NorMel House Devotions

  Psalm 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! It is believed this psalm was written by David later on in his life after he'd been through many hardships. With this in mind I believe He was able to praise God despite all he had been through because he knew how great and gracious our God is. If you read further in the psalm he gives God the glory for forgiving us, saving us, healing us and redeeming us. We don't always know why God allows certain things to happen, but we do know He will guide and guard us through them. We need to remember to praise Him not only in times of trouble but also in times of peace and prosperity. Give God the glory, bless His Holy Name for "the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting"

 What does God’s word teach about Dealing with Problems? 5.       “Go to Other Believers and Pray with Them”  James 5: 13-16 "Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."             Sickness and sin are an obvious part of the world we live in. In Christ we bring them all before God’s throne. In Christ we are victorious over death, that is eternal death. Yet God in His wisdom does not leave us as lonely individuals. He gives us other believers to aid, help, and assist and espec...

  What does God’s word teach about Dealing with Problems?  4.       “Trust in God’s Answer even if it challenges you”  Joshua 6:1-6, 20: "Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.             Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and it’s fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in.             When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud...

What does God’s word teach about Dealing with Problems? 3. “God Centered Prayer” : 1 Kings 8: 56-60 1 Kings 8: 56-60 “Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised, Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses. May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; may he never leave us nor forsake us. May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commands, decrees and regulations he gave our fathers. And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day’s need, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other." When Solomon prayed at the dedication of the temple he put God in the center of all his requests. He praised the Lord and prayed for the people. He asked for God’s presenc...

  2. “Seek the Lord First” : Judges 4: 1-7, 23 Judges 4: 1-7, 14a    After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the Lord. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.  Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his troops to the Kishon River and ...

  I'd like to share a series of devotionals my mother wrote for a Quilting Retreat she ran with some friends. I've taken the liberty of using them as a basis for inspiration and further study for myself. I found myself digging a bit deeper into scripture and my own contemplations and thought I should share. I hope you are inspired to open your Bible and add your own notes and thoughts as well. What does God’s word teach about Dealing with Problems? 1.       “Believe”: Genesis 18: 13-14             Genesis 18: 13-14             Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.”             All of life has problems since the fall into sin by Adam and Eve in paradise. We all will encounter problems, some ...

  Proverbs 3: 5, 6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." Its interesting that the heart is often spoken of in the Bible. Several times we are told to keep things in our heart; for example  Deut 6:6 "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.", Proverbs 6:21 "Bind them always on your heart, fasten them around your neck." and 2 Corinthians 3:3 "You show that you are a letter from Christ, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts." The heart is an important thing, and is often spoken of in an emotional and mental sense. As a teenager I used to write quite a bit of poetry and more often than not I spoke of things that affected my heart. We tend to use the heart as a way to express something that is important to us. We believe something with all...