'Relating to Others' Tagged Posts
The Real You
The Real You By Billy Graham • March 9, 2017 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith . . . —Ephesians 3:17 Experts have told us that society is sick. Their solutions have treated human frailty with infusions of low-income housing, welfare payments, integrated education, and psychological conditioning. But we are learning that this is not the total answer. The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until…
The Mystery of His Love
The Mystery of His Love By Billy Graham • February 14, 2017 I have loved thee with an everlasting love . . . —Jeremiah 31:3 No human experience can fully illustrate the imputed righteousness of God, as conceived by His infinite love. It is a mystery-incomprehensible and inexplicable. Like the mystery of the sun’s heat and light, we cannot measure it or explain it, and yet we could not live without it. Writing of the mystery of completed righteousness, Paul…
Daily Devotional – Have You Come to “When” Yet?
Have You Come to “When” Yet? – From Utmost.org June 20, 2016 The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. —Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is actually a sign that I am rebelling against the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I…
Daily Devotional – An Answer to Problems
An Answer to Problems – from Billygraham.org May 23, 2016 . . . Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor . . . —Matthew 22:37–39 Here is the answer to the world’s problems today—”Thou shalt love the Lord thy God” and “Thou shalt love thy fellowman.” That teaching is not out of date; it is absolutely relevant today. It is the only way in which the problems of the world today can…
Daily Devotional – Live Creatively for Christ
Live Creatively for Christ – From Billygraham.org May 14, 2016 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love . . . —Romans 12:10 Living creatively for Christ in the home is the acid test for any Christian man or woman. It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home. Your own family…
Daily Devotional – Have You seen Jesus?
Have You Seen Jesus? – From Utmost.org April 9, 2016 After that, He appeared in another form to two of them… —Mark 16:12 Being saved and seeing Jesus are not the same thing. Many people who have never seen Jesus have received and share in God’s grace. But once you have seen Him, you can never be the same. Other things will not have the appeal they did before. You should always recognize the difference between what you see Jesus…
Daily Devotional – Why We Lack Understanding
Why We Lack Understanding – From Utmost.org April 7, 2016 He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead. —Mark 9:9 As the disciples were commanded, you should also say nothing until the Son of Man has risen in you— until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you truly understand what He taught while here on earth. When you grow and…
Daily Devotional – Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves?
Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves? – From Utmost.org March 31, 2016 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. —1 John 5:16 If we are not heedful and pay no attention to the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other people are failing, and then we…
Daily Devotional – Maintaining the Proper Relationship
Maintaining the Proper Relationship – From Utmost.org March 25, 2016 …the friend of the bridegroom… —John 3:29 Goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing others to Him, it is not the right kind of holiness; it is only an influence which awakens undue emotions and evil desires in people and diverts them from heading in the right direction.…
Daily Devotional – The Servant’s Primary Goal
The Servant’s Primary Goal – From Utmost.org March 17, 2016 We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2 Corinthians 5:9 “We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first priority to win souls, or to establish churches, or to have revivals, but seeking only “to be well…
Daily Devotional – Being an Example of His Message
Being an Example of His Message – From Utmost.org March 10, 2016 Preach the word! —2 Timothy 4:2 We are not saved only to be instruments for God, but to be His sons and daughters. He does not turn us into spiritual agents but into spiritual messengers, and the message must be a part of us. The Son of God was His own message— “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). As…
Daily Devotional – His Commision to Us
His Commission to Us from Utmost.org March 3, 2016 Feed My sheep. —John 21:17 This is love in the making. The love of God is not created— it is His nature. When we receive the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit, He unites us with God so that His love is demonstrated in us. The goal of the indwelling Holy Spirit is not just to unite us with God, but to do it in such a way that we…
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