Short Devotionals
The only way to the Father…
John 14:5-6
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. (WEB)
In the seventies, there was a popular slogan that found its way onto billboards and bumper stickers throughout evangelical Christianity. This slogan simply said… “Jesus is the way”. In today’s Bible passage, we read in Jesus’ own words, who He is the way to. He tells His disciple Thomas, that He Himself is the only way for us to come to know God as Father.
Because of broken father figures and misguided religious portrayals of God, many believers struggle to have a living, loving relationship with Father God. They see Him as distant and angry, and a judge that is just waiting to discipline us when we do something wrong. As a result of these kinds of misconceptions, many well meaning people miss out on the very relationship that Jesus died to bring us into.
Jesus is the way to His Father. Jesus came to reconcile us with His Father. Through Jesus’ resurrection, we now can call His Father… our Father too (John 20:17). My prayer today is that we would see that Jesus is the way for each one of us to come to God and cry out ‘Abba, Father!’. I would encourage you to ask Jesus to reveal His Father to you… For this is a prayer that He will most certainly answer!
John 17:26
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (WEB)
By Fatherheart.tv Daily Reading
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Out of Chaos
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. —Genesis 1:2 nlt
Key Thought
In the very first chapter of the Bible, we are taken to the chaos before time began. In the formless and dark void prior to the completion of creation, we find the Spirit of God hovering over the chaos waiting for God to speak his creative word. This creative word set the power of the Spirit into creative work, ordering and making our universe and our world within it. Yet isn’t it so sadly ironic that in the chaos of our lives we so seldom cry out to God and ask for his Holy Spirit to come into our lives and bring the Lord’s creative order? Let’s ask for God’s Spirit, hovering above our messes, to enter into our world and lead us to where we need to be and to bring the Father the glory he deserves!’
Today’s Prayer
O Sovereign God, I confess that I cannot order and control my life. I surrender to your grace and ask for your Holy Spirit to enter my world and bring your gracious and creative order and form your holy character and compassion in me. In the name of your Son and my Savior, I pray. Amen.
By Phil Ware from http://www.heartlight.org – used by permission
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Promise #4: I created you in My own image with My special blessing.
Genesis 1:27-28 (WEB)
God created us in His own image. Think about that for a moment. We were created to reflect the image of God Himself! I wonder what the angels thought when they first saw Adam and Eve? What a glorious privilege to be made in the image of the One who knit us together in our mother’s womb!
May we never take this blessing for granted. May we always be in awe of the fact that we were created to look just like God. When Jesus came to the earth 2,000 years ago, He sealed the deal by making a way for us to be conformed into His image (Romans 8:29) inside and out so that He could be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.
My prayer today is that we would live in the light of our Father’s original blessing to be fruitful, to multiply and to have dominion throughout the whole earth with the knowledge that we were created to look just like our Heavenly Dad.
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