Category - Devotionals

1/20            JOHN 15:12-15

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

DIRECTIVE

Jesus’ directive to us is to love one another. 

His call is to serve and care for each other.

His expectation is that we lay down our lives for our friends. 

This is a big command, that is ignored by most to their peril. 

We reap what we sow. 

Be careful to love like Jesus loves. 

1/19            1 THESSALONIANS 5:11

11 So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

PEOPLE

People count.

People count with God.

Jesus died for people.

We must learn to love one another. 

1/18            PROVERBS 17:9

9 Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.

LOVE

Love forgives.

Love heals.

Hate separates.

Hate causes the hater to lose.

Love one another.

1/17            1 PETER 4:8-10

8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.

9 Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.

10 God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.

LOVE

We are called to love each other.

The Father loves us.

Jesus loves us.

The love of God resides in us in the Holy Spirit.

He calls us to love others as He loves us. 

1/16            ISAIAH 40:31

31 But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

TRUST

Trust in Jesus for your salvation. 

He will strengthen you and deliver you. 

Your life will have great value. 

You will get to the end at exactly the right time. 

1/15            ISAIAH 54:1-5

1 “Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman,” says the LORD.

2 “Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords And strengthen your pegs.

3 “For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities.

4 “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

5 “For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.

THE WORD

God speaks through His Word. 

Do not fear.

Talk with Him. 

He will talk with you. 

1/14            MICAH 7:7

7 As for me, I look to the LORD for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.

CALL

We call upon the Lord.

He always hears us.

We trust His character and the fact that He is with us.

We can talk with Him about anything and know He hears us. 

I live my life with the knowledge that He has saved me.

He will deliver me.

I have nothing to fear, God is near, and He loves me. 

1/13            REVELATION 21:5

5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”

READ

Read the Bible.

It is trustworthy.

It is the Word of God.

If you want to talk with God, read His Word. 

1/12            COLOSSIANS 3:9-10

9 Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.

10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.

BE

We are to BE more like Jesus each day.

Read the red letters in the New Testament.

They bear testimony to what He said.

They will know us by our love for one another.

People count with Jesus. 

1/11            EZEKIEL 11:19

19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,

NEW

The Father will give us a new heart.

We will respond in a different way, led by the Spirit we are His children.

Today is a new day, and I am filled with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is guiding me.

At the end of the day I will go to sleep.

When I wake up, the Lord will begin the new day with me. 

He is always by my side.

Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, use me as you desire.

I am your servant.