Daily Devotional – Taking the Initiative Against Daydreaming
Taking the Initiative Against Daydreaming from Utmost.org February 20, 2016 Arise, let us go from here. —John 14:31 Daydreaming about something in order to do it properly is right, but daydreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. In this passage, after having said these wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected our Lord to tell them to go away and meditate over them all. But Jesus never allowed idle daydreaming. When our purpose is…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 119:2 KJV
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
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Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery February 19, 2016 Arise, shine… —Isaiah 60:1 When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us— He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there. Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a moral issue— a matter of obedience. Then we must act…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 16:3 KJV
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Verse of the Day – 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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Taking the Initiative Against Despair February 18, 2016 Rise, let us be going. —Matthew 26:46 In the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples went to sleep when they should have stayed awake, and once they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of having done something irreversible tends to make us despair. We say, “Well, it’s all over and ruined now; what’s the point in trying anymore.” If we think this kind of despair is an exception, we…
Verse of the Day – Matthew 18:20 KJV
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative Arise from the dead… —Ephesians 5:14 Not all initiative, the willingness to take the first step, is inspired by God. Someone may say to you, “Get up and get going! Take your reluctance by the throat and throw it overboard— just do what needs to be done!” That is what we mean by ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes to us and says, in effect, “Get up and get going,” suddenly…
Verse of the Day – Philippians 4:13 KJV
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
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Verse of the Day – Jeremiah 17:10 KJV “I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”
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The Discipline of Hearing Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. —Matthew 10:27 Sometimes God puts us through the experience and discipline of darkness to teach us to hear and obey Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and God puts us into “the shadow of His hand” until we learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2). “Whatever I tell you in the…
14 February, 2016 12:24
Verse of the Day – John 15:13 KJV“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”