Empty Handed
August 20, 2015
When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are essentially admitting that we have nothing to give but He fills us with His life. We can then either hold onto everything He gives us or we can turn around and give back to Him as He leads and watch Him open the floodgates of blessing in our lives.
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Just as a fire can go out and turn into a pile of ashes that can be stoked to find embers to relight the fire, our excitement about salvation can be renewed. When we remember God’s blessings for us, big or small, it stokes the fire in our hearts to be thankful for what He’s given and have a faith that connects to our feelings.
August 19, 2015
Samson lived a life filled with mistakes and he suffered great consequences, yet God was still able to use him for His glory. The Bible tells us to flee from temptation, but for the moments we give in and experience consequences we must remember that God gives us the grace and strength to pick ourselves back up and continue in His work.
August 18, 2015
The way that God orchestrated the coming together of Ruth and Boaz shows His sovereignty in all situations, but it was also their obedience to Him that ended up fulfilling prophecy down the line. We are faced with decisions daily in which we must seek God’s leading and follow Him in obedience.
August 17, 2015
Our motivation when giving needs to be bringing God glory, so we must give in response to His calling. The Bible speaks about the necessity of giving, not so that others are provided for but more than that, it’s about our hearts. God gives to us so that we can give to others in response to trusting Him and thanking Him for the blessings He’s given.
August 16, 2015
As part of the family of God, we have a responsibility to each other to remain spiritually right with God so that when we see a brother or sister struggling then we can call them out on it and help them through it. Too often we leave that job to pastors or people in authority, but it is just as much our responsibility to go after lost sheep.
August 14, 2015
Because of Christ’s death on the cross as payment for our sin, we are spoiled rotten to the point that all we have to do is truly repent and be clean. There will be consequences, however we should be grateful because our consequences are given to us out of love, and we must genuinely learn from them.
August 13, 2015
We are all going to die unless we live to see the day that Jesus comes back. Knowing that, it is essential that we believe in Jesus and His resurrection, giving our lives to Him so that we can be with Him for all eternity and never experience permanent spiritual death.
August 12, 2015
Throughout Scripture we see how God takes ordinary people and uses them to accomplish His work. God still wants to use ordinary people like us and all we have to do is be available to Him.
August 11, 2015
Allowing unfair circumstances to get the best of us, or trying to change things and do things our own way, does not get us anywhere but rather worse off. God’s got a plan and we can see that through the various stories in Scripture when He used trials to abundantly bless His children in the end.
August 10, 2015
Without God, we are just a pile of dry and dead bones. When we simply receive the gift of salvation that He offers out of grace, we are brought to life and have the opportunity to share this with a lost world.
August 9, 2015
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