Longing for God

[Walter and Deborah]

 

Tuesday 7-13-21 AV 2nd., 5781 3rd. day of the weekly cycle, 23rd. Summer Day

OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL
Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional – Longing for God

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional, Tuesday Message By Tim Gustafson (Our Daily Bread Ministries)

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message

Reflect & Pray
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Topic: Longing for God

Today’s Scripture: Nehemiah 1:5–11

Key Verse: Even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen. – Nehemiah 1:9

Bible in a Year: Psalms 7–9; Acts 18

INSIGHT:
The prayer of Nehemiah about the state of affairs of the Israelites who’d returned to their homeland (Nehemiah 1:5–11) rehearses the circumstances that both led to Israel’s exile and their return to the promised land (vv. 8–11). God’s faithfulness to His promises were the key to both events—He promised exile if Israel broke faithfulness with Him and return to the land if they repented and came back to Him. The Israelites had returned to their homeland, but the city gates and walls were still in ruins. After rehearsal of these events, Nehemiah asks God to grant him favor as he presents his case to the king (v. 11).


Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message
When Conner and Sarah Smith moved five miles up the road, their cat S’mores expressed his displeasure by running away. One day Sarah saw a current photo of their old farmhouse on social media. There was S’mores in the picture!

Happily, the Smiths went to retrieve him. S’mores ran away again. Guess where he went? This time, the family that had purchased their house agreed to keep S’mores too. The Smiths couldn’t stop the inevitable; S’mores would always return “home.”

Nehemiah served in a prestigious position in the king’s court in Susa, but his heart was elsewhere. He had just heard news of the sad condition of “the city where my ancestors are buried” (Nehemiah 2:3). And so he prayed, “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, . . . ‘if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name’ ” (1:8–9).

Home is where the heart is, they say. In Nehemiah’s case, longing for home was more than being tied to the land. It was communion with God that he most desired. Jerusalem was “the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.”

The dissatisfaction we sense deep down is actually a longing for God. We’re yearning to be home with Him.

Reflect & Pray
What’s your idea of home and why? In what ways do you sense yourself longing for God?

Father, help me understand that only You can satisfy my longings. Help me be at home with You, no matter where I am.

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message. Our Daily Bread Ministries (ODB) is a Christian organization founded by Dr. Martin De Haan in 1938. It is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with over 600 employees. It produces several devotional publications, including Our Daily Bread.

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Love always, Walter and Debbie

[Mike Mclees]

1 hour ago, Walter and Deborah said:

 

Tuesday 7-13-21 AV 2nd., 5781 3rd. day of the weekly cycle, 23rd. Summer Day

OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL
Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional – Longing for God

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional, Tuesday Message By Tim Gustafson (Our Daily Bread Ministries)

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message

Reflect & Pray
Click To Read Previous ODB Devotional Message

Topic: Longing for God

Today’s Scripture: Nehemiah 1:5–11

Key Verse: Even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen. – Nehemiah 1:9

Bible in a Year: Psalms 7–9; Acts 18

INSIGHT:
The prayer of Nehemiah about the state of affairs of the Israelites who’d returned to their homeland (Nehemiah 1:5–11) rehearses the circumstances that both led to Israel’s exile and their return to the promised land (vv. 8–11). God’s faithfulness to His promises were the key to both events—He promised exile if Israel broke faithfulness with Him and return to the land if they repented and came back to Him. The Israelites had returned to their homeland, but the city gates and walls were still in ruins. After rehearsal of these events, Nehemiah asks God to grant him favor as he presents his case to the king (v. 11).


Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message
When Conner and Sarah Smith moved five miles up the road, their cat S’mores expressed his displeasure by running away. One day Sarah saw a current photo of their old farmhouse on social media. There was S’mores in the picture!

Happily, the Smiths went to retrieve him. S’mores ran away again. Guess where he went? This time, the family that had purchased their house agreed to keep S’mores too. The Smiths couldn’t stop the inevitable; S’mores would always return “home.”

Nehemiah served in a prestigious position in the king’s court in Susa, but his heart was elsewhere. He had just heard news of the sad condition of “the city where my ancestors are buried” (Nehemiah 2:3). And so he prayed, “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, . . . ‘if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name’ ” (1:8–9).

Home is where the heart is, they say. In Nehemiah’s case, longing for home was more than being tied to the land. It was communion with God that he most desired. Jerusalem was “the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.”

The dissatisfaction we sense deep down is actually a longing for God. We’re yearning to be home with Him.

Reflect & Pray
What’s your idea of home and why? In what ways do you sense yourself longing for God?

Father, help me understand that only You can satisfy my longings. Help me be at home with You, no matter where I am.

Our Daily Bread 13th July 2021 Today Devotional Message. Our Daily Bread Ministries (ODB) is a Christian organization founded by Dr. Martin De Haan in 1938. It is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with over 600 employees. It produces several devotional publications, including Our Daily Bread.

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Love always, Walter and Debbie

Walter God led you to post this Lessen. I had just finshed reading. "Longing  for God" before coming on the board.. I have had many similar experiences  like this in my daily bread.  Confirmations after the fact. It tells us that God is real and always near us even though we long to be home where are hearts want to be. Still He comforts us where we are.

God bless

   

Edited July 13, 2021 by Mike Mclees

[Walter and Deborah]

2 hours ago, Mike Mclees said:

Walter God led you to post this Lessen. I had just finshed reading. "Longing  for God" before coming on the board.. I have had many similar experiences  like this in my daily bread.  Confirmations after the fact. It tells us that God is real and always near us even though we long to be home where are hearts want to be. Still He comforts us where we are.

God bless

   

Amen! It is so many areas to Do Longing For GOD.

Love, Walter
 

[Leonardo Von]

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Longing for God

Unfortunately, most of the times, people in the Old Testament (when the Holy Spirit didn't have been granted) yearn for the Creator more then us who are the dwelling of Holy Spirit (1John 2:27).

[Walter and Deborah]

4 hours ago, Leonardo Von said:

Unfortunately, most of the times, people in the Old Testament (when the Holy Spirit didn't have been granted) yearn for the Creator more then us who are the dwelling of Holy Spirit (1John 2:27).

Amen, I thought that the below might be shared:

In His Own Words: Longing for God

February 24, 2017

Categories: Billy Graham, Devotional, In His Own Words

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What does it mean to “long” for someone? It means that a person is unsatisfied or unfulfilled because there is someone he or she very much wants to be near, to hear that certain voice, to experience that special presence.

Usually, particularly when the object is someone very much loved by the person who is longing for another, there is hardly a waking moment when that person is not on the mind of the one who is “longing for.”

Have you ever been under water for a period of time that is longer than you had expected? You know, as the time ticks away, how desperate you become to reach the surface and breathe the air. The greater the time you are under water, the more you long for a breath of air until that desire overwhelms you, and you rush to get to the surface as rapidly as possible. You have no other thoughts but quenching your need for air.

That is what it means to “long for God.” In another context, it is what it means to “hunger and thirst” after righteousness with the same desires that lead us to quench our physical need for food and water.

How many of us are content to give God only a brief moment of our time, a hasty prayer before a meal, a few coins in the offering plate on Sunday, and forget about Him the rest of the time?

God wants us to long for Him because it is in that longing that we are fulfilled and overwhelmed by God and the reflection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in our lives.

We are never more fulfilled than when our longing for God is met by His presence in our lives.

Love, Walter

[Raven]

Unconditional love for the Love that loves you, instantly brings you Home.

Any blockage to this, hence longing, is due to still being conditional, a sure sign of old self harboring some personal issues and/or agendas (self-will).

The humble, soft and gentle, are more willing to let go of everything to be with Everything.