Seize the Moment – Day 1151
Praise God for Paying the Price!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, May 12.
What is the price tag of your soul? When Voltaire was on his death bed, he reportedly said to his doctor, “I will give you half of all I possess if you will give me six months more of life.”[1] Even though he was rich and powerful, one of the most influential minds of the European enlightenment, Voltaire died in despair. He was not the first person, nor, unfortunately, will he be the last, to put his hope in his riches. Psalm 49:7-12 teaches us that only a fool puts his hope in wealth because it will ultimately fail you when you need it the most:
No man can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him – For the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever – That he should live on eternally, that he should not undergo decay. For he sees that even wise men die; the stupid and the senseless alike perish and leave their wealth to others. Their inner thought is that their houses are forever and their dwelling places to all generations; they have called their lands after their own names. But man in his pomp will not endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
Jesus cautioned from such pompousness in Mark 8:36-37, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Jesus paid the price of redemption – the price tag of your soul was His precious blood, shed on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins (1 Peter 1:18-19; Ephesians 1:7-8a; Acts 20:28). You are free from sin to live for Christ, apart from the fear of death and its ensuing judgment (Hebrews 9:27-28).
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 49, meditating upon the cost of your redemption – “For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:20).
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1150
Pray for Your Community!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, May 11.
Are you praying for the community in which you live? Are you asking God to use you to shine His light and share His love to your community?
Psalm 48 is the Song of Zion. Zion is the temple mount in Jerusalem and is used synonymously with Jerusalem itself. The first three verses demonstrate how intertwined Jerusalem was with the Jewish people’s worship of God and their thankfulness for His presence in their city, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion in the far north, the city of the great King. God, in her palaces, has made Himself known as a stronghold.”
James Montgomery Boice explained how we don’t have the same theology of city that the Jewish people had, while also opening Christians to the reality that we have something better as New Covenant believers:
The ancient devout Jew was conscious of the presence of God in Jerusalem, symbolized by the ark of the covenant that rested within the Most Holy Place of the temple. It is why he could say, “God is in her citadels” (v. 3). We cannot say that God is in our cities in the same way, or even in our churches. But we have something better: God in us, in the person of his Holy Spirit … (John 14:16-17). … To have the Holy Spirit within us is a very great bulwark against the world, the flesh, and the devil, against all sin and temptation.[1]
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1149
Practice the Promise of Praise!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, May 10.
In the same way that Psalm 46:10 taught us to be silent and see God’s exaltation in the earth, Psalm 47:1-2 calls us to be loud in our worship of the Lord’s supremacy over the nations, “O clap your hands, all peoples; shout to God with the voice of joy. For the Lord Most High is to be feared, a great King over all the earth.” There is an appointed time for everything, just as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:7, there is “a time to be silent and a time to speak.”
Just as important as incorporating times of silence and solitude into our lives, so is building in times of personal and corporate praise to God, as Psalm 47:6-8 commands, “Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a skillful psalm. God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.” Five times in this short passage, we are told to “sing praises.” Our prayer life is to be a rhythm of human expression, from the silence of meditation to the loudness of celebration. There is an appointed time for everything!
In both expressions of your life of devotion – in silence and singing – you are declaring the reality of the Sovereign God. Whether in being still or by clapping your hands, whether in silence or with loud praise, you are centering your heart and mind on the truth of God’s supremacy over all creation and His preeminence over your life.
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 47, meditating upon the worthiness of God to receive all your praise – join in the prostrated praise of Revelation 4:11, “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.”
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1148
Practice the Promise of Stillness!
Psalm 46
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, May 9.
Psalm 46:10-11 teaches us the promise of stillness, “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.” It may sound more familiar to you when I read the KJV, “Be still, and know that I am God” (NIV & ESV). The Message explains it “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.” However you translate it, the point is the same – God’s got this, so stop trying to do it by your own power!
Whatever it is you are going through, there is an action plan that involves stillness – setting apart a moment in time to be reminded by your inactivity of God’s activity to cause “all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). Prioritizing time for silence and solitude in your busy days is the spiritual discipline of the promise of stillness; it is the intending of your attention on the presence of God. It’s not passivity; stillness is the sacred activity of being “conformed to the image of His Son” (Romans 8:29). As I explained about Jesus in Live Like a Champion Today:
Jesus intended His attention on the presence of God throughout His ministry. He prayed at His baptism (Luke 3:21) and then immediately went off for a prolonged forty days of silence and solitude in the wilderness (Luke 4:1-2). Jesus gave Himself to the Cross after a time of being still before the Lord, as was His custom, in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:39-42).[1]
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 46, meditating upon the presence of the Lord of hosts in your life, and His power to exalt Himself through every situation you will face.
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1147
Pray with Anticipation!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, May 8.
Psalm 45 is a wedding song, but not for an ordinary wedding; it was written for a royal wedding. Its words are too lofty for even the most exalted of couples; therefore, we are left with only one conclusion: Psalm 45 is a Messianic Psalm. Spurgeon made that point clear in his classic work on the Psalms:
Some here see Solomon and Pharaoh’s daughter only – they are short-sighted; others see both Solomon and Christ – they are cross-eyed; well-focussed [sic] spiritual eyes see here Jesus only, … “The King,” the God whose throne is for ever and ever, is no mere mortal and his everlasting dominion is not bounded by Lebanon and Egypt’s river. This is no wedding song of earthly nuptials, but an Epithalamium [a poem celebrating a marriage] for the Heavenly Bridegroom and his elect spouse.[1]
To illustrate this point, Psalm 45:6-7 was quoted in Hebrews 1:8-9 to emphasize Jesus Christ as the One who fulfills this exalted psalm, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy above Your fellows.” John the Baptist described Jesus as the bridegroom in John 3:29, “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.” Paul pointed out that the church is the betrothed of Christ in 2 Corinthians 11:2, “I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.”
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 45, meditating upon the joy of being the betrothed of Jesus Christ – “Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready” (Revelation 19:7). For the joy set before you, prepare yourself to be a holy and blameless bride (Ephesians 5:25-27).
God bless you!
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Grow Strong in God’s Grace – Wk 11
Grow Strong in God’s Grace: Learning How to be a Faithful Farmer for God’s Harvest!
The Faith that Trusts God’s Promises!
Hebrews 11:8-10 (NAS95)
God is in the business of transforming stories through the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are to grow strong in God’s grace as active participants in the world He created. God has entrusted His creation to His people to work as His Harvest workers – “All the world’s a field, and all the disciples of Jesus Christ merely farmers!” Let’s follow the four-step strategy of a faith farmer: 1) cultivate people with faith; 2) sow the good seed of God’s grace (the gospel) into their hearts and minds; 3) care for them as their stories are transformed into fruit-bearing plants; and 4) reap a harvest of praise as the church of Jesus Christ. Never forget, this strategy must be empowered by the Holy Spirit because apart from God’s grace through His Son Jesus Christ you cannot bear God’s good fruit (John 15:5). Therefore, harvest workers of God’s kingdom are called to grow strong in God’s grace to reap a harvest of praise to the glory of God. Let’s turn to Hebrews 11 and learn from the next transforming story in the Hall of Faith.
STEP #1 OF THE FARMER’S STRATEGY: CULTIVATE THE SOIL WITH FAITH
Faith is defined in Hebrews 11:1-2, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men [and women] of old gained approval.” Today’s passage from Hebrews 11:8-10 illustrates the life of faith with the fourth transforming story in the Hall of Faith, from which we are going to learn how to grow strong in God’s grace:
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Just like you and me, today, Abraham was a real man, with real faith, in real history, and his story began with a faith that pleased God. His story is told in Genesis 11:27-25:8. It all started when his name was still Abram, as he responded to the invitation of God in Genesis 12:1-5:
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.
Abraham’s faith in God’s promises led him to obey God, leaving for the Promised Land even though he did not know where he was going. Has God ever asked you to take the next step of faith in your life even though you didn’t know where it was taking you? While my story is not nearly as dramatic as that of Abraham, I remember, in October 2009, when we answered God’s call to transition from being the Associate Pastor of Crosswalk Community Church in Sunnyvale, California to become the Senior Pastor here at First Baptist Church of New Castle, Indiana. By faith, and on a handshake, Kimberly and I packed up our baby boy, Beorn, and we drove thousands of miles to come to God’s promised land for our family – the place God called us to serve His kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven. While it started as a place we had to look up on a map because we had no idea where it was, I can attest to you over 13 ½ years later, since we obeyed God by saying yes to leaving everything to come to New Castle, Indiana, that God has brought great joy to our lives because we obeyed His call, to include both Alana and Willow being born here. If obedience were easy, everyone would be doing it, so let’s learn from the transforming story of Abraham how we, too, can live lives of faith that trust God’s promises.
STEP #2 OF THE FARMER’S STRATEGY: SOW THE GOOD SEED OF GOD’S GRACE
Hebrews 11:8-10 emphasizes Abraham’s faith. It was his faith in God that caused him to go to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance even though he did not know where he was going. It was faith in God that caused him to take his wife and all that he had to a place where he would be an alien in a foreign land. It took faith for Abraham to trust God and move to the Promised Land.
What is the land of promise for us today? While there is still the literal Promised Land, known as Israel, as a biblical principle it goes beyond the geographical land itself. It represents God’s grace at work in the world – His providential provision and divine protection for His people, both for this life and in the life to come. God’s grace is at work in and through His people to bring about a multigenerational eternal promise which has implications for you today! This is why we are learning how to grow strong in God’s grace, so that we can be the people of God – men and women who believe God for His promises!
The Bible makes it clear that the promises of God are dependent on only one thing: the blood line of faith! What started as the blood line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, then David, was eternally sealed by the shed blood of Jesus Christ (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28; Hebrews 9:11-28). Therefore, you are the people of the promise through the blood of Jesus Christ! The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:20-22:
For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
You are called to be a person of God’s promises! That requires faith, so let’s examine the work of God’s grace to plant the seeds of faith into our hearts and minds through the story of Abraham in Genesis. After a great military victory to rescue his nephew Lot, and having received a blessing from Melchizedek king of Salem (Jerusalem), Genesis 15:1-6 conclude with one of the most important statements made in the Bible, and it was first used about Abraham:
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great.” Abram said, “O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir.” Then behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.” And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. [emphasis added]
In two places, Paul quoted this statement, “[God] reckoned it to him as righteousness.” The first is in Romans 4, specifically verses 1-5 and 16-22:
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, … For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness.
The second place Paul quotes this truth about Abraham’s life is in Galatians 3:6-9, 29:
Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. … And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
Like Abraham, through God’s grace, you are called to be a person who believes God for His promises, and as a person of faith you become a son of Abraham – an heir according to the promise! Obedience flowed from God’s grace through Abraham to Jesus to you today! God made a way through faith – that is God’s grace at work through Jesus Christ! When your story is transformed by faith, through the power of God’s grace, then you will be a blessing to all the nations, just as God choose Abraham and Sarah to do. This is your birth rite as a Christian, as well as the harvest God has called you to reap. Jesus’s Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 is the work of fulfilling God’s promise to Abraham:
All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
When you have a faith that trust God’s promises, you will answer the call upon your life to be like a hard-working farmer for God’s Harvest. In doing so, through the power of the Holy Spirit, you will mature in Christ and bear the good fruit of the Spirit. Let’s now turn to Sarah’s story and learn from her the faith that bears fruit.
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Seize the Moment – Day 1145
Today’s hymn focus will be
The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power
1 John 1:7 (NASB95)
“ but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
meat, he began writing down and sing “The blood that Jesus shed for me, way back on Calvary…” But he thought it wasn’t good, so he wadded up the paper and threw it away. But his sister Sandra pulled it back out and told him it was good and he should finish it.
The blood that gives me strength from day to day
It will never lose its power.
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Seize the Moment – Day 1144
Pray through the Suffering!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, May 5.
Suffering is a reality of life. Don’t waste it! Pray through your time of suffering and draw closer to God because of it, just like the psalmist did in Psalm 44:23-26:
Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever. Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth. Rise up, be our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.
Have you ever felt like that? Like the Sovereign God was asleep at the wheel? That very sentiment fuels one of the popular philosophical arguments against Christianity – if an all-powerful God is truly good, then why is there evil and suffering in the world? While the skeptic simplistically concludes that there can be no such god, we know there is a reason for suffering in this life. All championship athletes have learned the value of suffering in their training regimen to reach their potential!
Paul asked in Romans 8:35, “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Interestingly, he answered by quoting today’s psalm. Paul found the answer to God’s covenant faithfulness within our human suffering, from verses 20-22, “If we had forgotten the name of our God or extended our hands to a strange god, would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. But for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” God proves Himself to us in our times of suffering (Romans 8:37-39).
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 44, meditating upon the loyal love of God through your suffering – “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; [Jesus has] overcome the world” (John 16:33).
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1143
Pray through Your Depression! (Part 2)
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, May 4.
Have you ever experienced your emotions like a storm? If you have ever been on a ship during a storm at open sea then you know how you can be tossed to and fro by the winds, at the mercy of the pounding waves. Today’s devotion is part 2 of how to pray through depression because Psalm 43 is most often paired with Psalm 42, with many scholars believing they were originally one psalm. The refrain of Psalm 42, found in verses 5 and 11, concludes the pair in Psalm 43:5, “Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God.”
We are desperate apart from God – without hope and cast adrift by our circumstances and the waves of tumultuous emotions that slam against us. Like a ship buffeting against the wind, we must realize that there is a way forward during the storm of spiritual depression. The psalmist names this powerful force of stability in Psalm 43:4, “Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.”
God is my exceeding joy! What a triumphant proclamation of praise that you are invited to declare about God no matter the circumstances of your life. During the return of the exiles from Babylon, while they were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem with great opposition coming up against them, Nehemiah declared, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10).
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 43, meditating upon the joy of the Lord – “In Your presence is fullness of joy” (Psalm 16:11). Praise God through your storm!
God bless you!
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Seize the Moment – Day 1142
Pray through Your Depression!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, May 3.
Have you ever felt a separation from God, like you were far from Him even though you knew He was as close as your next breath? Psalm 42:1-2 illuminates the desperate need of every human soul, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?” The psalmist felt a separation from God caused by his circumstances and the emotions that naturally arose from it. Such an experience has been named the dark night of the soul; it is also called spiritual depression. It can be a dangerous and dark place to find yourself, as the following verses describe:
- 3a, “My tears have been my food day and night.”
- 4b, “For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God.”
- 5a & 11a, “Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me?”
- 6a, “O my God, my soul is in despair within me.”
The psalmist is depressed; he’s always crying and feeling like the glory days are in the past, never to get any better. Many people experience spiritual depression, which is why psalms such as Psalm 42 are so helpful – the psalms normalize our struggle, validating our human experience, all the while offering us the solution. Our hope is in the presence of God, longing for Him as a deer pants for streams of water. God is the light that pierces the darkness, the sunrise after a dark night, and the promise of spring after a long winter.
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 42, meditating upon the hope we have in Jesus Christ – “Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God” (11b).
God bless you!
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