01 Tuesday Sep 2015
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We must be strong in all we do and how we approach serving God while we are on this earth. Hebrews 10:36 says, You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. God loves us and wants us to have a relationship with us that results in a fulfilled life. God’s reward for being faithful to Him results in us receiving His promises.
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
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As infant children mature, they move from milk to solid food. As believers, we do the same thing with the Word of God. In Hebrews 5:13 it says, Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. Unless we mature in our relationship with Christ, we will never fully grow into who God purposed us to be and we will never understand true righteousness.
08 Saturday Aug 2015
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Having a pure life requires constant care. In 1 Timothy 4:16 Paul warns Timothy, Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. We must be constantly on guard to watch against sin that can ultimately destroy us. We must also watch what we believe just as carefully and not allow society to dictate what is right versus wrong. When we look to God as our compass, He will never lead us down the wrong path.
06 Thursday Aug 2015
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One of the hardest things in the world is to pray when you are angry, not to mention the fact that God is displeased with us when we are angry. In 1 Timothy 2:8 Paul’s words to Timothy are, I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. Even Jesus said that we should interrupt our prayers to make peace with others in Matthew 5:23-24. The goal is to have a good relationship with Him and others.
23 Tuesday Jun 2015
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We should all be encouragers of each other’s faith. As Paul closes out his second letter to the Corinthian church he does just that. In 2 Corinthians 13:9 Paul says, We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is for your perfection. Believers should be caring and encouraging people who work to bring each other up. Our walk with Christ should not be a competition, but one where we work together to draw each other closer to Him.
22 Monday Jun 2015
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As humans, we love to complicate everything. We like to make things harder than they need to be. In the beginning of 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul says something very powerful, But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Nothing can be simpler than knowing what this passage implies… God already knows we are imperfect and weak; this is not a surprise to him. He created us and saw first hand what we are capable of since the beginning of time when Adam and Eve first sinned. God’s expectation of us is not perfection, but acknowledgement that we need Him. The harder we work towards perfection, the further it pushes us from God. It is not until we seek His perfect grace that we finally realize all we really need is Him. More importantly, God doesn’t need or want our good works, He wants our humility and a real relationship with us; nothing more.
08 Monday Jun 2015
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As Paul closes this first letter to the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 16, it is important to remember why he wrote the letter in the first place. Corinth was a major cosmopolitan port city in Achaia. It was also filled with idolatry and immorality. Paul wrote the letter to help identify the issues in the church and to teach the believers how to live for Christ in such a corrupt society. While this book was specifically written to the Corinthian church, much of what Paul writes applies to us today. This world is getting worse and the life God wants from all of us seems to be less and less popular in our society today. I think one of the keys is to make sure we understand and live for our relationship with Christ. It does no good to become God and judge when all He really wants is for us is to love like God. Jesus made our job very clear in Mark 12:30-31, 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
05 Friday Jun 2015
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At some point in our lives we must grow up. The same is true for our spiritual lives. In 1 Corinthians 14:20 Paul says, Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. Being like infants when it comes to evil means we should never allow ourselves to become good at it. We should mature in our relationship with God and in doing good and bringing glory to Him. If we focus on being servants for the Kingdom of God, then there will be less time and energy to do evil.
02 Tuesday Jun 2015
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In today’s reading, Paul goes over a lot of things about public worship and the Lord’s Supper. But 1 Corinthians 11:31 is what stood out to me, But if we judge ourselves, we would not come under judgement. We must read scripture and listened to the Holy Spirit in order to properly judge ourselves. If we are honest in our interpretation of scripture and in our relationship with God, then we don’t have to wonder what is right versus wrong.
30 Saturday May 2015
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We are to give our all when in the service of our God and Savior. In 1 Corinthians 9:24 Paul says, Do you not know that in a race all runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. When we serve God we are to give it our full effort. Just being there half-way does not satisfy the requirements of our relationship with God. We are either fully committed to Him or we are simply signing up for an insurance policy to keep us out of eternal damnation.
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