Category - Devotionals

06/13          Colossians 1:23

23 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it. 

HEAR

As you pray, spend time listening for Jesus to speak.  When He does hear what He says and be encouraged.  The key is to know who is speaking.  Jesus always lifts you up, always leads you in positive directions. If you hear how bad you are and how big a failure you are, ask the Lord to rebuke the evil spirit.  Jesus loves you and always has your best interest at heart. He may say stop but He won’t call you a failure.  You are His precious child.  Hear the Lord as He guides you in the correct path. 

06/12          Colossians 1:21-22

21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 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.

IN

In Christ we are brought near to God and reconnected to His family.  Jesus reconciles us to the Father and to each other.  He is our righteousness.  He makes us holy and perfect.  Come Lord Jesus!

06/11          Colossians 1:18-20

18 Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything. 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

Jesus is our peace. Christ made peace with everything and He lives in us today filling us, our life and our heart with His peace. Christ is number one in everything. He is our focus and our core. Jesus is Lord. 

06/10          Colossians 1:17

17 He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. 

TOTAL

Jesus is the total sum of all that we need to live and work and be.  He loves us and brings us into the family of God.  Jesus is God.  Thank you Lord for revealing yourself to us and telling us about who you are.  Jesus you are our everything. 

06/09          Colossians 1:15-16

15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, 16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. 

EVERYTHING

Jesus is GOD’S everything. He is and was and will be.  He is the Creator, Sustainer, Equipper, and Focus of mankind.  Jesus is Lord.  He is who saves us from our sin.  We can see Him and know Him in a way that would be impossible for us to see and know God. The Son brings sun into our life. He is the light. 

06/08          Colossians 1:13-14

13 For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, 14 who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.

BOUGHT

We are bought with a price – the precious blood of Jesus Christ.  He purchased our freedom and redeemed us from the spiritual powers of wickedness and evil.  We belong to Him.  Once we walked in death now we walk in life.  Once we could not see and now we stand in His light and can see clearly. Jesus forgave our sin and shares His righteousness with us so we can come into the presence of the Father and will be filled with the Holy Spirit who will guide us into all understanding.

06/07          Colossians 1:11-12

11 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, 12 always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. 

FILLED

We spend time with Jesus, we read God’s Word and we grow in Christ.  As we grow in Christ we are equipped to deal with our fears and anxieties. He will fill us with His peace, He will fill us to overflowing with His joy and we will not fear the present or future. We will be able to stand in the hour of temptation and focus on what Jesus is telling us.  Obey Him.  Spend time with Him.  Get to know Him better and your life will be a constant overflowing of His love and concern for those around you.  He will use you as His hands and feet.  Jesus is Lord. 

06/06          Colossians 1:9-10

9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. 

PRAY

Pray for each other.  Pray for the lost.  Pray for the sick and infirm.  Pray for the poor.  We are to pray for everyone we know and by doing this we are intimately involved in the spiritual well-being of the world and we ourselves are growing in Christ as we know Him and know Him better. 

06/05          Colossians 1:8

8 He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you. 

DIFFERENT

We are children of God and as such we belong to Jesus, live our lives focused on Jesus and are committed to loving one another.  Not just those who are loveable but in fact and especially the unlovable.  We are our brothers and sisters keeper. 

06/04          Colossians 1:7

7You learned about the Good News from Epaphras, our beloved co-worker. He is Christ’s faithful servant, and he is helping us on your behalf. 

SHARING

Sharing the Good News is something we all can do.  We simply tell others what Jesus has done in our life. When we focus on Christ and live as He calls us to live others will ask us how we can live the kind of life we are living.  The world is a place of darkness and failure whereas in Christ we live in a world of light that is filled with hope and peace.  Jesus is Lord.