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Christian Devotional – October 3, 2025
Judgment and Restoration, Day 5 Together. Read Micah 2:12-13. Here we see the first discussion about restoration in Micah. Up to this point it’s been all about the judgment that is coming, but here we see that God is intending to use this judgment as a way to then restore the people of Israel. The idea of bringing a flock together is a beautiful picture of safety and security. God is our safety and security, and he is bringing us together and will ensure that we are where we need to be when we need to be there. God is our shepherd. God is the only one who can restore…
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Christian Devotional – October 2, 2024
Judgment and Restoration, Day 4 Denial. Read Micah 2:6-11. “We don’t want to hear about the bad things we’ve done. We don’t want to know that judgment is coming.” These are the statements that the people of Israel are making because they want to continue to be in denial. You see, they like the things that they are doing and they don’t see anything wrong with them. Even though God has said these are against him and this is disobedience, the people don’t want to change. When we are faced with the reality of our sin, we have a choice to make. We can either accept that the sin is…
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Christian Devotional – October 1, 2025
Judgment and Restoration, Day 3 Don’t do things just because it’s in your power to do. Read Micah 2:1-5. As we start reading chapter two, we see a lot of people falling in the category of being an oppressor. They were taking advantage of others. They were pushing people down and really lording over them in a way that was not pleasing to God at all. God wanted the people to understand that he sees that, and that is not going to be tolerated. That is part of the sin that has been called out and is so different from the holiness of God. Interestingly, in verse one, he makes…
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Christian Devotional – September 30, 2025
Judgment and Restoration, Day 2 Broken. Read Micah 1:8-16. As Micah introduces the idea of judgment on the people of Israel, we see just how broken he is about their judgment. He is completely devastated. He cannot stand the idea that God’s people are going to suffer the judgment that God is sharing with him. Are we broken by sin? Are we broken by the sin we see in our own lives and by the sin we see in others’ lives? What is our response to sin? Yesterday we saw that even the mountains will crumble in comparison with God’s glory. How will we respond? Will we become crumbled and…
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Christian Devotional – September 29, 2025
Judgment and Restoration, Day 1 No place to hide. Read Micah 1:1-7. We’re going to start going through the book of Micah. Micah is a prophet whose visions from the Lord were recorded in the Old Testament. Micah was given prophecies and visions of what was to come, and he shared those with the people of Israel. Those visions included judgment and restoration. God used Micah to foretell what was coming for the people who had done wrong, but also to remind them that there would ultimately be restoration. People can find hope and promise in him now. Reading these first 7 verses, we see the start of judgment. It…
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Christian Devotional – September 28, 2025
No Distractions, Day 20 It’s all about Christ. Read Galatians 6:11-18 Paul writes this last section of Galatians himself. He wants to reiterate the key points as a reminder to the people of everything he’s been trying to tell them through this book. In this last reminder, we see that ultimately the goal is Christ. We are not to boast in anything but Christ. We are not to focus on anything but Christ. We are not to desire anything but Christ. Ultimately, our entire life is to be about Christ. That is what it means to live a life without distractions. Reading through this book, we have seen so many…
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Christian Devotional – September 27, 2025
No Distractions, Day 19 What are you planting? Read Galatians 6:7-10. I heard a story once about a gardener who one year just decided to mix all of their seeds together and plant them that way. It turned out to be a disaster because certain plants require more space than others. Some plants are growing underground. Others are sprawling across the top. Everything got jumbled together and nothing produced vegetables the way it should have produced. Sometimes, that’s how we go about our lives. We’re planting, but we’re not doing it with intentionality, and so what we end up harvesting is just a group of haphazard results with no direction.…
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Christian Devotional – September 26, 2025
No Distractions, Day 18 Stay focused on your own responsibilities. Read Galatians 6:1-6. As we read through these versus, we see an important distinction, we need to stay focused on ourselves. Anytime I’ve been around a group of young children together in a classroom or school setting, there’s always that one kid that is not getting his own work done. He or she is traveling from desk to desk to desk to look and see what everybody else is doing. While it seems friendly and is fun, and he engages a lot of people, he doesn’t end up getting his own work done. If we’re not careful we can fall…
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Christian Devotional – September 25, 2025
No Distractions, Day 18 Know the difference. Read Galatians 5:16-26. In these verses, we see two lists. We have the famous list of the fruit of the Spirit, but we also have the list of all the fruit of the flesh. Paul wants us to understand that we will be living according to one or the other list. If we are following Christ and allowing his Spirit to live in and through us, we will be producing the fruit of the Spirit. However, if we are not surrendered to Christ and not allowing him to live through us, then we will naturally produce the fruit of the flesh. We have…
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Christian Devotional – September 24, 2025
No Distractions, Day 16 We are free to serve. Read Galatians 5:7-15. As Paul continues to remind us of the freedom we have in Christ, he tells us that our freedom is for a purpose. We were not set free so we could just do whatever we wanted to and indulge in all the sinful things around us. We were set free so that we can serve and love one. Our freedom comes with purpose. We must understand that the freedom we have cost Jesus his life. As a result, we need to be using that freedom in a way that glorifies God. We were not set free to just…