TODAY
BREAD
31 “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall
we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
enough trouble of its own.”
Matthew 6:31-34 (NIV)
11 Give us today our daily bread. Matthew 6:11 (NIV)
21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. 1 As God's fellow workers we
urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. 2 For he says, “In the time of
my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God's favor,
now is the day of salvation. 2
Corinthians 5:21 - 6:2 (NIV)
7 So, as
the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as
you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert.” Hebrews 3:7-8 (NIV)
12 See to
it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away
from the living God. 13 But
encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you
may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
Hebrews 3:12-13 (NIV)
12 Not
that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I
press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider
myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to
win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV)
8 Jesus
Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 (NIV)
6 Surely
goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in
the house of the Lord
forever. Psalms 23:6 (NIV)
11 He has
made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts
of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my
business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my
spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”
Elisabeth Elliot
“When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my
bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You
more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do
list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called
human beings, not human doings.” Rick Warren
“Anxiety
does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its
strength.” Charles Spurgeon
“It's a promise that whatever you might be experiencing today is just
one chapter in a story that He is writing, and that story isn't over yet....extract
the precious from the worthless (Jeremiah 15)..Life has far more sticky situations than miraculous
moments. As you encounter challenges, difficulties, and setbacks, train your
eyes to ‘extract the precious.’ Train your ears to hear the promise. And train
your heart to pursue relentless hope.”
Beth Guckenberger
“One reason we are so harried and hurried
is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately
concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on
the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask
Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will
of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.” Elisabeth
Elliot
“God has promised to supply all our
needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.” Elisabeth Elliot
“Most
of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for
position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly
afraid that we will miss the way. There
is a better way. It is to repudiate our
own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God…..God has charged
Himself with full responsibility for our eternal happiness and stands ready to
take over the management of our lives the moment we turn in faith to Him.” A. W.
Tozer
HEART
SAVOR
- · God gives me the grace sufficient to meet each need for today. He is no grace waster. If I do not yet have the need, I do not yet have the grace.
- · I must learn in life to extract the precious from the worthless. God is amazing at making beauty from my ashes. 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion-- to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61:3 (NIV)
- · Goodness and love follow me all the days of my life as His child. Praise Him!
