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?