By Riqui Ricón*
How excellent is thy
lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the
shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. (Psalm
36:7-9, KJV)
The Bible, which is the Word of God and does
not lie, teaches you that the mercy of the Lord reaches to the heavens and His
faithfulness reaches to the clouds (Psalm 36:5, KJV). This is good news (which
is what the word Gospel means), because you don't have to wait until you stand before
the Judge of all
the earth; rather, here and now, living in His Presence as a Child of God, you
are already sheltered under the shadow of His wings and you will be completely
satisfied with the abundance of His house.
How beautiful it is to believe God! How wonderful it is to believe His Word! To be able to say to Him in the intimacy
of fellowship, “Father, You are the fountain of my life and I drink from the
river of Your pleasures. In Your light, I see the light!”
The reason the children of men draw near to
our God and Father is not fear, but His infinite mercy. Without knowing Him,
they appeal to His mercy, but could there be something greater
than His mercy? Yes! His Fatherly Love! This
is our reason for drawing near to Him. This is our reason for being with Him.
This is our reason
for living with Him, through
Him, and for Him.
See what great love the Father
has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what
we are! (1 John 3:1a, NIV)
Never allow the difficulty of your circumstances to make you doubt God's
Love. That’s right, God loves you so much that He preferred to give up
His own Son rather than lose you.
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John
3:16-17, KJV)
You are God's Beloved Child!
Without a doubt,
you will emerge
more than a conqueror from every problem,
anguish, or illness,
because God is with you, and if God is with you, who can be
against you?
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared
not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? (Romans 8:31-32, KJV)
Regarding Jesus Christ,
the Scripture says:
For unto which of the angels said
he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have
I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a Father,
and he shall be to me a Son? (Hebrews
1:5, KJV)
Regarding you, God declares:
The Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit, that we are the children of God... For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren. (Romans 8:16, 29, KJV)
Before, as a child of men, you took refuge
under God's mercy; now, you know
well who you are: a Born-Again Child of God, sheltered in the arms of your
heavenly Father's Love.
Or what man is there of you, whom
if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your
Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew
7:9-11, KJV)
So, truly, what is the problem, illness, or
need that afflicts you today? God is with you! What is the problem, illness,
or need that causes you anguish today? The Almighty God is your Father!
What is the problem, illness, or need that
worries you today? Jesus is the one who died; even more, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, and who
also intercedes for you before your Father!
Jesus taught us to pray: “Our Father which
art in heaven...”. Above all things, He wants you to know that through His
sacrifice on the cross, through His Blood shed to the last drop out of Love for
you, He paid for all your sins. God's Justice was satisfied, you have been
forgiven, and you have been granted a New Nature. Now you are an authentic and legitimate Born-Again Child of God. A Child of the King!
Only
in this way, through faith in your Lord and Savior and High Priest and Elder Brother,
Jesus Christ, can you
come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews
4:16, KJV)
Yes! That’s right! By His grace and mercy, by His death and resurrection, and by His Fatherly
Love, today you have, in Christ Jesus, the answer to ALL your needs, whatever
they may be.
Jesus loves you!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved heavenly Father,
what can I say to all this? If You, my God, are with me, who can be against me? If You did not spare Your own Son,
but delivered Him up out of love for me, how will You not also with Him freely
give me all things? Who shall lay any thing to my charge, being God's chosen?
It is God that justifies me. Who is
he that shall condemn? It is Christ that died for me; even more, who is also
risen, who is at the right hand of God, and who also intercedes for me. Who
shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: For
thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. No, in all these things I, (your name here), am more than a conqueror
through him that loved me. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall
be able to separate me from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus my Lord.
Therefore, I declare
that from every problem, illness,
or affliction, I shall emerge more than a conqueror. I can do all things
through Christ Jesus! I am
healed! I am free! I am prosperous in all things!
I am happy and blessed! I am a Child of God! In Jesus' name. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
February 5 Hebrews 1 / Genesis
45.1-46.27 / Psalm 36
Hebrews
1 God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also
he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image
of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when
he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high:
4 Being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name
than they.
5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day
have I begotten thee? And
again, I will be to him
a Father, and he shall
be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God
worship him.
7 And of the angels
he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits,
and his ministers
a flame of fire.
8 But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of
thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy
God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning
hast laid the foundation of the earth; and
the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a vesture
shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall
not fail.
13 But to which of the angels
said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I
make thine enemies thy footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits,
sent forth to minister for them who shall
be heirs of salvation?
Genesis
45 Then Joseph could
not refrain himself
before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go
out from me. And there stood no man
with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud:
and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph;
doth my father yet live? And
his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said
unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore
be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 For these
two years hath the famine
been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall
neither be earing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to
save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now it was not
you that sent me hither, but God:
and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh,
and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go
up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine;
lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
12 And, behold,
your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, that it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 And ye shall tell my father
of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have
seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren,
and wept upon them: and after that his
brethren talked with him.
16 And the fame thereof
was heard in Pharaoh's house,
saying, Joseph's brethren are
come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph,
Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land
of Canaan;
18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of
Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19 Now thou art
commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 Also regard
not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is
your's.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the
way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin
he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
23 And to his father
he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto
Jacob their father,
26 And told him, saying,
Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land
of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
27 And they told him
all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel
said, It is enough; Joseph
my son is yet alive:
I will go and see him
before I die.
46 And Israel took his journey
with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2
And God spake unto Israel
in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob.
And he said,
Here am I.
3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a
great nation:
4 I will go down with thee into Egypt;
and I will also surely
bring thee up again:
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh
had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods,
which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him:
7 His sons,
and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters,
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt,
Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch,
and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,
and Pharez, and Zarah:
but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron
and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah,
and Job, and
Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered,
and Elon, and
Jahleel.
15 These be the sons
of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter
Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion,
and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah,
and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah
their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah,
whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter,
and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel
Jacob's wife; Joseph,
and Benjamin.
20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and
Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel,
which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel,
and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah,
which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob:
all the souls were seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins,
besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls:
all the souls of the house of
Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Psalm
36 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,
that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flattereth himself
in his own eyes, until his iniquity
be found to be
hateful.
3 The words
of his mouth are iniquity
and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
4 He deviseth
mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself
in a way that is not
good; he abhorreth not evil.
5 Thy mercy,
O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest
man and beast.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men
put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
and thou shalt make them drink
of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain
of life: in thy light shall we see light.
10 O continue
thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against
me, and let not the hand of the
wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers
of iniquity fallen:
they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
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