Author: Daryl Pint

Come As You Are

Trying to be good enough for God is not the answer.  

He wants you to come to Him just the way you are and then He will change you from the inside out.  

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions are multiplied before you,

and our sins testify against us;

for our transgressions are with us,

and we know our iniquities:

 transgressing, and denying the Lord,

and turning back from following our God

64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, 

that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but in order that the world might be saved through him. 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, 

but whoever does not believe is condemned already, 

because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God

More Than We Think or Imagine

In Ephesians it says God can do more than we think and much more than we can imagine.  He is awesome in power and might.  He is steadfast in His love for servants who walk before Him with all their heart.

Isaiah 64:3

When you did awesome things that we did not look for

Exodus 15:11

“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?

Who is like you, majestic in holiness,

awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders

Deuteronomy 3:24

‘O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours

1 Kings 8:232

“O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart

Place of Rest

How can you know you are in a place of rest if you are not seeking the Lord in what He is leading you to do.  Do we go our own way and ask Him to bless us.  Are we asking for Him to bless us when we have not sought Him with our heart or humbled ourselves before Him.  Our purpose is to honor and glorify Him.  Humbly seek Him and find purpose and rest doing His will for your life.

Isaiah 63:14

the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

So you led your people,

 to make for yourself a glorious name

Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord

Daniel 10:12

Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words

Ezekiel 44:13

They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed

Astray in Our Heart

“They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways”

Isn’t it easy to go astray in our heart?  Sometimes big things and other times it is the small things that lead us away.  Keep your heart in pure desire to honor and glorify God.  When we allow other stuff in there it always seems to take ground and grow. 

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled

 and grieved his Holy Spirit;

therefore he turned to be their enemy,

and himself fought against them

Psalms 78:17

Yet they sinned still more against him,

 rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

 They tested God in their heart

by demanding the food they craved.

 They spoke against God, saying,

 “Can God spread a table in the wilderness

78:22

because they did not believe in God

and did not trust his saving power

95:8

do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,

as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

 when your fathers put me to the test

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

 For forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known my ways

Love and Redemption

Thank you Lord for your love and redemption.  Though I have not been faithful and fall short many times you remain faithful and steadfast.  Guide me today and use me for your honor and glory.

Isaiah 63:8

And he became their Savior.

 In all their affliction he was afflicted,

and the angel of his presence saved them;

 in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;

 he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old

Deuteronomy 7:10

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened

Wake Up

When are we going to wake up to that which we have bowed our back?  How much of the sin of our culture have we stood silent and not spoken out against?  How long will it be before we say, like Isaiah, “Here am I send me”

Isaiah 63:5

I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;

so my own arm brought me salvation,

and my wrath upheld me

59:16

He saw that there was no man,

and wondered that there was no one to intercede;

then his own arm brought him salvation,

and his righteousness upheld him.

 He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

and a helmet of salvation on his head;

he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,

and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak

51:18

Thus says your Lord, the Lord,

your God who pleads the cause of his people:

“Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;

the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,

 who have said to you,

‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;

and you have made your back like the ground

and like the street for them to pass over

Burning Desire to Praise

Do you ever have that burning desire to praise God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do?

Isaiah 62:11

Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

 Say to the daughter of Zion,

 “Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

 And they shall be called The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord

40:10

Behold, the Lord God comes with might,

and his arm rules for him;

 behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

 He will tend his flock like a shepherd;

 he will gather the lambs in his arms

Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety- nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety- nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish

Crown of Christ

I wonder if I am crown of beauty or living like one of the thorns in the crown of Christ at the time of his crucifixion.  Thank God it is not based on what I do but what He has done.  I must remember to choose to let His light shine in and through me rather than leaving the light of ME on.  I find this easy some days but others it is not so, however in His great love He sends someone into my day that His light is shining through.  Choose to be the light He uses to take away the darkness some are in.

Isaiah 62:3

You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God

Zechariah 9:16

On that day the Lord their God will save them,

as the flock of his people;

for like the jewels of a crown

they shall shine on his land.

 For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty

Psalms 100:3

Know that the Lord, he is God!

It is he who made us, and we are his;

we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

and his courts with praise!

Give thanks to him; bless his name!

 For the Lord is good;

his steadfast love endures forever,

and his faithfulness to all generations

Asking God

I wonder how many of my days I am asking God for His intervention rather than giving Him praise and worship.  Do I not see Him for more than my wants?  

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,

so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise

to sprout up before all the nations

Revelation 22:3

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever

7:15

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,

and he will guide them to springs of living water,

and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes

Rejoicing is an Act of Choice

Rejoicing is an act of choice. It comes from the heart and mind that is fixed on God. There is so much temporary (non-eternal) stuff that competes, making the choice hard because our heart and mind get clouded. Find your purpose and strength in Him alone who can satisfy and choose honor Him.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my soul shall exult in my God,

 for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the robe of righteousness

Habakkuk 3:18

I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

 God, the Lord, is my strength

Psalms 13:4

But I have trusted in your steadfast love;

my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

 I will sing to the Lord,

because he has dealt bountifully with me

Psalms 35:8

Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,

 exulting in his salvation

Luke 1:46

“My soul magnifies the Lord,

 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior