Daily Devotions by Clair

Help us Lord..

We must trust God in everything that we do. You must put God first before anything else. I don't care if you're a millionaire without God you have nothing. When you trust God with everything you have/do then that's when you will be successful and God will give you things you've never imagined. God will carry you through your tough times you just have to put him before anything else and he will make straight your paths.

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Being a Christian isn't always cupcakes and rainbows. When you decide to give your life to Christ there are going to be battles. You will get made fun of, people will mock you, people will hate you but remember they hated him first. When you decide to give your life to Jesus you are called to be different from the rest of the world even though it's hard sometimes. When you give your life to Jesus you can't just half way do it and be lukewarm. You have to fully give your life to him and try to become more like him. Even though it's not always cupcakes and rainbows living for Jesus in the end its always worth it. I don't know about you but I would rather get judged by the world instead of God.

In your tough times you may think why is Jesus putting me through this? or if God is so good why is he putting me through this? When all you see is just a battle and feel hopelessness just remember that Jesus is bringing you through that battle for it to become a victory! Our God is a wonderful and loving God. He is not gonna do anything to hurt you. That battle you might be going through right now is just a victory waiting to come!

It is not enough to simply hear God's word. We must obey the Word and use it as an instructional manual for how we should live our lives. When we follow the Lord's commands and live as Jesus did, others can tell we are different. This is how others know we are Christ followers, by the way we follow His teachings and put them into practice. If you are just listening to sermons and Bible verses but are not applying them to your life, you are not showing your love for God.

We all need to love one another the way God loves us. God is love. God loves us whether we are out on the streets doing who knows what or we are the most holy Christian in the church.
Our God is a loving, kind, and forgiving God. We need to love one another the way He loves us! God's love is unconditional for each and every one of us.
God loves us when we are at our weakest and when we are at our strongest.
Gods love never fails!
God loves us even though we don't deserve it.
We need to start loving others like God loves us. You don't have to like them but you do have to love them!

We all are an influencer whether it is a good or bad thing that we influence. We all do it. We need to make sure that we are influencing the right things and not the wrong things. Every single day we influence things that you don't even think about. We all need to become more Christ like. The more Christ like we are the more Christ like things we can influence. We could be the only influencers of Christ people may ever meet. Make your influence count!!

All those thoughts in your head like "oh I can't do this" or "they are gonna laugh and make fun of me" or "I'm not worth it" is just the spirit of hopelessness. Because satan knows he can bring you down by saying those things. He knows that those little thoughts he puts in your head are gonna get to you but you cant let them get to you. If anything we should want to spread the gospel and help save people instead of not doing anything. You're not the only person that gets those thoughts. I get them all the time and yes sometimes I listen to them. Butbwhen I do that stays with me all the time about how I didnt do what Jesus wanted and I listened to those thoughts. Then I know I have to do better. You just have to think Jesus carried that cross miles and miles for you so live for Him and do the things He says.

Grace!!

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I like swimming and sometimes when i get in the pool the water is super cold. And you know how it goes you step your foot in the water and it feels cold but thats only because we aren't used to it and then we step back and say "no i dont want that" But when you finally commit and you jump in, you go all in you get that refreshing feeling of the cold water and when you stay there awhile and you get out if it you get that shivering feeling and you realize the pool was the more comfortable place to be. Have you ever had that feeling of you wanna read the bible and you wanna have a relationship with Jesus but you just dont feel motivated what if you spent to long out of the pool. What if you spent to long outside of what God has for you and when you go back to it and step in it feels cold and feels like God is far away but really we are just not used to what it feels like. But when you finally commit and jump all in for what God has for you and what hes gonna do for in your life you get that refreshing feeling. And when you stay there and go back to the world you get that shivering feeling and realize the pool is where im meant to be.

Sin is expensive. Incredibly expensive. But the price isn't paid in cash, it's paid in mental, emotional, and spiritual pain, God didn't create an arbitrary list of "DOs" and DON'Ts" to see if we could follow them. No, He laid out a set of essential guidelines for living. His anger towards lying, stealing, cheating, coveting, murder, jealousy, and pride is because all of these behaviors destroy relationships. Everything that the Bible labels as sin is something that God is trying to protect us from. His desire is love, peace, grace, and harmony with Him and with all of creation. Sin is our defiant rejection of this in an effort to satisfy our own selfish desires.