UPRISING DEVOTIONAL 15
Let your roots grow down into him and let your lives be built on him. Then, your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:7
UPRISING DEVOTIONAL 14
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
John 13:34-35
Identity is such an important thing because it helps us all to associate who belongs with who, and what belongs with what. Giving something a name or an identity keeps things in order. (more…)
Uprising Devotional 13
“SO BE done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind. Like…
UPRISING DEVOTIONAL 12
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins.
Ephesians 2:1
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4-5
By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10
UPRISING DEVOTIONAL 11
Jesus himself taught us to seek intimacy with God through private prayer. Prayer is where the worshiper pours out his heart to God. Jesus Himself stressed the importance of private prayer.
But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6 (NLT)
UPRISING DEVOTIONAL 10
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
Romans 12:1 NLT
Have you seen one of those hollywood movies or network television shows where a man’s life was saved by the main character, and then, their response after just being rescued from death is to pledge their life in service of the main character? (more…)
Uprising Devotional 9
“This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life. [Rom. 15:4.]”
Psalm 119:50 AMP
Isn’t it amazing what God has done for us? How he sent Jesus to save us. How He sent Jesus to replace us in receiving the punishment for sin.
Uprising Devotional 8
I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!
Psalms 116:1-2 NLT
One of the best things to have is that one person and that one relationship that makes themselves available any time we need someone to listen. It is that best friend who always answers when you call. Knows exactly what to say and when to say it. Knows how to comfort and act in times of need. We all grow to fall in love with that kind of best friend.
Uprising Devotional 7
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.
Ephesians 1:4-5
According to the Webster dictionary the definition of Adopt is to take by choice into a relationship; especially: to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one’s own child! God loves us, he chose us, and he adopted us into his family. God’s family has perks, through His son we have redemption and a God given purpose.
Uprising Devotional 6
I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 NLT