He Loved Us First

Today, I have been reminded through God's WORD that we have never been and will never be the "initiator". Who we are, what we have achieved and where we have gone is never because we were all made up and deserving. In all things, it was HIM who took the first step. The only thing we did and can do is to respond with obedience and humility to abide in HIS will and to follow HIS direction. After all, it's the best thing we can do. God bless you.

YOU ARE QUALIFIED - HE QUALIFIES YOU

Have you ever felt little?

Have you ever felt unqualified?

Have you ever felt you weren't good enough for the task at hand?

This past week has been an example of me feeling and questioning, "Am I really the right person to do this?" Looking at the assignment simply overwhelms me.

But then do you believe God has HIS timely word for us at the time we needed it.

I praise God because when I prayed and asked for help, I opened the Bible for an answer and behold, HE did through this verse:

Ephesians 2:7 "Now God has us where he wants us..."

So I'm not lost. I am EXACTLY where GOD wanted me to be. WOW! Praise the Lord!

However, I'm not sure if you're like me but somewhere in my heart, I still felt "inadequate" even after hearing the promise. I know it's wrong but this is me being honest.

Praise be to GOD who also knows I would feel this way. He followed it up with another promise in this verse: 

2 Cor 3:6 "He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant..."

Now, did you notice that word? COMPETENT. In other versions, it would say "QUALIFIES" us. Thank you LORD!

This surely encouraged me this morning and I thank GOD for that. Let this be an encouragement to you too whatever you're going through. This WORD is applicable to each of you. 

God Has His Own Seasons

How many of us feel that sometimes prayers take a long time to be answered and the promised future is far from sight? It's not a surprise that a lot of us choose to give up and/or start doing things on our own.
Let me remind you that every dream comes from the dream giver. And when we bring it up to HIM, he treasures it and sanctifies it. He doesn't show us how and when He will make it happen but HE will. Don't take me wrong, I'm not saying everything you tell GOD will happen. That mindset is the exact opposite of His Lordship. What I am referring to are those desires that are aligned to HIS will, plan and those that will not lead you away from HIM.


According to the Bible in Ecclesiastes 3:1:

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

God has his own timetable. Nothing is rushed and nothing is too late. 

We must recognize our season and what He's trying to teach us and to be kept assured that He will eventually display HIS wonder before our very eyes. 

IS it easy? My point of view - no. Everyone wants things fast. But that's what must set us apart. We are not in a hurry. We should be on time by faith and not by sight. 

SO no matter what you're going through, take heart. GOD Knows His Seasons and He has a season for you. 

You reap what you sow

It's such a common phrase that we casually use yet most of the time failing to understand its gravity. Right now, the world demands instant gratification. No one wants to wait. No one has the time to wait. Waiting means foolishness. But here's a quote I saw few years ago:




"If you want to know how to be successful, think like a farmer. A farmer knows that he can not expect a harvest if he has not sown any seeds"


A lot of us see the harvest and the price at the end. Our eyes glued to what is to come failing to look down on what needs to be done.


Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with "eyes on the prize" but let me remind of this verse found in Psalm 119:105


"Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path"


The WORD wants us to see what's ahead but the WORD also encourages us to where we are and know how to get there.


Galatians 6:7 says "A man reaps what he sows."


God believes in process. He even went from Day 1 to Day 6 before resting.


That dream can happen. That aspiration can be achieved. But you got to start sowing seeds now. Be it through training, additional learning, accepting rebukes, volunteering, stepping out in faith or whatever that God specifically asks you to do.


Just sow...you'll reap it someday. Never never quit.

Challenges in Christian Life

Today, I learned that the biggest challenge we have is not the devil. After all, we're called to victory through Christ who gives us strength. I realized through our Pastor that the greatest challenge is to obey the WORD of GOD even through the challenging times. 

You would argue why and how can that be? Firstly, our carnal nature is naturally opposite to what GOD wants us to do. Secondly, it's called a test and a challenge precisely because they're not easy.

Thankfully, even throughout the challenge HE remains to be on his throne. He enables us to soar on wings like eagles. His only desire is to let the glory of GOD be manifested in our lives.

Check out this song from Hillsong that captures this message rightfully.

The WORD of GOD to the Kimyal People

I dropped by Joshua Harris'es blogsite and gladly I did. I watched the video and really it moved me to tears. How many of us neglect God's WORD that we even forget to read it or even take care of it. To these people, it's TREASURE! And indeed it SHOULD BE!

After watching the video, I pray you'll thirst and hunger for WORD overflow and may we all just be thankful and grateful we have it readily available for us to read.

Learn more about this tribe here: http://www.kimyaltribe.com/

It's what the Bible says that matters

"I have what the Bible says I have."

 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal. 3:29)

"I can do what the Bible says I can do."

 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.(Philippians 4:13)

"I am what the Bible says I am!"

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 37-39)

Outside of the Bible are lies and deceptions! 

Don't be tricked!

Read the BIBLE and know the TRUTH! 

And the TRUTH shall set you FREE!

We Are All one In Christ Jesus

This is a guest post by Daniel Smith of Different Frequencies...Same Radio.

As a United States Sailor, I have had the blessed opportunity to meet
missionaries and visit churches all over Asia and the Middle East. As
a blogger, I have had the privileged of reading blogs from all over
the world, and I have had people from all over the world read my blog.

Ten years ago I preached a short message of encouragement to some
missionaries and staff at a Baptist church in Pattaya, Thailand. In
that message, I spoke of how we may be of any number of ethnicities,
but we were all one in Christ. In our modern world of blogging and
easy travel, that is no less true.

As Paul states in Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for
ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

The world is a much smaller place than when Paul went on his many
missionary journeys, and yet he realized the same thing back then that
we can realize today. It's no less true now than it was when Paul
first wrote the church in Galatia. It doesn't matter where I am from.
Once I joined the church through the blood of Christ, I became part of
a body of believers from many tongues and tribes. That is no more
easily discovered than by simply looking through the blogs we read
every day.

What a blessed thought!

Note: This is the first guest post I have approved for this site and I hope that this would be a FIRST of Many. I encourage you to send me an email to yourdailyword@gmail.com with Subject line: ARTICLE and I'll check if I can publish it. Blessings to you!

Thanks Daniel for this Article. May God bless you and your blog as you work in God's vineyard!

Seek His WORD

Psalm 119:9-11 (New King James Version)

9 How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.

10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

God said in His word, for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." [1 Peter 1:16]. We can only do so when we keep HIS WORD in our hearts (believe it) and when we take heed in obeying it (not just believing but acting on it). A lot of us can easily believe what the WORD of GOD says but we most of the time fail to act on the word especially if we fail to even understand what the the WORD is trying to say.

Review and re-check your daily devotion with the LORD.

Have you been very busy with other things lately that you just simply read the Bible without meditating on it?

Have you been very busy becoming successful in your job or in any endeavor you are in that you are forgetting the most essential thing?

Are you caught up with deadlines and priorities that you neglect reading HIS Word?

Seek HIS WORD above EVERYTHING ELSE and PRAY so that you will not wander from his WILL for you: his good, perfect and pleasing WILL.

GOD Bles you!

It's TIME to Do Something

On great story of an Atheist who turned to God and believed! Indeed, nothing is impossible with the Lord. He always comes out victorious over AIDS, over Atheism, over anything. If we only allow our lives and ourselves to be used by God then more lives will be touched and changed, more people will be blessed, more souls will come to know Jesus Christ and more people will experience victory the same way this man has experienced it! Read the story and DO SOMETHING!


The story is something I have read from The High Calling Blogs. Actually, I hesitated in posting this as I have already posted the daily word for today. But I was so touched and moved by the story that I need you to read it as well. It's indeed the TIME to stand up and share the GOOD NEWS that we know.

Here's an excerpt from the post: Covenant Stories: Our First Funeral

Births, weddings, and funerals. These are hallmark events of any church. At Covenant we had seen a few births, including two of my own children, and a number of weddings. But as of 1997, there had been no funerals. The reason is obvious enough: our oldest member at that time was 53. New churches are often started by younger people, but I always felt a little out of balance in those days. In the churches of my youth, there were always plenty of gray hair in the pews. I asked Ben once what he thought we could do to attract some older people to Covenant.

“We might just have to grow our own gray heads,” he said. “And if the offerings keep looking like this, Luke and I will be our first.”

But, as we all know, the old are not the only ones who die. And so death made it’s inevitable first call to Covenant Baptist Church.

My wife met George Swisher at the hospital where she was working as a chaplain. George had AIDS and was in the hospital battling an infection of some kind. George was an avowed atheist. His father faithfully took the family to the Baptist Church on Sundays, but then he beat any idea of God out of George during the rest of the week. In George’s mind, his father, the beatings, and the Baptist Church were all rolled up together in a ball of painful memories. It’s not surprising that he hadn’t been in church for awhile.

One afternoon George was in a sleepy, drug-induced state and thought he saw Jesus standing at the foot of his hospital bed. He shook his head a few times and the vision of Jesus faded. About that time my wife walked into the room and announced that she was a chaplain. Normally George would have thrown her out, but the Jesus vision had spooked him a bit, so he let her stay. She did not push God talk on him. The two talked about life, laughed, and ended up becoming friends. I met George at a sandwich shop to talk, and in that conversation he confessed that he would like to come to church, but he felt it was a problem that he did not believe in God. I asked him why he wanted to come to church if he didn’t believe in God. He told me he remembered the hymns they sang in church when he was a boy. He thought he would like to hear that music again before he died.

I shrugged my shoulders. “Okay, come to church. People come to church for all sorts of reasons. Just sit there and sing hymns. You don’t have to do anything else. We won’t bother you or try to get you to convert or join or anything.” George was there the next Sunday, wearing jeans, black tennis shoes, a plaid flannel shirt, and suspenders. He sat in church, closed his eyes during the hymns, and sang along. He had a beautiful baritone voice, and within a few weeks, people were sitting near George so they could hear him sing.

I don’t have time to tell you how George became a Christian, and I don’t remember in any case. We never asked him. We just let him sing on Sundays and come to church picnics and be with us. We became his adopted family, you might say. One day George pulled me aside and said, “I think I’m ready to be baptized and become a Christian.”

“Really?” I said. I was surprised. “What happened?”

He scratched his beard. “Well, I don’t know for sure if there is a God. I still kind of doubt it, to be honest. But I started praying. I’ve been calling God ‘Dad.’ You know, like, ‘Hey Dad, can I talk to you for a moment?’ Do you think that’s okay?”

“Sure,” I said. “God, Dad, Father, Creator, Abba, whatever.”

Continue Reading the story by clicking here.

God Bless you!

The Word of God enables us to do Good Works

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
2 Tim 3.16-17

That’s how important God’s Word is to our lives. If Schools have textbooks, Latter Day Saints have Book of Mormons, Muslims have Quran, we, Christians have the Bible. It’s very vital to our lives because after all, without God’s Word we don’t have any basis whatsoever to all that we believe in and hope for. Everything will just be meaningless and vanity. So why do we forget to even read it once a day? Why even though it’s that essential that we forget to bring it even to church services we attend? Why even though it’s very important that we don’t even bother to memorize verses? Why is it that we are just contented with reading the Word to fulfill our obligations as Christians and not even meditating on it? I can remember James, the brother of Jesus saying “like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.”[James 1:23 – 24]

In Ephesians 2:10, the Word of God says “We are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared beforehand that we should WALK in them.” As Christians, that’s what we claim to be we are supposed to walk according to the “good” works prepared by God for us. But how will we know what these good works if we don’t spend quality time in studying and meditating on God’s Word daily. Please mind the word daily. I have learned that a Christian life is indeed a daily walk with the Lord. It’s dying daily to one’s self and waking up renewed by the Lord. It’s living a life day after day with the Lord which simply explains why God’s faithfulness is new every morning. That’s also the reason why this site is called Your Daily Word.



In Paul’s letter to Timothy, he emphasized the importance of God’s Word and reinforced the basic purpose of it. It’s the Word of God that sets the standard on what’s wrong and what’s right. This is very important, people may have their own standards and do’s and don’ts but it can be settled when it’s brought back to what the Word of God says. All standards must bow down to God’s standards in His WORD. It’s the Word of God also that corrects and rebukes wrong doings in fact it’s likened to a double edged sword that will surely cut through each heart. Without it, we’d end up following the “norm” thinking that it’s right coz everybody’s doing it. It’s the Word of God that lists down everything one should and straightens out any confusion that may come up. For what? For us to be thoroughly furnished unto all good works. For us to be able to work out our salvation with fear and trembling which we have been called to do.



The point is simple, the Bible is our basis, our compass, our map and our standard in this Christian life and that it’s too precious, too essential to be neglected and forsaken. Grab your Bible now and meditate on it and be ready to be taught, rebuked, corrected and trained for the “good” life God has called you beforehand.

Word of God: Key to Success

I was browsing through my Devotional Notebook and I read my devotional for 09/09/08 and once again I'm blessed with what God had spoken during that time. That's how amazing God's word is. It's not limited to that day or to that situation only. I encourage you to take notes of your devotions with the Lord and even during Worship Services. You'll never know when God can use those very words again in your life.

Today, I'd like to share my devotion on Joshua 1:8.

Joshua 1:8 (New International Version) "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful."

When everybody is running after and looking (desperately) for ways how to be successful and prosperous in life, I turn to the Word of God. His WORD has the answers. His Word has the Key. His Word is THE KEY.

1. "Do not let the Book of the Law depart from your mouth."
- May every word that comes out from our mouths glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. May it be a fountain of blessings and not curses, forgiveness and not hatred. May we never engage in godless conversation where the usual topic is to to talk about other people's lives. May it be an avenue instead for our mouths to be used to share the good news to other people.
- Aside from that, whatever we say also represents what we have inside our hearts. (Matt. 12:34). Let's all have hearts that follow and obey the Book of the Law no matter what. Let's all fill it with love, humility and let us take out anger, bitterness, jealousy and hatred.

2. "Meditate on it Day and Night"
- Close and Open your day with the Word of God. Let's all make it a pre-requisite. Let's all make it a part of our daily routine. This is the secret in living a righteous life and in not letting the Book of the Law depart from your mouth.

3. Lastly, "Do Everything Written On it"
- Actions. Deeds. They speak far more than words. As James, the brother of Jesus had said, "Let's show our faith with our deeds. Without it, our faith is not true and dead.

What's the point?

All three points are preceding verses of this statement:

"SOyou shall be prosperous and successful!" (Joshua 1:8)

Point: In reality, when you're honest, with integrity, honorable, excellent and God fearing, then success and prosperity will run after you.

When the world says it takes skills and brains to succeed, I say it takes the WORD of GOD (Wisdom) to work in our lives, and through our lives to succeed.