May

 

1st. DUTY: It may feel good to be polished up and shown off, but you aren’t just trophies to God. He uses you to achieve His goals.

2nd. PATIENCE: Patience is learned. The more devoted to God you become, the more patient you are through circumstances. You learn to keep your gaze on him. He is reliable.

3rd. VITAL PRAYER: Personal sympathy and prejudice interfere with proper intercession. Selfish perspective may not accept God’s perfect will.

4th. HUMBLE ACCESS: Can you be bold in a way the High Priest of old could not? Are you humble before a Holy God? Are you there to tell God what to do, or to find out what He is doing?

5th. JUDGMENT: Deception and rebellion make it difficult to get to God. It is with difficulty that the righteous is saved.

6th. FREE or ENTANGLED: Serving a belief system isn’t the same as serving a living God. There is a difference between believing the Bible and having a relationship with the one Whom the Bible reveals.

7th. BUILDING FOR ETERNITY: Will you pay the price to follow Jesus? Did Jesus know when He called you that you will? Don’t doubt it now.

8th. UNWAVERING: God does the aiming. Persevere through the stress and strain. His release, at the right time, creates a mighty rush of purpose, during which you must fly true. And yes, you’ll go through the process again and again.

9th. REVELATION: Without revelation, the people cast off restraint. Without vision, they perish. Without an understanding of God, you fall all over yourself. Facing life with ideals is good, but it doesn’t lead to the same result as proceeding with revelation.

10th. ADD INITIATIVE: Pray for discernment - leave God’s business God’s business. Take care of the business He gives to you. Take the initiative.

11th. ADD LOVE: You won’t reach the love of God on tiptoe, no matter how tall you are. Allow His life, and therefore love, to dwell IN you, and you won’t get easily HUFFED

12th. HABITS: Your habits aren’t to be worshiped, God is to be worshiped.

13th. CONSCIENCE: Steadily facing God allows your conscience to be introduced to God’s perfection. You need to have a good, clean conscience.

14th. ADVERSITY: You can be hard pressed yet not crushed, perplexed but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. You carry a great treasure in earthen vessels.

15th. VITALITY: Do you know the hope of His calling, the exceeding greatness of His power toward those who believe? Is it being displayed to the world?

16th. PARTAKERS: His divine power has given you all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called you. You are a partaker of the divine nature through His exceedingly great and precious promises. You can escape the corruption that is in the world.

17th. HIS ASCENSION: Jesus ascended - He was carried up to heaven, having lived a normal life, having done His Father’s will. He is the example and the way of access.

18th. KEEP IT SIMPLE: You have been created. He is the creator. Life is as simple as looking to Him and having His life formed in you. Keep It Simple Soldier.

19th. LOVE REMAINS: How can you rise out of the wreck that life dishes out? Is it by His love, which cannot be severed from you.

20th. MAKE IT REAL: You have a part in possessing your soul. Kick out the intruders.

21st. SEEKING: All these things shall be added to you - when you seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness

22nd. ONE: Its impossible to be independent and be one with the Father and the Son. The world believes that Jesus was sent by the Father when they see oneness.

23rd. CAREFULNESS: Its not the devil that has the power to choke the life out of a believer, it’s the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.

24th. DESPAIR to DELIGHT: You will have to feel very small in the sight of God before He will set you on your feet. Despair is turned to delight by the touch of Jesus

25th. SURRENDERING SELF INTEREST: When the natural is transformed into the spiritual, self interest no longer insists on control.

26th. UNCEASING PRAYER: When the natural is transformed into the spiritual, joy is always, prayer is continual, and thanks is given in all circumstances - without massive mental discipline.

27th. EMPOWERED: Obey. One accord. Christ glorified. Power from on high to accomplish what Jesus said was written and necessary?

28th. WITHOUT QUESTION: The resurrection Life of Jesus answers questions you didn’t even know how to ask. His life in you accomplishes what following Him doesn’t, what talking with each other about His words won’t.

29th. ONENESS IN ACTION: Access to God is provided in none other than Jesus Christ. When the redemptive work of Christ is accomplished in your life, when you are one with Him, you go beyond access to action to accomplish the Father’s purposes.

30th. BUTS: Following Jesus does not allow ‘Yes buts’. Faith moves you beyond the place where common sense prevents progress.

31st. FIRST: God, who needs nothing, has chosen to need you. Trust Him and put His will and His Son first.

 

April

 

1st. HELPFUL not HEARTLESS: Jesus is at the right hand of God, always interceding for the saints. When you have compassion, access to the Father, and the mind of Christ, you will be interceding as well.

2nd. SIGHT: Saul was blinded to the old way of seeing, and given a new way of seeing. Has your sight been changed to allow you to see all of life through the creative and redemptive purposes of Christ?

3rd. BLIND: The eyes of religion were shut to God’s way and therefore Jerusalem missed His peace. Are the things that make for peace hidden from your eyes?

4th. GROWING FAITH: Real faith isn’t good feelings and blessings. Real faith is living in a fallen world with the assurance of things not seen.

5th. AGONY: His agony led to your access to God. When embracing God’s will includes agony, will you opt for enticing alternatives, or will you triumph by countering every temptation with God’s word, God’s directives, and God’s will?

6th. VICTORY: He was crucified for ALL humanity. Do you have the victory of dying to sin and living to righteousness?

7th. SHUSH: Have you made up your mind on doctrine before receiving God’s light? Don’t take ownership of truth to the point that you prevent God from expanding your understanding.

8th. DESTINY: Jesus was not derailed from fulfilling what He was sent to do. The Holy Spirit won’t be either. If you’re sad or dismayed because things aren’t working out as you expected, you must allow the reality of God to penetrate your preferences. The truth will set you free.

9th. SEEING: Seeing is a flesh sense. Receiving is an internal yielding at the spirit level. Are you living beyond sight?

10th. DECIDING ABOUT SIN: You can’t curb, suppress, or counteract sin. You must be crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with.

11th. CO-RESURRECTED: A well-adjusted person is one who is resurrected with Jesus. Trying to be like Jesus is futile, because your concepts of Him are faulty. The Holy Spirit is reliable.

12th ETERNAL LIFE: This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Eternal life is His life NOW.

13th. BURDENS: Cast your burden on the Lord and He shall sustain you. Be rid of illegitimate burdens.

14th. YOKED: Being yoked to Jesus brings rest to your soul. He knows where to go, what to carry, and how to carry it.

15th. HIGH PLACES: Are you meticulous about keeping your spiritual house clean? Are there things in your life that you think don’t matter much, but God has a different view?

16th. BELIEVE: To bring the commonplace life up to the standard revealed in the “high hour”, you must pay careful attention while in the light and then rely on what you know to be true.

17th. PLUNGE: Peter plunged when He saw Jesus. You can’t afford to do anything less. You can’t be too calculating.

18th. BE READY: You must allow the Lord to get your attention. You must turn aside and respond, in both the big and little things.

19th. BE LOYAL: Passing the big test insures nothing. You must remain alert and loyal. You must receive wisdom from God, always.

20th. BE ACTIVE: God knows your capabilities. Your spiritual capacity is not dependent on your natural ability, it is dependent on God in Christ Jesus.

21st. BE SIMPLE: God wants to manifest Himself in you. You err by looking for Him to manifest Himself to you. Choose life, not lifestyle.

22nd. UNVEILED: Do you live with an unveiled face? Do you see clearly? Does the world see God in and through you?

23rd. WORSHIP and WORK: Your work should spring directly from your worship and it should please Him.

24th. SUCCESS SNARES: Religious success might be the biggest snare of all. You dare not pervert God’s intentions.

25th. EMPLOYABLE: Are you usable? Does God find you ready and willing?

26th. SUPREME CLIMB: You must be careful that your convictions don’t replace the Living God.

27th. WHAT do YOU WANT: Are you seeking the “dream job” or are you seeking to work faithfully for the “dream boss”?

28th. WHAT YOU GET: True life with God is a surprise and a delight. Accept it. Embrace it.

29th. UNCERTAINTY: The difference between childlike faith and deadly dogma is the difference between living comfortably with uncertainty and insisting on certainty.

30th. AGAPE: The love chapter in 1 Corinthians, makes the problem of mankind obvious. God is love. Flesh is something else.

 

March

1st. PAIN PROBING: The truth hurts, but it accomplishes the purposes of God.

2nd. DEEP HURT: Allow hurt in the center of who you are and you’ll find the life of God working in you.

3rd. TENDING: You don’t have to learn to love, you have to allow God, who is love, to reside in you. You will then tend to sheep with the supernatural love of God.

4th. HOLDING THE CALL DEAR: What you hold dear affects your kingdom fruitfulness. Practical work competes against abandonment to God. Common sense can lead to avoiding what God requires.

5th. FINISH: To finish the race, through all of life’s trials, is to enter into the joy of the Lord. In His presence is fullness of joy.

6th. NEXT STEP: If we are His, we are His ministers ALWAYS. We must draw on him for our next step. There are no situations we will enter where we are not His representatives. Represent Him well.

7th. CONQUER: In all things we are more than conquerors. The heavy surf is not something we fight. Its something on which we ride. God’s love can not be shaken.

8th. SURRENDER: You don’t reform your old life, you live His life. Redemption was obtained at the cross, and when you are truly crucified with Christ, the life you live is Christ in you.

9th. FOLLOW: You can’t set up camp on yesterday’s events. You must walk with Jesus, even when excitement turns to deep challenge. Don’t turn away.

10th. MESSAGE: Do you try to carry a message, or are you the message? You’re ready to convince, rebuke, exhort, and teach when you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Be the message.

11th. VISION: You are Called to fulfill your part in the Heavenly Vision. You must be careful to not allow Practical Work to interfere.

12th. SURRENDER: Just as natural love doesn’t love as God loves, so natural devotion doesn’t compare to abandonment. If you aren’t surrendered to God, you turn away from following Him.

13th. SURRENDER TO: There is no part of self that doesn’t need deliverance? You must allow God to salvage you, to bring salvation to you completely. Saved TO His purposes.

14th. YIELDING: A slave can’t tell his master that he insists on being free! Sin is a cruel master, and you will not get free by trying harder. Christ purchased your freedom. What part of your life has yet to experience His redemption?

15th. DISMAY: Are you fearful of following Jesus? Is there some distance between you and Him? He’s on His way to fulfill the father’s purposes. Are you?

16th. JUDGMENT: Hypocrisy gives the church a bad name - saying you’re His when you are not. Being unaware of the darkness that has enslaved you leads to walking in unconscious unreality. Judgment awaits.

17th. PLEASE HIM: Is it your aim, in everything and in every way, to please the Father?

18th. HOLINESS: If God has His way with you, other people begin to see God in your life.

19th. FAITH: Walking by Christian faith requires knowing Christ, living as Christ lived, and following Christ.

20th. INTIMACY: Your intimacy with God is directly related to your delight in Him. Can He confide in you?

21st. IDENTIFIED: Identification with Christ’s crucifixion is not the same as imitation or effort to follow.

22nd. ABIDING BURN: A part of us comes alive in the presence of Jesus - spirit life.

23rd. CARNAL: Spirit led - good. Flesh led - bad. Walk in the Spirit and produce good fruit.

24th. PURPOSE: You can’t be for other’s what only Jesus can be. Beware of increasing. He must increase.

25th. RELATIONSHIP: Your mission is to point people to relationship with Christ, not to yourself. Vitality for obedience is a result of relationship with Him.

26th. PURITY: Confess, draw near, humble yourselves. Cleanse your hands and purify your hearts. The pure in heart shall see God.

27th. ELEVATION: The devil promotes with self-righteousness, self-promotion, and High Places. The invitation of God leads to focus on Him and His purposes.

28th. LOYALTY to JESUS: You dishonor Jesus when you are loyal to your own ideas and notions. You honor Him when you are loyal to Him at all times. You must serve God, not your ideas of God.

29th. READY? SURPRISED?: Are you ready for His visits? Are your eyes fixed on the author and perfecter of your faith? Is a major surprise awaiting you?

30th. HARDNESS OR INTERCESSION: Do you have more than an emotional interest in prayer? Does worship change the flavor of your intercession? Intimacy leads to understanding and appropriate participation.

31st. HEEDING DISCERNMENT: What do you do with what you see? Have you replaced ridicule and criticism with discerning intercession and intervention?

 

February

1st. The Good News of the gospel is that redemption is available for all. Resist the urge to selfishly receive salvation and sanctification but abandoning the great commission given by Jesus.

2nd. It’s easier for us to be justified by Christ than to be a disciple of Christ.

3rd. To be about kingdom business is to be the off scouring of all things. We dare not insist on certain conditions before being ‘separated to the gospel’.

4th. What grips you? Does the Love of Christ have such a grip on you that you can not escape? Are you gripped by something else?

5th. An offering is used up. Is it reasonable (Rom.12:1) to present yourself as a living sacrifice, to be poured out and used up for God’s redemptive and creative purposes?

6th. Have you prepared the altar so God can provide the fire? Are you a living sacrifice, ready and willing to be offered?

7th. You sometimes have the facts right, but your eyes are restrained from seeing the bigger picture. Is dejection a sign that the facts are handled incorrectly?

8th. Being “set apart” for God is easy, but it costs us everything. He who calls us is faithful, who also will do it.

9th. Spiritual exhaustion implies too little input or too much output. Decreasing the output is not the answer.

10th. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Imagine the purposes of God being worked out in you life.

11th. If you are bored and sullen it is because you are trapped in a fallen, see/touch world. A redeemed, God inspired imagination opens up a world of opportunity, expectation, and excitement.

12th. People avoid listening to God ‘lest we die’, but having someone else do the listening doesn’t accomplish God’s good intentions for your life.

13th. When circumstances press in, say Speak Lord. Listening and hearing also requires obedience to what has been heard.

14th. We don’t like the darkness, physical or spiritual, because we can’t see clearly. If we’re quiet, we just may hear things we’ve missed before.

15th. No one lives to himself. If you don’t let God have His way, it affects everyone else.

16th. INITIATIVE: Awake. Arise from the dead. Christ will give you light. You don’t need the inspiration of men, you need the inspiration that comes from the Lord.

17th. DEPRESSION will keep you from doing the common ordinary things. You must arise, and in the ordinary things God will refresh you.

18th. DESPAIR may come from sleeping through the opportunities Jesus has for you. You can’t fix your failures, but you can arise at the sound of His voice and move on with Him.

19th. DRUDGERY: You don’t have to be radiant to roll out of bed in the morning. The shine follows the discipline of arising.

20th. DAYDREAMING: There are dreamers who never do, and doers who never dream. You need to be a dreamer who does.

21st. AGAPE: Life should not be evaluated from the standpoint of “return on investment”. Surrender to God is of more value than personal holiness.

22nd. TENACITY: You’ll never be tenacious if you don’t know Him. You’ll never know Him unless you can be still. The assurance that God will be exalted allows you to persevere.

23rd. SERVE: You are to spend yourself for others, whether you receive praise or contempt. Understanding what Christ has done empowers you to serve in the same way that He served.

24th. SURRENDER: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. To lose your fleshly desires is to become alive in the kingdom.

25th. BE SPENT: Serve as Christ served - without a hook. Unconditional service, like unconditional love, doesn’t have conditions.

26th. MISGIVINGS: Like the Samaritan woman at the well, you don’t know what you really need, and you don’t have a clue how Jesus can provide it.

27th. LIMITING: Jesus comes to the well, the place where you transact our everyday business - the place where you carry on the drudgery of life - the common place ...and he offers you something you truly need.

28th. ABIDE: You leave Jesus alone when you don’t follow where he is walking, when you follow from a distance, or when you fail to embrace him completely.

29th DISTURBED: When Jesus asks “what do you want me to do for you?”, how will you answer him? Do you believe He can do the impossible?

 

January

1st. To keep from being ashamed, we need to keep to the point - the point at which Jesus asks us to YIELD - no excuses.

2nd. We must be willing to go out from where we are, the place where we live (physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually). When he calls us we must respond - no excuses.

3rd. It may involve clouds and darkness, and if we can’t go now, it may be because we haven’t yet made it to the life of power (our abilities can’t get us to where His Spirit wants to take us).

4th. When it is a question of the providential will of God - wait for God to move.

5th. Sometimes we want desperately to follow Jesus NOW, but we are trying to follow in our own strength.

6th. Jesus lived with worship, waiting, and work always together, fully integrated.

7th. Our intimacy with God is often severely hampered by our own plans and desires, our time misappropriations, our elevation of the promises to the position that only the promise maker should have.

8th. Living Sacrifices prove the will of God?

9th. The work of the Holy Spirit, that work that He was sent to do, is done in places we could never reach without Him.

10th. Our eyes are opened, and we are sent to open others’ eyes.

11th. Our obedience will cost other people.

12th. Aloneness with God puts us in a teachable position.

13th, Aloneness with God allows for clarification.

14th. When we spend time with our God, we become aware of His call, and just what we can volunteer for.

15th. If self rules, Jesus is not Lord.

16th. The call of God comes to those whose hearts are lining up with His. We can’t hear God over the roar of our selfishness.

17th. The call of God is to relationship, and service is the overflow of devotion to Him.

18th. There is a difference between “satisfying God” and “doing something for Him”. We can be devoted to self, service, or the Lordship of Christ.

19th. God’s silence is often the best discipline, destroying the self sufficiency that would otherwise keep a person in the common rather than the Holy.

20th. Obedience is not freshness, but it puts us in position for the freshness that comes from the Holy Spirit.

21st. Are we spontaneously kind to God (Whatsoever you do to the least of these) or are we only looking for His kindness to us?

22nd. Have we narrowed our intentions to focus on His kingdom and righteousness?

23rd. Abiding in the presence of God transforms us. Others will benefit from the change.

24th. Is the direction of your live changing from your end, your aim, your purpose, to His? Are you devoted, not to a cause, but to Christ Himself?

25th. Make room for God to do as He pleases, and expect the unexpected.

26th. Are you set apart for the simple life with God, seeking first His kingdom and righteousness?

27th. The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust for things beats against our lives like a mighty tide, pulling us toward a despairing abyss. The truth of God stands as an unyielding protective barrier. The Holy Spirit guides us to safety.

28th. Avoid the snare of obstinate self will, of protecting your rights and ambitions, or you’ll persecute Jesus.

29th. Don’t be surprised when His truth exposes your ignorance.

30th. We need to be obedient to the revelation given to us by God.

31st, We need to allow redemption to affect EVERY part of our life. Hold on to nothing of self - redeem it for true value.