Day 290: It's Possible

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

That last statement makes the point I want to make today. Today we are going to continue on the subject of living and take it a bit in a different direction. Have you ever been under the impression that living a Christian lifestyle is hard? Have you ever felt like living a sinless life was impossible? Because we are human and we are going to mess up. However the above scripture is proof that it is possible. We sometimes forget that Jesus was fully human as much as He was fully God. We forget that He was born like the rest of us, He was given free will like the rest of us, He had to grow up from a child like the rest of us. He experienced the same things we did growing up. He had to listen to His mother, it didn’t matter if He was the Messiah or not. He experienced pain, loss, grief, and anger. He cried when Lazarus died, it hurt Him. I say all of this to be reminded that Jesus is human, just like we are. With that being said, He knows what’s it’s like to be tempted. To live in a world full of sin. We read about how satan tempted him in the gospels. We are not serving a God who does not know what we are going through. We are not following someone who sat on a throne and just told us how to live. No we know how to live because He came here to Earth and showed us, He gave us an example not just verbal instructions.

Going through all of this to get to the point of today, He was without sin. He went through all of this, He went through so much, He was tempted and yet He is without sin. That’s someone that we can look up to. That’s someone we can look to as an example on how to live a sinless life. Jesus did it, so can we.

Sometime we lean too much into the idea that we are human and making mistakes is inevitable. We kind of use that as a crutch or something to fall back on when we decide to sin. I cannot tell you how many times I have used that as an excuse to do what I wanted. Countless times I have blamed my sin on my humanity as if I never knew right from wrong. Yes it is very true that we are human and we are going to make mistakes, but that does not mean that we plan those mistakes. It does not mean that we intentionally go against what we know is right just because “we’re human” and “things happen”. Things don’t just keep “happening” especially sin, when we know better we do better. At some point we have to give up the desires of the flesh if we want to live and please God. We cannot keep using the sames excuses to keep doing the same things. God gives us strength in those moments of weakness to escape, He always gives us a way out. There is always another choice, another door to go through, we do not have to fall every time. God is standing right there with us in those moments but He will not make the decision for us. Sometimes we have chosen to be weak because it is easier. We blame it on how weak our flesh is, when we’ve been in a relationship with Christ, at some point our desire to feed and please our flesh will be drowned out by our desire to please God and do His will. We may start off weak, but we most definitely do not stay that way.

All this to say, living a sinless life is possible, but here’s the catch, we cannot do it without Christ. We cannot stand against temptation on our own, every time we’ve tried we’ve failed.  We cannot live a life free of sin away from Christ, it will not work. That was the whole purpose of Him coming to save us in the first place. We obviously cannot live on our own, we need Him.

Reflection

1. Have you ever felt like being a Christian was too hard?
2. If so, what did you find hard about it?
3. Have you ever used, “I’m human” as an excuse to sin when you knew it was wrong?
4. Have you ever found yourself trying to beat temptation without Christ?

Prayer Time

Allow you answers to the above questions guide your prayer today. Whatever stood out to you today talk to God about it. Maybe He’s leading you to repent or even give you heart to Him if you haven’t.

If that’s you, if you’ve never given your life to Christ, now is the time to make that decision. If you want to walk with Christ and be set free from the bondage of sin and shame say this prayer with me.

“Jesus I declare that you are my Lord and Saviour who died for my sins and was raised three days later. I repent of my sins and I give my life to you. I believe in my heart that you are the true living God. I pray that you shine  light on me and bring me out of the darkness and into your light. I love you Lord. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, Amen.”

If you made the choice to follow Christ, rededicate, or to submit your life to Him fully, Go to Romans 10:9-10

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

I love you so much and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! If you made the decision to follow Christ, congratulations! It’s the best decision you will ever make. Don’t be afraid to reach out and get plugged into a church! Make sure you share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 291!

Day 272: Chains of Freedom

We as humans have a bad habit of holding on to toxic things. We hold on to the very thing that’s killings us as if it’s going to save us. We sometimes find it very hard to choose salvation. We sometimes choose to be stuck in our chains even when we have to key to release ourselves. It’s like we’re running from what is freely given to us but we run towards the things that will cost us our life. Why is that?

Today I want to talk about this human condition. Let’s talk about it.

Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Salvation is a gift from God, freely given to us. We just have to choose to accept it. We have to choose to accept Christ into our lives. This is often the hardest decision to make for us as human beings. It’s a huge life changing decision, but our lives will change for the better. However we sometimes find that committing to Christ is extremely hard. It requires us to live for someone and something other than ourselves. The thing about salvation and gifts is that we choose whether or not we want to accept it. Even though it’s free, we still think there’s a catch or there’s some sort of cost. No, salvation is free, Christ paid it all on the cross. Somehow, even with that knowledge we still seem to be on the fence about accepting God’s love and salvation. A lot of that skepticism has to do with Ephesians 4:22-24,

...throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.  Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Wait a minute! Hold the front door! You’re telling me that once I give my life to Christ or accept His gift of salvation, I have to change? That’s exactly what I’m saying. Surely we did not think that we could still go on living in sin, when Christ died so we wouldn’t have to...  Here’s the thing, change is scary. Stepping out our comfort zone, no matter how toxic it is, is scary. We seem to have gotten too comfortable in our life of sin. So when we finally come to Christ, letting go of it is hard. Because sin brings pleasure, and a false sense of freedom. However when we come to the understanding of who God is we see how toxic that lifestyle is for us. The sad part is, sometimes we just decide to live with the fumes because letting go is too hard. Why do we stay in the same situation we are in even though it’s killing us?   

Romans 7:15-17

I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.  But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

I have heard so many people say, “when you know better, you do better.”. While I agree with that 100%, I also agree with the fact that knowledge doesn’t change who we are. It changes what we know. We can know everything there is to know about God but if we decide that we aren’t going to change, that knowledge can only go so far. We can talk about much faith we have but if at the end of the day we have not laid our sins at the cross and let them go, does it really matter how much we know? Knowledge isn’t going to get us through those pearly white gates. Salvations will, a life lived in Christ will. It’s hard to let things go, sometimes sin is living in us and we don’t even know it, or we choose to ignore it. We don’t see it until we do the very thing we promised we weren't going to do. The problem with that is, we are trying to rid ourselves of our sin. That’s a paradox in itself, the sinner cannot free themself from sin. Which is why we need Jesus a perfect man, 2 Corinthians 5:21 says,

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

The more we try to do it ourselves the more we will fall deeper into it. When sin lives in us, we act based on what it is our hearts, no matter how much we try to suppress it. Suppressing sin and actually being freed and delivered from sin are two completely different things.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

All this to say, is we are sometimes constantly running from that which is free in order to run towards something that will cost us everything, even our life. Why walk in chains when we are free. We have to stop running back to the chains of bondage when life gets to hard for us. What I’m saying is, our chains are comfortable, and sometimes we find ourselves sadly running back to them. For some odd reason we view sin as freedom. We don’t commit ourselves to Christ because we want to be free and do what we want. Salvation is freedom, there is more freedom in salvation than anything. Sin gives us a false idea of freedom, it seems free until we have to give up our soul. Living in sin can only take us so far. It will give us fun and pleasure but at the end of the day it will have consumed our life, Leaving us empty and constantly wanting more. Sin will never fulfill us in the way that christ can. Salvation and eternity is free, don’t be so afraid of change that you die never knowing the freedom you could have had in Christ.

Reflection

1. Are you afraid of change?
2. Have you found yourself running back to your old like when things got too hard?
3. What’s stopping you from submitting your life fully to Christ?

Prayer Time

Allow your answer to the above questions guide your prayer today, and continue to respond in whatever way you feel led. Talk to God about what we discussed today, whatever is on your heart. Whatever is tugging on your spirit respond to it with prayer. Be honest with Him.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for day 273!

Day 263: A Way Out

1 Corinthians 10:12-13

If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

We all know what temptation feels like, and we know the struggle of resisting, but we also know the feeling of giving in. As Christians we are constantly tempted, there are always things calling us to sin, whether it be our past, someone asking to be told off or throat punched in a very non-christian way. We can only flip tables so many times when trying to go the, “What Would Jesus Do” method. Whether it be sins that we struggle with and people we are trying to let go of, or the big one, sex. Even those of us waiting for marriage know what the temptations of premarital sex look and feel like. However, I believe that in these moments, God is giving us a way out. Take a look that the scriptures above it literally tells us that God will show us a way out. He will not allow us to be tempted more than we can stand, even though it’s hard God knows we can stand it. I feel like He believes in us more than we do ourselves. He knows us more than we know ourselves, that’s why He’s God. While we’re battling with our flesh and going crazy, God is giving us a way out, looking at us a having faith that we will choose Him over our flesh. Many times we can choose Him because we are deeply rooted in Him and we know that He will always provide a way out, but for those moments of weakness. Those moments when we just decide to give in, when we let our fleshly desires, and urges take over. Those are the moments we tend to always be brought back to. We often find ourselves feeling like Paul when he said, in Romans 7:15, “I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.” I have heard time and time again, “if God knows everything why does He allow us to sin?” I’ve even had that question before. Uhm, excuse me but God is not telling us to sin, nor is He leading us to sin, He has in fact provided a way out of it. When we sin it’s our own doing. We make a choice, not God, He gave us freewill so when we sin it is our choice. The same way it was Adam and Eve’s choice to eat the fruit from the tree. They made a choice on their own. God did not tempt them, He told them what not to do, they decided to go against what he said.

You ever try to blame your decision to sin on something or someone else? Like Adam and Eve, God deliberately told them not to eat from one specific tree, one tree they couldn’t eat from. Out of all the trees in the Garden of Eden there was one they were not allowed to eat of. The serpent came and tempted Eve, but the serpent did not force Eve to do anything, Eve decided to listen and decided to sin against God on her own, and so did Adam. But when God questioned them, they blamed everyone and everything but themselves, Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the servant. I believe that even in the Garden of Eden God had a way out, there were countless other trees they could have eaten off of, why go to the forbidden one. Then blame anything or anyone else to take the heat off themselves.

*confession time* For a long time, since I was fifteen I have struggled with pornography. I was a seed that was planted at a very young age and took root around the age of fifteen and began to grow. It stopped when I became a Christian, but I always felt myself struggling with it, going back and forth with it. Wanting to let it go but sometimes finding myself going back whenever I had a moment of weakness, I tried to get help and the person I tried to confess to did nothing but judge me and throw it in my face every chance they got. However every time I found myself viewing pornography or something similar, I would find myself trying to justify it. ‘Well, I’m having a hard day’ or ‘I’m weak right now’. I realized that it was something that I never needed or had to do, it was something I chose to do. God always provided a way out, I just chose to ignore it. I had to learn to own up to my desire to please my flesh and when I learned to confess and be honest with myself that’s when things started to change. When I started being honest with God and saying, this is me, this is my flesh wanting to do the very thing I know I am not supposed to do. That’s when things started to change, because I began to realize that there is always a way out, no matter how hard it may be to take the road out, it’s so rewarding.

All this to say, there is always a way out. God will not allow us to be tempted pass what we can stand. I know it’s hard, this is something we can all agree on, but whatever you are struggling with, whatever is holding you back from God let it go. You are much stronger than you think, because your strength is found in the Lord. In those moments of weakness call on the Lord, stop and pray even when your flesh is telling you not to. Who you are in Christ is much stronger than you flesh and it’s worldly desires. Another thing, sometimes we fall, sometimes we are weak and we allow ourselves to fall into that temptation. But you get up, confess your sins to God, go to a brother or sister in Christ for prayer, trust that God has forgiven you and you move on. There’s no use of dwelling on it, or beating yourself up about it, move on. You can change the past but you can learn so you won’t make the same mistakes in the future. While you’re at it, make sure you forgive yourselves, A lot of times we condemn ourselves when God Himself doesn’t do it. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Proverbs 24:16 tells us that a just man falls seven times but he gets back up. So get back up and get walking, don’t dwell on your past or you shortcomings.

Reflection

1. Can you relate to anything that we discussed today?
2. Is there something that you have been struggling with that you need to confess to God and maybe a brother or sister in Christ?
3. Can you confess it to yourself first, meaning can you own up to it and be honest with yourself and God?
4. What is it? (this is not something you need to tell me, if you’d like to respond to me go ahead and I will pray with you, but confess to yourself, God, and someone you trust who can strengthen you spiritually).
5. This is very hard, I know it is, but if it is tugging on your heart and keeping you from fully giving yourself to God, release it, seek help, prayer and ask God to deliver you. This is serious.

Prayer Time

Allow your answers and responses to the above questions guide your prayer today. Just talk to God and confess everything to Him. Seek out someone to pray with and for you, if you’d like to reach out to me, please do not hesitate.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening, b sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 264!

Day 251: My Life and Soul Depends on It

Isaiah 55:3

“Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.”

When I read this scripture I am reminded of Romans 10:17. It reads, So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. This is where our faith lies, in the word of God, hearing his word and believing it brings us to have faith in Him and trust in not only what He can do but also who He is. He is our heavenly father. Jesus is our risen Savior. We know these things from the word of God, we were not there to witness them but we have faith and we believe that Jesus came to save us and what He did on that cross 2500 years ago is still saving souls today. In the word of God lies everything we need, our soul thrives on this beautiful book full of love letters from our father. This is why it is so very important that we hear the word of God but listen as well because as the scripture states above, in it we find life.

Listening to God, and coming to Him with open ears as explained in the scripture above is our way to life. Through His word we live, we thrive, we grow, in every way possible. We are living on borrowed breath. Everything that we are depends on God. Our lives depend on the word of God, the state of our souls depend on the word of god. The life we live is because of the word of God. I have talked to many people who view the bible as a rule book, it’s not. It’s so much more than that and way more important than being told what we cannot do. No His word is a book of love letters, it is a book of stories of who God is and what He has done, in the lives of His people and prophecies of what He will continue to do. It’s is full of wisdom and knowledge, love is the very foundation of our faith. In the bible we find not only commandments but we find how much God loves us, we get a glimpse of the magnitude of His love for us. We see how He is in constant pursuit of our hearts, we see the lengths He goes through just to make sure that we have life. To make sure that we have a relationship with Him. The word of God has life written all over it.

We are constantly looking for the secrets of life. We want to know how to survive this crazy bumpy sometimes unbearable road we are on. But I feel like God is telling us, I have the answer. You want the key to life, I got it. Just listen to me, Listen to my word, come to me with open ears and I will tell you how to obtain this everlasting life. I will guide you, I will give you a teacher. You want to know what it’s like to really live? I’ll give you a life you never thought you’d have. But first, you have to listen, come to me with yours ears and heart wide open. I have all the answers, but you gotta listen to me. It’s imperative that we listen to Him.

Through His word we find that we have an everlasting covenant with our father in Heaven, He says, all that unfailing love I promised David, yeah I want to love you the same way. I want to love you and I want you to know that I love you. God’s love is unfailing, literally it never fails. No matter what, we can always depend on His love. We can find hope in knowing that if no one else loves us, our God does and that’s better than being admired by millions.

All this to say, everything we are is because of everything He is. We are nothing without Him. Our very existence depends on Him. Allow your soul find solace in the word of God, knowing that every word written on those pages is ordained and inspired by the living God. We are because god is…

Reflection

1. Do you believe that everything you are is because of everything God is?
2. What is your initial response to what we talked about today. Be elaborate and explain.

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer today, have a conversation with god. Just take the time to listen and respond to Him. Whatever that looks like to you.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 252!

Day 250: If You're Thirsty...

Isaiah 55:1

“Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk it’s all free!”

This water is free, there is no charge for it. If you’re thirsty come drink so that your thirst may be quenched. Now I’ll speak normal. What this scripture is metaphorically saying is, there is no price for salvation. You don’t need to bring anything to get something back. Salvation is a gift, we just have to accept it. Salvation is life to our dead souls. It’s like crisp water to our dry and thirsty souls. I love the idea or the analogy of a thirst being quenched because it paints this picture so beautifully. I’m pretty sure everyone knows what it’s like to be thirsty, but there is a certain type of thirst that cannot seem to be satisfied until you have a glass of water. It’s like when you wake up at about three in the morning and your throat is screaming for a glass of water. When you get up and go get that water it’s like heaven in your body. Then you can go back and sleep peacefully. That’s how our souls long for God. He is the only thing that can satisfy the thirst of our souls.  Our souls cannot be at rest until it is united with it’s Creator. Our thirst cannot be quenched until we have the right water to quench it, the right food to feed it. That water and food comes through the precious blood of Jesus the spilled out on that cross for us. The food is in the word of God. The thing is this water is everlasting, this food won’t run out. As long as our souls are thirsty for God, there’s always the loving water to quench it. That’s what we call growth. Our souls are constantly seeking the Lord, it never stops. We are constantly drawn closer to Him. We are constantly living in and with God. That thirst will always be there, and as long as we are in a relationship with God we never have to worry about dehydration.

The other part of this scripture that tells us the wine and milk is free is astounding as well. There are many of us who are under the impression that we need to bring something other than our heart in order to receive salvation. There is no amount of money or sacrifice we could bring that will equal the cost that Jesus paid on the cross. However we do bring our heart to Him, we come openhearted and surrendered to Him, knowing that our salvation is a gift. You don’t have to get yourself together before coming to Christ, we get ourselves together after we give our lives to Him. Everything will fall into place once we dedicate our lives to Christ and there’s no amount of money we can pay for that. It’s all free, salvation is free, don’t let anyone tell you any different.

All this to say, if your soul is thirsty go replenish it with the living water that God provides. Our souls cannot and will not be at rest until it is united with it’s Creator. There is nothing we can do to buy or be deserving of such a gift, that’s why it’s called a gift. It has been freely given to us. Just come and drink.

Reflection

1. Do you ever feel undeserving of salvation?
2. Have you ever felt like you have to bring something other than your heart to God in order to be worthy of salvation?
3. Is your soul thirsty?

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer. Talk to God about what we discussed today, have a conversation with Him about your relationship with Him. Talk to Him about your salvation.

If your soul is thirsty and you feel the Holy Spirit tugging on your heart, now is the time to respond. Now is the time to accept Christ into your life. If you want to make that decision today if you want to make that decision today, pray this prayer with me.

Jesus I declare that you are my Lord and Saviour who died for my sin and was raised three days later. I repent of my sins and I give my life to you. I believe in my heart that you are the true living God. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, Amen.

If you made the choice to follow Christ, rededicate, or to submit your life to Him fully, Go to Romans 10:9-10

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! If you’ve decided to follow Christ today, congratulations! Go tell someone about it! Make sure you share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 251!

Day 246: WE LIVE! (Know your Worth)

1 Corinthians 7:23

God paid a high price for you, so don't be enslaved by the world.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

I think we are all under the common knowledge of the cost of our salvation. We know the price Jesus paid so that we could be saved, and live a life free of sin and shame. We know John 3:16, and how powerful the message is of this beautiful scripture. The scripture tells us that God loves us so much, the scripture states that he “so loved the world”. He loves us so much that He sent His son, his only son, to die so that we may have an everlasting life. So that we may be saved and have a relationship with Him. Jesus came to earth and willingly gave up His life because He loves us so much. Through these actions of selfless and unconditional love, we live. We live freely, and unbound to anything or anyone. We live free of guilt, shame, sin, fear, regret, our past. Free of it all, we live. I want to talk about two major points today, starting with us as the body of Christ knowing our worth, as well as knowing that life is worth living.

Know your worth

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?

Do you understand that you are worth more? What I mean is to God, you are worth the life of His son. Let’s think about that for a minute. You are valuable to God. We are the things He loves most. Out of all creation, and we can all agree that we have seen some astoundingly beautiful things in our lifetime. We have seen beauty beyond words, and even in that light, when God looks at us, we are more beautiful. We can be standing in the middle of the most beautiful place on Earth, but in God’s eyes we are the most beautiful thing on earth or even in the universe. We are more valuable in His eyes. Knowing this truth, how are we to go through life? Knowing that we are so worthy in the eyes of God, how are we to carry ourselves? We cannot walk around defeated or without confidence because our father in heaven has the victory and He has given it to us. Our father in heaven has given us the biggest confidence boost of all time. One of the biggest parts of life is knowing or finding our worth. Many times we will come to the conclusion that we have been selling ourselves short. If we want to survive in life, we must know our worth. It’s imperative that we understand our worth. To do that we must look to God and His word.

Life is worth living

Jesus gave his life so that we can have life. That’s how much He loves us. But also that is how important we are to Him. That’s how important our lives are to Him. He didn’t just give up His life for no reason. There was something He knew that we didn’t. Jesus knew our worth, He knew that we were created for a purpose and He could not allow our lives to be destroyed and continuously corrupted by sin. Our lives are worth living. Our lives are meant to be lived. Our lives are so important that He would give up His to make sure we have ours. That means we have a purpose, There is a reason for us to be here, So much so, that Jesus gave up His life to make sure we can live. God sent His son to make sure we can live. We’re here for a reason. If we had no purpose, if our lives didn’t matter why would Jesus give up  His life for ours?

All this to say, know your worth and know that your life has a purpose. You have a purpose. You are here for a reason. Jesus did something for us that no one else could do, He gave us a chance to live.  Money couldn’t do it, only love could.

Reflection

1. Do you believe that your life is important to God?
2. Do you believe that you are here for a reason?
3. Are you aware of your worth?

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer today. Have some time of silence and solitude with God. Spend time with God, just take the time to think about how much He loves you.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening. Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 247!

Day 240: Recap!

Day 233: What About Us

Today we talked about checking in with ourselves and also checking ourselves. We talked about looking into our own lives and making sure we a good before we go trying to tell someone else how to live their life. We talked about how we often overlook ourselves in favor of someone else. We focused on Luke 6:42.

" Take care of your soul before you take care of someone else’s. We can’t talk to anyone else about their relationship with God when ours is either non-existent, complicated or on the rocks."

Day 234: Merely Vessels

Today we basically talked about humility and how we are merely vessels God uses for His. We talked about how we are not to get into our heads that we are the ones doing God's work. Rather it is God working through us. We focused on 1 Corinthians 3:5-7.

"No matter how much we plant or how much we water, until God does the increase, nothing will happen."

Day 235: God is Building Us

Today we talked about growing in Christ and how God is building us every day of our lives that we are committed to him. We talked about how the word for our spirit is like milk for a baby. It is what we need to grow in Christ. We focused on 1 Peter 2:2-5.

"Sometimes we don’t understand why He’s doing certain things in our lives, we don’t understand why things are going the way they are. We don’t understand what’s going on at that moment in time. But just hold on, keep longing for that pure spiritual milk, keep going and keep growing and when it’s all said and done, we will realize that He was building us. He was shaping us and moulding us."

Day 236: Foundation in Christ

Today we took it back to the basics and talked about building a solid foundation in the Lord. We talked about how a foundation in Christ gives us stability and the ability to build without falling down, no matter what comes our way. We focused on 1 Corinthians 3:10-13.

"Everything we are is in Him, we must find our identity in christ and follow Him all the days of our life. We must learn to depend on Him and trust Him in every area and moment of our lives, A life without a solid foundation is not a life that will get us anywhere. Lay your foundation in Christ and build on that, trust me, whatever you build will stand."

Day 237: God's Temple

Today we talked about how we are God's temple and we must learn to take care of that. We asked ourselves a lo too questions, one being is our temple a place where God dwells. We talked about the condition of our temple and keeping it "clean". We talked about how sometimes we can allow things to corrupt our temple. We focused on 1 Corinthians 3:16-17.

"Sometimes we try to get around the parts of the bible we think don’t apply to us or shouldn’t apply to us. That’s not how it works, it’s all or nothing."

Day 238: Spirit Filled Life

Today was a bit of an expansion on what we talked about yesterday. We talked about the dangers of allowing sin to remain in our lives, no matter how small or no that big of a deal we think it is. We talked about how we must rid every sin in our lives that we know is there and not hang on the little things we try to let slide. We talked about getting rid of anything that will taint or put a hole in our spirit. We focused on 1 Corinthians 5: 5-8.

"Life isn’t just about “not sinning”. What kind of life would it be if it were. It’s about living for something and someone far greater than ourselves. Let’s not allow sin to take root in us, but weed it out and allow our spirits to dwell in Christ and the Holy Spirit in us.:

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for ay 241!