- O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3:2 – The prophet, in speaking with the Lord that had spoken to him, responds by saying he knows of the amazing work the Lord had done for His people over the many years. He knew how God had freed His people from Egyptian slavery, he knew how God had provided David to lead His people, He knew all the stories of the provisions in the wilderness. Habakkuk knew well these stories and knew well the power that God had, so he simply had one request of the Lord…do it again. Right now Lord, in our day, do what you did of old in the midst of your people. Revival came to you people then and revival is what we need now, so Lord do it again. Not only is Habakkuk’s prayer a righteous prayer to make, it also understood a powerful truth about revival. Revival is a God created thing, not something we make happen. We don’t revive any spirits, we don’t bring life to where there was only death. That’s the Lord’s doing alone. Let us then like the prophet remember the deeds of the Lord. How He came through for His people and how He brought salvation and revival. Then let’s ask Him to bring it again, to revive us again. Thankfully we serve a God powerful enough to bring us back to life always. Today being Christmas Eve, choose to remember the greatest gift the Lord gave us to revive our walk with Him. He gave us His own Son to save us from our sins. Thank you Lord for this amazing gift, now please revive our hearts again to follow you like you deserve. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3315
- I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enter my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. (v.16) Know that even now in the midst of struggle, you can stay firmly planted in your commitment to God. I see that message coming out clear when reading over the passage, but how do we stay committed in the middle of all this craziness that’s going around us? We see Habakkuk is in the middle of his own craziness as he writes. Begin to visualize someone actually trembling and shaking in fear like Habakkuk writes. I see someone curled in a corner, terrified of what is all around them. This sure doesn’t match up with our normal images of what we think a holy prophet of God looks like…which might actually be more helpful to us, this is a little more relatable. What we see here is someone who is terrified of the world around them, but still staying committed to God because he knows God is going to come through for him. That’s the key to staying committed ourselves to in the middle of our fear. Know that God hasn’t forgotten about you and hasn’t left you. The day will come when those that are putting fear in you won’t be around anymore. God will see your commitment and lift you up, give strength to your trembling legs, and show you that you never had to worry because He was there all along. Our key to staying with God in the craziness is knowing that God is staying with us in the craziness. – Daily DEVO 78
- Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-18 – This is the part of our walk that is often the most difficult. The times where things around you aren’t growing like they should, things aren’t producing the outcomes to help sustain you, and the prospect of the future seems grim. Yet, you choose to still rejoice in the Lord. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that part is easy, but I will tell you it’s our way through the seasons of emptiness. Those times are real and can so easily take us down emotionally, physically, and even spiritually, but when we keep our mindset on the goodness of God through it all we can continue to walk steadily forward. Trust He will come through for you even when everything around you wants to convince you differently. So rejoice, not because everything right now is good, but because our God is good and is able to do something good in our story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac- Daily DEVO 1416
- He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways. Habakkuk 3:6 – What seems to be unmovable in our story moves when God steps in. The “eternal mountains” in this passage is debated if it means literal mountains as an example of something we’d never think could move or the mountain of the enemy that seems impossible to take care of. Either way, the message remains that whatever the mountain may be, however unmovable it may seem to us, God can move it. His ways are the ones that will be everlasting and unmovable. When God steps in, things that He wants moved moves. What then seems like an “eternal mountain” in your story right now? Fear, bitterness, worry, loneliness, and hopelessness can be parts of our story that just seem to be going no where no matter how hard we try. Know though these are not God’s ways and God can move the unmovable. He can move these out and replace them with His unshakable trust and endless hope. Yet, just like Habakkuk, the moving of the unmovable may not come in the ways or in the time we expect it to. Learn here from scripture God has the power to move these things, that God has a plan to move out things that aren’t of Him, and that God sees you in this season. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2104
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