Category: Daily Devotional

Scripture: John 18:27 Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.

Observation: This verse could have read I Mark denied Him. How many times my thoughts and actions deny that I belong to Jesus? I don’t have to say the words but people see how I act and if my actions aren’t as a Christian then I deny Christ. Just the other day my wife needed my support and because of my attitude I didn’t go with her. I hurt her and that’s the same as denying Christ.

Application: Think before I act and ask am I honoring Christ or denying him with my actions, there is no middle of the road.

Prayer: My Lord you are my savior and I belong to you. Help me this day to honor and not deny you.

Scripture: John 17:6 “I have revealed you to these whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your Word.

Observation: God chose me to be given to Jesus. I ignored God most of my life, but He loved me so much He gave me to his son to be saved. How special to be chosen, now I must do my part in honoring God, to understand and to put into practice his Word. So, there is no doubt by people around me that I belong to Jesus.

Application: To take my time and meditate on God’s Word each day. Taking the principles and putting them into action. To pray and stay in close contact with my Lord

Prayer: My Lord I belong to you. Speak to me through the Holy Spirit and guide me each day.

Scripture: John 16:31 “You believe at last!” Jesus answered.

Observation: I can imagine God looking down at me and finally saying you believe at last! After all God had done in my life it still took over 45 years before I received Him in my life. Yet after all He has done I still fall short in trusting Him totally with my life. I can’t wait until the day He can say you finally trust me.

Application: To truly believe in my Lord and Savior each day and trust him with all He has given me. To have a peace about me knowing my Lord is with me always.

Prayer: Dear Lord faith is believing, increase my faith.

Scripture: John 15:8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Observation: To use the gifts and talents God has given me to bear fruit. It glorifies God whenever I serve at church or help someone because I’m showing myself as being one of Jesus” disciples.

Application: To be a true disciple is to follow Jesus each day. I need to bear fruit for God to glorify His name. I need to actively look at ways each day to bear fruit for my Lord.

Prayer: Dear Lord open my eyes to ways to glorify you today.

Scripture: John 14:1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me.

Observation: Most of my day it seems I live with my heart troubled. I start my morning in prayer giving God my anxieties and it seems in just a few minutes I’ve taken them back. I stand on Proverbs 3:5, 6 yet I can’t walk my talk and I lack the trust I need.

Application: I need to say trust in God each time I feel anxiety coming on. God has always been there for me yet I continue to lose heart and start to stray in my mind.

Prayer: Lord increase my faith that in all things I trust in you.

Scripture: John 12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me: and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

Observation: My role in this life and in eternity is to be a servant. I serve my Lord God here and forever. That is a lesson I need to learn each day that my life is not self-serving but God serving. To do that I must follow Jesus’ teachings that’s how I follow him. When I’m serving others that is where Jesus is and that’s where I want to be.

Application: Each day I need to find a way to serve someone in Jesus’ name and do what he commands me to do.

Prayer: My Lord guide me this day and show me who to serve and what to do.

Scripture: John 11:35 Jesus wept

Observation: This scripture shows how much Jesus cares for us. In my life I wonder how many times I hurt and disappointed God. My tears however were usually for myself whether pain or discouragement. I disregarded Jesus most of my life and hurt others yet instead of revenge, Jesus gave me mercy and grace and brought me in. Now when I weep, I can weep for others with a heart closer to my Lord’s.

Application: To have more compassion for others to be able to see their pain and to be able to do something to help.

Prayer: My Lord give me a heart like yours that I will take the focus off me and look to the needs of others.