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…

The Essential 100, Day 90 The return of the Lord. The day and time is coming when Christ will return. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 Christ is coming back! We are so excited about this, but are we ready for it? And more so, are our family and friends and those we were around ready for it, too? We need to make sure that we are sharing the message and the news so that we are not surprised when Christ returns but that we are truly ready and all those that we know and love and have contact with are ready, too.

The Essential 100, Day 89 The Bibe is God’s word for us. It is applicable to every day and every situation we will face. Read 2 Timothy 3:10-4:8. As we study and spend time in God’s word, we will see much more clearly how we should act and what we should do every day. God is working and moving and as we read, God uses that to shape and direct us. Are we listening to God’s word? Do we take the time to seek to understand it and to apply it to the situations we face? Only God’s word will truly help and direct us every day.

The Essential 100, Day 88 How do we present ourselves? What are we displaying for others to see? Read 2 Timothy 2. As followers of Jesus Christ, it is important to understand how we represent ourselves each day. In the business world, we talk about our “presentation”. How do we show up each day and how to others around us perceive us? How we present ourselves to the world? As believers and followers of Jesus Christ, we should present ourselves to the world as someone who is seeking after the approval of Christ, not men. Our presentation should represent Christ. We are seeking to be known as someone who follows…

The Essential 100, Day 87 Contentment. Do we understand what it truly means to be content? Are we finding rest and joy in Christ regardless of our circumstances? Read 1 Timothy 6:3-21. So many people can get so caught up in money and the desire for more money. Yet, God explains to us the need to be content with what we have and where we are. God places us where he wants us to be so that we can be the most effective for him. And, he doesn’t allow us to be tempted beyond what we are able and so sometimes, he has to remove us from situations that might…