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January 15 Do You Walk in White? “We were buried with Him … that just as Christ was raised from the dead … even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a “white funeral”—the burial of the old life. If there has never […]
Read MoreJanuary 14 Called by God “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me’ ” (Isaiah 6:8). God did not direct His call to Isaiah—Isaiah overheard God saying, “… who will go for Us?” The call of God […]
Read MoreJanuary 13 Have You Ever Been Alone with God? “When He was alone … the twelve asked Him about the parable” (Mark 4:10). His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship—when He gets us absolutely alone, and […]
Read MoreJanuary 12 Have You Ever Been Alone with God? “When they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples” (Mark 4:34). Our Solitude with Him. Jesus doesn’t take us aside and explain things to us all the time; He explains things to us as we are able to understand them. The lives of others […]
Read MoreJanuary 11 What My Obedience to God Costs Other People “As they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon … , and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus” (Luke 23:26). If we obey God, it is going to cost other people more than it […]
Read MoreJanuary 10 The Opened Sight “I now send you, to open their eyes … that they may receive forgiveness of sins …” (Acts 26:17–18). This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament. God’s first sovereign work of grace […]
Read MoreJanuary 9 Prayerful Inner-searching “May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless …” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Your whole spirit … .” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139. The psalmist implies—“O Lord, You are the God of the […]
Read MoreJanuary 8 Is My Sacrifice Living? “Abraham built an altar … ; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar …” (Genesis 22:9). This event is a picture of the mistake we make in thinking that the ultimate God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is […]
Read MoreJanuary 7 Intimate with Jesus “Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?’ ” (John 14:9). These words were not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus was encouraging Philip to draw closer. Yet the last person we get intimate with […]
Read MoreJanuary 6 Worship “He moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord” (Genesis 12:8). Worship is giving God the best that He […]
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