DAILY DEVOTION
Day 280: The God Who Is Near
When the Lord takes up residence in us, he brings with him all his power and resources. Suddenly, our inner man has access to God’s strength, wisdom, truth, peace, everything we need to live in victory. We don’t have to cry out to him to come down to us from heaven....
Day 279: Where Does God Dwell?
After Jesus was taken up to heaven, the apostle John received a magnificent vision of glory. He said, “I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God...
Day 278: The Promised Possession of God’s People
In a confusing and contradictory-seeming passage, God gave the Old Testament patriarch Abraham the land of Canaan “for an everlasting possession” (Genesis 17:8, NKJV). You might think while reading this, “How could God promise Abraham’s descendants a permanent...
Day 277: Where Are The Timothy’s?
It was to the Philippian Christians that Paul first introduced this truth, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5, NKJV). Paul wrote this message to them while he was imprisoned in Rome, declaring that he had the mind of Christ and...
Day 276: Wrestling With the Flesh
As followers of Christ, we are to take God at his word and accept as true what he says about us. This means our ‘old man’ represents someone who still seeks to be seen as right before God because of his own works. Such a man’s conscience continually brings him under...