Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire – but my ears you have opened; – burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

What surprised me when I first read it a long time ago was these words in the Old Testament. I had not thought of God’s requirements but rather what man had been doing for Him.

Because man had continued to sacrifice whether he had meant it or not the meaning had gone out of the sinless sacrifices being made all the time.

God has never required physical sacrifices but rather has asked for sacrifices from the heart that mean so much more. Jesus came as our sacrifice because of His great love for us. He wants us to show Him our love through our actions but from our hearts.

Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.

Are there times when you keep hearing the same things over and over again; maybe you are thinking back to being a bit younger and your parents telling you things over and over again?

God’s Word has remained the same from the beginning and will remain the same right up until the end of time because it simply does not change. We change so we think everything else should…

God spoke His word once. We repeat it to each other and change a few things now and again, but that original word that we must always go back to has remained God’s Word. His power alone has kept His Word constant.

Daniel 2:20 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.

When Daniel and his fellow servants were put in a very tight spot, God always came through for them and in this case revealed a dream and its interpretation to him in a dream.

Daniel’s response was to lift up the name of God first of all and acknowledge that all power and might are His and His alone.

Daniel knew that he was in the position he was because of God and His omnipotence; Daniel never had a big head over what he achieved because he knew it was God working through him and not anything he had done alone!