Devotional
NEVER-CHANGING TRUTH
The entirety of Your Word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
Psalm 119:160
People who lie have a problem: trying to remember what they have said to whom, or what version of the truth they last conveyed. It has often been said that the greatest advantage to telling the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you have said: the version of the story you told ten years ago is the same one you tell today.
The Bible is the repository of the truth God has delivered to humankind—and it is truth that never changes. The same truth that God delivered in the Old Testament is the truth we find in the New Testament. For instance, nine of the Ten Commandments given to Israel are repeated as commands for the church (meeting on the Sabbath being the exception; however, the writer of Hebrews tells us we’re not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together). When it comes to practical and holy living, the same solutions God gave saints of old work in the lives of today’s Christian believers. Because God’s Word (whether spoken or written) is settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89), we need never wonder what God says about life’s most important questions.
When seeking guidance from God in prayer, it does no good to ask if He has changed His mind on a moral question. God’s truth is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me.
MARTIN LUTHER[1]
[1] David Jeremiah, Turning Points with God: 365 Daily Devotions (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum, 2014), 163.
Pray This Prayer Until Resurrection Sunday Everyday
I pray Father in heaven thank you “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give me the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of my heart enlightened, that I may know what is the hope to which he has called me, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in me, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward me which I believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.”
Ephesians 1:17-23 ESV as my daily prayer.
“For this reason I pray before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant me to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith—that I, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
In Jesus Name Amen
Ephesians 3:14-19 ESV
Vision
To develop people with the Word of God making them more like Christ.
To tear down the walls of misinformation in people lives, which will cause a change in their life and affect the people around them.
To create an environment of worship for all people.
To see God’s people live an overcoming abundant life.
Faith
Faith is a spiritual principle that taps into the creative power of God made available through man, so that man can transform conditions, circumstances and situations in the natural realm over which he has been given authority.
Great Commission
The most important missional conversation, the most compelling, the most invigorating, missional conversation, the one that our Lord Jesus Christ is the most interested in, is the missional conversation that you and I will have with those who don't know Him yet those who are lost, those who are last, those who are least, and those who are lonely.
Dedication
To love and serve the Lord with all of your heart, mind, strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
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