Day 30

“Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand.”

-Proverbs 19:21

Additional reading: Jeremiah 29:11Romans 8:28Ephesians 2:10

It is very easy for us to get caught up with our own plans for the day. Continue reading →

Day 29

“Avoid the very scenes of temptation . . . that you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer to temptation . . .  lest you give honor to others and your years to those without mercy.”

– Proverbs 5:2, 8 & 9

Take a moment to reflect on ‘scenes’ in your life. Some scenes are simply a part of our day, and we need to be in them: school, work, home, etc. Others, though, can be avoided. Continue reading →

Day 28

“Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials. Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace]. And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.”

– James 1:2-4

Additional Reading: Book of Job

When we are on the path which God has set out for us, and we’re being effective members in God’s kingdom – WE WILL engage in spiritual battle. Continue reading →

Day 27

Getting it Done

“God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?”

– Numbers 23:19

Nothing we do can change God. He won’t be handcuffed by our failures or unleashed by our successes. Continue reading →

Day 26

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.”

– 1 John 4:16

More than anything God wants us to know just how much He loves us. We have all read and heard about God’s love but I don’t think many of us have really believed how much He really loves us. If we did, it would totally change everything about us and everything around us. Continue reading →

Day 25

“When we went under the water [in baptism], we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into a new country of grace—a life in a new land!”

– Romans 6:1-2

Salvation in Jesus Christ is like a ship that came to redeem men and women stuck in a land full of slavery, bringing them to a free land. Continue reading →

Day 24

“Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house. And thereby put Me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.”

– Malachi 3:10

Additional reading: Malachi 3:8-10, 11-12

Ultimately, you are pursuing a career that will earn you enough money to live on and prosper. Continue reading →

Day 23

“You have searched me, Lord, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You, Lord, know it completely.  You hem me in behind and before, and You lay Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.”

– Psalms 139:1-6

Relationships have many different levels of interaction. We all have people we aren’t that close to. These are friends of friends or family members that we have surface conversations with. We know they exist, and sometimes we may even wish they didn’t. Continue reading →

Day 22

“. . . to keep Satan from getting an advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his wiles or intentions.”

– 2 Corinthians 2:11

Additional reading: Matthew 4:1-5, 6-10

Because we are God’s children, Satan tries to use the same tactics on us that he used with Jesus when tempting Him in the desert. Continue reading →

Day 21

“And the tempter came and said to Him, If you are God’s Son, command these stones to be made loaves of bread.  But He replied, It has been written man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.”

–  Matthew 4:3-4

Additional reading: Matthew 4:1-5, 6-10

When I was in high school, I played defensive end on my varsity football team. I remember one game in particular because I learned a big lesson in humility that day. Continue reading →