Posts with the category “devotional-prayer”

Day 5 of 5 • This day’s readingMatthew 11:28-30Hebrews 4:1-11Take My YokeJesus regularly invited people to follow him. Normally, his invitation sounded something like, “Whoever wants to be my apprenti...  Read More

Day 4 of 5 • This day’s readingJohn 14:22-27Colossians 3:15-17Hurry is Incompatible with PeaceAs we end our week of un-hurry, we come to the final third of the kingdom triumvirate of love, joy, and pe...  Read More

Day 3 of 5 • This day’s readingJohn 16:19-24Philippians 4:4-9Hurry is Incompatible with JoyLove is the highest value in the kingdom economy, but it’s not the only value. The triumvirate of love, joy a...  Read More

Day 2 of 5 • This day’s readingJohn 13:34-351 Corinthians 13James 1:19-22Hurry is Incompatible with Love Jesus set love as the highest value in his kingdom’s economy. When asked what the greatest comm...  Read More

Day 1 of 5 • This day’s readingMatthew 9:18-26Matthew 11:28-30Un-hurry to the Pace of Jesus The philosopher Dallas Willard once called hurry “the great enemy of spiritual life in our day,” and urged f...  Read More

Step into Purpose Through Selfless ServiceDevotionalPaul calls the Galatians to live a life that expresses selfless generosity that stands in contrast to a self-centered world. The freedom which we ha...  Read More

Perseverance in FaithDevotional There have been so many incredible heroes who have gone before us, stepping into their purpose to make a difference, shaping the world to what we know it today. Some na...  Read More

 Simplified PurposeDevotionalThe idea of “purpose” is something many people are confused about these days.How does God want to use me? When will I find out? What am I supposed to do until then? We wou...  Read More

DevotionalPurpose in the Waiting We are living in a microwave generation. Everything has to happen right now. We can’t wait, and results have to be instant. The same can be with how we see our purpose...  Read More

DevotionalUntil You Can’t Touch the GroundVision is so crucial for stepping into your purpose.Ezekiel 47 tells of the river that flows out from the temple, from the Holy of Holies (see Isaiah 6:1-6). ...  Read More

God would never do anything to cause us to wander from him....  Read More

OOOO, this one is getting close to home! Now we're asking God to do something based on our actions....  Read More

Today we finally get to ask him for something! Our daily bread. But was Jesus just talking about food for the day?...  Read More

Devotional"Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" We dealt with "your kingdom come" in yesterday's devotional.  We saw that Jesus wasn't just talking about a kingdom to be established here on ...  Read More

"Thy kingdom come" Jesus is speaking here of the kingdom of God. That is a kingdom where Jesus rules and reigns....  Read More

Today we move to the second phrase of our prayer "Hallowed be your name". "Hallowed" is synonymous with "holy", and means set apart. For us, that means there is nothing else that can take its place,...  Read More

"Our Father who is in Heaven . . ." It sounds like a simple statement: we have a daddy who lives in heaven. But I don't think that Jesus intended to be that simple when he was instructing his discip...  Read More