Guidelines For Living Devotional

What Is Your Worth In God’s Sight?

"As a carpenter," writes Roy Lessin, "Jesus worked with a hammer, nails, and wood.  When He picked up a hammer, He knew that one day a hammer would be raised up against Him; when His hand drove in a nail, He knew that one day nails would be driven into Him; when He worked with wood, He knew that one day there would be a tree where He would offer up His life.

It’s Time To Put The Past Behind You

There's nothing really new under the sun, and when it comes to human relationships, the same dramas play out over and over again.

How Do We Live In A World Filled With Evil?

A forest fire or a devastating fire that destroys a neighborhood or a section of a city--terrible as that may be--can be put out. 

What Keeps You From Knowing God?

A friend was eulogizing a man who had suddenly passed away, saying, "He had such a good heart!" 

5 Guidelines to Accepting Death

"Everyone knows they're going to die," said Morrie Schwartz, adding, "but nobody believes it.

How Do You Deliver The Message?

When God called Jeremiah to be a spokesman, the young man – probably in his late teens or early 20s – said, “Ah, Sovereign LORD…I do not know how to speak; I am only a child,” and hearing this, God said, “I’m sorry, Jeremiah, I must have made a big mistake.”

God Has A Will And Plan For Your Life

There's good news, friend!  Life is not a matter of chance or fate.  Winning is not the equivalent of standing in front of a slot machine when you feel lucky, or picking the right five or seven numbers in the lottery.  Some 3,000 years ago David wrote, "My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:15,16). 

Are You Demanding Anything From God?

Armin Gesswein called it, "One of the rarest prayer promises in the Bible," referring to the words of Jesus to the disciples in the Upper Room when he said, "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).

Do You Really Love Him Whom You Call Savior

"Simon, son of John," Jesus asked Peter, "do you truly love me?" (John 21:16).  When Jesus asked that question, Peter must have thought, "Hey, just a minute.  How can you ask that after what I've been through with you?  Remember, I was the one who even followed you to the house of the high priest after You were seized in Gethsemane."
            If Peter thought it, he didn't voice it.  Yet when Jesus challenged his answer by asking the same question three times, Peter was disturbed.

4 Guidelines To Keeping Your Identity In Marriage

Have you ever stood on the banks of two great rivers and watched them merge?  When two rivers come together, there is a great deal of turbulence before the waters flow smoothly.  That's the way it often is when two become one and forge a new family.