why do we choose at times, so often at times, that they are less than that? If we can truly grasp these words that are spoken by God, then we could "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and love your neighbor as you love yourself."(Matthew 22:37;39)