Daily Invitation
Abiding happens daily in his presence. Abiding Daily is a simple and practical reminder to stay connected to the vine. Each prompt is inspired from the scriptures and designed to point you toward prayer and encounter. You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram. To get the Daily Invitation sent to you every day click this link or text “Daily” to +1 (779) 237-3914.
No Different
God may give one believer many spiritual gifts and resources and another just a few. However, God does not provide one believer with more potential access to his heart than any other. When it comes to knowing God and living in freedom, we all have the same availability from God.
The Freedom of Confession
John is speaking to the other sins. The ones that we hold to like control, pride, selfishness, self-preservation, envy, and lust. These hidden sins cause us to say, “I have no sin.” They are the ones that we are wary of surrendering, but they are the strongholds that God can break through with his forgiving and cleansing power.
Life Abundantly
I’m thinking today about how different the mission of Jesus is from the enemy's mission. The enemy comes promising money, success, comfort, and pleasure with the intent of destroying your life. His entire scheme is based on trickery, drawing our attention away from the truth to capture us away from the life that Jesus gives.
Take Refuge
We use the word salvation so much in the church that we might forget that the word means more than what we think of as “being saved” or becoming a Christian. Salvation means being preserved or delivered from harm, so it is a perfectly normal word outside Christianity.
Fountain Of Life
And yet God is so good that he does not take advantage of his strength to oppress, but to lead us to life. He is the one who knows the truth and is uniquely holy and just to judge us according to our sinfulness, yet his desire for you is freedom, and he leverages the fear of the Lord to bring goodness and deliverance.
Believe In The Name
1 John 3:23 ESV says, “And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.” John was there when Jesus taught them his new command to love one another. The significance of that command sunk in because John mentions it over and over in his writings.
Seeing The God Of Promise
But God’s hope is no concept. It is the real deal. The reason that we live. The most exciting story and the most captivating message ever told: the gospel.
Earnestly Seek
Take a moment and consider the degree to which you have been seeking the Lord lately. There is no intention to shame anyone here. We all have different life circumstances that get in the way of our pursuit of Jesus. Still, I want us to think about how we have been seeking God. Has it been passive or active? Are we complacent or intentional? Is seeking him a priority or an inconvenience?
God Leads Us
When we read a verse like Psalm 32:8, it can be easy to glance over it without much thought. It is a simple message about a good God, but have we stopped to consider if this verse also applies to us?
Cast Your Worries
Your worry is the doorway to experiencing the thing we needed all along—that he cares for you.
Stay Free
The gospel is the good news of freedom, but not just good news of a moment of freedom. Jesus wants ongoing, increasing, and eternal freedom.
Day By Day
God makes a promise that he takes care of the innocent and offers them an everlasting inheritance. The question then becomes, how do I enter into this relationship with God? How do I become innocent and step under his protection?
Where The Spirit…
You may not feel thrust into his presence emotionally or physiologically just because you stopped for a second, but every time we intentionally open ourselves up to the Lord is an opportunity to deeper our spiritual connection to God. The truth is that our spirit is not the same thing as our emotions or sensations. That is why you can have an exciting Christian production be very spirit-less, and a dull prayer meeting can be very spirit-full.
Cast Off
We are given the power to overcome darkness, but at the very end of this process, we are the ones who have to take a step, throw down the burden, and leave behind the works of darkness.