Kent Mattox: Thoughts For Today

Monday, December 15, 2014

Thoughts For Today

“It is because of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-24). Praise God for His great mercy. Tradition and religion have perverted our understanding of God’s mercy. The Bible declares He is great in mercy. We have been made to think that God’s mercy has a limit, but the Bible teaches that there are no limitations. Psalms 103:11 states, “For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.” “…My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9). God is saying, “I am much wiser than you, I am much greater in understanding than you. You think on a much lower level than I do.” That is all true, but He did not say it in a judgmental context. In verse 7 of Isaiah 55, God says, “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Verse 8 goes on to tell us, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.” God is saying, “I am merciful, I think mercifully, I act mercifully, but you do not. You think and act judgingly and vengefully.” God’s thoughts are much higher because of His great mercy. Next we see God’s thoughts toward us. Jeremiah 29:11 states, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Psalm 139:17-18 reassures us, “How precious also are Your thoughts toward me, O God, how great is the sum of them? If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with You.” Then God shows in Isaiah 55:10-11 the sureness of His mercy, promising His Word will not return void. One translation of Lamentations 3:22 for mercy is covenant love or steadfast love. God’s mercies are sure and steadfast. You can count on them. His ways and thoughts of mercy toward us are great and high above our comprehension or understanding. God is thinking these thoughts toward us today and wants to demonstrate His ways of mercy in our lives. Hope in His mercy today. The Psalmist says, “Although my feet slipped, Your mercy held me up.” Trust in God’s mercy today. It will not fail.

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You have a very real destiny that your heavenly Father has planned specifically for your life. In this compelling book, Kent Mattox candidly writes about personal insights and revelations he has experienced in fulfilling the call of God in his life. The discoveries he made along the way, he believes, are not unique to one man’s experience. They represent every believer’s climb on the continual journey to the High Places of God. The surprising aspect of this material may be that it reads as though you could have written it yourself. The inspirational and motivational book was written to appeal to the believer, as well as to those who have not yet come to the knowledge of Christ’s deep and abiding love. Wherever you are in your journey to the High Places, this book will encourage you to maintain your focus and succeed in reaching the high call of fulfilling your destiny!

Running The Race

This seventy-day devotional was birthed from many of the revelations that God has encouraged and sustained Kent and Bev with as they have continued to run the race of faith. Their desire is that it will inspire you as well. The number seventy means completion of judgment and to enter into increase. Individually, the numbers seven and ten express different aspects of perfection and completeness. As God continues to further His Kingdom by revelation of His divine purpose and plan for you life apply these principals to your maturation process. These are qualities that we all aspire to : perfection, that we are maturing in Him and completeness, that in Him we are whole.