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Christian Devotional – April 22, 2025
Steadfast, Day 2 Secret invaders. Read Jude chapter 1. There are secret agents from the enemy that have infiltrated the ranks of the believers. Essentially, that’s what Jude is telling the people. While the church is meant to be a safe haven and a place of encouragement, Jude wants the people to know there are people who do not believe the truth that have joined the ranks of the church and infiltrated their assembly. We have to stay laser-focused on the truth. God’s word is the compass by which we set everything else. We cannot deviate or vary from that, and everyone that we bring into our confidence and our…
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Christian Devotional – April 21, 2025
Steadfast, Day 1 Are we being steadfast in our faith. Read Jude, chapter 1. We are going to spend the next few days reading through a book of the Bible written by another brother of Jesus Christ. Jude was also one of Jesus’s brothers and a leader in the early church. While we don’t know as much about Jude as we do about James, we see this short book included in the Bible and also referenced by Peter in his second letter. Because it’s so short, I’m going to encourage you to read through all of it each day. Jude’s focus is on the importance of staying in true to…
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Christian Devotional – April 20, 2025
Go and Do, Day 20 Happy Resurrection Sunday!! How to be powerful and effective. Read James 5:13-20. Prayer is the answer to everything. Prayer is powerful tool that God has given us. Through prayer we have the ability to partner with God to make tremendous impact for God’s kingdom. Many times people come to prayer as a last resort. Often, this is something that we only do in times of greatest need, after everything else has failed. Instead, prayer is to be something that we come to first. Prayer is the means and method through which we fight battles and overcome all the struggles that we face. Prayer should be…
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Christian Devotional – April 19, 2025
Go and Do, Day 19 Be patient. Read James 5:7-12. Patience is only needed when what is happening isn’t what we want to have happen. Have you ever noticed that? When things are going the way we want them to, at the speed we want them to, we don’t think about patience. Patience is only needed when what we want to have happen isn’t happening, or isn’t happening fast enough. James reminds the believers that they have to have patience. There are many things that we want to have happen, and many things that have been promised to us that will happen. They just simply aren’t happening as fast as…
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Christian Devotional – April 18, 2025
Go and Do, Day 18 Is money really bad? Read James 5:1-6. As James has come to the last chapter of his letter, we see that he is addressing an issue that has been a problem for the early church. What does it mean to have money, and how should people use that money? There were a lot of people in that day and time who had very little money. However, for those who had money, the common practice was to hoard that money and lord it over the people who didn’t have money. James wants everyone to understand that it is not Christ-like to misuse money. Whenever you see…
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Christian Devotional – April 17, 2025
Go and Do, Day 17 What should you be doing? Read James 4:13-17. Are you a planner? I am. I love a good plan and I am diligent about creating good plans, not just for me, but for all the people in my life. James cautions us about creating plans because we really don’t know what is going to come. We are not God and many things happen that are outside of our plans. Still, even with that, James throws in one final reminder. We are to do the good things that we see, and if we don’t, that is sin. Sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that…
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Christian Devotional – April 16, 2025
Go and Do, Day 16 There is a path to escape. Read James 4:7-12. James has shared with us the importance of keeping God first in everything. However, he also understood the practical day to day application of that was incredibly difficult. We are going to be tested and tried at every turn. There will be times we are barely able to see a light at the end of the tunnel. But, James wanted us to know that we can be rescued. There is a way out from this path. In verse 7, he spells it out. We are to resist the devil and submit ourselves to God. If we…
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Christian Devotional – April 15, 2025
Go and Do, Day 15 Choose your side. Read James 4:4-6. James has just finished saying that sometimes we pray for the wrong things. Sometimes we ask God for things that are really more about our own selfish desires than they are about God’s desires for us. As a result, we have these 3 verses. James wants us to understand that we cannot be friends with both God and the world. We must choose a side. Either we are going to be desiring the things of the world, or we will be desiring after God. Either we are longing for the things of this world or we will be longing…
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Christian Devotional – April 14, 2025
Go and Do, Day 14 “But I want it!” Read James 4:1-3. Many a mother has heard that phrase screamed by their toddler when passing through stores. Many a teenager has made this statement. Many an adult has said this in their heart. We want what we want, and we want it now. James wants us to understand that God is the one who supplies all of our needs. We are to come to God when we have things that we need, and God will provide for us. However, sometimes the things that we ask God for really aren’t things we need. It doesn’t stop us from asking for them,…
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Christian Devotional – April 13, 2025
Go and Do, Day 13 What does wisdom look like? Read James 13-18. Wisdom can often be something that is difficult to describe. We understand that it means someone who knows a lot and does the right thing, but how do you define what it means to be wise? James helps us understand the difference by giving a definition of wisdom. Godly wisdom is pure, peaceable, full of mercy, submissive, considerate, impartial, and sincere. These might not be words that you would necessarily use to describe wisdom. We normally think of wisdom as intelligence, but these characteristics are critical in understanding what godly wisdom is and what it looks like.…