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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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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Prayer For Comfort
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Comforter of the comfortless, bind my soul with you in intercession! Wherever there are broken hearts, mend them; captives, release them; smoking wicks, fan their sparks; bruised reeds, make them pillars in your temple. Bless especially my loved ones, and those who misunderstand and hate me. Grant them your salvation, and meet their particular needs with your gifts.
Daily Devotion
August 23
Prayer—Battle in “The Secret Place”
“When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6).
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Daily Devotion
August 22
“I Indeed … But He”
“I indeed baptize you with water … but He … will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11).
Have I ever come to the point in my life where I can say, “I indeed … but He …”? Until that moment comes, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means. I indeed am at the end, and I cannot do anything more—but He begins right there—He does the things that no one else can ever do. Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light? That is exactly where He comes. Wherever I know I am unclean is where He will put His feet and stand, and wherever I think I am clean is where He will remove His feet and walk away.
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Daily Devotion
August 21
The Ministry of the Unnoticed
“Blessed are the poor in spirit …” (Matthew 5:3).
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