O FEAR THE LORD, YE HIS SAINTS

 *ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE* For MONDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 2023.

Topic: *O FEAR THE LORD, YE HIS SAINTS* 

MEMORIZE: “ *Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.

” Psalms 34:9.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalms 34:8-10.

“ *Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! 9 Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.* ” 

 *EXPOSITION* :

He wants us to join him in a resolution to seek God and serve him, and continue in his fear (Psalm 34:9): O fear the Lord! you his saints. When we taste and see that he is good we must not forget that he is great and greatly to be feared; nay, even his goodness is the proper object of a filial reverence and awe. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness, Hosea 3:5. Fear the Lord; that is, worship him, and make conscience of your duty to him in everything, +not fear him and shun him, but fear him and seek him (Psalm 34:10) as a people seek unto their God; address yourselves to him and portion yourselves in him. To encourage us to fear God and seek him, it is here promised that those that do so, even in this wanting world, shall want no good thing (Heb. They shall not want all good things); they shall so have all good things that they shall have no reason to complain of the want of any.  As to the things of the other world, they shall have grace sufficient for the support of the spiritual life (2 Corinthians 12:9; Psalm 84:11); and, as to this life, they shall have what is necessary to the support of it from the hand of God: as a Father, he will feed them with food convenient. What further comforts they desire they shall have, as far as Infinite Wisdom sees good, and what they want in one thing shall be made up in another. What God denies them he will give them grace to be content without and then they do not want it, Deuteronomy 3:26. Paul had all and abounded, because he was content, Philippians 4:11, 18. Those that live by faith in God's all- sufficiency want nothing; for in him they have enough. The young lions often lack and suffer hunger--those that live upon common providence, as the lions do, shall want that satisfaction which those have that live by faith in the promise; those that trust to themselves, and think their own hands sufficient for them, shall want (for bread is not always to the wise)--but verily those shall be fed that trust in God and desire to be at his finding.  Those that are ravenous, and prey upon all about them, shall want; but the meek shall inherit the earth. Those shall not want who with quietness work and mind their own business; plain-hearted Jacob has pottage enough, when Esau, the cunning hunter, is ready to perish for hunger.

ACTION POINT:

Lord Jesus, I put my trust in you for my survival, may I not turn away from you or cut off from your blessings in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Genesis 27-29.

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*ANCHOR OF LIFE* is the daily devotional of the *Anchor Of Life & Redemption Ministry* (ALRM) written by *Pastor Dr. Samuel Bayonle Ayorinde* . It is an extraction of God’s Word designed to draw the sincere seeker closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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