08/06 Ephesians 2:8-9
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
GIFT
Your salvation is a gift from God. He was looking for you. You were never hunting for Him. His love is amazing and like nothing else you will ever know. Jesus loves you.
08/05 1 Corinthians 2:5
1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
WORLD
The World is lost and does not know God. The World does everything in its power to stamp out the things of God. Only God can do those things that give us knowledge of Him and guide us to Him. He is always good and always just- the World is not.
08/04 Mark 11:22-24
22 Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. 23 I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. 24 I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.
FAITH
I believe in Jesus-his birth, death and resurrection; his provision for my salvation and his assurance of my salvation. I believe in the Lord and His promises to me. I live my life with that in mind knowing that all of the promises of God’s Word and living with confidence that the Lord loves me and will guide me throughout my life and one day face to face with Him.
08/03 Romans 10:17
17 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
LISTEN
Listen. The Lord is speaking to you. Read the Word. Talk with Jesus. Listen as He talks to you. The Lord is faithful, and He will guide you in the way you should go.
08/02 Matthew 21:22
22 You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.”
TRUTH
This is truth straight from the Lord. Talk with Jesus. Ask Him anything and He will discuss it with you. Jesus will answer you and He will deliver as He says He will. Trust in the Lord, obey Him and He will do it.
08/01 Hebrews 11:1
1 Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
KNOW
When we know in our heart that the promises of the Lord are true we are on our own personal journey of faith. Be strong in the Lord. Listen to Him as He guides you.
July 31 Psalm 43:3-5
3 Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live. 4 There I will go to the altar of God, to God—the source of all my joy. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God! 5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!
REJOICE
We are encouraged to rejoice in the Lord Jesus. He is our peace. He is our joy. Praise the Lord with all that is in me and in all things sing His praises. The Lord is good and worthy of all honor and glory and praise. Praise the name of the Lord.
July 30 Colossians 1:28
28 So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.
TEACH
We are called to teach Jesus Christ to all. We tell them what HE has done for us. We explain our faith and hope. We live out our confidence in Jesus victoriously. He is alive and He is alive in us.
July 29 Colossians 1:22
22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
CURED
Jesus has cured us of our sin sickness. Once we were dead in our sin and trespasses and now we are alive in Christ Jesus. Jesus is Lord.
July 28 Colossians 1:19-20
19 For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, 20 and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
PEACE
Peace is available in Jesus. We need peace. We are often desperately looking for peace. Jesus is our peace.
