Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Devotional

November arrives and our minds start to plan for the Thanksgiving feast, gathering with family and friends, and taking time to be grateful for God’s many blessings.

For many, this has been a particularly difficult year.  Thanksgiving can serve as a time to direct your hearts back to God’s goodness amid the turmoil.

Psalms 103:2 reminds us “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits."

The word forget here in the Hebrew means to mislay, want of memory or attention, cause to forget. Life can deter us, overwhelm us to mislay or unintentionally lose our thankfulness. Memory of our blessings can be eroded and our attention on life can overwhelm any thankfulness possible.

The Psalmist instructs himself to “bless the Lord, O my soul.” While blessing the Lord, even when life is tough, he then reminds himself to “forget not ALL His benefits,”

How can the Psalmist do this in such hard times? God’s benefits reflect His character, so to bless the Lord was to adore, praise or thank Him for who He is. To forget not His benefits in Hebrew means God’s treatment, service or requital (something given in return, compensation, or retaliation), benefit, desert, deserving, that which he hath given, recompense, reward. This proclaims to me that God has His children’s back!

Thanksgiving can flow from a heart that is directed to God’s character and trust His love; who cry out to Him and choose to rest in Him.

This Thanksgiving season, I encourage you to take time to do as the Psalmist did and “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits”.

Ears to Hear and Eyes to See DevotionaI - Rev Robin Spada

I love October’s vibrant colors throughout the landscape, short-lived yet glorious.  October always reminds me of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8: A Time for Everything:

1  There is a time for everything,
 and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
 a time to plant and a time to uproot,


3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
 a time to tear down and a time to build,


4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
 a time to mourn and a time to dance,


5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
 a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,


6     a time to search and a time to give up,
 a time to keep and a time to throw away,


7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
 a time to be silent and a time to speak,


8     a time to love and a time to hate,
 a time for war and a time for peace.

When you go to verse 11 it reads: He hath made everything beautiful in His time.

Love this! Ecclesiastes is sharing with us the inevitable in this life, but then promises us that in God’s time He makes EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL!

What is God’s Time? It is not constrained by this earth’s time, just ask Joshua when he needed an extra hour and was given a 25-hour day (Joshua 10)!  It does not expire according to our time, just ask Abraham and Sarah at 100 & 90 years old giving birth to Isaac (Gen 17)! 

Abraham and Sarah laughed in scorn when they were told they would have Isaac at the age of 90 & 100. They had expected it to happen for years holding on to the promise. They knew they ran out of time, but didn’t understand they didn’t run out of God’s time! By faith they received on God’s time their Isaac (meaning joyful laughter).

What promise, problem, season are you needing God’s touch? His touch makes all things beautiful in His time! As we give our lives to Him, surrender all to Him, trust His love and follow His direction, we will see His beauty come forth.

 Love & Prayers, Rev. Robin Spada

Lines or circles - your choice:

So many funny posts today concerning our nation that do make you laugh, and yet so sad at the same time that we are at this point. I am so grateful for the church! We observe all that is happening, and then filter it through the Word and get busy. Understanding the time and season we are in- praying for laborers to reach the last day harvest. Feeding, clothing and sheltering those who are in need and showing the love of Jesus. Thankful for our churches that are doing just that! Giving the devil a black eye in the midst of it all! We are the church, together we not only see the evil and point at it, we do something about it! It’s about people coming to know Jesus, time is short. We don’t draw lines of division, we draw circles to fill with WHOSOEVER will let him come! 🙏❤️

Love & Prayers, Robin

Revelation 22:17: "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely"

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