The Daily Invitation
Every day we have an opportunity to discover more about God and respond to his invitation to live in love and experience freedom. The Daily Invitation outlines the many ways Scripture calls us to know and follow God. By reflecting on these promises, believers are called to receive God’s give of grace, seek him earnestly, and surrender their lives.
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Ready For God’s Goodness
I get the sense that this outcast was no shy character. He spent his life creatively capturing the attention of those passing by. Any timidity would only result in a hungry stomach and a cold night. I don’t think this would have been the first time he tried to interrupt a crowd passing by.
Seek To Dwell
It is one thing to set aside all distractions for a moment of prayer and connection with God. It is another thing to aim our lives toward a place of holy communion. This is the kind of seeking David shows us in Psalm 27.
Open Hearts
Lengthen your timeline for heart growth. Don’t expect every heart renewal to happen overnight. Sometimes, the best work God can do in our hearts is not the miracle of a moment but the renewal of a season.
Meditate On God’s Greatness
One day, we can wake up and realize that we bought into a bigger lie than we thought. Discontentment led to complaining, which stirred up hopelessness. Hopelessness turned to anger and resentment, and soon, a root of bitterness took hold of our hearts. What can we do to break such a cycle?
To Know The Only True God
Can I ever fully know the depths of God’s love? Of course not! This is an unsearchable aspect of God’s nature. Yet as I contemplate the grace of God, his mercy toward me, his sacrifice on the cross, his presence in my life, and many other things I cannot grasp, I grow deeper in my conviction that God is love. I can be veiled to the fullness of God’s love but still grow deeper in my knowledge of his love. It is in my pursuit of such fullness that I move forward at all.
God Wants You To Seek Him
In our seeking of God in his word, we discover that the promises of God and his invitation to know him echo and multiply through generations to speak to our hearts at this moment. Knowing this, do we have the faith to believe that God’s word is not just a record of what has been said but a container of what is still being said?
Destroy Strongholds
No matter what we do, the promise of freedom through the Spirit never changes. And if we are ready to receive his grace, we are also prepared to receive his power. This power tears down strongholds through the name of Jesus. It is no physical power, and it isn’t a magic trick. It is a heavenly authority reserved for the children of the Kingdom of God.
Cling To Christ
Holiness and turning from evil are not things we can accomplish on our own. If that were the case, as Paul said, Christ died for nothing. Christ’s sacrifice was not just some kind of warning or sign to convince us to be better people. It was an act of grace that broke the power of sin and death so that through Christ, we could become holy.
Renewing Simple Truth
The good news is that the invitation we have from the Lord is to walk in renewal every single day. Sometimes our devotions look like seeking out new revelation. Sometimes it looks like pausing and remembering that the God you serve is the one and only God. You don’t need to explain that to your heart. You just need to come to the edge of the canyon again and remember.
Look Again To The Hills
Our help comes from above, so look up. See the goodness, mercy, and love of God extended toward you. There is no other source of our help like the care that flows from our heavenly Father.
Gratitude’s Light
Renewing gratitude looks like taking the time to remove the old, burned-out lightbulbs and replace them with new testimonies of grace. It looks like a daily checkup on the state of our inner world and the commitment to constantly renew our faith before God.
The Trial Is Grace
It’s tempting to long for the “good days” when God was fresh in your life. Looking back on those early moments of faith, we might glamorize or idealize life at first with Christ, whereas in reality, that early season was probably marked with immaturity and blindspots you don’t deal with today. Where did that growth come from? It didn’t come through comfort and relaxation. It was cultivated through the friction of life and the discipline of the Holy Spirit.
Christ’s Will And Grace
The collision of Christ’s tender prayer with his mighty power on the cross marks the perfect intersection of divine grace. Not only does Jesus extend the power of salvation through his blood freely given for our sins, but he demonstrates his will for us to be included in his glory through his prayers.
The Gift of Trust
It’s worth considering the power of practicing trust in the “good” times. When we don’t necessarily feel the need to trust in the Lord, it is the perfect opportunity to develop a deeper bond of faith with God. The fruit of daily trust is a soul settled into the rest of God. This posture of prayer and trust is more than a short-term response or a wise plan; it’s a lifestyle of growth.
Think About Flowers
God never asks us to have it all figured out. He calls us to wait for him to provide for the current day. That includes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs we have. I don’t have to know what next week will bring because God is faithful to me right now.
Seated On High
One of the most dispairing places to be is in an ever-spiraling descent from truth into cloudiness and chaos of the mind. Have you ever been in such a place? The truth that once filled your mind falls through your fingers like sand. The power of the gospel that once captivated your heart wanes with every passing day as the power of oppression rises up ever so gradually.
Praise Him Every Day
This is why the discipline of praise matters. It keeps us under the flow of faith so that we can keep living in confidence. It’s totally appropriate to put your request before the Lord, unsure of how it will be resolved, and give God thanks for everything else you can think of. Maybe one day we will mature to the point of thanking God even for the suffering, but I think the practice of praise begins with learning to see the windows of gratitude in every day.
God Is Not Silent
A verse I often bring up in this devotional is Matthew 11:28 NIV, where Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” It reminds me that our faith in God is not a stagnant chore but an active adventure. We don’t just have the history of the church or the testimony of the word. We also have the living presence of God within us.
Candidate For Grace
Forgiveness is not given because we earned it. It’s not extended because we signed up for it, and our application was received. We don’t get grace because we are a good candidate. The only thing that makes us a candidate for grace is our need for a Savior.
The Love of God
Is full knowledge of God’s love even possible? Maybe in those holy moments in the gathering of believers in the unity of the Spirit, we can grasp (as Paul said) something like an understanding of God’s love. It seems to me that the moment we grasp this love, we realize once again that his love surpasses knowledge. God’s love overloads my capacity to understand.