Day 16 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but …
Monthly Archives: September 2022
22300.017 Jesus’ New Command
Day 17 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (John 13:34) Two years had passed since I’d prayed on my friend’s living room carpet: “God, fix what is wrong with me. I want to love. Whatever it takes.” In …
22300.018 Born to Be Loved
Day 18 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us. (1 John 4:10) We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19) We are born to be loved. The soul of each and every one of us carries this foundational need. If we dig down deep enough …
22300.019 God, Know My Heart
Day 19 Search me, O God and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23–24) “Search me.” “Know my heart.” “Try me.” “Lead me.” This is David’s cry. He is asking for God to shine …
22300.020 Your Spirit, Soul, and Body
Day 20 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23–24) God designed us in His image. He wants us to …
22300.021 Jesus in the Last Garden
Day 21 Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane…and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death, stay here and watch with Me.” He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if …
22300.022 Law and Love
Day 22 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder.” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all …
22300.023 Faith and Love
Day 23 The grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2:14) Throughout the New Testament faith and love are repeatedly spoken of together. Both are vitally important and inseparable. In his letters, Paul thanks God for these two “exceedingly abundant” expressions of the grace …
22300.024 John’s Identity: “The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved”
Day 24 Then Peter, turning around, saw [John] the disciple whom Jesus loved. (John 21:20) If somebody asked you, “Who are you?” what would you say? How would you describe yourself? You might answer by talking about your job, your possessions, your children, the color of your skin, or your country of origin. You might …
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22300.025 In Christ, Nothing Can Separate You from God’s Love
Day 25 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other …
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