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Christian Devotional – June 1, 2016
Read Hebrews chapter 5 VERSE: Hebrews 5:12–In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk not solid food! TRUTH: How long have you been a follower of Jesus Christ? How long ago did you surrender Your life and Your heart to Him? Many people will talk about the number of years that they have been following Jesus Christ, but that just tells you how long you have been on the right path, not how far you have gotten down the road. Here, the author tells the people that they have…
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Christian Devotional – May 31, 2016
Read Hebrews chapter 4 VERSE: Hebrews 4:13–Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. TRUTH: What a wonderful and terrifying verse! God sees all and knows all that happens. He is not surprised by anything that goes on and nothing, no action or motive, is hidden from him. What’s more, we will each need to give account for the things that we have done. Not only does he know these things, but he expects us to be able to give an account for what we have done and why. Are we prepared…
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Christian Devotional – May 30, 2016
Read Hebrews chapter 3 VERSE: Hebrews 3:1–Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. TRUTH: We have a choice, each and every day what we will decide we want to fix our thoughts on. We can allow our thoughts to follow the wave of distractions that the world tries to throw at us, or we can choose to be more intentional about our focus. Here, the author tells us to make the choice to fix our thoughts on Jesus. As we are going through our day today, what will we choose to fix…
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Christian Devotional – May 28, 2016
Read Hebrews chapter 2 VERSE: Hebrews 2:15–and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. TRUTH: God came so that He might save all of us who had been held captive by Satan in the clutches of fear and death. Christ came and lived the life that we would not be able to live; the perfect life that is demanded by a holy and just God. Then Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself on the cross so that He paid the price for the sins that were not His own. He created the way through which we may receive the salvation and justification of God.…
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Christian Devotional – November 2, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 13:5–Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” TRUTH: Being content with possessions in a world that is constantly screaming, “more, more!” is difficult. Yet, what are we saying when we scream for more? In essence, what we are saying is that we do not trust God to be with us or take care of us. Being content means resting in the truth that God has promised never to leave us or forsake us. We can be content as we rest in His promise. We don’t have…
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Christian Devotional – November 1, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 12:1–Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. TRUTH: We are not alone. Every decision that we make is witnessed by the saints who have gone on before; all the people listed in chapter 11 who lived by faith are watching. As a result, we are to throw off the sin that is surrounding us and which is threatening to slow us down and trip us up. We cannot run this race to the best of our ability…
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Christian Devotional – October 31, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 11:3–By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so what is seen was not made out of what was visible. TRUTH: God made the universe out of nothing. He took and formed and created everything that we see, both near and far, from out of the nothingness that was before. How do we know this? We have faith that the words spoken by God both in Genesis and here are true. We cannot scientifically explain it, but we have faith that it is true because God’s Word says it. RESPONSE: Father, Your world is wonderful and amazing! You have created such beauty and detail. I…
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Christian Devotional – October 30, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 10:23–Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. TRUTH: We have a hope that is true and that we can hold to because the one we put our hope in is faithful. God is the one who has promised to us and we can trust God to keep His promises. Because of this, our hope is grounded in the assurance that He will do everything exactly as He has promised. RESPONSE: Father, I can hope confidently and faithfully in You because You are faithful to Your promises to me. I will cling to Your promises knowing that You will do just as…
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Christian Devotional – October 29, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 9:27–Just as people are destined to die once and after that to face judgment. TRUTH: Death and then judgment, this is the way that God has set up the world. We are able to recognize that ideas of reincarnation and the like are simply not true based on scripture. We live, then we die, then we face the judgment that God has for us. As the verses before this state, the results of the judgment will be determined by our response to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ with regard to our own sins. RESPONSE: Father, You have made it very clear that once I die, I will face…
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Christian Devotional – October 28, 2013
VERSE: Hebrews 8:12–For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sin no more. TRUTH: God is speaking here about the new covenant He is going to establish with His people. He indicates that He will forgive and not remember our sins anymore. Some people say, “forgive and forget,” but this goes even deeper than that idea. It’s not that He forgets our sin, but that He doesn’t hold them against us anymore. We are no longer held captive to the consequences of our sins. Instead we are free to live in the forgiveness of sin that He provides. That is such a wonderful place of freedom to worship…