Daily Bread 7/12/2025

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Email from Abiding Place     Daily Bread – July 12, 2025 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) Proverbs 8:18 – Riches and glory are with me enduring wealth and righteousness. When a person takes hold of God’s Word, then wisdom is discovered. When we walk in the wisdom of God, then we find great riches and an abundance of wealth. We also find glory and righteousness. The One Who blesses us spiritually is also the same One Who blesses us materially. Thus, as glory and righteousness are given to us, so are riches and wealth. John indicated how material prosperity was in direct proportion to the spiritual, “Beloved, all things considered, I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” (3 John 2). The Lord takes delight in the prosperity of His people (Psalms 35:27, 112:3; Deuteronomy 30:9). He has promised that whatever we do, we will prosper when we walk with Him and do what is right in His sight (Psalms 1:3; Joshua 1:7-8; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Deuteronomy 29:9; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Chronicles 22:13). There are those who have failed to receive this blessing of the Lord, just as there are many who are sick and have failed to take hold of their healing. The Psalmist has a remedy for this problem as he cries out to God and says, “We beseech You, Yehovah, save now! We beseech You, Yehovah, make us now to prosper!” (Psalms 118:25). However, we must also remember how those who cover their sin will not prosper (Proverbs 28:13). Those who do not make the Lord the sole object of their trust will not prosper (Jeremiah 17:1-6). Yet, if we turn to God and do those things that are pleasing in His sight then we will be given the favor and the blessing of the Lord (Jeremiah 17:7-8). As we learn to trust Him through every situation we encounter, we discover an ever increasing abundance of His blessings. As we give and do not withhold, we find God causes men to heap up their riches into our lives and the windows of Heaven are opened, pouring out more than we can contain (Luke 6:38; Malachi 3:10; Proverbs 3:9-10, 28:8). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen