The Essential 100, Day 100 Come Lord Jesus! Are we ready for his return? Read Revelation 21-22. Jesus Christ wins in the end! There will be a new heaven and a new Earth and all the sin will pass away and God will reign supreme over everything. I don’t know but you, but I cannot wait for that day. I long for the time when God will be over all and when he will set all things as he designed and desired them to be. Are we excited for the return of the Lord? Are we sharing that anticipation with others who need to know before it’s too late? God…

The Essential 100, Day 99 Praise the Lord. Read Revelation 19-20. God is worthy of praise. As we come toward the end of our journey through a 100 days of The Bible, we see that it is all about praising the Lord. God is reigning supreme and he is over everything and will be shown victorious. He is worthy of our praise. What does praise it look like for us on a daily basis? Do we lift up and praise God every single day or do we only think about that when something extraordinarily positive happens? Do we recognize God’s influence in the moment by moment? Do we recognize God’s…

The Essential 100, Day 98 Jesus is worthy of our praise. Read Revelation 4-7. As the prophecy was shared with John, John got a front row seat to see just how amazing and powerful and majestic is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is absolutely worthy of all of our praise and all of our honor and all glory. There is nothing on this Earth that is greater than he is. Do we live our life focused each day on that truth? Do we recognize just how awe-inspiring Jesus Christ truly is? Our entire focus today needs to be on declaring the wonder and the glory of Jesus Christ and on…

The Essential 100, Day 97 How can we support our churches? Christ addresses 7 churches in the final letter in the Bible. Each of these churches have things they are doing well and areas of opportunity. Read revelation 2-3. In the first church, we see Christ reminding them to not leave their first love. When we think about the Christian life and the dedication and commitment that we have to doing the things that Christ would have us to do, it’s easy to start off very excited and yet fall away after a time. The Christian life is difficult. Following Christ is not easy and yet it is the most…

The Essential 100, Day 96 Jesus is coming. The time is near. Read Revelation 1. John shares his vision that he received. Jesus is going to return. The time is near and it continues to become closer and closer every single day. Do we recognize the power and the glory of a conquering Jesus? Initially, Jesus came as a humble servant sharing the mercy of God. This was designed to help us understand our need for a savior and for him to be that savior for each and every one of us. When Jesus returns, it will be as the conquering and victorious Lord of all. We will see Jesus…

The Essential 100, Day 95 God is love. Understanding that love is a key part of following God. Read 1 John 3:11-4:21. As we learn and understand more about God, we see his love in the every day. We understand how his love works and moves through each and every one of us. God is love and because of our relationship with God, he loves through us. A key characteristic of those who follow God is found in their love for one another. Do we love like God loves? Can others see the love of Christ in our life, in how we interact with others?

The Essential 100, Day 94 HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!! Words and deeds… they must match! As we share about the message of Jesus Christ, our actions must line up with our words. Read James 1-2. James spends a lot of time discussing the importance of faith. Our faith must be more than something that we speak about. Our faith must be visible and evident in the deeds that we do every day. If our actions do not match our words, then our words have no power. People look at our actions. People wait to see how we respond in situations and if it lines up with the words that we have…

The Essential 100, Day 93 Be holy. Two very simple words, but impossible to do. Read 1 Peter 1:1-2:12. God calls us to be holy, but he knew that we would never be able to be holy. How does that work? God is holy. Through Christ, we can be made in the image of God and because of Christ living and working through us, we can be holy. That is the only way we are able to be holy in what we do, by allowing Jesus Christ to live through us every moment of every day. Do we truly understand that the only way to be holy is to surrender?…

The Essential 100, Day 92 We have been made new in Christ. Read 2 Corinthians 4:1-6:2. As we learn more and more what it means to be a new creation in Christ, we recognize that we are truly not the same person that we were before. Everything about us has changed. Our likes, our dislikes, our thought processes, even what we once enjoyed to do in our spare time changes as a result of asking Jesus Christ to be the Lord of our life. It is a complete and total transformation. Do we recognize how God works and moves in our life? How we completely surrendered to him so that…

The Essential 100, Day 91 God is love. We make that statement, but do we truly even understand what love is? Read 1 Corinthians 13. Love is so much more deep and broad and expansive than what we truly even understand. Love as God defines it is more than what any of us have experienced, outside of the love that God has for us. We cannot love the way God loves and the only hope we have is to allow him to love others through us. As we seek to understand what God’s love truly is, we come to recognize the depth of exactly what it means to be loved…