Category: Devotional
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Day 21: Protecting Your Church – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: It is my responsibility to protect the unity of my church. Verse to Remember: “Let us consider the things which make for harmony and the growth of our fellowship together.” — Romans 14:9 (Ph) Question to Consider: What am…
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Day 20: Restoring Broken Fellowship – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: Relationships are always worth restoring. Verse to Remember: “Do everything possible on your part to live in peace with everybody.” — Romans 12:18 (TEV) Question to Consider: Who do I need to restore a broken relationship with today? [Read…
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Day 19: Cultivating Community – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: Community requires commitment. Verse to Remember: “We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers.” — I John 3:16 (GWT) Question to Consider:…
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Day 18: Experiencing Life Together – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: I need others in my life. Verse to Remember: “Share each other’s troubles and problems, and in this way obey the law of Christ.” — Galatians 6:2 (NLT) Question to Consider: What one step can I take today to…
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Day 17: Formed for God’s Family – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: I am called to belong, not just to believe. Verse to Remember: “So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” — Romans 12:5 (NIV) Question to Consider: Does my…
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Day 16: What Matters Most – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Point to Ponder: Life is all about love. Verse to Remember: “The entire law is summed up in a single command, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ‘” — Galatians 5:14 (NIV) Question to Consider: Honestly, are relationships my first priority? How can…
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Day 15: Formed for God’s Family – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
“The Trinity is God’s relationship to himself. It’s the perfect pattern for relational harmony, and we should study its implications.”
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Day 14: When God Seems Distant – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
When the chips are down, and everything within us screams that there is no God, who will we believe?
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Day 13: Worship That Pleases God – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
I think I agree with the general premise that worship (as in singing) can often become a rut, rather than a genuine expression of — and vehicle for — transformation.
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Day 12: Developing Your Friendship With God – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Time may scab all wounds, but it doesn’t heal them.
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Day 11: Becoming Best Friends With God – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
I wonder if my challenge in this chapter is not so much friendship with God, but the very idea of friendship. In some ways, friendship is the most fragile of relationships, with the lowest barriers to exit.
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Day 10: The Heart of Worship – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Only surrender grounded in relationship — the knowledge that we are surrendering to God’s desire for us as ourselves — can save us from burnout and legalism.
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Day 9: What Makes God Smile? – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
God is only happy when I find my happiness (and purpose) in Him.
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Day 8: Planned for God’s Pleasure – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Bringing pleasure to God is called “worship.”
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Christ is Our Life by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Today’s devotional from Spurgeon: Can you honestly say that for you to live is Christ? Your business–are you doing it for Christ? Is it not done for self-aggrandizement and for family advantage? Do you ask, “Is that a mean reason?” For the Christian it is. He professes to live for…
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Day 7: The Reason for Everything – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
The genius of Rick’s approach is that the organizing principle is not merely “worship” (which, in practice, comes to mean “singing”), but the glory of God.
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Day 6: Life is a Temporary Assignment – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
Seek happiness from earth, and your life will become hell / But seek happiness from heaven, and you’ll get the earth as well
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Day 5: Seeing Life from God’s View – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
What on Earth Am I Here For? Point to Ponder: Life is a test and a trust. Verse to Remember: “Unless you are faithful in small matters, you won’t be faithful in large ones.” — Luke 16:10a (NLT) Question to Consider: In spite of all the advertising around me, how…
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Day 4: Made to Last Forever – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
What on Earth Am I Here For? Point to Ponder: There is more to life than just here and now. Verse to Remember: “This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.” — I John 2:17 (NLT)…
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Day 3: What Drives Your Life? – 40 Days of Purpose-Driven Life
What on Earth Am I Here For? Point to Ponder: Living on purpose is the path to peace. Verse to Remember: “You, LORD, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.” — Isaiah 26:3 (TEV) Question to Consider: What would my family…
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