[Monday]
1 Peter 1:13-25
- Prepare your mind for action
- The stronger you are for Christ, the stronger the attacks will become, stay worded up
- Purify yourself
- Replace old habits (sinning) with new (growing in Christ by getting into the word of God)
- Be Holy because He’s holy
- Set your hope fully on the grace that’s coming
- Use your brethern to help gird up your loin and assist us
James 1:22-25
Don’t just listen to the word, DO IT!
[Tuesday]
Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed by this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. -KJV
An ambassador is someone that forsakes their own interests for the sake of the people they represent. Sacrificing who they are to better so those around them what their people are. As Christians we are to sacrifice ourselves completely to God so that the world may see who and what He is. We should not be tainted by the world around us but be able to show what Christ’s word has taught us.
[Wednesday] Ephesians 4:17-24
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: -KJV
In Christ we are reborn as children of God, with our mines renewed in transformation so that unlike those that don’t serve God, we have a clearer understanding of life around us and are able to walk with God through his grace and blessings while his hand guides us with righteous justice and love.
[Thursday] 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. -KJV
Elsewhere in the scriptures we are told that our bodies are the temple of God, and that we must take care of our bodies as such. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we’ll become sick and get onto a destructive path toward death. In the same manner that we must train our bodies so we must also train our mind for a strong man without brain is nothing more than raw unstable power. There are three kinds of smarts in this world
Book smarts - textual knowledge, school knowledge, etc.
Street smarts - the knowledge we gain from life itself
Spirit smarts - the knowledge gained from faith
To have the first two would allow one to live a wonderful life, to have all three would gain someone an extraordinary life. Having just the last would gain someone a fulfilled life.
[Friday] Look up verses that tell you what we are to look like in Christ
There are two passages that come to my mind, 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter; and Job 1:8, where God tells Satan about his blameless and upright servant. On that feared Him and turned away from evil.
[Saturday] Look up verses that tell us who we are in Christ
Romans 5:1. Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are justified and therefore we have a peace that surpasses those without Christ’s love.
Galatians 3:13. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
We are redeemed from the curse of the law, death has no hold on us.
Colossians Chapter 2:9-10 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
We are complete, what more can we want that He cannot provide?
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