Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • 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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SylviaListen with your spirit to the Word of God in Deuteronomy 33:25b. "Your strength will equal your days." and 2 Corinthians 13:4 "Jesus was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you."

Beloved one, by your Father's strength you have life. I bless you with strength in your spirit for each day. Wake up every morning knowing that the living God is sustaining, strengthening, and renewing your spirit, soul, and body for the opportunities and problems that he sets before you. Your Father's power provides everything you need each day for being who you are called to be and doing acts of obedience to him that he appoints for you to do. In him you have inner quiet, security, and strength for each day. Be assured of his help and presence in all the majesty of his glorious detail with which he has ordained your days. You can have a constant and growing sense of his presence with you for his purposes and his pleasure.

By your Father's promise you have life. "My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life" (Psalm 119:50). Your Father renews you with his promises. Think about the many times that he has been with you, has loved you, has taken care of you, has blessed you. Hold on to promises that he is making to you from his Word and by his Spirit. His words are your very life. Your faithful Father is watching over his purposes that await a future time for fulfillment. Enjoy life and be renewed, refreshed, and restored in your relationship with God and his faithfulness expressed in his Word.

Your Father has life, and he has given his Son life in himself. You have the life of your Father and of his Son living in you to know him better and love him more. You are alive, well, awake, and fully present to life today by the power of his Holy Spirit.

By the power of the Living One you have life. The Living One lives in you as your life for each day. His life lights your way, your relationships, your time, your decisions. Meet him daily spirit-to-Spirit. Do nothing by mere human effort. Be energized with the life of eternity upon all that you are, and think, and do.
I bless you in the name of Jesus who is your life.

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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