Daily Devotion
August 31
“My Joy … Your Joy”
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full” (John 15:11).
Month: August 2017
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August 30
Usefulness or Relationship?
“Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20).
Jesus Christ is saying here, “Don’t rejoice in your successful service for Me, but rejoice because of your right relationship with Me.” The trap you may fall into in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service—rejoicing in the fact that God has used you. Yet you will never be able to measure fully what God will do through you if you have a right-standing relationship with Jesus Christ. If you keep your relationship right with Him, then regardless of your circumstances or whoever you encounter each day, He will continue to pour “rivers of living water” through you (John 7:38). And it is actually by His mercy that He does not let you know it. Once you have the right relationship with God through salvation and sanctification, remember that whatever your circumstances may be, you have been placed in them by God. And God uses the reaction of your life to your circumstances to fulfill His purpose, as long as you continue to “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7).
Daily Devotion
August 29
The Unsurpassed Intimacy of Tested Faith
“Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?’ ” (John 11:40).
Every time you venture out in your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. But common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense. In fact, they are as different as the natural life and the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him? Can you venture out with courage on the words of Jesus Christ, while the realities of your commonsense life continue to shout, “It’s all a lie”? When you are on the mountaintop, it’s easy to say, “Oh yes, I believe God can do it,” but you have to come down from the mountain to the demon-possessed valley and face the realities that scoff at your Mount-of-Transfiguration belief (see Luke 9:28–42). Every time my theology becomes clear to my own mind, I encounter something that contradicts it. As soon as I say, “I believe ‘God shall supply all [my] need,’ ” the testing of my faith begins (Philippians 4:19). When my strength runs dry and my vision is blinded, will I endure this trial of my faith victoriously or will I turn back in defeat?
Faith must be tested, because it can only become your intimate possession through conflict. What is challenging your faith right now? The test will either prove your faith right, or it will kill it. Jesus said, “Blessed is he who is not offended because of Me” (Matthew 11:6). The ultimate thing is confidence in Jesus. “We have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end …” (Hebrews 3:14). Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God—trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us (see Hebrews 13:5–6).
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Daily Devotion
August 28
The Purpose of Prayer
“… one of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray …’ ” (Luke 11:1).
Prayer is not a normal part of the life of the natural man. We hear it said that a person’s life will suffer if he doesn’t pray, but I question that. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is the way that the life of God in us is nourished. Our common ideas regarding prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Judging
Judging
Greetings brother’s and sisters grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father the Son and the holy Spirit, I am thankful to God for giving me another opportunity to share with you according to His word concerning Judging. Lord help me give clarity to your word that others may understand, Open up the eyes of understanding for those who don’t know Jesus so that they may understand and seek to be saved. Thank you Father in Jesus name Amen.
Daily Devotion
Living Your Theology
“Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you …” (John 12:35).
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Daily Devotion
August 26
Are You Ever Troubled?
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you …” (John 14:27).
There are times in our lives when our peace is based simply on our own ignorance. But when we are awakened to the realities of life, true inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When our Lord speaks peace, He creates peace, because the words that He speaks are always “spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? “… My peace I give to you …”—a peace that comes from looking into His face and fully understanding and receiving His quiet contentment.
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Daily Devotion
August 25
Sacrifice and Friendship
“I have called you friends …” (John 15:15).
We will never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet self-surrender is the most difficult thing for us to do. We make it conditional by saying, “I’ll surrender if … !” Or we approach it by saying, “I suppose I have to devote my life to God.” We will never find the joy of self-sacrifice in either of these ways.
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LAYING IT DOWN
AUGUST 24, 2017
one shepherd. 17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. 20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? 21Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? (John 10: 17-21)
Greetings Brothers and Sister’s Grace and peace to you in the name of The Father and The Son and the Holy Spirit. I thank God for you and the opportunity to share God’s word with you. Lord, I pray that you use this message someone to lead someone to Jesus. I pray that you open their eyes of understanding and help them receive the truth. Lord let this message encourage my brothers and sisters, in Jesus Name I pray, Amen.
Jesus did many great miracles when He was here on earth. Many of the religious leaders wouldn’t except what they saw with their own eyes and claimed that Jesus did this miracle in the power of Satan, or that He was demon possessed. All the miracles Jesus did indicate to everyone that only God could do what He was doing, or what they saw Him do. Finally, Jesus told everyone who would listen that He was commanded by His father to lay down His life and to take it up again. Jesus went on to tell everyone that he had the power to do exactly what God wanted Him to do. After hearing this some might just consider that something may be wrong with Him. After Jesus carried out exactly what He said He would do, His act should have erased any doubt in anyone’s mind that not only is He not Satan, nor is He demon possessed. What He did only God Could do. Jesus is God, Amen.
My friends God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins. God said that if you believe in Him He will forgive you and give you eternal life, Read John 3:16. Do you believe? If you do and don’t know what to do let me know Blog my post. Let me Help you. Thank you, brothers and sisters, from reading this message, I hope you have been blessed if so let me know blog my post. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus name Amen
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Rev.. Reginald Stevens
Daily Devotion
August 24
The Spiritual Search
“What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:9).
The illustration of prayer that our Lord used here is one of a good child who is asking for something good. We talk about prayer as if God hears us regardless of what our relationship is to Him (see Matthew 5:45). Never say that it is not God’s will to give you what you ask. Don’t faint and give up, but find out the reason you have not received; increase the intensity of your search and examine the evidence. Is your relationship right with your spouse, your children, and your fellow students? Are you a “good child” in those relationships? Do you have to say to the Lord, “I have been irritable and cross, but I still want spiritual blessings”? You cannot receive and will have to do without them until you have the attitude of a “good child.”
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