DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR FRIDAY MARCH 26:
WORD OF WISDOM
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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DAILY DEVOTION
Break Out of the Mold
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him
among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast
to the LORD and did not stop following him.And the LORD was with him; he was
successful in whatever he undertook.
(2 Kings 18:5-7, NIV)
Hezekiah's father was King Ahaz of Judah, who set up idols for the
people to worship and closed the doors of the temple. He didn't honor God,
and the nation went downhill and became very poor. Hezekiah was raised in an
environment of compromise, defeat, and mediocrity. He could have turned out
like his dad and adapted to that environment, but when he became king, the
first thing Hezekiah did was to reopen the temple. He turned the nation back
toward God.
You may be in some kind of limited environment. If Hezekiah were here today,
he would tell you, "You can break out of the mold. You can be the difference
maker. You can be the one who sets your family on a course to honoring God,
a course of blessing, favor, and victory." Recondition your mind, start
thinking better, believing that you're a can-do person, knowing that you
have seeds of greatness, and you too will break barriers that you thought
were impossible.
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DAILY BIBLE READING
Joshua
Joshua 16 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
Land for Ephraim and Manasseh
16 This is the land that the family of Joseph received. This land started at
the Jordan River near Jericho and continued to the waters of Jericho. (This
was just east of Jericho.) The border went up from Jericho to the hill
country of Bethel. 2 Then the border continued from Bethel (Luz) to the
Arkite border at Ataroth. 3 Then the border went west to the border of the
Japhletites. The border continued to Lower Beth Horon. Then the border went
to Gezer and continued to the Mediterranean Sea.
4 So the people of Manasseh and Ephraim got their land. (Manasseh and
Ephraim were sons of Joseph.)
5 This is the land that was given to the people of Ephraim: Their eastern
border started at Ataroth Addar near Upper Beth Horon. 6 And the western
border started at Micmethath. The border turned to the east to Taanath
Shiloh and continued east to Janoah. 7 Then it went from Janoah down to
Ataroth and to Naarah. The border continued until it touched Jericho and
ended at the Jordan River. 8 The border went from Tappuah west to Kanah
Ravine and ended at the sea. This is all the land that was given to the
Ephraimites. Each family in that tribe got a part of this land. 9 Many of
the border towns of Ephraim were actually in Manasseh's borders, but the
Ephraimites got the towns and the fields around them. 10 But the Ephraimites
were not able to force the Canaanites to leave the town of Gezer. So the
Canaanites still live among the Ephraimites today, although they did become
slaves of the Ephraimites.
