This week stop trying to win arguments
“I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to stop arguing among yourselves. Let there be real harmony so that there won’t be splits in the church. I plead with you to be of...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Don’t give up: Look for what God can do
“His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be...
Insecurity demands I must always be in control
“Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. ‘Never, Lord!’ he said. ‘This shall never happen to you!’ Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you...
You Bring Joy to God
“His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.” (Ephesians 1:5 NLT) Say the following as a prayer. In...
Don’t give up: Look for what God can do
“His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be...
Turn your prayers into conversations
“Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. ‘Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?’ he asked Peter.” (Matthew 26:40 NIV) Read this devotional as a prayer: Help me, Lord, to...
Truth: God is strong and he wants you strong
And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. Ephesians 6:10 (MSG) Read this as a prayer — In faith, we know this to be true. God is strong, and he wants me...
Believe God will help you
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” (Romans 5:6 NIV) You learn to trust God by obeying him in small ways. You probably agree God is the...
Be confident in God’s strength in you
“Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, ‘We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.’” (Numbers 13:30 NIV) God wants you confident in the truth that, through...
God covers your faults with his perfect love
The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father’s only Son. John 1:14 (TEV) The love of God is...