Day 21

“I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

– John 15:11

Does your relationship with God bring you joy? Continue reading →

Day 20

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave His Son, His one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in Him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”

– John 3:16

There once were two brothers who lived in the same city. Each was interviewed separately by a local TV station. Continue reading →

Day 19

  “If you are guided by the Spirit, you won’t obey your selfish desires.”

– Galatians 5:16, Additional reading: Galatians 5:17-19,20-23

If we walk and live in the Spirit, then we can ‘pull the plug’ on our flesh so it has no power or control over us. Continue reading →

Day 18

“I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Remain in Me as I remain in you.”

– John 15:1-6

Jesus revealed that the secret of growing God’s fruit in your life is lies in being at home in Him (in the vine abiding). Continue reading →

Day 17

“Think about Jesus.  He held on patiently while sinful men were doing evil things against Him.  Look at Jesus’ example so that you will not get tired and stop trying.”

– Hebrews 12:3

Additional reading: Isaiah 40:28-31

Satan tries to work tiredness into our lives through all of the pressures that surround us. Continue reading →

Day 16

“I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me  from all my fears.”

– Psalms 34:4

Additional reading: Isaiah 41:10Psalm 56:3Isaiah 26:3

While I was meditating on this verse I decided to look up the word ‘fear’ in the original Hebrew and here is what I discovered. One of the root words for the word ‘fear’ means dwelling place. Continue reading →

Day 15

“Therefore [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and death.”

– Romans 8:1-2

Simply having the knowledge that Christ died for us does not free us from condemnation. Continue reading →

Day 14

“. . . but when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.”

– 2 Corinthians 10:12

Additional reading: 1 Timothy 6:6

Have you ever looked at someone and thought, “I want the phone they have,” or “I wish I could sing like they do,” or “I wish God made me tall like them so that I could be a great basketball player,” or “why can’t I be as funny as that person so people would be excited when I walk into a room?” Continue reading →

Day 13

“’I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’” says the Lord, ‘Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty.’”

– Revelation 1:8

Jesus is the beginning and the ending of all. When He told us that in the book of Revelation, He was not just giving us some information about Himself, He was giving us a powerful truth which we can apply today! Continue reading →

Day 12

“MY GOD, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.”

– Psalms 22:1-3

This Psalm reveals a very important principle in our relationship with God. In reading through the psalms of David we find that he constantly practiced this key principle in his daily walk. Continue reading →