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Christian Devotional – December 23, 2022
The Decay Within, Day 1 The Lord roars. Read Amos chapter 1. The second book that I ever had published was a Bible study over the book of Amos. I find it there to be a tremendous amount of learnings throughout this small, but mighty, book. As we conclude the year 2022, we’re going to spend the last 9 days going through this powerful book. The book starts out with a declaration of the power of God. We see the Lord roaring like a lion. God is powerful. Sometimes we forget just how mighty he truly is and when we think about all that God does every single day, we…
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Christian Devotional – December 22, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 20 How do you answer people? Read Colossians chapter 4. As we finish our look through these 4 letters we see that Paul is reminding these people that they need to be careful how they respond. Their words must be carefully chosen and should be a reflection of Christ in us. People should see God’s grace in our speech to them. Hope do we speak to others? What do we reflect when we talk? Is Christ seen in everything that we say?
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Christian Devotional – December 21, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 19 Who are you working for? Read Colossians chapter 3. When I go to work, or even as I am working around my house, I start to question why. The question is important because it speaks to the motivation that I have and how I keep my focus. According to Paul, everything that i do should be as if I was doing it for God, Himself. How would God review our work? What would he be looking for and what would be most important to him? Those are the things we are to be looking for and we are to stay focused on him, no…
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Christian Devotional – December 20, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 18 Making a decision every day. Read Colossians chapter 2. Today, this verse stood out to me. What struck me was the word continue. You see, when we make a decision to follow Jesus Christ, that is a one time decision where we surrender our lives to him. However, the act of living a surrendered life is a continuous decision. We must constantly be evaluating our level of submission and surrender to Christ. Are we choosing to continue in Christ each and every day?
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Christian Devotional – December 19, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 17 Why do we share? Why should we share? Read Colossians chapter 1. Paul opens this book with a Thanksgiving prayer for the people, and he goes into an explanation of the power and awesomeness of God along with why he preaches the gospel. Do we know why we preach the gospel? And do we recognize the supremacy and power of Almighty God? Do we understand how those two go together? You see, if we don’t truly understand the power and awesomeness of Christ, we will never understand why we should share the message with others. It is because of the amazing wisdom and power…
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Christian Devotional – December 18, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 16 Who supplies your needs? Read Philippians chapter 4. When most people think about who supplies their needs, they think about the stores that they get their items from. Or they think about the job in which they do to make the money that they used to purchase these items. However, everything we have is a result of God having allowed us to have it. Our needs are supplied by Jesus Christ and through his incredible resources. We don’t ever have to wonder where anything is coming from. If we need it, our God will provide it. Are we trusting God to supply our needs?…
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Christian Devotional – December 17, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 15 How do we represent our country? Read Philippians chapter 3. As Paul was writing through this chapter, we see that he explains our citizenship is in heaven. Now the people he was talking to were from lots of different countries. Some were Jews and some weren’t. But Paul made the point that these people need to understand their citizenship was in Christ. Christ was the one that brought all of them together and gives all of them purpose and commonality. Through Christ they have belonging. We will never completely fit in any of our countries that we live in. Regardless of whether we are…
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Christian Devotional – December 16, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 14 Worthy of all honor. Read Philippians chapter 2. So many powerful verses stand out in this chapter of Philippines. Paul is explaining who Jesus is and his relationship to the whole rest of the world. Jesus is above absolutely everything. God has given Jesus the name and the honor and the glory that is above everything else and because of his position and authority, everyone should bow to him. Do we acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do we recognize how Jesus Christ is Lord over everything? Do we live out that truth every minute of every single day? As we go through each…
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Christian Devotional – December 15, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 13 Not perfect, yet. Read Philippians chapter 1. As we see Paul speaking here, this time in chains and prison for the gospel, he is sharing an uplifting and hopeful message to the church in Philippi. You see, the gospel is spreading rapidly because of Paul’s testimony. And Paul wants to people to understand the work that God is doing in each of them is not complete yet. God will continue to work in and through them until the day he perfects them. Our perfection comes when we see Christ face to face in heaven. Until that day we are flawed humans that rely on…
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Christian Devotional – December 14, 2022
Four of the Letters, Day 12 Boldness to share the gospel. Read Ephesians chapter 6. As we continue to the end of the book of Ephesians, we read about the boldness that Paul asked for prayer for. When it came down to it, he really only had one request of the people he was writing to, he wanted them to pray that he would continue to boldly share the gospel to everyone he was around. When we think of others and what we would like for them to pray for us, what do we ask for? Are we asking for happiness or peace or security or safety? What about health…