Multiplying My Influence
Your affections guide your journey. They can steer you down a narrow way with eternal, exponential influence, or to a dead-end place where your reward must be left behind.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Stand Firm
Ever feel like you are alone in the battle? The fighting and chaos surround you, and there seems to be no chance of winning. Listen to today’s passage.
Molding My Influence
Like a potter’s hands smoothly gliding over wet clay, so is the formation of a godly heritage. Recurring rash moments could damage the vessel and the legacy. But gentle care will yield a beautiful expression of the artist and her God.
Episode 10 Rescued!
Lindsey was married…to another woman. In this interview she describes what put her on a journey away from God and what compelled her to come back to the God she loved.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Holy. Holy. Holy.
Isaiah had never seen anything like it. Before him was the Lord seated in all majesty and might, surrounded by angels who had to cover their faces (they could not look directly at God’s glory) and feet (acknowledging their lowliness) as they hovered around the throne. Here’s what Isaiah saw.
Imparting My Influence
You can’t leave a legacy of Godly faith and practice unless you truly own it.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: The Eternal God
Our passage today declares that the Lord is the everlasting God. Let’s read our passage and focus on what it means when we say that God is everlasting or eternal.
Sharing My Influence
Hospitality has gotten a first-world makeover. In fact, it’s almost unrecognizable from the original design
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Everlasting Dominion
The king had been humbled. The great Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who had been compared to a lion (Jeremiah 4:7) and an eagle (Ezekiel 17:3-12), was driven from his kingdom to eat grass like an ox (Daniel 4:33). God got Nebuchadnezzar’s attention! When he came to his senses, he “blessed the Most High” God. We learn a lot about God and ourselves in Nebuchadnezzar’s prayer.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Spiritual Audit
Life presents chaos, confusion, and uncertainty. Our newsfeed delivers another story that makes us angry. Truth is mocked. People are stumbling in the public square. A call delivers news of an illness or a tragic loss. I read today that six people were suddenly killed in a head-on collision. In a split second, their lives were over. Bad news never stays “out there.” It hits home, and we do our best to stand firm.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Sovereign
Our lives are sovereignly ordained by the living God. Long before you were born, he knew where you would be right now as you interact with this devo. With great love, he created you as his masterpiece. You are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” Here’s how David describes your coming to be.
Living My Influence
What frames your internal world? Are the thoughts and intents of your heart a cluttered structure of wood, hay, and stubble, or do precious metal and costly stone form the building blocks of your life?
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: God’s Presence
God’s presence with us is one of the most powerful experiences of our lives. It gives us comfort when we are down, courage when we are fearful, and confidence when we doubt. And…let’s be honest. There are times in our humanness that we want to get away from God. We desire to run far from him. We want to do something we know he would not approve of. God’s presence is powerful…and…sometimes we want to be left alone. We seek God’s companionship…on our terms. I believe this is what David is getting at in Psalm 139:11-12.
Controlling My Influence
Like a downhill skier in the winter Olympics, the Christian often teeters between a winning run to the finish line and crashing into a snow bank. We’re constantly balancing between the liberty of the Gospel and the constraints of a holy life.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Hiding from God
Let’s be honest. Have you ever felt like running from God? I have. There have been times when I wanted to be alone, wanted to hide, and wanted some distance from God. But where is that place of seclusion? Let’s see what King David said.
Impressing My Influence
Your delegated power to shape a watching world begins in a place much more intimate. Fail there and the world stops watching.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Where is God?
When your world begins to shake, you can go in one of two directions. You can turn to God and trust him to steady you. Or you can turn away from God and conclude he doesn’t care…maybe, he doesn’t even know what to do, so you’re better off on your own. At the end of the day, here’s the question: Which way will you turn?
Demonstrating My Influence
There’s a biblical measurement that marks the influential Christian life. How effectively you impact the world, your neighbors and family for Christ hangs on that yardstick.
Standing Firm in Unshakable Faith: Fear Not, Stand Firm
I called it the athletic stance. When I coached, it was the first thing I taught. Feet spread apart just a bit wider than the shoulders, knees slightly bent, leaning forward toward the balls of your feet, and both hands open and held out with elbows bent. I lined up the players, had them get in the athletic stance, and then walked down the line, pushing each player’s shoulders. In that posture, you don’t lose your footing; you keep your balance, and you stand firm. And from that position, you can move with agility whether you are a cornerback or a shortstop.
Accepting My Influence
When you accepted Christ’s forgiveness you were assigned a mission and promised rewards. Together they offer a life lived with passionate purpose.