Archive for April 2019

Eze. 36:25-26I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of…

1 Cor. 3:16Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Every person has a spirit. Many verses in the bible speak of the human spirit within man, that which was given birth when God himself breathed life into Adam [2 Tim. 4:22; Gen.…

Rom. 12:2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. When Jesus enters our lives, all things change. One of the most impactful changes is our perspective. Before…

2 Cor. 5:16-17 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! This passage speaks of two types…

Isaiah 65:17For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things [of life] will not be remembered or come to mind. Today’s devotion is an introduction to our series on God’s promise to renew all things. Our story of redemption is a story of recreation. When man fell, there was a…

1 Cor. 12:11, 28All these things [the gifts, the achievements, the abilities, the empowering] are brought about by one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one individually just as He chooses.So God has appointed and placed in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who work miracles, then those with the…

Eph 3:14-15 For this reason [grasping the greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ] I bow my knees [in reverence] before the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ], from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name [God—the first and ultimate Father].  Paul was a member…

2 Tim. 1:9b-12 This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.…

2 Cor. 12:14-15aNow I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. So I will very gladly spend…