Daily Devotions
S196P16 – Growth spurts: honesty
1 Jn. 3:18-19 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. He thought he knew how to live as an honest person. Ever since he was small…
Read MoreS196P15 – Growth spurts: obedience
1 Jn. 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. If my high school years can be summed up in one expression, I would have to say that I spent that time putting on a show. Whether it was for my parents, my peers, or my…
Read MoreS196P14 – Growth spurts: light
Mt. 5:14-16 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that…
Read MoreS196P13 – Growth spurts: peace
2 Pet. 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us…
Read MoreS196P12 – Growth spurts: discernment
Heb. 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is…
Read MoreS196P11 – Growth spurts: forgiveness
Eph. 4:31-32 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Early in my walk with Christ, I worked with a woman who had been raised in a house of…
Read MoreS196P10 – Growth spurts: good works
Jam. 2:14-17 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them…
Read MoreS196P9 – Growth spurts: hope
Rom. 5:1-5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation…
Read MoreS196P8 – Growth spurts: courage
Phil. 1:27-28 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in any way terrified by…
Read MoreS196P7 – Growth spurts: patience
Psa. 27:12-14 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of…
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