Fri // Steel :: Passion
Title: Give it All Love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. – Deut. 6:5 Even though the verse seems like a straightforward commandment, it tells me a couple of things. I see the word “all” before heart, soul, and strength, and it jumps off the […]
Mon // Surrender :: Idols
Title: Real Relationship Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. – Jonah 2:8 Idols get in the way of our relationship with God. Idols often times are often used to try and fill a void in our lives. God is jealous, but for a good reason. God does not want to share our hearts with any idol, not because he […]
Thu // Warrior :: Battle
Title: Multiple battles For the battle is not yours, but God’s – 2 Chronicles 20:15c I was speaking with a friend this week, and we were catching up, and soon, the conversations went to a real level. We started talking about what was beating us up, and we soon realized it was many of the same […]
Wed // Grit :: Perseverance
Title: Sturdy Perseverance Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… – Hebrews 12:1c Sometimes we don’t understand our trials or struggles at the moment, and sometimes we feel like failures. But as time goes by, we can reflect on those trials and see God’s work in them. It’s during times when we […]
Tue // Fuel :: Spirit
Title: Fuel Up So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. – Galatians 5:16 We all have our own personal Spiritual fuel tanks, and we pick and choose what goes in the fuel tank. We all know what happens if fuel (petrol) gets contaminated. It affects the entire performance […]
Mon // Surrender :: Pride
Title: Good Pride/Bad Pride “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall – Proverbs 16:18 We all have pride. Be sure not to label all pride as bad. There is good pride in good things (being proud of your kids, for example). The warning of pride here is the empty kind. A haughty spirit is a heart that is overinflated and infatuated with oneself. […]
Sat // Build :: Kingdom
Title: Mind Focus But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. – Matthew 6:33 Do you have seasons when the Lord feels like he is not present, and you give him no thought and do not put trust in him? I have had those […]
Wed // Grit :: Committed
Title: Good Fruit Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this… – Psalm 37:5 When we commit to God, we are committing to a way of life that honors God. How do we know what honors God? It is simple, and He gives us the values, the fruits of the […]
Tue // Fuel :: Listen
Title: Intentional Listening He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” – Psalm 46:10a Stop and listen, do you hear Him? God tells us that we can know Him if we take the time to be still and listen. As […]
Fri // Steel :: Integrity
Title: Choices are noticed Till I die I will not deny my integrity. – Job 27:5b During election seasons, we see all of the commercials that will be nonstop. These commercials usually have a common thread in them. They continuously attack the character and integrity of their opponents. They dig up all of the negative stuff […]