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CHRISTIANSmobilize, Polson, MT (2026)

11/01/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
(1 Samuel 17:10-11)

PONDER THIS
The Bible tells us Goliath was dressed in bronze armor. We can imagine that polished brass as it glistened in the sunlight. He must have been an awesome sight. He was lifting his big fists like hams to the heavens and cursing God. He was blaspheming God and defying the armies of Israel. He said, in effect, “You cowards! You weaklings! You miserable people! Send somebody over here to fight me, just one man. Winner takes all. If he defeats me, we’ll lay down our arms and surrender. But if I take him, the battle is ours, winner takes all.” David heard this and wondered, “Why doesn’t somebody go over and put that guy to sleep?” But no one was going, not even big King Saul.

The Israelites were looking at the situation from a human perspective. They saw the size of Goliath and their smallness compared to him and decided the situation was impossible. Who could fight him? But David looked at him and thought, “Look how much smaller he is compared to God.” So, David decided he would go, armed in the power of Almighty God.

- When do you have trouble seeing the world with God’s perspective instead of human perspective?
- How might the story of David and Goliath remind you to look at the trials in your life from God’s view and not your own?

PRACTICE THIS
Take time to journal about a current struggle in your life. Write out two lists: one detailing the problem from your perspective and a second imagining the way God sees your situation and you as His child in that situation.

10/27/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”
(Romans 8:32)

PONDER THIS
If you were to say to me, “Adrian, can I have your son? I want to take your firstborn, Steve,” I would likely ask, “What do you want to do with Steve?” If you replied, “Well, I want to lie about him, beat him, abuse him, strip him naked and nail him to a cross,” I would quickly say, “No! You can’t have my son.”

But suppose I loved you enough for whatever reason I said, “Yes, you can have my son.” And then you said, “And can I have his basketball and his bicycle and his blue jeans?” I’d say, “Are you kidding? If I’d give you my son, do you think I’d withhold the basketball, the bicycle, and the blue jeans?” Friend, “He who spared not His own Son, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?” If God gave the first gift, the best gift, everything else comes with Jesus. There is no deprivation in the gift of Christ.

- When do you have trouble believing God will give you good things?
- How does the reminder that He has willingly given His Son for your sake change your perspective?

PRACTICE THIS
Make a list of truly good things you desire and need from God. Take time to meditate on the truth that He has given you His Son and will not withhold any good thing you truly need.

10/22/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
(Romans 8:28)

PONDER THIS
God already knows everything that’s going to happen. That’s difficult for us to understand because we’re humans and we think in finite terms. It’s like a little boy watching a parade through a knothole. He sees the floats as they go past, but only what comes through the knothole of his perspective. Now suppose somebody was to see that little guy watching the parade through the knothole and pick him up and take him to the top of a ten-story building. There the little guy sees the whole parade below and he sees everything in between. He has a different vantage. That’s an imperfect illustration because he can only see so far but God can see all the way and all the time. God sees from eternity. We live in time, so what takes place to us is sequential in time. But God knows the beginning to the end. The Bible says, “‘Known to God from eternity are all His works’” (Acts 15:18). God knows it all.

- How does it comfort you to know God knows literally everything?
- How might this knowledge change the way you face difficult situations each day?

PRACTICE THIS
Take time today to submit your burdens before the Lord, acknowledging that He knows all things.

10/20/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
(Romans 8:26)

PONDER THIS
When you go to pray, the devil is going to level all of the artillery of Hell against you because he does not want you to pray. Our indifference and ignorance and his interference sometimes line up against us and then we say, “Well, we’re not very good at prayer.” We like to talk about prayer and sing about prayer, but many of us really do not have a satisfying, fulfilling prayer life.

Now what is the answer? The answer is to find that God has given us an Ally, an asset, a helper, an encourager, and He is the Holy Spirit. And this passage of Scripture says, “Likewise, the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses.” On our own, we will never have a full prayer life. But God has not left us on our own. He has given us a helper who is with us every day and fills up the areas where we are weak.

- What things tempt you to believe that you are not good at prayer?
- How does it change your perspective to consider the help of the Holy Spirit in your prayers?

PRACTICE THIS
Take time today to pray. Focus on the Holy Spirit as the Helper who fills the weaknesses in you and leads you to pray as you ought.

10/19/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.”
(Romans 8:19)

PONDER THIS
When Adam sinned, God could not allow a sinful creature to live in paradise. So, God took Adam out of paradise and put him in a world that had the curse of sin upon it. God told him that He would have to survive by the sweat of his face. Why? Because God wanted Adam to know there’s something deadly wrong in this world, and all of the pain and all of the sorrow that we see in creation is the fever of the infection, which is sin.

Aren’t you glad that God gives you fever when you have an infection? If you didn’t have a fever, you wouldn’t know you had an infection. The fever’s the symptom of the deeper problem. The groaning of creation is in essence the fever of a broken world. God didn’t make the world this way; God made the world perfect. But we see a world that is marred and scarred and all of creation is groaning. Listen even to the wind as it goes through the trees; it’s in a minor key. Everything is groaning and sighing and dying. But God has promised that it will not stay this way forever.

- Where does the brokenness of the world stand out to you most?
- How have you experienced but also contributed to the brokenness of the world?

PRACTICE THIS
Take time today to make a list of ways the world is broken. Make a second list of the promises God has made to fix the broken things of the world.

10/18/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
(Romans 8:18)

PONDER THIS
Many people throughout history have questioned God’s goodness by pointing to the existence of sin and evil in the world. They may say, “Why didn’t God just make us where we couldn’t sin?” If God had made us where we couldn’t sin, He could have no more fellowship with me than I could have with an inanimate object. God made us moral creatures. Love is the highest good, and God wants us to love Him. Jesus said, “This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:38 KJV): “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind” (Matthew 22:37 KJV).

Love is the highest good, but forced love is a contradiction in terms. Forced love is not love at all. In order to love, we must be free to love and to choose to love. In order to choose to love, we have to be able to choose not to love. And so, God gave us perfect choice. Adam chose in the Garden of Eden, and the sons of Adam after him, to sin. That’s where the brokenness of the world comes from.

- When was a time you questioned God because of the brokenness you saw in the world?
- How are you encouraged or challenged by the truth that God loves us enough to let us choose to love Him or not?
- How can you relate to this act of love in your own relationships with others?

PRACTICE THIS
Take time today to think on several reasons that you love God and consider how those things have been revealed to you throughout your life.

10/15/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
For you did not receive the spirit of bo***ge again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
(Romans 8:15)

PONDER THIS
The Holy Spirit attests to and makes real what happened when you got saved. For example, there is a new relationship. Consider today’s verse. Two words are here together, Abba and Father. The first is Aramaic and the second is Hebrew. Abba is an Aramaic word and it means “Daddy” or “Papa.” When the Holy Spirit of God comes into you, He gives you such a relationship with the One who has adopted you that you can call him Abba, Father. Now let me tell you the difference in these two words. There were plenty of people in Abraham’s day that would call him Father Abraham because he was a patriarch, and we call him Father Abraham, but we don't call him Abba Abraham. We know him as Father Abraham because he was the father ruler of the patriarchs. But Isaac would have called him Abba Abraham or Abba Father. He would call him daddy. You see, the Holy Spirit brings us in as adopted children who can call God, Abba Father.

- How does it change your view of God to see Him not only as Father but as a closer form of father, like a daddy?
- How has your earthly relationship with your father shaped the way you view God?
- What are the ways you need the Bible to reshape that view?

PRACTICE THIS
Write out a list of ways that God is not only your Father, but your loving Abba.

10/14/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”
(Romans 8:9)

PONDER THIS
A good test as to whether you’re saved or not is just simply this: have you received the Holy Spirit? In Acts chapter 19, Paul met some disciples and he had reason to wonder whether they were saved or not. He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed” (Acts 19:2)? They said they didn’t even know there was a Holy Spirit. Paul then asked about the nature of their baptism. In response, they told him they were baptized with John’s baptism. Paul realized that these people had come right up to the threshold of salvation, but they’d never received the Lord. So he preached unto them Jesus and they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and they received the Holy Spirit. The distinguishing mark of a child of God is this: that he or she has the Holy Spirit.

- Have you received the Holy Spirit?
- What is different in your life because you received the Holy Spirit?

PRACTICE THIS
Make a list of the evidence (or fruit) in your life that has come through receiving the Holy Spirit.

10/13/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.”
(Romans 7:4)

PONDER THIS
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die, isn’t that right? But you have to go through something to get to something. You have to go through death to get to Heaven, and you have to go through death to yourself to get to the victorious life. The reason so many of us are not filled with the Spirit is, very frankly, we’re so stuffed full of ourselves that there’s not room for the Spirit. We have to come to the end of ourselves and learn to die so we can start living. To think this way is not being morbid, it is being joyful, because Jesus didn’t say, “I have come that you might have death,” but, "I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.” (See John 10:10.) But we won’t receive this life until we’re sick and tired of our old life. Not until we say, “Yes, Jesus, because you died, I died with you. And thank God, when you rose, I rose with you.”

- What does it mean to die to yourself?
- What does this look like in your life?
- What are some specific things God is calling you to die to today?

PRACTICE THIS
Make a list of ways you sense God calling you to die to yourself. Ask Him for the ability to put those things off to live more fully for Him.

10/07/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Romans 5:8)

PONDER THIS
A preacher and his son were traveling down a street, and they saw a house that was on fire. They realized that there may be danger inside the house, and so they went and knocked on the door, but no one answered. Finally, they broke the door down and went in. They couldn’t find anybody in the house, but they took all the furniture out of the house and set the furniture outside the house while the fire department was on the way.

Later on, the preacher thought that was a great illustration, and decided to use it in his sermon. After he told the story, the people looked at him kind of strangely. When he got home, he did as preachers are prone to do and discussed the sermon with his wife. He said, “You know somehow I thought that was a good illustration, but it just fell flat.” She said, “I’ll tell you why. You forgot to tell them the house was on fire.”

It was the bad news that the house was on fire that made it good news that they saved the furniture. Often, we fail today to tell people the bad news that makes the Gospel message good news.

- How have you experienced the reality that it is the bad news of sin and eternal separation from God that makes the Gospel good news?
- Why is it important to share both of these parts of the Gospel message?

PRACTICE THIS
Take some time today to reflect on the bad news of our sin that brought about the need for salvation. Thank God for the good news that He has met our need in Jesus.

09/22/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
(Proverbs 3:6)

PONDER THIS
I was reading about a man named Vido Miti. He was a Spanish student in Barcelona, and he was working on his Ph.D. in philosophy. Vido was in the library blowing the dust off some of the old books of philosophy, and he found a book that had been in the library for no one knows how long. As he was going through the book, he found some paper inside it that he opened up and read. It was the philosopher’s last will and testament.

It said, “Whoever finds this in this book will inherit my estate,” because the writer didn’t think anybody would read his old, dry philosophy book. But there it was. Vido Miti took that to the authorities. They read it and said, “It is valid,” and he was awarded $250,000, the full estate of the old philosopher. I wonder how many treasures are in God’s Word that God wants us to inherit, but we’ve never blown the dust off the Bible.

- What are some treasures you have found in the Word of God?
- What value have you found in spending time in the Bible to find the treasure of God?

PRACTICE THIS
Make a list of specific spiritual treasures you have found through reading the Bible.

09/21/2021

PRAY OVER THIS
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”
(Proverbs 3:5)

PONDER THIS
God has a special plan for you. God doesn’t deal with us en masse. He deals with us as individuals. God makes no duplicates. Everything that God makes is an original. Just like every snowflake has its own specific pattern, God made you as an individual, and God has a plan specifically for you. The Bible says in Psalm 37:23, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” Is that not incredible? Every step you take is in His plan and in His purpose.

You may say, “Well, that’s true for those who God has called into His full-time service.” No. Listen to me. It is true for you. The same plan that is true for the preacher is true for the plumber. The same plan that is true for the missionary is true for the secretary. God has a plan for every individual life.

- In what ways have you seen God’s specific plan implemented in your life?
- What are some specific ways God might use you in the places He has put you that He might not use others?

PRACTICE THIS
Write out some ways you have seen God’s specific plan working in your life and the way He has used you uniquely for His purposes.

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