Walk About In Freedom

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - God's Word - Psalm 119:44-48 - Walk About In Freedom - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – God’s Word – Psalm 119:44-48 – Walk About In Freedom – Growing As Disciples

I will always obey your law, for ever and ever. I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.  I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame, for I delight in your commands because I love them.  I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees. Psalm 119:44-48 (NIV)

Freedom

I want to live a different kind of life. What sort of life would that be? I want to live a life I couldn’t dream up. I want to live a life that I couldn’t imagine. I want to live a life that isn’t the product of my own thoughts. What do you want this different kind of life to be based on? I want my new and different and unimaginable life to be based on your word. I want your word to change everything about me. I want your word to make me able to think your thoughts. I want your word to make me able to speak your words. I want your word to make me able to do your will. In every way I want to live a life that is pleasing to you. That is very good. Yes, I think it is unimaginable. Why do you say that? I think you will lead to where I could not imagine. I think you will guide me to do the unthinkable. I don’t say this with dread or disdain. I don’t think this with reluctance and fear. No, I welcome your unimaginable and unthinkable. It is with joy that I ask you to use your word to change everything about me. I want to live and walk about in the freedom that only your word can provide and secure for me. I want to be able to do what only you can do in and through me by the power of your word. These are some bold and beautiful prayers that you are praying. You are asking for a lot from me. Yes, I am.

What will you do? Do you have a role in my hearing and answering these prayers of yours? Yes, I have a role. There is something I must do If I want these prayers to be heard and answered. What is that? I must follow and obey you. I must go where you lead me. I must do what you ask of me. What do you think I am asking of you right now? I think you are asking me to let your word dwell in me richly. You want me to take your word into my heart and mind and life. You want me to live my life according to your word. Will this be a hard and burdensome task for you? No, not at all, It is my joy to do what is pleasing to you. It is the desire of my life to live my life with and for you. I will follow and obey your word. I will meditate on your word day and night. I will allow your word to do its work in me. I will walk about in the freedom you give to me. Yes, you will. Then I will hear and answer all these prayers of yours.

Lord, I am so thankful for your word. I will follow and obey your word. I will joyfully seek out your word and meditate on it day and night. Use your word to change my thoughts, words and actions so I can walk about in freedom. Use my life to speak for you. Amen

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For All Of You

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Gratitude – 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 – Encourage Others – Growing As Disciples

We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 (NIV) 

Encourage Others

What keeps you going? Why do you keep on loving, following and serving me? You keep me going. You have made me able to keep on loving, following and serving you. Without your help, I would have turned back long ago. You have strengthened my faith as I have served you. You have helped me to see that your hand has been on me as I have served you. Your love has prompted my labor. How so? Because you first loved me, I now love you. I am living in an ongoing love relationship with you. Whatever I have done, am doing or will do, is because I love you. I want to do what pleases you. I want to serve you in whatever way I am able. Every day as I follow you I am filled with hope. I can see that you are guarding and guiding my life. I know that you are leading me to where you want me to go to do what you want me to do. You are making me able to bear fruit for your kingdom and bring glory to your name. Yes, I am.

I am with you to help you. I will strengthen your faith. I will fan the flame of your love for me. I will fill you with hope that will give you strength to endure. I have no doubt about these things. That’s good. I do have a question for you. What’s that? Are you alone in your journey of faith? No, I am not. You are with me. Is anyone else with you? I’m not sure what you are asking me. Have I placed anyone in your life who has spurred you on in your faith? Yes, you have placed people in my life that have helped my faith and love and hope in you to grow strong. Who are they? What are their names? What have they done for you? I want you to think deeply about these questions. Remember these people in your prayers. Do for them, what they have done for you. Spur others on in their faith. Show others my love. Encourage others in their faith. You have received many blessings from others. Give to others the blessings you have received from me. Will you do this do me? Will you do this for others? Yes Lord, I will. That will be very good.

Lord, thank you for the people you have brought into my life. Their faith has grown mine. They have shown me your love. Their example has given me hope and spurred me on to keep on loving, following and serving you. I will continue to pray for them. Amen

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Crucified With Christ

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Faith – Galatians 2:20 – Crucified With Christ – Growing As Disciples

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

New Life

I never understand how this could be possible. You never know how what could be possible? I never knew how my old life could die and my new life could live. Let me tell you, I was one discouraged and defeated person. Why is that? I knew that my old life was supposed to have died. I knew my old life died and was crucified on the cross. My old life was supposed to be dead and gone and buried, never to live again. Sin and darkness and evil was to no longer have any place or power over me in my new life. That’s true. Yet, my old life did not want to stay dead. Desires that were typical of my old life seemed very much alive to me. The allure of sin still seemed quite powerful to me. I can’t tell you how many times I succumbed to thinking, saying or doing what was clearly not part of the new life I have in you. I can’t tell you how valiantly and unsuccessfully I fought against doing what was not pleasing to you. I felt like a dismal failure. I had no victory in my life. Theoretically, I was free to live the new life I had in you. Practically, I was living in discouragement and defeat. Yes, I know.

What has happened to you? I was so focused on being dead that I forgot to live. But, you changed all that for me. How so? You drew me to yourself. You lavished me with your love. You allowed me to taste of your kindness, and mercy. You showed me the joy of living in an intimate relationship with you. Yes, I did. Now, I understand that part of dying to my old life needed to include living the new life I have in you. It’s as if living in an intimate relationship with you keeps pushing my old life further away from me. Your word does say that I am to submit myself to you and resist evil and it will flee from me. That’s right. There seems to be a healthy rhythm to living the life you have called me to live. What’s that? Be dead to the world and be alive to you. Be alive to you and the world will stay dead to me. That’s right. That’s it exactly. Well, I am so thankful that I can live a completely new life in you. Living my new life with and for you fills me with incredible joy. It is now my over powering desire to do what is good and right and pleasing to you. That is very good.

Lord, thank you that my old life is dead and gone. It no longer lives. It was crucified and died with you on the cross. I have received your forgiveness and cleansing. You have given me a new life to live. Help me to fully live out my new life with and for you. Amen

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Overcome The World

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Faith- 1 John 5:3-5 – Overcome The World – Growing As Disciples

This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 5:3-5 (NIV)  

Not Burdensome 

What is not burdensome to you? It is not burdensome to do what you ask of me. It is not burdensome to obey your commands. It is not burdensome to do what is good and right and pleasing to you. Why is that true? I know that you love me. I know that you care for me. I know that you are with me to help me. I know that you are on my side. There is nothing you have not done, are not doing or will not do for me that doesn’t have your highest and best intentions for my life. You have your very best in mind for me. That’s right. You have a very good purpose and plan for my future. Yes, I do. So, I can take no credit for loving you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. I love you because you first loved me. I am so thankful that you placed love for you in my heart. I only ask that you keep on fanning the flame of love I have for you. Help my love for you to burn white hot. Set me on fire to love and follow and serve you. That, I will certainly do for you. So, because I love you I am ever looking for ways to do what is pleasing to you. It is no burdensome drudgery to follow and obey you. It is the overpowering desire of my heart and mind to go wherever you guide me to do whatever you ask of me. I want to live my life completely with and for you. I have no greater hope and desire and purpose than to be used by you. I ask that your hand will guide me. I ask that your favor will rest on me so I can bear abundant fruit for your kingdom and bring glory to your name. That is very good. So, because I love you I want my life to be in complete alignment with yours. I don’t want anything to come between us. I don’t want anything to hinder your ability to work in and through my life. With a heart filled with faith, I expect that you will give me everything I will need to overcome the trials and temptations and evil of this world. Use me according to your purposes. Fulfill your plans for my life. Yes, I will. You can count on it.

Father, thank you that loving you has made it my joy to obey all your commands. I want to do whatever is pleasing to you. What you ask of me is not a burdensome at all. Help me to have victory over all the trials and temptations and evil that is in this world. Amen

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First Of His Miraculous Signs

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Miracles – John 2:11 – First Of His Miraculous Signs – Growing As Disciples

This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. John 2:11 (NIV)

Faith In Him

Where is your faith? What do you mean by asking me that question? I don’t understand what you mean. In what have you placed your faith? What are my options? You tell me. I could place my faith in what money can buy. If I had an abundance of money, I might have lots of faith and feel very secure. What would happen if you suddenly lost all your money? What would happen if you desperately needed something that money couldn’t possibly buy? That could happen. I could lose it all quite easily. Yes, you could, Money can’t buy everything. In fact you might say money can’t buy the most important things in life. That’s true. What could you also try to put your faith in? I could put my faith in power or prestige or position. How secure might those be? Those seem even less secure than money. I could lose any of those in a split second. Would wealth or power or prestige or position be of any value once you leave this life? No, they are of no value beyond this life. Then none of them are worthy of you placing your faith in them. No, they are not.

Have you placed your faith in me? Yes, I have placed my faith in you. Why have you placed your faith in me? What makes me worthy of all your faith? You left heaven. You came down to earth. You died on the cross for me. You paid for my sins. You broke the power of sin over my life. You turned my life around. You have forgiven my sins. You have cleansed me of my unrighteousness. You adopted me into your family. You made me to be your child. I can now know you. I can now live in an intimate relationship with you. You are changing me every day as I follow you. You are molding and shaping my life. You are giving me new thoughts to think, words to speak and deeds to do. I can pray to you. You will hear and answer my prayers. You have done, are doing and will do miraculous things for me. Yes, I have. Yes, I am. Yes, I will. You have made it possible for me to live a completely new life in you. My eternal life and salvation in you has already begun. Yes, it has. You are completely worthy of me placing all my faith in you. Yes, I am. 

Lord, you did a miraculous work for me that changed the entire course of my life now and forever. You left heaven. You died on the cross for my sins. You rose from the dead. Now, I have a completely new life in you. I will continue to put all my faith in you. Amen

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According To Your Faith

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Miracles – Matthew 9:29-31 – According To Your Faith – Growing As Disciples

Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you”; and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region. Matthew 9:29-31 (NIV)

Your Faith 

How much faith do you have? I’m not sure that I can answer that question. Would you like me to ask you a few questions about your faith? Yes,  I would like that. Is it worth your time and effort to cry out to me in prayer? Do you believe that I am able to answer your prayers? Do you believe that I will hear and answers your prayers? Are you consistently and persistently coming to ask me for all that you need? Those are all good questions. Do you have some good answers? I have some answers. I’m not sure how good they are. Let me hear your answers. I do believe that you are able to answer my prayers. I do believe that you will hear and answer my prayers. I am certain that it is well worth my time to cry out to you in prayer. Those are all good answers. Are your answers all true? Why do you ask that? You tell me. 

If I believe that you can and will hear and answer my prayers then I would pray more. I would cry out to you, more regularly, with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. That’s true. If I believe that you can and will hear and answer my prayers I would consistently and persistently keep on crying out to you in prayer. That is also true. So, would you say that what you believe is not consistent with your actions? Yes, I would. What do you want to do about that? I want to ask you for your help. I will cry out to you and ask you to teach me how to pray. I will cry out to you and ask you to develop a pattern and practice of prayer in me. I want to meet with you in prayer. I want to come to ask you for all that I need. I want you to give me prayers to pray. I want you to work in and through me as you give me prayers to pray. I want to bear fruit for your kingdom and bring glory to your name through the prayers that you give me to pray. Use the life of prayer you will develop in me to accomplish your purposes in and through me. Will you keep on praying these prayers? Yes Lord, I will. Then I will hear and answer your prayers.  

Lord, I will persistently cry out to you in prayer. With a heart filled with faith, I will come to ask you for all I need. I will rely on you to hear and answer my prayers. Thank you for all the goodness you have shown to me. Use me as your bold witness in the world. Amen

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A Deposit Guaranteeing

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Holy Spirit – Ephesians 1:13-14 – A Deposit Guaranteeing – Growing As Disciples

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession–to the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14 (NIV)

Included

I am included. I heard your word of truth. You called me to come to you. You helped me to respond to you. Yes, I did. What a miracle that was. Why is that? I was so stubborn. I was so self-sufficient and self-reliant. I lived as if I were an island. I did not want or need or accept anything from anyone. I was so full of myself. How did that work out for you? Not well, not at all. How so? I went left when I should have gone right. I went right when I should have gone left. I went ahead when I should have stopped. I stopped when I should have started. I walked a crooked path and bounced around from one meaningless thing to another. I sought comfort and peace and hope in all the wrong places. I lived a bruised and battered life. I used people. People used me. I tried to prove my worth. I tried to earn my acceptance. I was never good enough. I could never accomplish enough. I could not measure up to my or anyone else’s expectations. Finally, I reached rock bottom. I saw no way out. I was filled with discouragement and despair. Life was not working out for me. I saw that.

What did you do when you reached rock bottom? I looked up. I cried out to you. I asked you to show yourself to me. I asked you to forgive my sins. I asked you to come into my life. You came to believe in me? Yes, I did. But, I now know that you were pursuing me. You were watching over me. You were drawing me to you. Yes, I was. I deserve none of the credit for my coming to you. You rescued me from a life without you. You pulled me off the path that led away from you. You pulled me out of the pit of discouragement and despair. You set me on solid ground. You became my firm foundation. You reached out to me. You loved me before I first loved you. You forgave my sins and cleansed me of my unrighteousness. You adopted me into your family. You made me to be your child. You have redeemed my life and given me an inheritance in heaven with you. Yes, I have done all these things for you.

How do you know it’s all true? How do you know for sure that you are redeemed and have an inheritance in heaven with me? What make you so certain? I have your promise. I have your guarantee. How so? You placed your Holy Spirit in me. The Holy Spirit living me in is your promise and guarantee that I am redeemed and that I have an inheritance in heaven with you. That’s true. That’s right. Yes, He is. For that I give you my undying thanks and praise. I love you with all my heart and mind and strength. I am so glad that I am all yours. I am your possession. That is very good.

Father, I do believe. I am marked with a seal. I give you thanks for the Holy Spirit as an wonderful deposit, promise and guarantee of my coming day of redemption and inheritance in Christ. Thank you for marking me in Him and making me your possession. Amen

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Will Sustain You

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – God The Father – Isaiah 46:4-5 – Will Sustain You – Growing As Disciples

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. “To whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared? Isaiah 46:4-5 (NIV)

Twists And Turns

Well, my life has had a lot of twists and turns and ups and downs. That’s for sure. There is no doubt about it. I have had incredible highs and devastating lows. I have had great joy and deep sorrow. I have experienced great gains and suffered terrible loss. I could have never have predicted the course of my life. There are a few things I know for certain. What’s that? This is a sin broken world. Nothing about this life has not been damaged by sin. This life with all its brokenness and pain and suffering is not how you designed it in the beginning. No, it is not. I am not immune from suffering in this life. You suffered. I will suffer. Of that I am sure. What else do you know for certain? I know that I can hold on to you. I know that I have held on to you. I know that I will hold on to you in the future. You have sustained me, are sustaining me now and will sustain me in the future. You have brought me through life. You have carried me through difficulties and trials and pain and suffering of every kind. You have rescued me out of darkness and despair. All of this is not because I have tightly held on to you. All of this is because you have held on to me as I have held on to you. Your grip on me is far stronger than my grip has ever been on you. You have not and will not ever let me go. That I know for certain. That I know without a doubt. That is very good.

What else do you know for certain? I know that you want me to know you. I know that when I have been in trouble you have never been closer to me. You have been with me to comfort me. You have been with me to encourage me. You have lifted me up when I have fallen. You have healed me when I have been wounded. You have put me back together when I have been broken. Had I never needed you, I would have never held on to you. Had I never needed you, I would have never relied on you. Had I never needed you, I would have never known you. So, I wouldn’t wish that I had a carefree and easy life. So, I wouldn’t wish for nothing but comfort and pleasure in my future. I don’t regret any of the difficulties I have gone through. Why is that? Nothing compares with the joy of knowing you. Nothing compares with loving and following and serving you. You are my Savior and Lord. You are my God and Father. I am thankful that my life has been, is now, and will be in your hands. You have given me a good life to live with and for you. For that, I am very thankful. That is very good.

Heavenly Father, thank you for being with me. You have constantly come to my aid and helped me in whatever difficulties I have faced in life. You have sustained and rescued me at every turn. There is no one else like you! Amen

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Clothed Yourself With Christ

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Life In Christ – Galatians 3:26-29 – Clothed Yourself In Christ – Growing As Disciples

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:26-29 (NIV)

Different

You look different. I feel different. So, I suppose it is natural that I look different. I wouldn’t use the word natural to describe why you look and feel different. There is nothing natural about why you look and feel different. Why is that? First, tell me why you feel different. I feel different because I am different. How so? I have been made new. My old life is gone. My old life is like old stinky rags that have been thrown away, never to be put on again. Wouldn’t that account for why you look different? You have put on new clothes. Yes, I have put on new clothes. Of course, I would look different. Tell me about your new clothes. Well, let me first take a step back. How so? I need to think and speak about how I came to put off the stinky clothes of my old life. That is a good starting point. Yes, it is. How I am dressed starts with you. You adopted me into your family. You made me to be your child. You brought me to faith in you. You turned my life around. You set me on a new path of loving, following and serving you. Yes, I did. Something dramatic happened when I was baptized in you. What’s that? When I went under the waters of baptism my old life died. Yes, it did. The old stinky clothes of my old life were thrown away. Yes, they were. You gave me a new life to live. You gave me new clothes to wear. You changed everything about me. You changed the thoughts I think. You changed the words I speak. You changed the deeds I do. You made me righteous in your sight. Yes, I did.

What else did I do for you when you came to put your faith in me? You put your Holy Spirit in me. You made me alive in you. That is why you said that there was nothing natural about why I look and feel different. That’s right. What else did I do for you when I put my Holy Spirit in you? You gave me a hope filled future. You made all your promises available to me now. You made all your promises available to me for all eternity. Yes, I did. And your Holy Spirit living in me is like a deposit guaranteeing all that I have in you. Yes, He is. That is fantastic. That is supernatural. Yes, it is.

Lord, thank you for bringing me to faith in you. You adopted me into your family. You made me to be your child. You helped me to throw away the filthy rags of my old life. You gave me new clothes to wear. You clothed me in you with your righteousness. Amen

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Filled With Compassion

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide - Life In Christ - Mark 1:40-42 - Filled With Compassion - Growing As Disciples

Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Life In Christ – Mark 1:40-42 – Filled With Compassion – Growing As Disciples

A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured. Mark 1:40-42 (NIV)

Am I Healthy? 

Am I healthy? Am I whole? Sometimes, I think I am. Sometimes, I know I am not. Only you really know when and where and why and how I need to be healed. I only have one alternative. I only have one course. I only have one choice. What’s that? I will come to you. You are the great physician. I am under your care. I am opening up myself to you. I welcome you to inspect my life. I invite you to put me under your close examination. I want nothing to be hidden from you. I want you to heal me. I want you to bring your health and healing and wholeness into every corner of my life. That’s good.

How do you think I will heal you? I’m not sure. I do know a few things for certain. What’s that? It is your desire to heal me. It is your plan to heal me. You want me to be completely healthy and whole in you. Yes, I do. What else? You want me to come to you to ask you for my healing. Why is that? You want me to come to rely on you for what I need. You don’t want me to be self-sufficient or self-reliant. That wouldn’t work anyhow. I do not have all I need. I am not all I need. You want to give me what I need. You want to supply what I am lacking. Yes, I do. There is more. What else? You want me to know your kindness, mercy and love. You want me to know that you are a giver of good gifts. Yes, I do. There is no better gift than to know that your loving hand of healing is on my life. There is no greater joy than to know that you are with me to help me. That’s true. That’s right.

Where will you be if you want me to heal you? In your presence I will be healed. In your presence I will be made healthy. In your presence I will be made whole. The nearer I draw near to you, the farther sickness and brokenness and unhealthiness will be driven from my life. You will change me. You will transform me. You will fill me full of your health as I rest in your presence. Yes, I will. You can be certain of that. I know and I am so thankful. Heal me Lord. Yes, I will.

Lord, sometimes I don’t even know where my life needs healing. Many times, I have thought I was completely healthy and whole and then I see that I am not. Lay your hand on me; touch my life so I can receive your complete healing in every corner of my life. Amen

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