The purpose of a fruit tree is to bear fruit, as is the purpose of a Christian. You and I were made to bear fruit. For the Christian, our “fruit” is changed lives…our own, and others. Yet some believers’ lives are “barren” for long stretches […]
Month: January 2011
Lost Your Passion? Devotinal for Sunday, January 9, 2011
Lost Your Passion? “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4 NIV I had a busy day today. I woke up about 6 and drove to Baton Rouge for a Kairos meeting and then drove to […]
Don’t Just Sit There – Devotional for Saturday, January 8, 2011
It’s a New Year and we want to make a change. We want to make a difference. Chuck Swindoll tells this story:Now, admittedly, some go a little nuts when they decide a change is needed. Larry Walters did. The thirty-three-year-old truck driver had been sitting […]
At Home in Your Heart – Devotional for Friday, January 7, 2011
At Home in Your Heart? I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love […]
Finding Your Contenment In Jesus
Finding Your Contentment in Jesus Hebrews 13 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”[b] Think about this: What do […]
Be a Stained Glass Window – Devotional for Wednesday, January 5, 2011
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” —2 Corinthians 4:7 Greg Laurie tells of a little girl who was asked in her Sunday school class what a saint was. Thinking […]
Life is like a roll of toilet paper – Devotional for January 4, 2011
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a […]
Whom Do You Seek? Devotional for January 3, 2011
I want everything my God has for me in 2011. I want a productive fearless life. What we achieve is very dependent on our attitude. On what have we focused? What do we seek? Much of today’s devotional is based on Pastor Doucet’s New Year […]