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10/21/2026

Devotional: Living in the Way - The Sin of Self-Promotion

Scripture: “Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.” Prov 27:2

Reflection: "We can build influence by self-promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving." – Rick Joyner

Nowadays this is counterintuitive, it pushes back against what appears to be the very fabric of our Western culture, especially in the United States. How will I get noticed if I don’t self-promote? How will I get ahead if I don’t tell everyone how great I am at my job? How will I be loved, or get the attention I need? You may feel this way but it is purely fear. Fear has been defined as “false evidence appearing real”. We have to be honest with ourselves as Christians as to why we feel we need to self-promote, or why we are self-promoting.

There are various kinds of fears, fear of not being noticed, of missing out. There is the fear that we will be “left behind”. We may fear we will lose something we have or won’t get something we want. But these fears are all self-centered fears. These fears are born of a distrust of God. God will always provide, and what He provides is what we need, not necessarily what we want. However, what we usually find, if not always, is that what God wants for us, does for us, and provides for us is far better than what we think we want. You don’t need to self-promote, you need to trust God and let Him lift you up.

Questions:
Do you practice self-promotion, why?
Is it okay to self-promote in some situations?
What would your life be like if you avoided self-promotion?
How can you let God lift you up instead of doing it yourself?

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we want to trust you, to put our promotion in your hands, humbly accepting what comes. Lord, this is hard, we are surrounded by a self-promoting world that tells us that is what is good and right. We need your strength to stand up against it. Come Holy Spirit! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

10/14/2026

Devotional: Living in the Way - How to Deny Oneself

Scripture: “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me’.” Matt 16:24

Reflection: “At each stage of [spiritual] growth, more self-denial is required, more painful blows to self, more reckless decision to serve the Lord Christ with consequent abandonment of one’s own life.” – Walter Chantry

Notice in this scripture Jesus does not say to “die to self”, He says to “deny yourself”. In fact the Bible never says to die to self. This idea was a construct put together by theologians over time. While it is true that the idea of the Trinity never directly appears either, there is much stronger evidence for the Trinity than “dying to self”. Paul talks about it but is referring to his constant willingness and constant experience of being in mortal danger for the Gospel’s sake. The call to deny oneself has far reaching spiritual implications, where the idea of dying to ourselves makes no logical or spiritual sense.

God created us as selves, as people with distinct personalities, talents, experiences, etc. God created us, celebrates us, loves us, and has saved us, so we can be forever with Him in Heaven. He wants us there not as non-selves but as perfected versions of ourselves, the people He intended us to be! We are not an Eastern philosophy or faith with the emphasis on some immortal “soup” where everyone and everything becomes one. We are distinct, will remain distinct, will be recognizable to our loved ones in Heaven, will have jobs, responsibilities and a life in eternity with God! I for one am glad I am me, and I hope you are glad to be you!

Questions:
Have you wrestled with the idea of “dying to self”?
Do you think the idea of dying to self is Biblical?
What is the difference between dying to self and denying oneself?
How can you model denying yourself?

Prayer: Father God, your word tells us to deny ourselves. Please Lord give us the strength to deny ourselves to model our lives after your Son Jesus, who humbled Himself and became a servant even unto death! In Jesus’ name, Amen.

10/07/2026

Devotional: Pride with a Capital “P”

Scripture: But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 NKJV

Reflection: “God will have nothing to do with proud persons, he will never dwell with them, he will never keep house with them. He that dwells in the highest heavens, will never dwell in a haughty heart”. – Thomas Brooks

You should want grace, God’s grace, and want all you can get. Grace is God’s loving empowerment, and it is necessary for godly living, for evangelizing, and for making any real difference in this world! Grace is not passive forgiveness or mercy, it is active, alive, enlightening and empowering, it is God’s very power imparted to us! When we are proud, God still wants to empower us but can’t. God isn’t avoiding proud persons because He doesn’t love them or want to have a relationship with them, He is avoiding them because there is no point in trying.

When we are proud we are buying into the idea that we are self-made men and women, that we are self-sufficient, and we are buying into the idea that we don’t need God. In other words, the proud man our women has crowded God out of their lives, and God knows until there is repentance and surrender, they will never open themselves to Him again. Pride turns any person into a self-centered island. We didn’t create ourselves, we don’t sustain ourselves, and we can’t save ourselves. Pride says otherwise. Surrender your pride, humble yourself and turn to Jesus! You can choose humility or you can let life humble you.

Questions:
Is there unrepentant pride in your life?
Will you make the choice today to surrender your pride?
What will it take for you to choose humility rather than pride?
Are you able to help others find and choose humility?

Prayer:
Father God, we have been a proud people at times, but we know in our hearts that all we have and all we are, comes from you. In you we live and move, and have our being. Help us through your Holy Spirit to choose humility, to choose the way of heaven and not the way of the world. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

09/30/2026

Devotional: The Narrow Path

Scripture: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matt 7:13-14 NKJV

Reflection: "Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him." — Rose Philippine Duchesne

You want to find it don’t you? You want to find life! Jesus says that the road which leads to life is narrow. Narrow is defined as: “limited in size or scope”. Merriam-Webster There are a lot of alluring things in life; wealth, health, s*x, power, and on the list goes. Each of these paths is wide, open to anyone, easy to get on and follow, but they all lead to a dead end, they are all part of “the road to perdition”. To follow Jesus, we must follow in His footsteps, we must follow right behind Him. We must walk where, and how He walked. We know this path and follow it by reading the Bible and listening to the Holy Spirit. The experience of eternal life is not found at the end of our lives, it is found in and through Jesus the Christ!

I was told once that life has to be given away to keep it. Few find life, real life, eternal life, because in order to grasp it you have to let go of your own. You must let go of control, of calling the shots, of making all your decisions based on what you want and what you think is best. The only way to find life is to pledge yourself, your whole life to Jesus. Jesus is our Lord and our King, our boss, our director and he calls the shots. A life of service to the King is the only real life and it is the narrow path. The place to start is to admit you are not God, you are not in control, and to surrender your life to Jesus. Ask Him today to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Ask Him to save you and show you the narrow path.

Questions:
Have you asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, why or why not?
Are you on the narrow path, how do you know?
What baggage do you need to let go of to make your journey easier and lighter?
Are you helping anyone along the narrow path, or helping them find it?

Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus, for His Lordship, for His leadership. Jesus help us to follow you on the narrow path, to stay close to you, to walk in your way, and to help others along the same path. Thank you for loving us and leading us. In your Name, Amen.

09/23/2026

Devotional: The Bridge of Faith

Scripture: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. Heb 11:1-2 NKJV

Reflection: "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." — Martin Luther

Faith has substance, and that substance is the evidence of God in our lives! Faith involves so much more than a casual belief in God, it involves a depth of knowing, a deep abiding trust in our Heavenly Father, His only begotten Son Jesus, and His Holy Spirit! Faith is not about wishing something to be true, nor is it hoping something to be true, it is knowing something is true! Faith results from our willingness and ability to interact with the Living God.

As the quote from Martin Luther states, we need and should have the kind of faith we can stake our life on, because we are staking our life, our eternal life, on who Jesus is, and what He offers us. Without faith, Christianity, Jesus, all that we hear at church, and all we read in the Bible is just a theory. Theories don’t change lives, reality, truth, and facts, change lives. Jesus lived, died, and was raised to life. This is either true or it is not. These facts, this person, either has the power to change lives or He does not. You will never know if you only interact with the Bible, with Jesus, intellectually as someone or something to be studied. God’s invitation is to relationship with Him in Jesus through the Holy Spirit. If you haven’t entered into a relationship with Jesus, do so today. Start by telling Jesus you need Him and that you want Him to be Lord of your life!

Questions:
Do you have evidence for your faith, does it have substance?
How would you describe your faith to someone else?
Are you in a relationship with Jesus, or just know about Him?
How can you help others to know Jesus rather than to know about Him?

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we desire a deep abiding faith, a deep abiding relationship with Jesus. Lord, help us through your Holy Spirit to cultivate our relationship with Jesus in such a way that we do not doubt but know that You are Lord and King! In Jesus’ name. Amen.

09/16/2026

Devotional: The Road to Perdition

Scripture: “Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” Heb 10:29 NKJV

Reflection: "We easily enter on the road to perdition when we neglect prayer." — St. Paul of the Cross

We have probably all heard the saying, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. It means it doesn’t matter if we meant well, thought about doing something, or made a mistake. It means what we do matters, what really happened matters. We can say we love Jesus, that He is our Lord, and we can “mean it”. Do we live like we mean it.

Paul is not only addressing non-believers in Hebrews, in fact more likely is he is addressing those that have claimed Christ, are attending church, worshipping together, breaking bread together, praying together etc. Paul is talking to believers, to you and me. Paul is warning us that we could be on the road to perdition, to hell, by our attitudes, by our lack of reverence, and by our dismissive attitude towards, prayer, worship, church, and so on. Our actions and our intentions are both important. What we intend is nothing without action to back it up, but our actions are empty and heretical without the right heart intentions. We must be worshippers in mind, heart, and soul, our faith must lead to and from a proper reverence and loyalty to Jesus!

Questions:
What does your reverence for the Lord look like?
Do you ever take Jesus, your faith, or prayer for granted, why?
How can you be more intentional about the practicing of your faith?
How can you help others to be reverent lovers of Jesus?

Prayer: Lord Jesus help us to never take you for granted, or treat you and your sacrifice as common. Lord keep us from insulting the Holy Spirit. Show us Jesus, what it means to live with reverent loving hearts, to be the people you have desired us to be and lead us to the good works for which we were created! In your Holy Name. Amen

09/09/2026

Devotional: Security in Christ

Scripture: For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:38-39 NKJV

Reflection: “Security in Christ means that ‘your life is secure, for it is hidden with Christ. Your future is secure, for Jesus will always be with you’.” — Alistair Begg

Security means: “freedom from fear or anxiety”. (Merriam - Webster) This does not mean you will never have reason for fear or anxiety, nor does it mean that you won’t at times experience fear or anxiety, it means you don’t need to. Fear has been defined as: “False Evidence Appearing Real” (Anonymous). If you are in Christ Jesus, then you have nothing to fear. You are okay even if you don’t know it or feel it. Not even death can harm you if you are in Christ! For those who do not yet know Jesus as Lord and Savior, the world is a legitimately scary place. Hurts, disappointments, and loss have no hope or joy to counteract them, and death means being eternally lost in Hell, separated forever from love and light and goodness. As believers we should want everyone to experience the security we have in Jesus.

Like fear, anxiety is not necessary. Anxiety is what happens in our bodies physically when worry has been allowed to fester. The mind and body are intricately connected and when we worry and fret, our bodies release stress hormones and the physical consequences are what we call anxiety. While anxiety can have a biophysical/chemical component it is in its true nature a soul sickness, a deep desire for security and meaning in an otherwise scary and uncertain world. Please find someone and share the sureness and security they can have in Christ, and do it today!

Questions:
Do you struggle with anxiety and fear?
Have you taken your fear to Jesus, surrendered these feelings to Him?
Does it make sense that fear is “false evidence appearing real”?
How can you share your security of salvation with another?

Prayer:
Lord Jesus you are our security, our sureness, our salvation. Help us to be confident in you and to share this blessed assurance with someone who doesn’t know you. In your Name, Amen.

09/02/2026

Devotional: Prosperity, Generosity, and Value

Scripture: “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45 NKJV

Reflection: "God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving" — Randy Alcorn

Everyone treasures something. Everyone has those things which are important to them, things they hide away inside. Here the Bible says those things are treasures. These can be good treasures or evil treasures. These could be things like covetousness, anger, bitterness, resentments, jealousy and envy, or they can be things like love, compassion, kindness, other centeredness etc. The things we value shape who we are, and who we are comes out in what we say and do. The Bible makes it clear that what we give is what we receive, and what we receive is a direct result of what we give. From this scripture we see a spiritual fact, that we are all giving something, we are all saying something, and that something depends directly on what we treasure.

Who we are is about our heart. You cannot give away good, if your heart is full of evil. The Bible is clear that only God is good, therefore a good man is a man who is full of God, who treasures God, and who then speaks of God, of His love, and who offers that to others. This is good news! If we are not full of God, we can start filling up today, we can discard the evil, we can replace our fallen lusts and desires, with Godly good desires. We can fill our heart and mind with the things of God, and this will become our treasure. A good place to start is by filling our hearts and minds with daily Bible study. If you want to be good, if you want to treasure good, fill yourself with God.

Questions:
What do you treasure, what is in your heart?
Does what you say or do reflect your heart?
Can you transmit something to others that is not in your heart?
How can you help yourself and others to fill up on God’s goodness?

Prayer:
Lord Jesus, fill us to overflowing with your Holy Spirit, and help us to treasure you above all else. We know we can only speak and do what is true of our heart and we want our hearts to belong to you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

08/26/2026

Devotional: Comfort, Conflict, and Conviction

Scripture: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” 2 Cor 1:3-4 NKJV

Reflection: “God does not comfort us to make us comfortable but to make us comforters.” — John Jowett

Comfort has many definitions and it is both a verb and a noun. In the context of the scripture above it is both, and we are to be givers and receivers of both. It is interesting to note that in this scripture we are not being told to offer the same comfort offered to us by a human being, though we may have been from time to time. God is ordering us to freely pass on the divine comfort we freely received through the Holy Spirit. Indeed one of the powers, gifts, occupations of the Holy Spirit is to comfort believers. We all need comfort especially when we are going through trials, tribulations and troubles.

In order to receive comfort from the Holy Spirit you need to know and have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. To know the Holy Spirit you have to have called on Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, to have surrendered your life to Him, and then you are sealed for salvation by the Holy Spirit. The Bible says we experience God’s love through the Holy Spirit. Comfort is one aspect or form of that love, and unless we receive it and recognize it we cannot pass it along to others. When we pass along the comfort from the Holy Spirit it becomes a beautiful way to evangelize.

Questions:
Have you been sealed for salvation through the Holy Spirit?
Are you aware of receiving comfort directly from the Holy Spirit?
Have you had an opportunity to share that comfort with others?
What is one way this week that you can offer divine comfort to others?

Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit, for the comfort he offers and for the ability to pass along that comfort. Lord, help us to recognize the opportunities you give us to share that comfort with others. Prompt our hearts to help, to share, to comfort others. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

08/19/2026

Devotional: God’s Enemies - Sin and Death

Scripture: “But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.” Isaiah 59:2 NKJV

Reflection: “God is against my sin because he is for me.” — James Bryan Smith

Most Christians know that sin separates us from God, because God is Holy and Good, and Perfect. But that is as far as they get in their thoughts or understanding about sin. Sin is a corrosive and destructive force in the lives of those who sin and to those around them. Sin is progressive, addictive, and if left untreated and unforgiven, it is deadly. The Bible clearly states that the “wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). Through sin we only reap destruction. God does not want this for you or for anyone.

God is never against people, He is against their sin, their evil acts, their lusts and selfish desires. God’s heart is that all would turn to Jesus and be saved. We know that many have gone to their death in sin, denying Jesus, and that not everyone will be saved. But we should, like Jesus, desire that all would be saved. If we really care as God does, then we won’t leave an enemy nor a friend in sin, we will confront the sin, confronting them if need be. This is an act of love, an act of mercy, not judgement. It is what Jesus did and what He can and will do through you in the power of the Holy Spirit!

Questions:
Do you have sin that you should confess to God right now and ask for forgiveness?
Do you see that calling out sin is a loving act?
Is there a time in your life that you felt distant from God due to your sin?
Whom can you help today that you see caught in sin and separated from God?

Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we have sinned, we have fallen short of your glory, of the glory to which you have called us all, and we are sorry. Lord, please forgive us, wipe the slate clean, and allow us to come and have fellowship with you. Father, help us through the love and power of your Holy Spirit to lovingly confront those we would meet who are separated in their sin, that they too might seek your forgiveness and have fellowship with you too. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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