“And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.” -- Ephesians 6:10-12
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“But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant.” Mark 10: 43
The world needs more people who are looking to help others, and we need less people trying to dominate others by putting them down. Lord, help me be part of the solution by helping others. “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand. I pant with expectation, longing for your commands.” Psalm 119:130-131
God is providing us with the instructions but it is up to us to read them. Lord, help me to read the Bible so that I know what you want to say to me today. “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.” 1 Corinthians 10:31
This verse makes a very obvious point but unfortunately, most of us miss it. We shouldn't read this verse as "do everything THAT YOU WANT TO DO for God's glory". We should read it as "do everything for God's glory BECAUSE HIS GLORY MATTERS MORE THAN WHAT YOU WANT TO SELFISHLY DO". We shouldn't be turning our own desires into "God's glory". We should should find out what God finds to be glorious and to those things. Lord, help me to emphasize you more and me less. “Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson.” Proverbs 24:32
Thinking is good. Sometimes we need to stop and think. Lord, help me to avoid talking or doing too much before listening and thinking. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, ..." Hebrews 12:1-2
Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Angry? Burdened? God's advice is to lay aside and look to Jesus. Lord, help me lay aside the things that trouble me and look to Jesus. “When Jesus heard this, he told them, 'Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.'” Mark 2:17
If there is anything we should know about ourselves, it is that we are sinners and that we need a Savior! Lord, thank you for coming for me and for saving me from myself. "The LORD came and stood there, calling as at the other times, 'Samuel! Samuel!' Then Samuel said, 'Speak, for your servant is listening.'" 1 Samuel 3:10
We spend too much time talking and worrying and being scared. We spend too little time listening and acting on what we hear and then having hope. Lord, help me to listen. "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14
You can't do anything about yesterday so you may as well do something about today and tomorrow. Lord, thank you that I always have hope in the fact that I can always press on and press forward! |
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