Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living from The Global Church of the Nazarene of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Monday, 15 June 2015 - "Father Knows Best" Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:1-10

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living from The Global Church of the Nazarene of Lenexa, Kansas, United States for Monday, 15 June 2015 - "Father Knows Best" Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:1 “All the mitzvot I am giving you today you are to take care to obey, so that you will live, increase your numbers, enter and take possession of the land Adonai swore about to your ancestors. 2 You are to remember everything of the way in which Adonai led you these forty years in the desert, humbling and testing you in order to know what was in your heart — whether you would obey his mitzvot or not. 3 He humbled you, allowing you to become hungry, and then fed you with man, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that a person does not live on food alone but on everything that comes from the mouth of Adonai. 4 During these forty years the clothing you were wearing didn’t grow old, and your feet didn’t swell up. 5 Think deeply about it: Adonai was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his child. 6 So obey the mitzvot of Adonai your God, living as he directs and fearing him. 7 For Adonai your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs and water welling up from the depths in valleys and on hillsides. 8 It is a land of wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food in abundance and lack nothing in it; a land where the stones contain iron and the hills can be mined for copper. 10 So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless Adonai your God for the good land he has given you.RG AUDIO 061515

"Father Knows Best" by Author: Josh Broward
Yesterday I had an epic battle with my two year old. After two late nights visiting extended family, he was in the stage of emotional and physical exhaustion we call “meltdown mode.” More than anything else in the world, he needed sleep.
But I just couldn’t get him to calm down. He wanted out, up, away–anything but nap time. I tried everything in my bag of tricks: songs, stories, logic, promises, even physically holding him in the bed. Eventually this writhing, screaming, exhausted octopus yielded to my will and went to sleep.
Once he finally submitted to my way, he was asleep before I finished the second book–which is unheard of in our household. He slept for three hours and woke up happier and healthier in every way.
If God our Father knows what we need, why do we fight so hard? Much of our suffering is because of our broken world, but on occasion God is probably just trying to get us to lie down for our nap. We just need a little faith that “the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land” (Deuteronomy 8:7).
Hymn for Today: "Victory Is Mine" by Rev James Cleveland

Is it possibly be 

Victory Shall Be Mine? 

Verse 1: 

If I hold my peace, 

let the Lord fight my battles; 

I know that the victory shall be mine, 

victory shall be mine. 

Verse 2: 

If I walk upright, 

all my battles He will fight; 

I know that the victory shall be mine, 

victory shall be mine.

"Victory is Mine"

Victory, victory shall be mine.  Victory, victory shall be mine all mine. If I hold my peace, let the Lord fight my battles, Victory, oh victory...victory, victory shall be mine. 

Hallelujah. hallelujah!  Glory, glory, glory be to God.   Jesus. Jesus. Jesus, Jesus J E S U S  (etc) 

If I live right every day, keep on walking in the holy. (sing as many times as you want)  I know that victory shall be mine! mine! mine..... 

peace, love, joy, etc. can replace the word victory.

"Victory is Mine"

victory, victory shall be mine 

victory, victory shall be mine 

if i hold my peace and let God fight my battles 

victory, victory shall be mine 

if i walk right, victory shall be mine 

if i walk right, victory shall be mine 

if i hold my peace and let God fight my battles 

victory victory shall be mine 

if i pray right, victory shall be mine 

if i pray right , victory shall be mine 

if i hold my peace and let God fight my battles 

victory, victory shall be mine 

if i talk right victory shall be mine 

if i talk right victory shall be mine 

if i hold my peace and let God fight my battles 

victory, victory shall be mine 

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