Daily Bible Benefits with Pastor Bob Daley

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The Snares of the Wicked

Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.” Assuredly no subtle plot shall succeed against one who has the eyes of God watching for his defence. We are foolish and weak as poor little birds, and are very apt to be lured to our destruction by cunning foes, but if we dwell near to God, he will see to it that the most skilful deceiver shall not entrap us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

1. God has the power to deliver from a snare

Peter was delivered from a snare

Acts 12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Psalm 124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:

The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

1. God warned the Hebrew children not to follow the heathen they would be a snare.

Deuteronomy 12:30 take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

1. We can be caught in a snare by the works of our our hands

Psalm 9:16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth:

The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

1. We can be caught by the snares of the wicked

Psalm 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me:

Yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Psalm 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them:

And that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

1. God can lay a snare upon the wicked

Psalm 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone,

And a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

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Confidence in God

If we want to be delivered, from every inward and outward foe, we must look to a higher source than ourselves. We cannot do it in our own strength. there is no danger of being disappointed in the LORD.

Psalms 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

1. The fear of God gives strong confidence

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

1. Through humility there is Strong confidence

Isaiah 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

1. Through faith in God

Psalms 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

1. Through claiming God‘s promises

2 Peter 1:2-7 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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God’s hidden ones.”

Psalms 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalms 31:20

20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Psalms 83:3

3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

1. Moses was hid in the river by his parents

Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

1. Rehab hid the two spies

Joshua 6:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

1. Jonathan hid David from king Saul

1 Samuel 20:34-35 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame. 35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

1. The 120 in the Upper room was a secret place

Acts 1:13-15 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. 15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

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The Beauty of the LORD

1. Let us seek to have the beauty of the LORD upon us

Psalms 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

1. Let seek the beauty of the LORD in His Temple

Psalms 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

1. Let us Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness

1 Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

1. May we preach the Gospel of peace with the beauty of the LORD upon us.

Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

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The Work of God

Psalms 90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

1. The 10 Commandments was the work of God.

Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing wasthe writing of God, graven upon the tables.

1. A prayer that the work of God would be revived an revealed.

Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

1. The work of God is unfathomable

Ecclesiastes 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

1. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the work of God

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

1. The work of God will continue in the believers heart.

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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Be of good cheer

1. The children In the wilderness was cheer up by God

Psalms 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

1. Aaron cheer up Moses

Exodus 4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

1. God made a Law for the husband to Cheer up his wife

Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

1. Hannah was cheer up by God’s Salvation

1 Samuel 2:1-2 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. 2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

1. God’s children are cheer up by seeking him.

1 Chronicles 16:10-12 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. 11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually. 12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

1. Christian should be of good cheer,Jesus has overcome the world

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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Desiring God‘s Mercies

Psalms 90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

1. Lot desired God’s mercies

Genesis 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

1. Abraham’s servant desired Gods mercies

Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

1. Joseph desired God’s mercies

Genesis 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

1. We sinner’s should Desire God’s mercy

Luke 18:13-14 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

THE HEALING POWER OF GOD

Psalms 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Psalms 6:2-4 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? 4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

Psalms 30:2-3 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalms 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Come to the fountain of living waters and be healed

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The Days of our Life

Let us not provoke God

Let us please God

Let us Praise God

1. Let us not provoke God

Psalms 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Psalms 78:33-36

33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

1. Let us please God

1 Corinthians 10:5-11

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

1. Let us Praise God

Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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Accountable to God

God Makes us Accountable for our sins

God illuminates our secret sins

God offers Atonement for all our sins

Psalms 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

1. God Makes us Accountable for our sins

Romans 14:10-12

10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

1. God illuminates our secret sins

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Luke 12:2-3 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

1. God offers Atonement for all our sins

Romans 5:8-11

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.