We Will Live to See This Happen
Based on: Habakkuk 3:2 (MSG)
God, I’ve heard what our ancestors say about you, and I’m stopped in my tracks, down on my knees. Do among us what you did among them. Work among us as you worked among them.
And as you bring judgment, as you surely must, remember mercy.
Excerpt:
We are not to sit passively by, witnessing severely questionable practices in high places. We are to speak up, and speak out, demanding those who worked so hard to get our vote, to work just as hard to protect our rights. We must do all that we are empowered to do.
Fix Your Focus
Based On: Proverbs 4:25 (CEB)
Focus your eyes straight ahead; keep your gaze on what is in front of you.
Excerpt :I can’t tell you how all this latter-day chaos is going to play out. What I can confidently assure you is that the Lord is not just on our side. The Lord is the Commander of Heaven’s armies. And goes before us in this battle between good and evil, right and wrong.
The Provision and Protection of God
Based On: Daniel 6:10 (GNT)
When Daniel learned that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced toward Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day.
Excerpt:
Do not allow what you watch, read, or hear to sway you away from the eternal sovereignty of the true and living God. We are by redemption, citizens of the heavenly realm.
A Double Dose of God's Grace
Based On:
2Timothy 1:9 (NIV)
He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have
done but because of his own purpose and grace.
John 1:16 (NIV)
This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,
Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
Excerpt:
The clarion wake-up call at the beginning of 2025 is that we are all alive and thriving--not by our own doing--but by God’s grace and not just one grace but a double dose of God’s grace.
It's Alright to Question God
Based On: Psalm 10:1(ESV)
Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Excerpt:
There is an amazingly restorative force that is gifted to us when we ask God “Why?” It is a God force that holds us up when our knees are buckling under the realization of the unthinkable.
Be Defiantly Different
Based On: Amos 5:24 (CEB)
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Excerpt:
Be the one in the room whose presence restrains the hate filled rhetoric of the resident racist.
Our Divinity Determines Our Destiny
Based On: Psalm 8: 4-5 (CEB)
...what are human beings that you think about them; what are human beings that you pay attention to them? 5You’ve made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.
Excerpt:
The only way that we can recollect our divine destiny and re-envision our divine desires, is to reclaim our divine identity. Psalm 8:5 says:
You’ve made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.
Christmas Is When God Makes A House Call
Based On: Luke 1:43-44 (CEB)
43 Why do I have this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 As soon as I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy.
Excerpt:
Our lives must be a shelter for the Christ of God. There should be a leaping in our Souls when God make a house call to our spiritual dwelling places. That’s what Christmas is all about. It’s a house call by God embodied in human flesh and named Jesus.
Finish the Journey to Bethlehem
Based On: Luke 2:4 (ERV)
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
Excerpt:
Bethlehem is the “House of Bread.” It is the all-sufficient purveyor of the promises of God. Bethlehem is the ground where seed presumed to be dead springs up as new life. Bethlehem is the place where buried dreams are resurrected as new visions.
The Prodigal Love of God
Based on: 1John 3:1a (NIV)
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!
Excerpt:
This “prodigal” love that has been lavished on us comes like a flood that takes out all barriers and limitations that would block the flow of God’s redeeming love into our lives. It defies the restraint of guilt and shame that prefers we die in our brokenness.
Advent: The Chance to Begin Again
Based On: Psalm 119:49-50 (NIV)
Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
Excerpt:
Advent gives us four weeks to reflect, repent, release, and prepare to receive. With this posture of renewal we are then ready to embrace the grace of a new year. It is through Jesus the Son of God that we are given the chance to begin again.
I Have No Words
Based On: 2Corinthians 9:15 (VOICE)
Praise God for this incredible, unbelievable, indescribable gift.
Excerpt:
So, when I think about the gift of the Son of God to us, I have no words. Therefore, I must resort to the appropriation of the Apostle Paul’s words and say that the love that God showed to us in sacrificing Heaven’s Son in our place is an “incredible, unbelievable, indescribable” love.
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