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12/12/2024 – “Personality” / “… that they may be one just as we are one…” – John 17:22

Comment: Pray through all of Chapter 17 – it’s amazingly sublime and joyful!

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“Personality is the unique, limitless part of our life that makes us distinct from everyone else. …

11/08/2024 – “The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances” / “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” (Romans 8:28) / fyi: November 7th devotional

“The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings …

10/06/2024 – “The Nature of Regeneration” / “When it pleased God … to reveal His Son in me …” (Galatians 1: 15-16)

“If Jesus Christ is going to regenerate me, what is the problem He faces? It is simple this — I have a heredity in which I had no say …

10/05/2024 – “The Nature of Degeneration” / “Just at through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus spread to all men, because all sinned …” (Romans 5:12)

“The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered …

09/29/2024 – “The Awareness of the Call” / “… for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16)

“We are inclined to forget the deeply spiritual and supernatural touch of God. If you are able to tell exactly where you were when you received the call of …

09/28/2024 – “The ‘GO’ of Unconditional Identification” / “Jesus …said to him, ‘One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor … and come, take up and cross, and follow Me'” (Mark 10:21).

“The rich young ruler had the controlling passion to be perfect. When he saw Jesus Christ, he wanted to be like Him. Our Lord never places anyone’s personal …

09/22/2024 – “The Missionary’s Master and Teacher” / “You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am …. I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master …” (John 13: 13,16)

“To have a master and teacher is not the same thing as being mastered and taught. Having a master and teacher means that there is someone who knows me …

08/30/2024 – “The Unsurpassed Intimacy of Tested Faith” // “Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?'” (John 11:40) // FYI: August 29th devotional

“Every time you venture out of your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. But common …

08/25/2024 -“Sacrifice and Friendship” // “I have called you friends …” (John 15:15)

We will never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet self-surrendur is the most difficult thing for us to do. …