If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31
Note to self.
Romans 8:31
Note to self.
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Becoming a Christian is the most incredible event that will ever take place in your life. God knows your every thought, your every care, and your deepest concerns. Let’s look at some of those possible concerns.
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At that time, if anyone says to you, look, here is the Christ, or there he is, do not believe it.
Matthew 24:23
Matthew 24:23
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Dear Christian, remember these truths when you face a trial:
• God is still on his throne
• He loves you with an everlasting love
• This pain is only temporary
• He's using this to make you more like Jesus
• God is still on his throne
• He loves you with an everlasting love
• This pain is only temporary
• He's using this to make you more like Jesus
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Jesus Christ is the main character of the Bible. Not humanity.
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March closing prayer to speak over your marriage:
“Father, thank You for every trial, every grace, every ordinary day.
Make our marriage fiercer in love, stronger in faith, brighter in witness.
Let it terrify hell and delight heaven.”
2 Cor 3:18
Will you pray this (or your own version) together before April starts?
#StrongMarriage #March
@StudyBibleFam
“Father, thank You for every trial, every grace, every ordinary day.
Make our marriage fiercer in love, stronger in faith, brighter in witness.
Let it terrify hell and delight heaven.”
2 Cor 3:18
Will you pray this (or your own version) together before April starts?
#StrongMarriage #March
@StudyBibleFam
It's Saturday, and the King of kings and Lord of lords is still on His throne.
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“There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.”—Charles Spurgeon
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If you don't know the Word of God well, you don't know the God of the Word well.
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Christian, your identity isn't in your job or your bank account. You are a child of the King!
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True knowledge of God crushes our pride and produces genuine humility.
March 27: Tongues, Prophecy, and the Thing We Call Love
#Devotional
Numbers 31:1–54; 1 Corinthians 14:1–25; Psalm 26:1–12
Nearly anything good can become unproductive if it’s abused or misused. Paul is all about embracing the side of spirituality that can seem a bit wacky to us today—gifts of tongues and prophecy, to name a few. But he is fully aware of the problems that can come from these gifts being used in a way that doesn’t fit within God’s will. And Paul’s primary concern is that spiritual gifts are used only within the bounds of love.
Love is what it’s all about. “Pursue love, and strive for spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries” (1 Cor 14:1–2). By tongues, Paul is likely referencing the “tongues of angels”—some angelic language (1 Cor 13:1)—although elsewhere the term is used in reference to people speaking in a language they don’t actually know for the sake of ministering to others in their native tongue (Acts 2:3–4).
Love—as manifested in Christ’s death and resurrection and in our living sacrificially for Him and others—is central, and spiritual gifts should support that cause.
Paul goes on to say: “Now I want you all to speak with tongues, but even more that you may prophesy.… But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, how do I benefit you, unless I speak to you either with a revelation or with knowledge or with a prophecy or with a teaching?” (1 Cor 14:5–6).
Spiritual gifts are meant to indwell believers. Christians are meant to be driven by God’s Spirit in His name. But none of it matters if it’s not for the purpose of showing Christ’s love.
What gifts do you resist using? How can you use the spiritual gifts God has given you to show love to others, and how can you correct your use of them if you’re not currently using them for this purpose?
#Devotional
Numbers 31:1–54; 1 Corinthians 14:1–25; Psalm 26:1–12
Nearly anything good can become unproductive if it’s abused or misused. Paul is all about embracing the side of spirituality that can seem a bit wacky to us today—gifts of tongues and prophecy, to name a few. But he is fully aware of the problems that can come from these gifts being used in a way that doesn’t fit within God’s will. And Paul’s primary concern is that spiritual gifts are used only within the bounds of love.
Love is what it’s all about. “Pursue love, and strive for spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries” (1 Cor 14:1–2). By tongues, Paul is likely referencing the “tongues of angels”—some angelic language (1 Cor 13:1)—although elsewhere the term is used in reference to people speaking in a language they don’t actually know for the sake of ministering to others in their native tongue (Acts 2:3–4).
Love—as manifested in Christ’s death and resurrection and in our living sacrificially for Him and others—is central, and spiritual gifts should support that cause.
Paul goes on to say: “Now I want you all to speak with tongues, but even more that you may prophesy.… But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, how do I benefit you, unless I speak to you either with a revelation or with knowledge or with a prophecy or with a teaching?” (1 Cor 14:5–6).
Spiritual gifts are meant to indwell believers. Christians are meant to be driven by God’s Spirit in His name. But none of it matters if it’s not for the purpose of showing Christ’s love.
What gifts do you resist using? How can you use the spiritual gifts God has given you to show love to others, and how can you correct your use of them if you’re not currently using them for this purpose?
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March 27 - True Salt and Light Are Pure
#LifeOfChrist
“‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house’” (Matthew 5:13–15).
With great responsibility, there is often great danger. We can’t be an influence for purity in the world if we have compromised our own purity. We can’t sting the world’s conscience if we continually go against our own. We can’t be used of God to retard the corruption of sin in the world if our lives become corrupted by sin. To lose our saltiness is not to lose our salvation, but we will lose our effectiveness.
Light, too, is in danger of becoming useless. Like salt, it can’t lose its essential nature. A hidden light is still light, but it is useless light. That’s why people do not “light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.” A light that is hidden under a basket can’t even be used to read by; it helps neither the person who hides it nor anyone else.
Don’t hide your light for fear of offending others, whether out of indifference or lovelessness or any other reason. If you do, you demonstrate unfaithfulness to the Lord.
Ask Yourself
The demands of purity call for more than merely the eradication of sin and shameful habits, but also for replacing impurity with active, living, breathing righteousness. What are some specific acts of obedience and service to which God is calling you at this hour, in this generation?
#LifeOfChrist
“‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house’” (Matthew 5:13–15).
With great responsibility, there is often great danger. We can’t be an influence for purity in the world if we have compromised our own purity. We can’t sting the world’s conscience if we continually go against our own. We can’t be used of God to retard the corruption of sin in the world if our lives become corrupted by sin. To lose our saltiness is not to lose our salvation, but we will lose our effectiveness.
Light, too, is in danger of becoming useless. Like salt, it can’t lose its essential nature. A hidden light is still light, but it is useless light. That’s why people do not “light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.” A light that is hidden under a basket can’t even be used to read by; it helps neither the person who hides it nor anyone else.
Don’t hide your light for fear of offending others, whether out of indifference or lovelessness or any other reason. If you do, you demonstrate unfaithfulness to the Lord.
Ask Yourself
The demands of purity call for more than merely the eradication of sin and shameful habits, but also for replacing impurity with active, living, breathing righteousness. What are some specific acts of obedience and service to which God is calling you at this hour, in this generation?
We are living in prophetic times, the final chapters of history, and nothing can thwart the coming kingdom of Christ.
God's grace is more than enough for your deepest pain. He's the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. Lean on him when you feel like you can't go on.
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If you want a word from God, read your Bible.
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