Category: Daily Devotional

Scripture: Acts 14:[17] Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”

Observation: God provides us with everything we need, He cares for His children. My life was miserable without Him, but when I found my Lord He brought joy into my life, a joy I never experienced before. God opened my eyes and softened my heart so I may experience His true love.

Application: Realize everything I have and am comes from God. Thank Him each day and take nothing for granted. Help lead others to God’s grace so they to may experience the joy I now have in God.

Prayer: Dear Father thank you for taking care of me and giving me a love I still can’t fully understand. You deserve my best and full obedience, help me give you this. Thank you for loving me so much you wouldn’t give up on me. I love you Lord.

Scripture: Acts 13: 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Observation: I wonder why God appointed me for eternal life. I was a terrible man before Jesus came into my life as Lord and Savior. Yet I know that He has given me eternal life. As many times as I tried to end this life He wouldn’t allow it, I had an appointment and He wasn’t going to allow me to miss it.

Application: To honor God and to help Him touch the life’s of others by my testimony. To be a witness of my Lord’s love and faithfulness. To thank God each day that I was appointed for eternal life and not take such a wonderful gift for granted.

Prayer: Dear Father thank you for my appointment in your Kingdom. I will never be worthy, but show me each day what you would desire of me and may I please you in all I do. You are so worthy may my love for you show brightly.

Scripture: Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

Observation: Prayer is powerful and I need to treat it as such. Prayer is not just something you do but is the power of God that can change things. Answered prayers is a gift from God, which He should be thanked for and something I need to do to help others in need.

Application: When I pray I need to realize exactly what I’m doing. I’m asking the Almighty God to use His power to change something in my life or in someone else’s. I must earnestly seek Him in reverence knowing I’m speaking to God.

Prayer: Dear Father teach me how to pray to you, that I may hear your voice and be guided by your desires. May I not be robotic in my praying but humbly seek you.

Scripture: Acts 11:[24] He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.

Observation: For others to see you as a good man, what does it take? What more would it take so others can see you as filled with the Holy Spirit and Faith? That is my desire to live a life where my faith and believe was so apparent to others that they could see Jesus through my life.

Application: To ask God for a continual filling of the Holy Spirit and let Him rule my life. I can’t be a good man without God guiding me and I need His strength to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to have the faith I need to have to accomplish my purpose in this life.

Prayer: Dear Lord guide your servant and show me the desires of your heart for this life. Fill me with the Holy Spirit and take charge. May others see your love lived out in my life. I love you Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit may others see that love today.

Scripture: Acts 10:4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.
The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.

Observation: How wonderful it would be that my obedience to God could be brought up as a memorial offering to Him. Yet I stop and think what would that offering be? I can think of very little that might be considered and offering pleasing to my Lord. Only a few things come to mind that might be considered worthy of an offering, not enough for an angel to proclaim.

Application: Start living a life that is an offering to God. Produce fruit that is worthy as an offering and that it would please my God. May I serve the poor and others that it could be recognized as an offering.

Prayer: Dear Father you have given me so much and protected me. Show me how to give and not only receive from you. Make my life an offering to you, may it be a pleasant aroma and pleasing in your sight.

Scripture: Acts 9:36 In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which, when translated, is Dorcas), who was always doing good and helping the poor.

Observation: I wish people could say that about me that I was always doing good. To be a person who stands out to others as being special by doing good and helping, to be a person that is known by putting others first. God must have been so proud of her.

Application: To strive to help others by doing good and helping. To use the gifts God has given me to make God proud of me. To help those less fortunate than me in whatever way I can. To ask for the strength and unselfishness I will need to accomplish such a task.

Prayer: Dear Lord help me be the man that would make you proud of me. Give me the courage that I may focus on the needs of others above my own. May I fulfill the purpose you have given me.

Scripture: Acts 8: [29] The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

Observation: The spirit directs my life and speaks to me, but do I listen? The spirit will tell me what I should do but doesn’t force me to do it He allows me to choose. He also doesn’t shout out His direction but is soft spoken and I need to be quiet and listen if I want to hear. He has the answer to why I am here and He can guide me if I let him.

Application: Continue to be in prayer and ask for guidance. Be silent and listen and obey the commands of the Spirit.

Prayer: Dear Father guide me with your Spirit and show me what it is you desire of me. Show me how to be obedient to you and may I complete the reason why I’m here in glory and honor to you.