February 6, 2017

 

 

 

 

Devotional for Monday, February 6, 2017
“…and His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful”

 

Jesus Wonderful

by Dona Hake

 

Isaiah 9:6

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

and his name shall be called Wonderful…”

 

 When I have my quiet time I always start out meditating upon how great and wonderful my God is.     I ponder His great works around me, and meditate upon the many great things He has done in my life.    He is worthy of all my praise and I can not thank Him enough every day that I live for how wonderful He is. Let’s look at words synonymous to wonderful… awesome, wondrous, miraculous, prodigious, astonishing, amazing, astounding, phenomenal.  This is the Jesus that we serve.  As believers let us testify of the many wonderful things He has done in our lives, and may we never lose sight of those things.  Today I want to stir your heart to think about how wonderful He has been to you.  It is as we maintain grateful hearts to Him for all that He is that we will desire to pass on those blessings to those around us.

 

The other day I shared with you that we need not pray for opportunities to be used by Him but rather seize the many opportunities that are already right in front of us.   I encourage you today to share with someone about the wonderful God that you serve.  Think about how many times someone says to you, “How are you today?”   What an opportunity to  proclaim that you are blessed.    Recently at the grocery store I was checking out my groceries and the clerk ask me, “How are you?”   and I quickly exclaimed, “I am so blessed, how are you today?”   She immediately began to share with me how she liked what I said.    I was an opportunity to minister grace and encouragement  to the hearer of my words.  It is so easy to share the life of God with people around us!  
 
 Praise Him today for He desires to use you as a vessel to illuminate His light, life and love.   He desires to show a dark world how wonderful He is...through you.   Awesome thought isn’t it?
 
 

 

Psalm 40:5 (ERV)

“Lord my God, you have done many amazing things!
You have made great plans for us—too many to list.
I could talk on and on about them,

because there are too many to count.”