June 8, 2026 – Teachable
Days – “Bread corn is bruised” (Isa. xxviii. 28). I appreciate how Simpson explains the message God is offering in the passage that this verse represents, “The farmer does not gather timothy and blue grass, and break it with a heavy machine. But he takes great pains with the wheat. So God takes great pains with those who are to be of much use to Him. There is a nature in them that needs this discipline. Don’t wonder if the bread corn is treated with the wise, discriminating care that will fit it for food. [In other words, don’t look too far in the future for the meaning of what is happening today.] He knows the way He is taking, and there is infinite tenderness in the oversight He gives. He is watching the furnace you are in lest the heat should be too intense. He wants it great enough to purify, and then it is withdrawn. He knoweth our frame. He will not let any temptation take us but such as is common to man, and He will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.”
JC – “I want you to be all Mine, filled with the Light of My Presence…. Anything you bring to Me I transform and cleanse from darkness…. I restrain My yearning to ‘fix’ you, waiting instead for you to come to Me for help…. Seek My Face with a teachable spirit. Come into My Presence with thanksgiving, desiring to be transformed.” See Matthew 28:18 and Psalm 100:4.
Power – Matthew 7:12 – “So then, whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, for this is (sums up) the Law and the Prophets.” Joyce encourages, “As a Spirit-filled believer, you need to take the initiative to treat people the way you want to be treated, not the way they treat you. Don’t wait for someone else to do what is right; be the one who does what is right first. Learning how to treat people well will dramatically change your life.”
Prevail #159 – Ecclesiastes 8:12 – “Even though a person sins a hundred times and still lives a long time, I know that those who fear God will be better off.” Larson asks the questions most of us have at times about why “…people seem to get away with so much before God intervenes?” She’s not only talking about “…the wicked person who refuses to repent” but also “…about the believer who continuously tries to control and manipulate others…. harbors bitterness and refuses to forgive…. Especially when you feel like you can’t get away with a thing…. It’s all about the fear of the Lord. To fear God is to hold Him in high regard, with honor and reverence. You can love God from a distance without fearing Him…. If you’re quick to feel conviction over the slightest departures, it’s because His light shines brightly in your heart. If you wonder why He’s not disciplining another, know this: He will, at exactly the right time.”
Streams – Cowman understands how we can so easily lose focus on our own lives as we wonder about the lives of others: “If a person allows it, he can find something at every turn of the road that will rob him of his victory and his peace of mind. Satan is far from retiring from his work of attempting to deceive and destroy God’s children. At each milestone in your life, it is wise to check the temperature of your experience in order to be keenly aware of the surrounding conditions…. Faith can change any situation, no matter how dark or difficult…. God is still on His throne, and He can turn defeat into victory in a split second, if we will only trust Him. Cowman concludes with thoughts from Marshal Ferdinand Foch, “When you have faith, you need never retreat. You can stop the Enemy wherever you encounter him.”
Utmost – Chambers offers a bit of a challenge and adds to the idea of resisting the enemy, “Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and you will get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment…. Revise where you have become ‘stodgy’ spiritually, and you will find it goes back to a point where there was something you knew you should do, but you did not do it…. The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you work up occasions to sacrifice yourself; ardour mistaken for discernment. It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfill your spiritual destiny…. Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been.” In other of Chambers’ words, be willing to “cut the moorings” and see where God will lead.
JA – “MY LOVE HAS CONQUERED YOU and set you free! ….The more you love Me, the more you will want to serve Me with every fiber of your being. This service can fill you with heavenly Joy…. makes you truly free.” See 2 Corinthians 3:17-18.
JL – “My living Lord, You are everything I could possibly need in a Savior-God, and You live in me! …I ask that Your Love will grace my words and Your Light will reflect from my demeanor as I live in joyful dependence on You…. Your finished work on the cross provides deep rest for my soul, Lord Jesus. I’m so grateful that I am eternally secure in You – my living Savior and my forever-Friend. In Your victorious Name, Jesus, Amen.”
