Devotional for September 6, 2010

The Context of Giving Thanks
First Thessalonians 5:18 commands us to be thankful in everything; it doesn’t say be thankful for everything.  There is a distinct difference.  When things go wrong, we are to give thanks to God in the midst of the trouble.
Although all your worldly efforts and pursuits may fail and you’re in the [...]

Devotional for September 5, 2010

Expect Great Things from a Great Name
If you want to rise up spiritually, you need to hang out with people who will inspire you to higher expectations and help you reach them.  If you want a better job, you hang out with the experts in the field, not with unmotivated, unfocused people. If you want [...]

Devotional for September 4, 2010

God Wants to Amaze You
How do you respond when you get a tremendous blessing?  We all want to be blessed.  Do you accept with gratitude? Do you let the blessing absorb you?
In the gospels, at Jesus’ direction Peter let down his net in the water, and the blessing was so huge that the abundance of [...]

Devotional for September 3, 2010

Do You Need to Change Your Expectations?
As a pastor, I witness people accepting their circumstances with a “crippling” mindset rather than believing God for something better in life.
They are like the lame man in Acts 3 who sat by the gate, Beautiful, begging for money.  His only expectation was that a passerby will take pity [...]

Devotional for September 2, 2010

We All Have Expectations
Life is filled with expectations.  Look at our everyday lives.  Some of us wake up expecting the best in our work day or with our family or in our health or in our finances.  Others dread the day, or at best, never expect anything to change for the better.
Childhood dreams and hopes [...]

Devotional for September 1, 2010

Why Did God Make Marriage?
When we read in our passage for today that Adam and Eve were naked before each other, I want us to realize that the word used here means more than physical nakedness. It means they were transparent. They were open to one another. They had become best friends.
Is your wife or [...]

Devotional for August 31, 2010

Marriage is God’s House
If you were to come over to my house, I would welcome you inside but there would be a set of rules by which to abide. Just like I would need to abide by the rules for your house. For example, in my home, I don’t allow smoking. So if you smoke, [...]

Devotional for August 30, 2010

Marriage Is A Covenant
Marriage is a covenantal union designed to strengthen the capability of each partner to carry out the plan of God in their lives. Whether your marriage has drifted off course or was never on course at all, God can redeem your marriage to make it satisfying and whole.
One way of beginning this [...]

Devotional for August 29, 2010

God’s Intention for Marriage
As Christians our job description is to demonstrate the power of Christ in everyday situations – and there’s no place where the resurrection power of Jesus Christ needs to be seen more graphically today than in the area of marriage and family.
Too many Christian husbands and wives say they can’t work it [...]

Devotional for August 28, 2010

Be Strong in the Lord
Most of us know what it means to be locked in spiritual warfare. There are times when even the strongest believer will be tempted to give up in the battle. That’s why we need to pray for one another. Prayer defeats the enemy right where he stands. Prayer also encourages the [...]

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