Growing Stronger
In
Our Faith
NEW EVERY MORNING
Today we still take confidence and rejoice that the Lord’s compassions do not fail – that they are new
every morning. What are some of God’s continuing mercies?
I. PHYSICAL BLESSINGS
A. We always need ‘new every morning’ blessings! Yesterday’s sunshine, air, water, and food cannot
provide for today! Acts 17:25 “And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because
he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.” James 1:17 “Every good and perfect gift is
from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting
shadows.”
B. God provides our daily needs. (Lord’s Prayer) Mathew 6:11 “Give us today our daily bread.”
C. God’s physical blessings are endless and He continues to show his mercy to us on an ongoing basis.
II. STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
A. Each day brings new challenges to our faith! We battle the spiritual forces of Satan. Temptation can
take its toll! Ephesians 6:16 “In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can
extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”
B. God has not left his people without daily strength.
Matthew 6:25-34 - 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or
about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a
single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow.
They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one
of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown
into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these
things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
III. OPPORTUNITIES
A. Opportunity is a gift – we just need to see it!
Galatians 6:10 “Therefore, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to all people, especially to those who
belong to the family of believers.”
Ephesians 5:15, 16 “Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of
every opportunity, because the days are evil.”
Colossians 4:5 “Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.” Titus
3:1 “Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do
whatever is good…”
B. Opportunities come in all sorts of categories:
Sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, Serving, and Sharing.
IV. PROTECTION
A. Satan never takes a vacation! In truth, his temptations are new every morning!
1 Peter 5:8 “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for someone to devour.”
B. God, who is greater than all, sees to it that Satan does not have too much of an advantage. He knows
how to deliver us out of temptation!
Proverbs 15:3 “The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.” I
Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he
will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a
way out so that you can stand up under it.”
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
C. Divine protection is conditional! We must cooperate with God in resisting the devil.
James 4:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” 1 John 2:14 “… I
write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have
overcome the evil one.”
V. PROVIDENCE
A. Providence means to “see before”. God sees before a need & arranges to meet need. God saw ahead
that Abraham would need a ram, and ahead of time caused one to be caught in a thicket by his horns
(Gen 22:13).
This miraculous instance of the Lord’s providence deeply impressed Abraham.
B. Not everything that happens each new day is good, but the One who sees the end from the beginning
so overrules in human affairs that for those who love the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.”
Proverbs 16:9 “In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.” Roman 8:28
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called
according to his purpose.”
C. God’s providential care is around the clock.
Psalm 121:4 ” …indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
VI. ANGELIC HELP
A. We cannot affirm the existence of angels by sight or feelings or experience. We only know by faith in
God’s word that angels are ministering spirits sent forth to do service.
Hebrews 1:14 “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?”
Psalm 34:7 “The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.”
VII. RENEWED FORGIVENESS
A. Daily confession leads to daily remission.
1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness.” We can begin and end each day with a clean record. Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God
is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those
whose walk is blameless.”
Conclusion:
Every day we receive from the Lord physical blessings, strength for each day, opportunities, protection,
providence, Angelic help and renewed forgiveness.
C. S. Lewis wrote, "He who has God and many other things has no more than he who has God alone."
Most of us have many other things. We have money and security and friends and family. But if you also
have God in your life, then the "many other things" don’t matter one way or the other. If you have God,
and if you know Jesus Christ, you have enough because our God is faithful