Do you pray the following for others and even for yourself? (Amplified Bible) Ephesians 1:15-17 “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God), 16I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my […]
Living sacrificially is to serve the LORD by serving others. What about your heart? Does it need to be circumcised? Does there need to be a ‘cutting away’ those choices and words and thoughts that loves to sin against God? (All sin is ultimately against God. And sin begins with thoughts and motives.) […]
As this devotional considers being filled with the Holy Spirit of God (who has been given to all believers) Romans continues to teach about our responsibilities: (NASB) Romans 12:6-8 “Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to […]
Sacrificial living includes getting rid of godless habits of thought and any wrong views you have of yourself. (NASB) Romans 12:3 “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound […]
To live pleasing to God is to be filled with His Holy Spirit – the spring of living water welling up into eternal life. (NASB) Romans 12:1-2 “THEREFORE I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service […]
Jesus was sitting on the edge of a well in Samaria. His disciples had gone into town to buy something for lunch. A woman came, a woman with a past of adultery. And Jesus had a conversation with her in that noon sun and heat. (NASB) John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone […]
Jesus offers “living water”. He offered it to the woman at the well in Samaria…a woman who was living with a man not her husband. She had been married five times…Jesus knew this and He still offered His gift of living water to her. Jesus offers life giving water…not stale or stagnate water, […]
To receive the best gift, I need to ask the right gift-giver. (NASB) Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” We are to take the best gift God has to offer – because His gift is generous. (NASB) […]
Jesus called Levi (Matthew) to follow Him. And he did, he left his work and followed Jesus. (Levi was a Jew who was hated because he collected taxes for Rome.) Because of his belief in Jesus, he wanted others he knew to know Jesus too. So he had a party, a banquet…with tax collectors […]
What sign of God was given in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament? Hundreds of years before Jesus Christ was born to a virgin in Bethlehem, a prophet by the name of Isaiah foretold of His birth. (NASB) Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, […]