Month: August 2020

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Observation: I like the idea of being God’s workmanship, made special. That God took care in creating me and that there is a purpose for my existence. That there are things I’m supposed to do and that God prepared in advance for me to do these things.

Application: That I have a purpose and that purpose is to serve God in whatever capacity He desires. He has chosen things in advance for me to do and I need to get busy doing them. My life is drawing closer to the end and I want to complete the tasks he has set before me in glory and honor to him. I need to spend more time in prayer and reading to help me discover the works I am to do.

Prayer: Dear God put on my heart your desires and guide me through this day that I will complete the works you set before me in glory and honor to your name.

Scripture: Ephesians 1:5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.

Observation: God knew I was going to come with Him all the time. I Look back at my life and don’t understand why God would even want me at all, let alone be his son. And bringing me closer to him is his good pleasure and his desire. I wish I can forgive others they way God forgave me and I wish I can love others like God does me.

Application: There is no way to payback God for all he has done for me yet I desire to try. God has called me his child and I want to be the best kid I can be. I want my Dad to be proud of me so I want to be obedient to all ha asked me to do and be a chip off the old block.

Prayer: Dear Father I thank you for loving this sinner, now your child so much. You are worthy of all my love, praise and obedience. Guide and show me how to be the best son I can be for you.

Scripture: Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Observation: I become weary so easily. I will volunteer to serve and become tired just thinking about doing it at times, instead of how it honors God, which is why I’m doing it in the first place. The harvest is to bring others to Christ and the service I do for the Lord has done that and by doing more service it will guide even more to his saving grace.

Application: Do everything with joy and gladness because I am doing it to the Lord. I’m only here for one reason, to honor God. He created me to do the things I do and I should be so blessed that He has given me the skills and gifts to do them. Look for more opportunities to use the gifts he has given me and increase the harvest in his name.

Prayer: Dear Lord I thank you for all you’ve given me, I deserve nothing. May I use the gifts and talents I have to please you and touch the lives of those around me in glory and honor to your name.

Scripture: Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature, rather, serve one another in love.

Observation: It is so easy to fall into my sinful nature whether it is lust of the eyes, greed, envy and other sins committed against my brothers and sisters in Christ. I’m called only to love others and out of that love serve them. When I serve it should not be out of recognition or praise but to do it out of love for my Lord and that love needs to shine through to others.

Application: To pray through any sinful nature that will come out throughout each day. To look at others with the love of Christ and to serve them as I’m serving my savior. Find ways to help others and live a life that honors God.

Prayer: Dear God help me see others as you see them. Show me how to serve your children and draw closer to you each day. You are worthy of all my love, praise and obedience.

Scripture: Galatians 4:7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

Observation: I have been a slave to sin most of my life and even now am controlled from time to time by it, but Jesus set me free from that. I am a child of God, his son and the Kingdom of heaven belongs to me. How unbelievable that sounds to me that I will inherit heaven after all I’ve done to my Father. I am truly the prodigal son.

Application: To remember each day that I am a son of God and my Father deserves all the obedience that a good son would have for their perfect Father. To tell others of their inheritance that awaits for them in the name of Jesus and to live a life of peace and hope in my Father so others will be drawn close to Him.

Prayer: Dear Father I thank you for your love and am not worthy of the inheritance that you have set aside for me. Show me how to be a good son, an obedient one that will please you and make you proud. May I hear you say, “That’s my boy,” with pride.

Scripture: Galatians 3:27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Observation: What does it mean to be clothed in Christ? It means to be covered, wrapped in, protected by and when others see you they see the clothes you wear, which is Jesus. Jesus protects us from the elements, hides are nakedness, and comforts us. If we are truly clothed by Jesus others will see him in our life and the closer we are drawn to him the more others will notice how finely dressed we are.

Application: Not to wear anything else, but the robes of the King. That by being clothed I’m representing Jesus as my Lord and savior and need nothing else, no other accessory just the royal robes of my Lord.

Prayer: Dear heavenly Father cover me with the blood of your son. May other see the love He has for me and for others. May I walk proudly today that others may see that I live my life wearing the love of my Savior.

Scripture: Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Observation: My old life is gone and Jesus has brought me a new life through his love. He renewed my mind and changed my heart. He has filled me with the Holy Spirit and he now lives in me. I’m not the same man I was, but still have a long way to go to be the man he desires of me. My faith is still weak even though stronger than it was before being saved and that is the part that is holding me up from being more like my savior.

Application: I need to allow Jesus to work more in me. He still allows me to make choices and my choices are not always God honoring, still focused on myself. My faith is weak and I need to continue to ask in prayer for my Lord to strengthen it. I need to give myself to my Lord each day allowing him to use this servant for glory and honor to him.

Prayer: Dear God please increase my faith and work through this servant. Continue to change your servant and form me into the man you desire me to be, I am yours, use me as you desire.