Give Me Discipline
Give Me Discipline
Proverbs 1:3 NLT
Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair.
This podcast is a repost, was originally published on July 4, 2017
Series: Prayer for Bible Reading
The purpose of this Book, or Word of God that we have in front of us is to not just read everyday and forget it but it has a deeper reason to why God has written this word.
Here we are not just talking about ‘understanding’, but also about ‘obedience’. Here we say, its not just that we want to understand your plans for our lives, but we also want the Grace to do what is right.
Mercy and Grace are different. Mercy is God’s willingness to let go of our sin. Grace is God’s enablement for us to help overcome sin.
We don’t go to God when we just need the ability to help overcome our sins, but we just pray to God for forgiveness when we’ve done it all and fallen into the mud. Point is, we rarely pray for Grace even before we go into the circumstances.
We don’t need just wisdom and understanding of the verse but we need to be able to live a disciplined life, to be able to sleep on time and wake up on time, to be able to go to church every weekend, to commit a certain portion of my income towards His kingdom, to spend our personal time worshiping Him.
God’s idea of success is much deeper than what we consider with our ‘Quantitative analysis’, God’s idea of success is that you do what is His will, nothing less, nothing more.
If we tether ourselves to this beautiful Book, we will experience success in every area of our life. God is waiting to teach us and give us success, so let’s live a disciplined and successful life. Not by our standards, but by our King’s standards.
Psalm 147:2–3 reveals God's heart as a Restorer rather than a Punisher. Although Israel went into exile because of its own rebellion, God did not abandon His people. Instead, He promised to restore Jerusalem, bring the exiles home, heal the brokenhearted, and bind up their wounds.
The message reminds us that while God may use friends, pastors, counselors, or loved ones to help us, true healing and restoration ultimately come from the Lord. His restoration reaches every part of our lives—our hearts, relationships, health, finances, emotions, and spiritual walk.
God knows every wound, including those hidden from others. Unlike people, who can only comfort from the outside, He sees the deepest parts of our hearts and heals completely. His healing is so complete that even the scars of past pain lose their power to define us.
The devotion encourages believers to fix their eyes on God instead of relying solely on human help. No matter how far someone has drifted, how many mistakes they have made, or how broken they feel, God is still calling them back. His desire is to restore, heal, and make all things beautiful in His perfect timing.
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