Sun.’s Devo - Living a Long Life

Read: Is. 37:1-38:22; Gal 6:1-18; Ps. 65:1-13; Pr. 23:24 We learn two great concepts in todays reading in Isaiah. The first is that when God gives us a promise, the devil will try everything in his power to steal it. God told Hezekiah that God would bring him victory and right away Rabshakeh tried to intimidate him with fear. Hezekiah praised God and gave his fear to God and God gave him the victory he didn’t even have to fight. The second principle is found in Chapter 38. God tells Hezekiah that he is about to die and Hezekiah prays for more life. God grants his prayer. When the scripture says to number our days it means to weigh your days - give them meaning and purpose because we don’t know how short they will be. People shorten their lives with the way they live. They haven’t “numbered” their days well. God allows us to turn His heart and change his mind with our prayers just like Hezekiah did, just like Abraham did when he prayed for Sodom and Gomorrah and just like Moses did when he cried out for the people of Israel when God wanted to destroy them. Our prayers are affective with God. We are suppose to change things with our prayers. Galatians confirms what we learned in Isaiah. Paul tells us that what we sow we will reap. If we sow to our flesh we will reap corruption. (If we smoke, our bodies will die sooner.) Psalms 55:23 says that the evil will live out half of their days. I want to live out all of my life. If we sow to the Spirit we will reap life. That is the way to prolong your life. Paul also tells us to bear one another’s burdens. In other words to pray for them and restore them if they slip into sin. Lord, help us to walk in love today.