God is faithful and true.
The LORD, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness
Exodus 34:6b niv
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? Not at all!
Let God be true, and every man a liar.
Romans 3:3-4a niv
Another version translates this: God is “abounding in... truth’. He is Faithful and True, through and through. (Revelations 19:11) The sun may pass away, the earth may cease to exist and God will still be faithful and true. His word will still remain. His love will never fail. God’s faithfulness depends on Himself, and it will never end.
Prayer: Lord, thank you for your unending faithfulness, thank you that you will be true beyond the passing away of this world.
Now to the King
Eternal, Immortal, Invisible,
the only God,
be Honor and Glory
Forever and Ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17
God is abounding in love.
The LORD, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness
Exodus 34:6b niv
God is abounding in love… He has broad, abundant, full, great, large, numerous, much, plentiful, powerful love for us… It is enough. He will never, ever run out of love for you. You can not be so difficult or unlovable that God’s love is not greater than your weakness. To think that God could not love you because of this or that is to think less than rightly about God himself and the nature of His love.
Prayer: God, please reveal this love to me and help me to receive it today.
God is slow to anger.
The LORD, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness
Exodus 34:6b niv
So often we shrink back from approaching God because we are afraid of his anger toward us. We know that we have “missed the mark” of holiness. But, God described himself as “slow to anger” many, many years before Jesus came and paid for our sins…and now that all his righteous judgment has been satisfied by Jesus’ death on the cross we need not fear the wrath of God. We can approach Him boldly.
Prayer: Lord, thank You that we can approach You boldly and unafraid. (Hebrews 4:16)
God is gracious.
The LORD, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness
Exodus 34:6b niv
This day is dedicated to Hannah whose name means:
God is gracious, and He is!!!
Grace has been translated “unmerited favor”, which it most certainly is, but it seems to be even more… grace is given to us by God in spiritual gifts and transforming power. God goes beyond showing us mercy by not condemning us, to showing us grace by changing us, equipping us and empowering us.
Prayer: Lord, thank You for these free gifts that You give us. Please help me to use them rightly today.
God is compassionate.
The LORD, the LORD,
the compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness
Exodus 34:6b niv
This passage has always been one of my favorites because it is God describing himself to Moses. We are going to take 5 days to savor what it has to say. It might be a good opportunity to memorize it.
Compassion speaks of a deep, forgiving, merciful love. The Lord is compassionate. Jesus is able to sympathize with our weaknesses, having lived in flesh among us, although He never sinned. Compassion is a soft, tender refuge that we can depend on in our Loving God.
Prayer: Lord, thank You that You have compassion on us when we struggle in our weaknesses. Please help us to know that as we live out our lives today.
Our God is a God who saves.
Our God is a God who saves;
from the Sovereign LORD
comes escape from death.
Psalm 68:20 niv
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 tniv
Our Lord came to seek and save the lost. He has rescued us all from a peril we did not have the power to rescue ourselves from. It can by humbling to accept, but our part is to be rescued, to be saved, to be redeemed and to worship the One who not only has the power to save—is not just able to save– but is willing!
Prayer: Lord, please save me from my daily troubles and temptations that I face today.
God is light. In Him there is no darkness.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is
no darkness at all.
1 John 1:5 niv
This day is dedicated to Luke whose name means:
bringer of light.
God is all light and goodness. He has no part in the deeds or strategies of darkness. It is said that the glory of the Lord lights up Heaven. (Revelation 21:23) He is the source of all spiritual light. Jesus’ light has shown into the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5)
Prayer: Lord, please give us Your light of glory today, the same light that fills up Your dwelling place, may it light up our spirits.
God is merciful.
But because of his great love for us, God,
who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ
even when we were dead in transgressions--
it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4-5 niv
Let us then approach the throne of grace with
confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 niv
Our sins deserved punishment, and God who is rich in mercy, gave his One and Only Son to die to pay for them. Now we have new life through faith in His son. Often, after accepting this mercy for salvation, we go forward in our lives thinking that we shouldn’t need it anymore… but God continues to offer his mercy to us, loving and forgiving us when we do not deserve it.
Prayer: Lord, please help me to receive Your abundant mercy today.
God is perfectly wise.
...to the only wise God be glory forever
through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Romans 16:27 niv
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
Psalm 147:5 niv
God has unlimited wisdom that is morally perfect. He is not wickedly shrewd or cunning; He always has perfectly good motives and complete understanding. Wisdom from heaven is: pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. (James 3)
Prayer: Lord, thank You for Your kind and generous wisdom and please reveal some of that to us and give us some of that wisdom as we face our daily challenges.
God knows our limits.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:13-14 niv
Sometimes, especially when we feel overwhelmed by problems and burdens, we feel that God has wronged us… that He has given us more than we can handle. The truth is, God remembers how he formed Adam and Eve. He knows that we are just dust that He breathed life into. He has not left us to handle things on our own, but directs us to cast our anxieties on Him because He cares for us. (1 Peter 5:7)
Prayer: (We encourage you to take a moment and lay down your worries before God.)
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