Devout Christian

13/01/2022

Does God's Word ever cause you discomfort? When you read the Bible, does what you read make you feel uneasy? Do you find, when you listen to sermons, that the Scripture seems aimed directly to you? You are experiencing the reality that the Word of God is alive and can read your thoughts and judge your intentions.

Regularly allow the Word of God to wash over you and find any sin or impurity. (Ephesians 5:26)

Always make the connection between your life and what God is saying to you through His Word. Make a habit of taking every word from God seriously, knowing that it is able to judge your heart and mind.

12/01/2022

Your life will not convince those around you of the reality of Jesus if you cannot live in unity with your fellow Christians.

11/01/2022

Righteousness is something you must allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life.

Instead of sowing holy thoughts, are you allowing evil and sinful thoughts to grow in your mind? Are you allowing lust to grow unchecked within you? Does enmity, bitterness, jealousy or unforgiveness remain in your life?

Jesus said if we first seek God and His righteousness, everything else will follow. (Matthew 6:33)

If you want to harvest righteousness in your life tomorrow, you must plant seeds of righteousness today.

10/01/2022

What happens when Jesus speaks to you?

Have you been reading the words of Jesus in your Bible without experiencing His word that transforms everything around you?

Jesus condemned the Pharisees because they assumed the knowledge of the written Scriptures would give them life. They were satisfied with having the words instead of experiencing the Person who spoke the words. (John 5:39)

How powerful a word from God is to your life!

06/01/2022

God knows how to bring salvation to your family, your friends, your community and your world. Accordingly, He looks for those who will allow Him to shape them into the instruments He requires to do His divine work.

Clay has no plans of its own, no aspirations for service, nor reluctance to perform its given task. It is just clay. Moldable, pliable, totally submissive to the will of its master.

If your tendency is to tell the Father what you can and cannot do for Him, submit to His agenda and allow Him to shape you into the person He wants you to be. Like clay.

02/01/2022

The best indication that we have truly worshiped is a changed heart.

You will not see those around you trusting Jesus until they recognize a clear difference between you and the rest of the world. God wants us to sanctify you as He is holy. When God deals with you, there will be a radical degree of purity about your life that is absolutely different from the world can produce. The world, including those closest to you, will be convinced you serve a Holy God by your consecrated life.

02/11/2021

When we encounter God and gives us a direction, it is not enough to write down the date in our spiritual journal, or even to tell our friends and church of our "decision".

God's call is not to "make a decision" but to obey.

21/10/2021

16/10/2021

It's easy to become so busy that you are oblivious to those in need. Your schedule can become so full of accomplishing good things that you are no help to the people around you. God is at work in the lives of your friends, your neighbors, your family members. He may ask you to interrupt your day long enough to join Him as He ministers to them.

Nothing on your agenda, no matter how pressing, is reason enough to ignore the voice of God when He tells you to stop and help.

06/10/2021

Prayer is not calling God in to bless our activities. Rather, prayer takes us into God's presence, shows us His will, and prepares us to obey Him.

God will use your prayer times to soften your heart and change your focus. As you pray for others, the Holy Spirit will work in your heart so that you have the same compassion for them that God does (Romans 8:26-27).

If you do not love people as you should, pray for them. If you are not as active in God's service as you know He wants you to be, begin praying.

You cannot be intimately exposed to God's heart and remain complacent. The time spent with God will change you and make you more like Christ.

24/09/2021

Now, God asks us to lay down our lives on His altar as a living sacrifice. Just as it was in the Old Testament, our sacrifice, once offered, cannot be reclaimed. We belong entirely to Him. We cannot make partial sacrifices of our lives; our offering must be wholehearted.

Therefore, if you are a Christian, your life is not your own. Rather than dying, however, God asks you to live for Him as a living sacrifice. Every day, you are to offer your life to Him for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him. Relentlessly pursue holiness so that your offering to God is unblemished and acceptable to Him. (Eph. 4:1; Phil. 1:27; 1 Thess. 2:12)