January 20, 2026
Verse of the Day
Monday
01/20/2026
Isaiah 55:6-9 (KJV)
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Last time we talked about obstacles. Today, I want to talk about opportunity. Our verse says to seek Him while He may be found. It is an instruction to not delay when He moves, calls, or speaks to us.
Let me give you an example: You are sitting in a Church Service, the Holy Ghost begins to move in hearts, someone gets up and moves to the altar. As you watch them move you feel a tug at your heart to move also, but instead of moving you begin to make excuses within yourself as to why you should not go to the altar. Excuses like, ‘what will other people think?’, ‘what will they say?’ This is the reason the Word of God says “Seek ye the LORD while He may be found.” When He, the God of Heaven speaks it is the duty of a Christian to listen and obey. It is also a privilege to do so. The difference in the miracles in nature and the lack of miracles in mankind is that nature always obeys immediately.
Here is another example or tip if you will that may help. I referenced this in an earlier email. My friend, Missionary Rick Hildebrand, taught me. As you are reading your Bible in daily devotions, if a particular verse speaks to you, jumps off the page at you, Bro. Rick said I will stop reading and study that verse. I meditate on it and try to get everything the Lord wants to give me. If I do not read anything else, I will know I received what the Lord had for me that day, Bro. Rick said. I thought to myself about the times I had read a verse that really spoke to me and kept reading because I had to finish my devotions. When I would go back to the verse it did not move me or speak to me in the same way.
What a great lesson. The thought ran through my mind. How many times have I missed it? Wow! Now if a verse really speaks to me, I stop and study it, meditate upon it and try to get all the Lord wants me to have. When Rick taught me this lesson I thought of our verse’s admonition of “while He may be found.”
My question is, not only are you listening, but are you obeying?
Be Blessed,
Bro. Dewayne