Daily Devotion
LEGACY UMC
Remember ALL our Sick and Shut-In Members
with a card, a call, but most of all, remember them in your prayers.
“Pray Without Ceasing”
“ALL IN” MANIFESTO
From Mark Batterson’s “ALL IN” – Resource for One of Our Bible Study Sessions.
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions.
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God.
Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution.
Stop repeating the past and start creating the future.
Stop playing it safe and start taking risks.
Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Enjoy the journey.
Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can.
Live like today is the first day and the last day of your life.
Don’t let what’s wrong with you keep you from worshiping what’s right with God.
Burn sinful bridges. Blaze new trails.
Don’t let fear dictate your decisions. Take a flying leap of faith.
Quit holding out. Quit holding back.
Push all of your chips to the middle of the table.
It’s time to ante up all of your faith.
It’s time to go all in.
It’s time to go all out.
1 Corinthians 13 – The Message (MSG)
The Way of Love
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
“SCRIPTURE AFFIRMATIONS”
We need to be in agreement with God about WHO WE ARE and WHAT WE CAN DO “WITH HIS HELP”!
It’s not enough to just read scriptures. We have to make them personal and apply them to our lives. That’s where “SCRIPTURE AFFIRMATIONS” come in. They are the first step to take in applying God’s Word to our lives. Repeat these affirmations until your mind repeats them back to you; and then repeat them some more. Write them in your PRAYER JOURNAL! Tape them up in your WAR ROOM! Post them on your refrigerator, on your bathroom mirror, on the console of your car/truck. “SCRIPTURE AFFIRMATIONS” are high-powered food supplements for your spirit!“SCRIPTURE AFFIRMATIONS”
These are power tools for the Christian, scriptures quoted as affirmations that when you speak out loud in Jesus’ name, you command your body, your mind, and even your demons to do what you say.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (MSG) I trust God from the bottom of my heart; I don’t try to figure out anything on my own. I listen for God’s voice in everything I do, everywhere I go; He’s the one who will keep me on track.
Colossians 1:13-14 (MSG) God rescued me from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set me up in the kingdom of His Son He loves so much, the Son who got me out of the pit I was in, got rid of the sins I was doomed to keep repeating.
Psalm 27:1 (MSG) Light, space, zest – that’s my God! So with Him on my side I’m fearless, afraid of no one and nothing.
Philippians 4: 13 (MSG) Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
Colossians 3:16 (MSG) I let the Word of Christ-the Message-have the run of the house. I give it plenty of room in my life to instruct and direct me, using good common sense. And sing, I sing my heart out to God.
John 10: 4-5 (MSG) The Good Shepherd leads me and I follow Him because I am familiar with His voice. I won’t follow a stranger’s voice, but will scatter because I am not used to the sound of it.
Nehemiah 8:10 (MSG) He told me to go home and prepare a feast, holiday food and drink; and share it with those who don’t have anything. This day is holy to God. I don’t feel bad. The joy of the Lord is my strength!
I Peter 2:24 (MSG) He used His servant body to carry my sins to the Cross, so that I could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became my healing.
Psalm 138:8b (MSG) Finish what you started in me, God. Your love is eternal – don’t quit on me now.
Psalm 91:10-11 (MSG) Evil can’t get close to me, harm can’t get through the door. He ordered His angels to guard me wherever I go.