Posts Categorized: Devotional

Blessing and Shalom

Posted March 8, 2021 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Jeremiah 29:7 ESV

“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”

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Life is not random although sometimes it seems so. We can feel swept away on circumstances that make no sense and leave us feeling helpless. When tragedy strikes or evil asserts its power over us, we may wonder where God is, if he truly is sovereign, and if he really does care and have a plan for our lives. The Bible assures us that God really does care and that he does have a plan.

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A New Mind

Posted March 1, 2021 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Philippians 2:3-5 NRSV

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.

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Living for Christ means living as Christ would in our daily circumstances. We are each given a sphere of influence—friends, family, coworkers, neighbors—and our job is to make Christ visible by the way we act and speak and make decisions.

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To Be the Potter’s Hand

Posted February 22, 2021 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Jeremiah 18:3-6 NASB

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel. But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make. Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.”

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What to Give Up for Lent

Posted February 15, 2021 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Ephesians 4:31 NLT

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.

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Ash Wednesday is right around the corner. What are you giving up for Lent?

Lent is a traditional 40-day season of reflection, repentance, and self-denial as we remember Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for our salvation and the triumph of his resurrection. The purpose of “giving up something for Lent” (traditionally, fasting) is to learn to depend on God by temporarily abandoning those things in our lives that we fear we cannot live without.

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God’s Delight

Posted February 8, 2021 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Ephesians 1:4,5 NLT

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

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A remarkable truth about God is how he delights in loving us. It gives him great joy to walk with us, to cherish and bless us, and to guide and discipline us so that we can approach the holiness for which he formed and made us.

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