trACker number456
The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track
GodTracker is online at www.godtracker.co.uk
23 August 2013
Dear Tracker
God-tracking
is walking through the valley of the shadow in his light
Have
you ever been for an early morning hike or walk in the countryside? There’s
nothing much more exhilarating than getting up at dawn on a cool autumn
morning, eating a hot breakfast with a steaming cup of coffee and then setting
out on a path with the still dew-damp grass crunching under feet. As you walk
the sun wraps its warm arms around your shoulders and gently holds your face
between its hands. You breathe deeply as
you enthusiastically walk the track bathed in it's warmth and light. But no
sooner have you begun when you realise that the path you’re walking is taking
you deep into a valley between two hills. As you enter the valley the eastern
rising sun becomes obscured by the peak of a hill until eventually you can no
longer feel its comfort on your skin. It's then that you realise you’re in the
valley of the shadow.
Life’s
a bit like that, isn’t it? When the sun's shining brightly we enthusiastically
track its highways and byways but all too soon we find ourselves trudging that
proverbial valley of the shadow; the shadows of disappointment and anxiety.
Hope begins to flicker and it's here that we become consumed by our
difficulties to the point that we feel that God has deserted us. But listen: “Though I walk through the valley of the
shadow… you are with me”
Dear God-tracker,
the Lord your God will never, never leave you to flounder in the shadows alone!
Your Lord your God will never allow you to enter that valley of the shadow
without preparing your heart and your circumstance and, with it, the way
out. Charles Spurgeon once said, “As
sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with
them.” There is absolutely no place that
you or I could ever be where God is not, even in the valley of the shadow!
Understand this,
God's Holy Spirit is with you right now, whatever you're going through. He has
made a way through the shadow and out the other side. He has wrapped his warm
arms around your shoulders and is holding your face in his hands. Soon you'll
be looking back into that valley as the sun once again warms your skin,
wondering why you made a mountain out of a molehill!
God-tracking is walking through the
valley of the shadow in his light.
Keep
your eyes on Jesus.
Dudley
It’s all in the Book. Read more:
Psalm
23
James
1:1-6
Deuteronomy
31:6-8
V\o/WVerse
of the Week
Joshua 1:5
“No one will be able to stand up against you all the
days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never
leave you nor forsake you.”
Quote of the Week
A
Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes
“If you are walking with Jesus, in the
Spirit, you need not fear goings too far.
No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.” --- A.A. Allen
Don't Give Up, Look Up!
Look
up and Fix Your Eyes on Jesus!
Give me strength to walk with my eyes on Jesus and not the shadows
Pray:
"Dear God, Thank
you so much that you will never leave me nor forsake me. You are constantly by
my side. Therefore I choose to continue to acknowledge you in all I do and walk
in your light, even through the valley of the shadow. And Lord, I am going
through that valley right now. Give me strength to walk with my eyes on Jesus
and not the shadows. Help me to persevere with tenacity until I once again
break out into the light of the day. You
are my help, my strength and my shelter. Thank you that you will get me through
this time in my life. In Jesus I pray. Amen.”
If you want more prayer then email dudley@godtracker.co.uk
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2003.
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