Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Hope for Haiti +

    In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Read More
  • Give My Soul Rest: the movie Avatar +

    Avatar, the 2009 movie by James Cameron, raised as much discussion and controversy through its piecemeal use of Native American, Read More
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SylviaListen to the blessing in Philemon 25 ."The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." "How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!" (Heb 12:9).

Listen to Zechariah 12:1. "The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundations of the earth... forms the spirit of man within him..." God said in Ezekiel 36:26, "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you."

Understand that your Creator, your heavenly Father, created and formed your spirit. The very essence of who you are was placed deep within your spirit. There you carry the DNA of your heavenly Father. Be blessed with a lifestyle and lifetime of discovering the character and nature of your Father and Christ in you, the hope of glory. In discovering who God is, you uncover and awaken your spirit to who you are in him. Be blessed with the good gift of God of an undivided heart, right desires, and a new spirit. Be blessed with singleness and tenderness of heart to obey God as one who is truly his (Eze 11:19, 18:31, 36:26).

Beloved child, you distinguish yourself from those of this world because of the excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding your Father has placed within you (Dan 5:12, 6:3). It is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives you understanding (Job 32:8). Be blessed with wholeheartedness and loyalty to your Father in your spirit, so that all his good promises of blessings can be yours and you will have a full, rich spiritual inheritance (Num 14:24). Renew your spirit in the Lord (Eph 4:23). Be blessed with being an example to the others in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity (1 Tim 4:12 NKJV).

Be blessed with realizing your need for God, for he promises that the kingdom of heaven will be given to you (Mat 5:3). Be steadfast and fixed upon God (Ps 51:10).

Be blessed with the presence of the Holy Spirit who restores to you the joy of your salvation and makes you willing to live consistently in obedience to him and in harmony with him (Ps 51:12). Be blessed with commitment to guard your spirit to keep godly covenants with family members (Mal 2:15-16).

Be blessed with a spirit in whom there is no deceit (Ps 32:2). Totally commit your spirit to the God of truth (Ps. 31:5.) Be blessed with the inner unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight (1 Peter 3:4). Become strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God (Luke 2:40 NKJV). You are blessed in the name of the Father of your spirit (Heb 12:9).

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • River of Love

    There's a river of love that runs through all timeBut there's a river of grief that floods through our livesIt Read More
  • I Am Nothing

    I stutter when I tryTo speak the language of lifeI want to shout out loudBut I just cry insideSometimes it Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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