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6 Devotionals on What Our Prayers Are To Include #3: Giving Thanksgiving (2 Corinthians 9:6 – 15) “Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15) When we pray, we should thank God for His many blessings in our life. But we shouldn’t just thank God for what He gives to us; we should also thank God for blessing us so we can bless others. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 9:6 – 15 the benefits and byproducts of…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life Day 2: Repent Today’s Scripture passage: Mark 1:1 – 8 The gospel of Mark wastes no time in getting right to the point. In the first 8 verses, we are told of John the Baptist and what his role was: to prepare the way for Jesus. And how did he do this? By preaching repentance of one’s sins and baptizing. We won’t get into baptism with this…

6 Devotionals On What Our Prayers Are To Include #1 Ready, Set, Go! I Chronicles 29:11 – 14: “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life Step 4: Through Prayer, Receive Jesus into Your Heart and Life There is a comedy group that I’ve seen perform at many conferences I’ve attended, called “The Skit Guys.” They have a way of making you laugh while at the same time using their skits to get across a biblically-meaningful point. One of their recurring skits is “Little Billy.” In this skit, one of the guys pretends…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life #3: Believe that Jesus Christ Died for You on the Cross Jesus Just Loves You to Death “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. My sins my own. They belong to me, me” (Patti Smith, “Gloria”). In her famous, controversial song, Patti Smith told a half-truth. Her sins were hers, but Jesus did die for those sins. Believing that Jesus Christ died for your sins is…

6 Devotionals on What Our Prayers Are To Include #2: Confession “When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!” (Psalm 119:26, ESV). This old Scottish proverb seems applicable: “Open confession is good for the soul.” Police detectives can spend hours attempting to obtain a confession from a suspect. Dad wants a confession on who scratched his car. God wants us to confess our sins daily to stay in a right relationship with Him! That’s it, folks.…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life | Step 1: Admit Your Spiritual Need (Romans 10:9) Admit: confess to be true or to be the case, typically with reluctance.1 I have not met many people that did not recognize a spiritual need in their life. It’s very rare that a person will not recognize their need for God, and in most instances, they are on a pursuit for truth in a quest to find…

“God Is Omnipresent” Series| Heaven Can’t Contain God | October 5, 2020 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!” (1 Kings 8:27) The Mosaic Covenant The Mosaic Covenant was a promise by God to the nation of Israel that the Israeli nation agreed to. It is found in Exodus 19:3 – 8: Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD…

Hide and Seek (Jeremiah 23:23 – 24) “Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 23:23 – 24). Do you remember playing hide-and-seek as a child? Would you think before hiding or did you just run and as you were running, look for a…

Four Reasons to Trust in God | He Knows What He Is Doing Proverbs 3:5 – 6 My oldest daughter is at the stage where she loves to help me with projects. She practically jumps at any opportunity to be my assistant. The problem is that my daughter is also at the stage where she thinks she knows everything. Recently, we were putting together a bed frame and the bed frame used bolts to hold it together. My daughter knew…