Hey. I hope everyone's having a great day. Amen.

Welcome to today is a good day to have a good day devotional. Amen? Amen. Hey, you're getting this devotion all the way from Alaska.

Yes, you are. Yeah, we are the frozen chosen up here. God's country. God's country.

The air is fresh and clean, the fishing's good, hunting's good.

Amen, church is good. We're seeing a move of God up here. Y'all just need to move on up and we'll have a good time, right, Dave? That's right, I'm David Ansel. This is Pastor Sherry Morris. She's also my sister.

So if I call her sis or something like that, she's also my pastor.

I'm the oldest.

I'm the oldest of four children.

You're the oldest and look the youngest. Yeah, right, oh, thank you. Oh, that was so nice. Brownie points.

Oh man, what does he want?

Lord have mercy, it's good. But you know what, God has been good to us, has he not? And I've been so blessed, we've been so blessed

to know the Lord and to know his mercy and know his grace because he has been so merciful to us as,

you know, we're preacher's kids.

But you know, we have seen things and experienced things. It's not been so easy in life. But you know what, doesn't change God. God's the same. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He never changes. I'm so thankful for his mercy. I'm so thankful for his grace. I'm thankful every morning that his mercies are fresh every morning. I am thankful to the Lord. Every time I get up in the morning, good morning, Lord. I love you so much. That's what I do, every single morning. May I just love it when the anointing of God just decides to drop. Settle in. Just right at the beginning.

I feel God's presence, that song through it all. Oh yes, oh, that's a good one. Through it all just came to my spirit. As Pastor was talking, you know, through it all.

We have learned to trust in Jesus. We have learned to trust in God.

Amen. And that's why we are so encouraged to be with you today,

to just fellowship with you, to walk through the word of God with you. Because no matter what you go through, he is there all the time. All the time, there's another song, he's there all the time, waiting patiently in line. I keep seeing this vision too, and I've said this before, but you know,

a lot of people have been through the trenches,

which, you know, I see the bullets flying.

You know, those trenches that are made, you know, for when people go out to battle.

And you know, you're ducking the bullets and the things, but we have that shield of faith. When we have God on our side, we can put up the shield of faith. And it will just, every fiery dart that comes, just hit that shield of faith. Just make sure your faith is strong. And how you make your faith strong is what we're doing today. We're hiding the word of God in our heart. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So we're gonna build up our faith today so that when those fiery darts come and you find yourself in the trenches, you can say, "Woo, I got the shield of faith. I've got God's armor on, amen." Man, pass it back to another.

So pick up the mighty shield of faith For the battle must be won We know that Jesus Christ has risen So the work's already done

Wow. What are we gonna do? Praise the Lord. We're gonna praise Him. Amen. We're gonna praise Him. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Jesus. We're going through the Bible. We're gonna go through an old testament, a new testament and the Psalms and Proverbs. We are on day six, so you're in Genesis chapter 13.

Start in verse five and read through chapter 15 to verse 21. Thank you, Lord. And then in the new testament, you're still in Matthew chapter five,

verses 27 through 48. Oh, thank you, Jesus. And pastors going to take us into Psalms chapter six, verse one through 10. This is good, this is good. So the Bible says, "Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, "nor discipline me in your wrath." Now that's kind of important right there. He was feeling pretty, "Please don't discipline me "whenever you're mad at me."

Take a time out, God. Give me 10.

(Laughs) Take a time out. But here he says, "Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, "nor discipline me in your wrath. "Be gracious to me, Lord. "For I am frail. "Heal me, Lord, for my bones are horrified, "and my soul is greatly horrified. "But you, Lord, how long? "Return, Lord, rescue my soul.

"Save me because of your mercy, "for there is no mention of you in death. "In Sheol, who will praise you?

"I am weary with my sighing. "Every night I make my bed swim. "I flood my couch with my tears." Wasn't he a great poet?

My eye has wasted away with grief.

It has grown old because of my enemies.

Leave me,

all you who practice injustice. For the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

The Lord has heard my pleading. The Lord receives my prayer. All my enemies will be put to shame and greatly horrified. They shall turn back. They will suddenly be put to shame. So we're gonna go into the commentary.

In the Hebrew word for weak, in verse two, is U-M-A-L,

and can refer to a plant that is drooping because of a blight that has struck. And you can also find a commentary on that in Isaiah,

Isaiah 24 seven, or two plants in a field that begin with airing due to a drought. You can see that in Isaiah 16 eight. Here the psalmist is sick and spiritually vexed because the Lord is chasing, disciplining him. This psalm is believed to be one of seven penitul psalms written by David after contracting a terrible disease after his sin with Bathsheba.

He is weary because of groaning and crying all night. And he is living with grief or regret. When David says there is no remembrance of God in the grave, he is referring to the fact that his deliverance and all worship must come while a person is living because after death there's no voice to glorify the Lord among the living.

So he was in a pretty low place.

And then you'll see the beginning of the psalm, he was in a low place, but then he turned it around because he knew who his God was. And he said, "The Lord has heard my prayer. "He's heard the sound of my weeping, "and the Lord receives my prayer, "and all the enemies will be put to shame "and greatly horrified. "They shall turn back and they will suddenly "be put to shame." Because he always had, David always had a heart for God, always,

he always repented quickly as well. And that's what I love about David's heart, and that's what God loved about David, that he always humbled himself. And he repented when he was wrong.

He admitted that he was wrong, Dave. That was really good. I wish we had an hour to talk about that. Yeah.

Okay.

Yes, I know we don't. So you gotta read your Proverbs. Here we go.

Now, yesterday, we started in Proverbs chapter one, verse 24 through 28. This is a continuation.

So we're gonna read the rest of the chapter verses 29 through 33. I may combine them all together again because it all relates. I love,

I'm just gonna read the commentary one more time because it's brief out of Perry Stone's. Okay.

This is covering verses 24 through 33. Solomon warns that if people remain simple or lack understanding and wisdom, they will follow their own desire. Oh man. Which will lead them to calamity. The Hebrew word for simply is pithay and it can allude to someone who is silly or easily seduced by someone else.

So I love the Lord, I love His word, I love His correction and I love His grace.

So I'm just gonna put them all together and we're gonna finish this first chapter. That sounds good.

So I called,

this is verse 20, starting in verse 24. I called you so often, but you wouldn't come.

I reached out to you, but you paid no attention. You ignored my advice

and rejected the correction I offered.

So I will laugh when you're in trouble. I will mock you when disaster overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone and anguish and distress overwhelm you. When they cry for help, I will not answer.

Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me. For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord. They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them. Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes. For simpletons turn away from me to death.

Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

But here it is guys.

But all who listen to me will live in peace.

Untroubled by fear of harm.

What was that one about complacency? Just right above that. For simpletons turn away from me to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

You see, we think that we can get along without God. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. But the very intentions of the book of life that he gave to us is so we could live without fear and imperfect peace. But it's up to us whether we ignore it, or we take it to heart and live daily by the book. Now I know pastor wrote a song by the book.

Living by the book. I think it's a CD, isn't it? Yeah, I got it on the CD. This is a CD that you guys could probably get. You reach out, you can probably pick that CD up. It's called Living by the Book. It is wonderful.

And I encourage you to do that. It will bless you. Yeah, that song is Living by the Book. It was on the wings series. On the wings. Series, but I think they can get it at Reverb Nation under Sherry Morris if they wanna go under. They wanna just download. Reverb Nation. Yeah, under Sherry Morris. But I wanted to look, this complacency here is a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.

There's no room for complacency. There's no room for compromise, right?

And so I just feel like there's no room for no grounds for complacency. We can't have that when it comes to the things of God. I sing a song to my children and to my grandchildren now that my mother used to sing to me. Okay,

my mother too.

Be not wise in your own lives. Thigh and eyes. Fear the Lord. Fear the Lord and depart from evil. Yep, that's it.

She used to sing us a lot of little songs. Which is the word of God. Yeah, it's so good. Downloaded into my spirit is now downloaded into my children's spirit, which is now downloaded into my children's children's. Don't you love, I love watching my kids

teach their children and do things that I did with them when they were children.

I love that. There was a lot of times every night we would, when we tucked our kids into bed, we would go through a series of praise and worship songs before they would go to sleep.

And they wouldn't, just one more mom, just one more, she should raise them. Sing another one.

And so we'd go through these songs and then we'd pray. And then Nate would make up songs too. They'd make up songs for the Lord. Are you stop on the out of the devil's head? Yes, I mean, so he made up all these songs. What a great memory, but I see the kids doing the same thing with their children, tucking them in, singing to them, teaching them scriptures. Now Nate, sometimes whenever the kids are naughty, they make them take scriptures and write them down. Yes. And write them down like a hundred times so they get the word of God in their heart. That's part of their discipline. So the proverbs of today reminds me to trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not into your own understanding. In all your way, acknowledge him and he will make your past rape. Be not wise in your own eyes, but fear the Lord and depart from evil. Guess what? Cause it'll be health to your navel and marrow to your bones. That's it. So today Dave, we are going to go through, we're gonna still continue on the word of God. And this is something that the Lord, he says he smashes the hard places. So in Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 29, the Bible says, does not my word burn like fire?

Says the Lord.

It is not like, is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock to pieces?

So many people fear the hammer of God's conviction, but conviction is not a negative. It's not a negative thing, Dave. That's right. It's not. So conviction is always positive. Praise God. Yeah, it's always positive. If you don't feel convicted about something,

then you better start. That's when you know you're in trouble. You're in trouble. Because I depend on the Holy Spirit to woo, but also to convict. So you don't need to go there. You don't need to say that. If we would listen and be sensitive to the Spirit, there's a lot of things we wouldn't do or say. Sure. So it's good. Sure. Conviction is how God identifies things in your heart.

They're not in harmony with his word.

True conviction, it diagnoses your problems and points you to the remedy. That's good, David. I like that. I like that. Conviction is how God identifies things in your life that are not in harmony with his word. If it doesn't line up with the word of God, if Jesus doesn't-- That's right. What is that bracelet that used to say? What would Jesus do?

You know, what would Jesus do? Well, if you don't know him and you don't know the word of God, the enemy wants you ignorant. He doesn't want you to know the word of God. He wants you to be defeated. He wants you to be, you know, not wise.

So if you are wise, you should fear the hammer of conviction and you should pray for it so that you may become more like Christ. Lord, mold me and make me. Oh, Lord, mold me and make me. Hallelujah, Dave.

Thank you. Sometimes you may see a small tip of a rock protruding out from the soil of your heart.

But until you apply the word of God, you don't realize how deep it goes.

You don't realize that you can't just ignore it or deal with it on your own in your own good time.

When God starts hammering away at something in your life, when you see a recurrent theme coming at you in your scripture reading and in sermons you hear, pay attention. Pay attention, God's talking to me. And every time you go to church or you go, you know, just say, Lord, speak to me.

You know, I want to hear, even if it's just even something little, you might grab something out of the message. But Lord, I wanna hear from you. I wanna hear your heart. Lord, if there's something inside of me that needs changed, change me, God. Sometimes it's not easy, but Dave, you know, it reminds me when you talk about that thorn or that little stone in our heart, anybody ever have a splinter in the tip of their finger and how it hurts like a son of a gun, you know? And anytime you touch it and you know, it kind of-- Irritates. Yeah, it hurts.

And then, you know, it hurts to pull out too. You know what?

It hurts when it drives deeper. Oh, yes.

Sometimes it can be really deep. Yes. Wow, so we have to be really careful what's inside.

And when you do pull that stone out, God can feel it and make it new. Oh, yes. Amen. Fill it with good things, fill it with His word, fill it with His peace, fill it with His wholeness, amen? So we wanna let the hammer fall. Yep. Up the rock in you. Oh, that's good. You may not be able to remove the boulder that has taken up residence in your life, but when God's word breaks it into pieces, it can be swept away like dust. Well, that's good, Dave.

Wow,

that's good. So it is wise to bear in mind as the word brings holy conviction,

as the word brings righteous desire to change and clean house.

The enemy will often work to replace conviction with condemnation.

That's true.

So,

But there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. But if God is convicting you about something, Yes.

And it might not be sinful in nature.

You know what I'm saying?

But if it's keeping you from God and getting closer to God,

then you've gotta listen to that conviction. If you're watching TV a lot,

(Laughs) you know, shows, you got your favorite show, but you don't have time to spend 20 minutes with the Lord, that should convict you. And if the Lord is wooing you, get in the word, get in prayer. You know, do something, get a relationship. I wanna say get in the word, get in prayer, but it's more than that. It's have a relationship with Jesus.

It's he's your friend, talk to him day and night, talk to him. You know, I was telling the church the other day that I've written so many songs just by, you know, as a housewife, I had kids, I had four children, but I've written songs, I'd worship the Lord while I was folding the laundry or doing the laundry or cleaning the house. There was always a song inside my spirit to worship God. I always had preaching on, I always had music on in the house to stir an atmosphere of the presence of God. Always, always, even little kids songs, you know, remember how it felt, you know,

to meet big Goliath in the field. You know, there was just some old songs that we would sing and he'd say, I'm just a child.

My life is just before me. I can't just can't wait to see what God is for me, but I'll trust him and obey him, right? To see what God has for me. So don't live a life that's complacent,

but listen to the wooing of the Holy Spirit. Listen to the, if he stops wooing you, you can't come to Christ anyway without the wooing of the Holy Spirit. I can't make you serve God unless you are wooed by the Spirit,

right? That's right.

So it's wise to bear in mind, as the word brings holy conviction, as the word, I'm gonna say it again, as the word brings a righteous desire to change and clean house, the enemy will often work to replace conviction with condemnation. So you got to keep your armor on, let God do his work and tell the enemy to take a hike.

Amen, tell him.

Just tell him to take a hike

because you don't live under condemnation.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit is what?

Life,

amen. God is so good, he's worthy of honor, glory and praise.

Today, if you've not received Jesus Christ as your personal savior, but you want to, you say, I wanna know God. I want him to, I wanna be his friend. I wanna hear his voice. I'm gonna tell you, he can speak to you. He fills you with his Holy Spirit. He can speak to you just even in the little details in the day.

He'll tell you something, you'll practice on the little things. The Holy Spirit will start speaking to you and it'll be the little things. And if you will listen to those little things, those little promptings just to make your day easier,

oh my goodness, then he can trust you to hear bigger things. That's right. You know? And I'm telling you right now, if you are sitting here listening for the first time, you haven't asked Jesus to come to your heart,

but you're feeling an urge to,

that's the wooing of the Holy Spirit, that we're talking about. So if that is happening to you right now,

now is the time, today is the hour, to say yes. Don't ignore it. Don't ignore it. Take this time, take this opportunity because God is speaking directly to you today and he wants you to experience life and life more abundantly. Amen, amen, Dave. I think that, you know, we just have to respond. But if you say, oh no,

maybe tomorrow, I'll give my heart to the Lord, I'm not ready to give up those things.

But you know, we're living in the last of the last days.

There's so many Bible prophecies unfolding before our eyes.

You would be a fool not to give your life to God and to serve him.

You would be foolish. It would be. I wouldn't wanna be here. It would be. Make the right choice today. Get in the Word with us. Amen. As long as we go along and let God take you

to the highest heights. Amen. Tell people how to give their heart to the Lord, Dave. What did you do? What did you do when you gave your heart to the Lord? How did you give your heart to the Lord?

First, you have to believe. You have to believe that-- You have that conviction of sin, too, right? Yes. And if there's something stirring inside of you right now that, you know, something is stirring me,

but I don't know what to do.

Jesus was sent by God to save us from our sin. Amen. From the curse of sin that was brought on from the beginning of time,

Jesus had to come. He had to give up everything in heaven

and be willing to come to this earth to be born of a virgin

and then to die on a cross bearing the sin of the world. And he did that for you. He did that for me. And all we have to do is simply say, "God, I believe that you sent your son to die for me. I believe in Jesus."

And because the Bible says there's only one way to heaven and it's through believing on him who died. And that is Jesus. Jesus is his name. If you're in trouble right now, if you're hurting right now, if you want a life change,

and you wanna make heaven your home, the one thing you must do is confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

Ask him to come into your heart, to be your Lord and savior,

to save you from your sin, to wash you white as snow. And you know what he does? He says, "Yes, I will. I'm gonna make you a new person today. I'm not gonna remember your sin any longer. I'm gonna wash you white as snow." It doesn't matter what you did. I won't remember it anymore. All I'll see is that God loves you because God sees through Jesus when he looks at you and Jesus makes you perfect in God's sight. So if you wanna be perfect before God, if you want a relationship with him, just simply say this prayer with me today. Heavenly Father,

I come to you now.

Believing that your son died for me on the cross.

His name is Jesus.

And I ask that Jesus, will you come into my heart, cleanse me of my sin. I know that I'm a sinner, but I no longer want to be a sinner anymore. Will you wash me? Will you make me white as snow? Will you change my life forever? And I will live for you the rest of my life

in the mighty name of Jesus.

Thank you.

Amen. Now if you've said that today, the angels of heaven are rejoicing with us.

Today we're so thankful that you said that and made that commitment. There will be information that you can reach out. We're not gonna leave you here stranded, but we're gonna take you through the Bible this year and we wanna help you on your daily walk with him. Make it. God bless you. We love you. It's gonna be a good day. Have a great day. God bless.