Today's Devotions

Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • New Year's Resolution and Jonathan Edwards by Christina Fox +

    You know it's a new year when every commercial on TV is an ad for either gym memberships or diet Read More
  • Forgiving Yourself by Sylvia Gunter +

    You've blown it. You have really messed up this time. You have agreed with God that what you did was Read More
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SylviaSpirit, listen to your Father's heart from His Word in Deuteronomy 30:19.

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your

descendants may live."

Be blessed in the name of the One who is life. Your Father is pleased that Jesus His Son lives in you and His Spirit makes His home in you. Choose the abundant life of Jesus in you. He will never cease living in you. God chose your spirit to be His dwelling place before He created the physical body to place you in. Be blessed to choose life, His life in you. Your life is secure in Him.

God pledges the full faith of His great name to you. His Word says in 1 Samuel 12:22,
"For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was
pleased to make you his own." You have the pleasure of the Lord. He is pleased that you are
His. You belong to Him. You are precious in His sight. You are a divine choice. Celebrate your
chosenness. You are an expression of the embrace of the everlasting love of God. By His
grace, seize your opportunities every day to choose life, to be life, to give life. Choose against
what distracts you, confuses you, and puts in jeopardy the life of the Beloved in you. Choose
to live from the loving heart of your Father.

Spirit, be blessed in the encouragement that comes from being united with Christ.
Receive comfort from His love. Be blessed to choose fellowship with the Spirit. Bask in His
tenderness and compassion. Make His joy complete by receiving His unshakable purpose for
you in your Father (Phil. 2:1). You have not read the final chapter of His plans for you. He has
written a future and a hope for you. In Jeremiah 29:11 God says, "I know the plans I have
for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This
verse was written to people who were exiled and captive in a foreign country for seventy
years. God kept His promise, and they returned to the land He gave them.

The pain you feel is real, your circumstances are what they are, but be blessed with
hope for your future in Him who chose your life. Choose to believe in hope that He who called
you is faithful. It is your choice. Spirit, be blessed with trusting His thoughts and plans for
welfare and peace, for your good and not for evil.

Be blessed in the name of the One who has life in Himself,

and His light is your life (John 1:4).

Reflections to Consider

  • Warfare Spirituality

    The Trinity function as farmers of our souls, actively caring for God’s creation: an ongoing, radical reclamation of His creation. Read More
  • You are free

    The Jesus who calmed a sea of deadly, stormy waves, whose arrival sent thousands of demons cringing and cowering to Read More
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Publications

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Music

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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Best of EM Bounds on Prayer +

    This is a compilation of some of the writings by E.M. Bounds. I've read a fair amount of books on Read More
  • Prayer - Does it Make Any Difference, Philip Yancey +

    Contemporary classic that probes the meaning of prayer for 21st century believers, and provides extended, personal anecdotes from a wide Read More
  • Prayer, Ole Hallesby and Clarence J. Carlsen +

    This is a little known work which has a significant impact on those who read it. Read More
  • From Unceasing Thinking to Unceasing Prayer +

    Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the day or Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Introduction to The Death of Death..by JI Packer +

    INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ___ to John Owen's The Death Of Death in the Death of Christ ___ By J.I. Packer _________ Read More
  • An Interview with Os Guiness on the 25th Anniversary of Francis Schaeffer's Death-Justin Taylor, 2009 +

    Next week (May 15) will be the 25th anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer, who died in his home Read More
  • Fate Worse than Death? Julie Moore +

    Jephthah's unfortunatedaughterMy journey through the Bible, which, I'll admit, sometimes feels like a slog, uncovers some pretty crazy things. Read More
  • DEATH HAS BEEN SWALLOWED UP BY DEATH by Gavin Ortlund +

    Editors' note: This series explores key doctrines of the Christian faith and their practical ramifications for everyday life. Earlier in Read More
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