God has some extremely exciting things in mind for His children. He knows exactly where He’s taking us. Our job is to obey.
From Isaiah 41:10: “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Our calling is to be faithful in the demanding tasks, whether that is our education, our marriage, our occupation, of just the daily grind of life.
From Isaiah 50:10: “Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
God has some extremely exciting things in mind for His children. He knows exactly where He’s taking us. Our job is to obey.
From Isaiah 41:10: “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Holiness consists of three things: separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ’s image.
From 1 Peter 1:15-16: “Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. Instead, as He who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct, for it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.'”
James H. Aughey (1828-1911) was an American minister. During the Civil War, he was imprisoned and scheduled to be executed for his anti-Secession and pro-Union beliefs. Fortunately, he was able to escape from his Confederate captors and reached the lines of the Union army.
From Acts 5:29: “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than any human authority.'”
Energized through God’s Word
Timeless blessings of grace
Called to journey in faith
Savior’s peace to embrace
Enter body of Christ
Spirit shall never rest
From sunrise to sunrise
Faith overcomes each test
Faithful obedience
Accepting divine will
Glory to God above
Mercy flowing downhill
Faith trusts with confidence
Tomorrow shall brighten
Christ walks ahead of thee
Life’s burdens, He lightens
God’s gift of repentance
Kneel at Calvary’s tree
Forgiveness from above
Savior’s blood sets us free
From Romans 6:4: “Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”
It is a waste of time trying to unscrew the inscrutable workings of God. He honors faith and obedience.
From Acts 5:29: “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than any human authority.'”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God’s arrangements. My job is simply to obey it.
From Joshua 1:9: “I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Obedience . . . is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
From Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “Return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey Him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.”
John Charles (J. C.) Ryle (1816-1900) was an Anglican bishop in the United Kingdom.
From Romans 6:1-2: “What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?”
All have been baptized into Christ
God’s offer of Grace shall abound
Christ suffering death on the Cross
Accepting His way, God’s Word found
Living with God through our Savior
United with Jesus by His death
Walking in goodness of new life
Accepting His way, lasting breath
Escaping life of sin and death
Obedient to God’s commands
Following our righteous Father
Accepting His way, where we stand
Knowing God through His Holy Word
Rescued, no longer slaves to sin
Total devotion to Jesus
Accepting His way, love within
From Romans 6:12-14: “Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.”
Originally published August, 2020.
Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in my life, everyone about me suffers. We “sit together in heavenly places.”
From Romans 14:7-9: “For we do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
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