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Friday, January 3, 2025 |
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Today God says:
"Put Me first in your life".
He promises me:
"But seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you". (Matt. 6:33)
My response to the word:
Throughout this day I will put God first. I will seek His kingdom and His righteousness. I know He will take care of everything else as I obey Him and receive His promises. God's Word declares, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also". I want the Lord to be my treasure always. Therefore, I will give God first place in my life.
My prayer:
Lord, I will put you first in my life this day. You are the treasure of my heart.
Today's scriptures:
"I always keep the Lord in front of me. When He is by my side, I cannot be moved". (Ps. 16:8 GW) "Your heart will be where your treasure is". (Matt. 6:21 GW) "Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through Christ, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing that heaven has to offer". (Eph. 1:3 GW) "He is the beginning, the first to come back to life so that He would have first place in everything". (Col. 1:18 GW)
Quote for today:
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. (Gen. William Booth)
On this day:
"Scriptures are taken from the King James Bible or those marked (GW) are from the God's Word Translation, used with permission".
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On 3rd January 1813, James Calvert was born in Pickering, England. At the age of 18 he was converted to saving faith in Jesus Christ, and the next year began to preach. Completing his apprenticeship as a printer in 1835, he took missionary training and then sailed for the Fijian Islands where he set up a small print shop. He mastered the language within two years and printed 840 copies of the first catechism in the native language. In 1857, he baptized King Thakornbau. He died 8 March 1892 in Torquay, England.
On 3rd January 1970, Gladys Aylward died in Taiwan at age 67 years. She was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess and made into the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958.