He Is God

TODAY’S VERSE
Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?”
Matthew 16:15 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
Who do you think Jesus is? Jesus asked this crucial question to His disciples. It is a question that we, too, must answer. The answer is life-changing. What we think about God helps define the relationship we have with Him. If we believe God is distant and aloof, we will find ourselves distant from Him. If God is harsh and unpredictable, then we will have a relationship based on fear and anxiety. But what if God is precisely the way Jesus exhibited Him? What if the Prodigal’s father was an accurate representative of the forgiveness and love of God? What if all that Paul writes about our God of faithfulness, mercy, and grace is true? Couldn’t that change our life if we believed it? Yes, it would. Jesus is indeed God in the flesh. His love, sacrifice, and tender mercy toward those in need are the exact images of His Father. Today, come to the God that Jesus revealed. Acknowledge that He is the loving, caring, holy, just, faithful, almighty, all-knowing, and all-powerful God and live for Him.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, help me to know You as You really are. Reveal Yourself to me so I can love, worship, and honor You with my life. Forgive me for all my misconceptions. Help me to know You in all Your beauty, love, and holiness.
AMEN

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Spiritual Wisdom And Understanding

TODAY’S VERSE
We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Colossians 1:9 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
How different would our life be if we sought after and acquired the complete knowledge of God’s will for our life? But would that be enough? How many times have we known God’s will yet sat helpless to do anything about it? Jesus said to love our enemies. How easy is that? Perhaps that is why Paul also prayed that God would give us spiritual wisdom and understanding. If a complete knowledge of God’s will is the destination, then spiritual wisdom and understanding are the road map. It is how we get there. Today, ask God for His wisdom and understanding regarding His will for your life. He will guide you and direct your path.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, I need Your wisdom and understanding regarding Your will for my life. I get easily distracted, confused, and discouraged. Fill me with Your Spirit and lead my path today. I pray in Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Filled With God’s Knowledge

TODAY’S VERSE
We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
Colossians 1:9-10 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
Being filled with the knowledge of God is crucial to our Christian experience. But how does this happen? How are we filled with the knowledge of God? We gain knowledge as we read His word for understanding and quiet ourselves listening to God. Dallas Willard, in his book Hearing God shares, “So our union with God – His presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished, and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized – consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as His friend and co-laborer in the affairs of the kingdom of Heaven.” This is what Paul is talking about. We listen to God, muse on His word, and practice His presence as we live for Him. When we do, He will give us wisdom and knowledge, the fruit of good works, and all the strength and power we need. Does it get any better than that?

TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear Father, is it true? Can I be filled with your knowledge and wisdom? Can my life bear good works? Can I have Your strength and power in my life? It is what I truly desire. Please help me, Lord, with the discipline I need to spend time listening to You and reading Your word. Help me experience Your presence. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Ask For Wisdom

TODAY’S VERSE
My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands. Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding. Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God. For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:1-6 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
In I Kings the third chapter, God asks Solomon, David’s son and the new King of Israel, “What do you want?” Solomon gives an eloquent response and requests wisdom. God was impressed and blessed Solomon beyond measure. I admire Solomon’s choice. He could have asked for riches, fame, land, skills, athletic ability, or immortality. A myriad of options were his, but he chose wisdom. He knew that with wisdom comes so much more. With wisdom comes knowledge and understanding. It is more precious than hidden treasure. The best news is that God will give it to us freely if we ask for it in faith. What do you need wisdom about today? Is it a relationship, job situation, financial worry, medical choice, or a family issue? God hears your request. Search for wisdom, cry out for insight, seek for it, and God will grant your request. Like James said, “If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you.”

TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear almighty, all-wise God. I need Your wisdom today. I need You to speak to me, show me Your way, and give me Your knowledge and understanding. I want it more than riches, than fame, than success. Thank You that You said if I need wisdom, ask You, and You will give it to me. So Father, I come now, bowing before You, asking for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Thank You for hearing my prayer. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Rejected Wisdom

TODAY’S VERSE
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
James 1:5-8

TODAY’S THOUGHT
There is a bitter truth in today’s verse. The truth is, often, we are just playing spiritual games with God. We come to a crossroads in life where we need to ask for wisdom. We go through the spiritual motion of wanting His wisdom, but as soon as the pressure is off and we think we are in the clear, we choose to go our own way again. Jeremiah puts it this way, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.’ But you reply, ‘No, that’s not the road we want!’” Or, as James suggests, we ask for wisdom, but all the while, we are still hanging on to what we want. We are torn between God and the world. We waver, and our worldly desire usually wins. How can we break this cycle? How can we understand God’s wisdom for our life and then follow it? I believe it happens when we fall down at His feet, tell Him the truth, ask for forgiveness, and then ask Him to direct, guide, and empower us to follow Him. It is by spending time with God, listening to Him, and accepting the guidance of His Holy Spirit. We follow Him one crossroad at a time. We live for Him, one request for wisdom at a time. We start to say “Yes” to Jesus one day at a time. Why not start today?

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, so often, I have good intentions. I want to follow you. I ask for wisdom. I come to the crossroad sincerely to go down the right road, and something happens. I get torn inside and start to doubt. I begin to waver, to be tempted to go another way, and pretty soon, I am far from the wisdom I so desperately sought. Help me, Lord, not to waver but to follow the wisdom you give me. Today, Lord, I choose to follow You. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Fear Not

TODAY’S VERSE
I prayed to the LORD, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened; he saved me from all my troubles. For the angel of the LORD is a guard; he surrounds and defends all who fear him.
Psalm 34:4-7

TODAY’S THOUGHT
How many times a day do you fear something? You get called into the office and are sure you will get fired. Your child is late, and your mind goes crazy with thoughts of what might have happened. Your spouse is in “that” mood again, and you know it will get ugly. The credit card bills come in the mail, and you don’t see how you will pay them. You found a lump and are waiting for the report from the Doctor’s office. Fear can be healthy, as in, “Don’t step in front of traffic.” But fear can also be unhealthy when it is based on false predictions and lies. It started with Adam and Eve and is the same today; most of our spiritual struggles center around a fear-based lie. Much of our spiritual battle is a struggle over truth. Which will we believe? Lie or truth? Our fear or God’s love? David prayed to God, and God freed him from all his fears. The Lord listened and saved him from all his worries, and He will do the same for you. What lie has you bound? What worry keeps you from being still and knowing that He is God? Today, renounce it. Bring it to God. Ask God for the truth and the courage to believe it, and He will free you.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, You know my fears. I bring them to You. Expose any lies or false predictions I believe and reveal to me the truth. Help me, protect me, free me from this bondage of fear. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Speak To Me Lord

TODAY’S VERSE
So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.'” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
I Samuel 3:9 (NIV)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
Have you ever put yourself in Samuel’s position? Have you been to a place where you desire to hear God’s word? God loves and wants to communicate with you. He speaks through His word, the Bible. He also speaks to your heart through the Holy Spirit. In his book Hearing God, Dallas Willard concludes, “Direction will always be made available to the mature disciple if without it serious harm would befall people concerned in the matter or the cause of Christ. If I am right, the obedient, listening heart, mature in the things of God, will in such a case find the voice plain and the message clear, as with the experiences of the friends of God recorded in the Bible. This is a claim that must be tested by experience, and anyone willing to meet the conditions and learn from failures as well as successes can put it to the test.” Today, open your heart to hearing from God. Commit yourself to spend time with God in Bible reading, meditation, and prayer. Build a deep and trusting relationship with Him and ask Him to share His heart with you. Say with Samuel, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” When you come to God in this way, you will hear from Him.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Lord, I give my heart to You and desire to know You better. I desire to hear from You. I long to discern Your direction in my life. I come and say with Samuel, “Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.” In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Quench Your Thirst

TODAY’S VERSE
Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink— even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk— it’s all free! Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food. Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
Isaiah 55:1-3

TODAY’S THOUGHT
There is a thirst deep down inside each of us. Each of us has had droughts in our life that have left our souls parched and wanting. Our defects, upbringings, and life situations have failed to satisfy our dehydrated souls. So we look for an oasis. We search for streams in the desert. We look but fail to find what we thirst for. Why? Because we go everywhere to quench our thirst instead of to the One who can satisfy. The prophet cried out to Israel, “Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink— even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk— it’s all free!” But they refused to come to God. God offered them unfailing love, but they rejected Him. Jesus, hundreds of years later, spoke to a woman at a well about living water. She came looking to fill her bucket, but He offered to fill her soul. Jesus said, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.” That day she opened her heart and accepted God’s living water. At that moment her soul was rejuvenated, and she told her whole town about the transforming power of Christ. The town came and drank for themselves, going back home reborn. What about you? Is your soul thirsty? Have you been drinking from other sources only to be left wanting? Come today to Christ. Come to Him and share your needs. Talk to Him, pour out your heart, bare your soul to Him, and He will quench your deepest thirst. He is the living water and desires to give you life. Hear God call out today, “Come and drink, I will give you fresh living water.”

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, I thirst. My soul is parched. I need Your living water. I come now, mouth wide open ready to drink. Please refresh my soul with Your word. Quench my thirst with Your Holy Spirit. Give me Your living water, and I will be satisfied. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN

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Who Do You Worship?

TODAY’S VERSE
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Psalms 103:8 (NIV)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
Who do you worship? Even amid Old Testament times with war on every side, David knew who Jehovah was. He could stop and worship God because he knew Him as a compassionate and gracious God. A Father that is slow to anger and abounding in love. No wonder God said, “I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart.” Do you know the heart of God as David did? Today you can. Come to Him and worship Him as the God who is compassionate toward you, gracious with you, slow to be angry with you, and abounding in His great love for you.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear Father, I come and worship You with praise and adoration, for You are compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love.
AMEN

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Truth

TODAY’S VERSE
Teach me your ways, O LORD, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
Psalms 86:11 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
It is hard to learn if we are not teachable. Fear, anger, jealousy, depression, doubt, and shame can keep us from believing the truth. Giving in to temptation, selfishness, being materialistic, and being full of pride will keep us from living the truth. David wanted to know the truth. More than know, he wanted to live the truth. Because of his desire, he asked God for the two things he knew would help him accomplish the task. He asked God to be his teacher, and he asked for a pure heart. Today, pray what David prayed and live according to the truth. 

TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear Lord, teach me Your ways that I may live according to Your truth. Grant me a pure heart that I may honor You. In Jesus’ name.
AMEN 

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