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DEVOTIONS
FOR October 26-31, 2009
Topic:
Are You Connected to God and His Word?
Why Studying
Scripture is Important?
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Spend time with the devotions this week. Read the Scriptures and then
think how you can apply them to your life.
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MONDAY
October 26
Look
up and read
Acts 3:19
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
In what ways do you get refreshed? Do you put on your IPod and lay down,
maybe you go out and play sports or do you sit down in front of the TV and
watch a movie or two? Being refreshed comes through reading God’s
promises. We might feel better for a bit when we’ve gone out for a run or
just chilled on the couch but we experience longer term re-energizing from
God and His Word. We learn this lesson when we do not turn to God and His
Word. In Acts 3:19 God calls us to Himself through repentance from our sins
and His Word to be refreshed by knowing our sins have been wiped out.
Don’t you want to be connected to God who wants to know you and to
bring a fresh fire into your life? Spend time in prayer today asking
God to forgive you of any unconfessed sin in your life and to ask Him to
rekindle your life through His Word. Connect with God and His Word today.
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TUESDAY
October 27
Look
up and read
Psalm 40:2
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
How many of you love
to play in the mud? You just love to go to places that have mud pits that
you can just flop into! Do you remember the mud pit on the spring
Confirmation at Awanita? It is so much fun to get in the mud and get
covered head to toe. How about making long sprinting dives into the mud
seeing who could slide the furthest. The thing about mud, as fun as it is
for most, is that it gets all over us. Not only that but we sink into it
and it slows us down. You see, God makes it possible for us to be lifted
out of that mud, cleansed from the slime of sin and sets our feet on firm
ground. He gives us Himself, the Rock to stand on so that we will not sink
and can run freely with Him. Pray today and ask to be lifted out of
that miry mud and to be placed on The Rock. Connect with God and His Word
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WEDNESDAY
October 28
Look up and read
Hebrews
10:22
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
Have you ever had a
guilty conscience? There is or was something that you knew you should have
said or done in a situation but didn’t, and now it’s weighing you down. Too
many times in our life we have face situations like that and have to go back
to get that feeling off our chest. Knowing God’s word helps us to do the
right thing. God wants us to draw nearer to Him with sincere hearts
that are seeking Him in faith and confessing sin realizing the desire to do
what’s right before God and according to His Word. Will you draw near to
God? Meditate over this verse and honestly examine yourself to see if there
is any guilt in your life that you need to take to God. Connect with God
and His Word today.
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THURSDAY
October 29
Look up and read
John 15:5-8
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
Do you think that rose
bushes are beautiful? How about sunflowers or wild flower patches? I think
they are a thing of beauty. They are wonderful to give to someone to
brighten their day or to say I’m thinking of you and love you. Yet once
they are removed from the root they eventually die. In John 15:5-8 he talks
about how God is the vine and we are the branches. If we are connected to
Him we will grow. But if we are not connected to Him, like a branch that is
no longer a part of the vine, we will wither and fall away from God. In
this passage it also says that not only if we stay connected to Him but if
His words remain in us He will provide for our needs. Now understand that
this is not a free pass to ask for whatever and you’ll get it. I still
haven’t gotten my Red Ferrari (ha-ha). If our life is connected to God and
His Word, the things we would ask for would be what God knows we need, not
what we want (like a Red FerrariJ).
Spend some time in prayer today asking God to help you stay connected to
“The Vine” and that His Word would remain in you. Connect with God
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FRIDAY October 30
Look
up and read
Matthew
7:24
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
What kind of
foundation are you building your life upon? Is your foundation on famous
movie, sports and music stars or fashion and technology, wealth and other
worldly things? In God’s Word we can read and learn about what kind of
foundation our lives should be built on. Earlier this week we learned that
God is “The Rock” and here in Matthew 7:24 we see again that God is a “firm
foundation”. If we build our lives on the things of this world it will
crumble when the “storms” come about. Yet if our lives are founded on God
they will be able to withstand any “storm” that comes about. God wants
us not only to hear His Word but He wants us to put His Word into practice
to continue to strengthen and build upon our firm foundation in Him.
Pray today and ask God to be your foundation. Connect with God and His Word
today.
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SATURDAY
October 31
Look
up and read
2 Timothy
2:19
*This week journal your
thoughts and application to each day's passage.
Do you really know
that you are God’s? Do you know that everyone who confesses the name of the
Lord must turn away from wickedness? How are we doing with that? God’s Word
reminds us of that. It’s tough to stay connected to God and His Word
yet the payoff for remaining in Him is far greater than anything we attach
ourselves to that the world offers. If we say we are Christians then we
need to ask ourselves: 1.) Are we really connected to God and His Word? 2.)
Are we putting His Word into practice? 3.) Do we really believe and have
faith that we are His? There are probably more questions you can think of
but be challenged to examine your faith through the commitment to reading
God’s Word. Not only does it reveal our sin it brings health and wisdom
and blessing and shows us His unconditional love, great power, grace and
mercy on us His children. Meditate over this verse and honestly examine
your life to make certain that you are connected to God and His Word.
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See you at Sunday
School, Worship and Youth Fellowship this Sunday!
Bible references provided by
www.biblegateway.com
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