Month: February 2020

God’s Word gives joy and insight for life.  The commands God gives are perfect.  We saw that in Psalm 119.  When we choose to live God’s ways, we see firsthand how wonderful His laws are.  I fear that we are losing the blessing of living God’s ways.  When we follow God, we will have joy and wisdom.  Does that show in your life?

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for the joy and insight that You give so freely.  Please help me to follow Your ways and encourage others to do the same.

I pray this in Jesus’ name.

God is so good.

Biblical love can be challenging.  We face many things that cause us to want to withhold love from others.  However, obedience to the truth of God’s word should produce a Biblical love that comes from a pure heart.  How do we have a pure heart?  By reading and studying God’s word and asking Him to “create in me a clean heart” (Psalm 51:10).

Dear Heavenly Father, please show me what gets in the way of having a clean heart.  I want to know and love You more so I can love others from a pure heart.

I pray this in Jesus’ name.

God is so good.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

This is one of the passages of the Bible where we need to apply the “me first” principle.  I pray that you have many opportunities to live this.

Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to share Your love with others.  I know there is no purpose in life more worthwhile.  Please help me to live a God honoring life so others want to know You and become more like You each day.

I pray this in Jesus’ name.

God is so good.

The Lord is near to all who call on Him,
    to all who call on Him in truth.

Psalm 145:18

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that You are truth so I can call on You in truth.  Please remove the lies from my life so I can reflect the truth of who You are.  May others want to know You by seeing my life.  I need Your help. Thank You for all You have done and all You will do.

I pray this in Jesus’ name.

God is so good.

Taking Time

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 

John 15:4 ESV

God frequently tells us that we should grow in our spiritual walk.  John 15 gives us the words of Jesus, God’s Son.  We need to spend time learning about Jesus.  The best way to do that is to read God’s Word and spend time talking to Him.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for giving us Jesus’ words in the Bible. Please help me to spend time learning about You and growing in my spiritual walk.

I pray this in Jesus’ Name.

God is so good.