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Christian Devotional – October 6, 2021
Days of Wisdom, Day 6 Are we truly free? Read Proverbs 6. The Bible has a lot to say about money. Many verses all throughout scripture speak about our attitudes regarding money. Interestingly, this chapter deals with money from the idea of loaning it or cosigning loans for people. When we borrow money, we become enslaved to the one we borrowed from. Are we actively seeking to get out of debt? All debt? The culture in which we live these days makes it hard to think that we would ever be able to break feee, but yet, that is exactly what we should be atriving for… freedom. God can best…
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Christian Devotional – October 5, 2021
Days of Wisdom, Day 5 God knows. Read Proverbs 5. As we continue to read and study all that Solomon shares in the book of Proverbs, we realize that God is everywhere and he sees everything. God is wisdom and he desires that we get wisdom. But, God won’t force that on us. Still God sees all that we do and he knows all that we think. When we do something that is wrong, do we realize that God is going to judge us? God examines all that we do and it will be measured up against his standard. Are we trusting in him?
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Christian Devotional – October 4, 2021
Days of Wisdom, Day 4 What is in your heart is what will be acted upon by your hands. Read Proverbs 4. As the teacher continues to share, he tells us that we must guard our hearts. What is in our hearts is going to come out in other areas in our lives. I have been guilty of be very bitter about several situations in my life. My angery and frustrated thoughts in my heart have started slipping out my mouth. I haven’t done a very good job of guarding my heart. We cannot be wise or experience the blessings of God if we are not keeping a close reign…
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Christian Devotional – October 3, 2021
Days of Forgiveness, Day 3 The benefits of following the Lord. Read Proverbs 3. As we read through Proverbs chapter 3, we see many familiar verses that have been quoted by people throughout the years. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Honor the Lord with your wealth. All of these speak to the benefits and rewards that we have as we focus completely on Christ in our lives. As we continue through, we see this verse towards the end and realize that wisdom from God gives us what we need in every situation. Wisdom allows us to navigate difficult situations with grace and poise. And, God also honors…
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Christian Devotional – October 2, 2021
Days of Wisdom, Day 2 What is wisdom? How do we know whether or not we have it? Read Proverbs 2. As we see more details about wisdom, we see that there are so many ways to lose wisdom, but not very many ways to gain it. But, if we do find our way to wisdom through Christ then that is what helps us find the good path. It sounds say “the easy path” and most of the time we will find that it isn’t easy at all. It’s actually quite hard. But, if we will trust and rely on Him, then we will see that He is able to…
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Christian Devotional – October 1, 2021
31 Days of Wisdom, Day 1 How can we be wise? We’re going to start a journey through Proverbs reading a chapter a day. Read Proverbs chapter 1. How can you find wisdom? Wisdom is found in God alone. Wisdom begins as we seek after Christ. I have some difficult and tricky situations to navigate through right now and I know that I need God’s wisdom. I can’t accomplish anything on my own. Are we willing to let God be our wisdom?
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Christian Devotional – September 30, 2021
How to Love, Day 3 What if people disagree? Read through 2 John. When it comes to showing love to people, there will always be those who don’t agree or who don’t believe how Christ loves. How do we deal with those people? We need to still love them and share truth with them, but we must not become like them or allow them to influence our decisions. We must be careful that we are only allowing Christ to be our definition of truth and love, not anyone else or anything else.
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Christian Devotional – September 29, 2021
How to Love, Day 2 Love is an action. Read through 2 John. Here we see John sharing the heart of love. Love is Christ and we show love as we walk in Christ. Unless we are walking in Christ, we are not walking in love. Love is only found through Christ. Are we walking in love today?
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Christian Devotional – September 28, 2021
How to Love, Day 1 We’re going to take a quick, 3 day journey into love from the perspective of John in the book of 2nd John. Take a few minutes and read through the book. Looking at verse 2, we see that love begins with truth. We cannot truly love someone outside of understanding the truth of who Jesus is. Jesus is love and by understanding him, we can share that love with others. Are we truly loving the way in which God loves us? Are we loving through truth? When we truly loves someone, we won’t let them live in such a way that they are outside of…
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Christian Devotional – September 26, 2021
Forgiveness, Day 10 The grace of Jesus Christ. What a perfect way to close out the book. Reread Philemon. As we come to the ending of this book on forgiveness, we see Paul reminding the people that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ should be with them. We will not practice forgiveness if we do not understand grace. God’s grace is what allows us to accept the forgiveness that he provides to us, and God’s grace is what also enables us to give forgiveness to others. When we look at our situation and the people that we are around, do we give them grace? And not just any grace,…