Day Fifteen – Authority

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READ:

Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV)
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
When I was a kid, I loved a good wrestling match! I couldn’t watch it on television because my parents didn’t allow it, but that didn’t keep me from wrestling my friends in my backyard. When I got into our makeshift arena, I knew exactly who the enemy was! My goal was to take them down!! 

The Bible says, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood.”

In other words, we don’t know who we are fighting. We think it’s about our spouse, our kids, our boss, our landlord, but sometimes it’s more than that. I heard Pastor Chris Hodges say recently, “Whatever it is that you are going through is way more spiritual than you think it is.” There is a real devil, and he really hates you. The good news is we have authority over him and Jesus has defeated him!

 

PRAY:

Lord, I take authority over every attack of the enemy! I thank You for helping me to discern what is an attack from the enemy and for giving me the strength to overcome every attack that comes my way!! In Jesus name, Amen.

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Day Fourteen – Fighting Giants

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1 Corinthians 1:27 (NIV)
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Most of us have probably heard the story of David and Goliath. David was a teenage boy who decided to fight a 9-foot tall giant! There was nothing about David that said he was strong enough to take on this task. Everyone looked and saw a frail teenage boy, but David didn’t come at Goliath with his ability or in his strength. He came at Goliath in the name of His God! We often look at ourselves and think we don’t measure up to the task and the calling God has put on our lives. The truth is that in the natural, we don’t! But God is on our side. He fights for us!

He uses us not because we are good, but because He is good.

Stop disqualifying yourself and start letting God use you to do something great for Him.

 

PRAY:

Lord, help me to see the full potential I have in Jesus Christ. My temptation is to see myself according to my past and my shortcomings. I ask that You would help me to see myself through the promise of Your word. I know with Your grace and power I can overcome any weakness that has hindered me in the past. I turn to Your grace, and I ask You to release Your power in me so I can become the person You have created me to be. In Jesus name, Amen.

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Day Thirteen – His Perfect Love

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Ephesians 3:17-19 (NKJV)
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
I don’t think we can ever fully grasp how much God loves us. The closest I’ve ever come to glimpsing his unconditional love is when I held my children for the first time. In that moment, I understood the love a father has for his children. But His love goes far beyond that. 

The apostle Paul says that Christ’s love for you surpasses all knowledge.

A great biblical scholar who had dedicated his life to the study of scripture was asked to sum up his knowledge of the Bible in a few sentences. He quickly replied, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” How simple, beautiful, and how unending that truth really is.

 

PRAY:

Lord, help me to know how wide, how long, how deep, and how high your love for me truly is.

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Day Twelve – Forgiveness

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READ:

Ephesians 4:32 (NKJV)
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
This one stings a little, to say the least! We’ve all been hurt by someone close to us. More than likely, by this point in our lives, we have been wronged or betrayed by someone. I’m from Texas and was raised by aunts and uncles who were Texan, and if you crossed them you were forever on the unforgiven list. All of us have people that we don’t want to forgive. You may have had unspeakable things done to you. Things I couldn’t imagine. The Bible isn’t saying that the wrong they did to you is right.

The Bible is just saying, “Forgive the people who have wronged you because Jesus forgave you of everything wrong you have ever done.”

That’s why we forgive – because God has forgiven us. We also forgive because it frees us. I love this quote by Lewis B. Smedes: “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

 

PRAY:

Lord, help me to forgive the people in my life that have hurt me deeply. Give me the strength to let this pain go so I can be free to be all You have called me to be.

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Day Eleven – Fearless

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2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
I was about 12 when a friend of mine let me watch a “Tales from the Crypt” show that I never will forget! I was terrified for weeks! I was afraid to sleep in the dark. I would make myself check under my bed before crawling into it. That show put some serious fear in me. Looking back on it now, it was extremely silly that I was so afraid of a show like that, but that’s the way fear works. It’s not rational. People have all kinds of irrational fears. They are afraid of the dark, spiders, the sun, water, and the list goes on and on. But you don’t have to live your life in fear. You can take every fearful thought captive and make it line up with the word of God.

Life is too short to live in fear.

It may take some time but, every time you feel fear creeping in, start confessing this promise over yourself. I believe that you can be free from fear in your life.

 

PRAY:

Lord, I thank you that You haven’t given me fear! In fact, You have come to set me free from fear. I take every thought captive and command it to line up with Your word. I refuse to live my life fearful anymore! In Jesus name, Amen.

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Day Ten – Our Comforter

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READ:

John 14:18 (NLT)
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.
Have you ever felt like you were all alone? One day, my wife went to the store and had taken my daughter with her. My son (about 4 at the time) was in the other room taking a nap. I was in my bedroom when I heard a scream from the living room. I ran to see what was going on. That’s when I saw my son at the door crying. For some reason, he thought we had left him all alone. I picked him up and assured him that I would never leave him by himself. That’s the assurance that Jesus gives all of us. 

He said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Maybe you feel alone, but rest in the confidence that Jesus will never leave you. He is standing faithful by your side.

 

PRAY:

Lord, thank you that You have never abandoned me, and that You stand with me even when others have left. Thank you Holy Spirit for being my comforter in times when I feel lonely.

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