The Upper Room Daily Devotional July 1, 2023
The Upper Room July 1, 2023 Daily Devotional, Saturday Message by Enid Adah Nyinomujuni (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
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TODAY’S READING
Isaiah 43:14-21
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
God will make a way in every dark hour.
KEY VERSE: I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. – Isaiah 43:19 (NRSVUE)
MESSAGE: Some years ago, I was in a financial wilderness. I had no way of earning money, and my greatest need was food. The Lord promised to make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert for the Israelites, and I trusted that if I could somehow get food for my family, the Lord would provide for my other needs in time.
I didn’t know where I would get money for food. But then someone unexpectedly gave me a piece of land for cultivation. I planted maize and beans and experienced an abundant yield. God had indeed made a way in the wilderness.
We will all enter a wilderness at some point — financial crisis, sickness, isolation. But God will always make a way. Sometimes it may seem miraculous: the provision of a well-paying job, new and successful business ventures, healing. But other times, God works in simple ways like making a part-time job available to us or sending someone to keep us company when we are lonely. We can trust God to make a way for us in every wilderness.
TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear God, help us trust you to get us through every hard situation we face. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
PRAYER FOCUS
Those experiencing wilderness
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