Being obedient... even when it hurts
This morning's devotional, from Lifetime Guarantee Ministries, challenges us to think about...
Today's Devotional: Because You Say So
Has God ever asked you to step out in faith?
There are times in our lives when we need to...
Today's Devotional: Half-hearted Obedience
Jonah spends the majority of his eponymous book complaining and running away from responsibility....
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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Same Old Baggage - #4778
Why does Jesus ask us if we want to get well? Because sometimes we're afraid to change. We've gotten used to playing the victim role, the loser role. We've settled into an identity that revolves around that same old baggage.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Same-Old-Bag...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Wrong Number Breakdown - #4791
We can't understand what it takes to reach God until we understand what it is that keeps us from being able to reach Him. We have this wall between God and us called sin - which means we've made ourselves our own god by choosing to do it our way instead of God's. And we have earned an eternal death penalty, which only one person even claimed to pay, could pay. God's Son, Jesus, loved you enough to do the dying for your sin on His cross.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Wrong-Number...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Why it Doesn't Have to Be the Way it's Always Been - #4801
Because of what Jesus did, things don't always have to be like they've always been. When you open your life to Jesus, God's Rescuer from our sin, you receive His supernatural power to beat the darkness inside you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Why-it-Doesn-t-H...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Good News When There's No Way - #4809
God may use humans to deliver His resources to your life, but it doesn't come from them. It never has. It only comes through them. So when all the human sources can't do it, your real source is still there. Yes, you're stuck. Yes, there's nothing you can to do get yourself out. Yes, there's no conventional way to get out of this. But if you'll listen very carefully, you may hear some sounds getting closer and closer to you. That's your Rescuer, doing whatever it takes to bring out the one He loves.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Good-News-When-T...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Battle for Your Life - #4826
This very day the life-taker, the devil himself, is trying to hold onto you. He wants to keep you away from Jesus until your last heartbeat, and then you'll be his forever. But the Life-Giver, Jesus Christ, is fighting for your soul. He paid the price for your sin on the cross. And now you are in the middle of a tug-of-war on which your entire eternity depends; Satan trying to keep you on his path - to kill you - and Jesus inviting you to give yourself to Him so He can give you life. They won't decide whether you go to heaven or hell - you will.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Battle-for-Y...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Eating, Then Lying Down - #4827
Spiritual digestion takes place something like this. First, you read a few verses over two or three times, chewing on them until you can put them into words of your own. You first answer the question, "What is God saying here?" A lot of us stop there. You've got to ask the next question, "What should I do differently today because God says this?"
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Eating-Then-Lyin...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Spare Parts - #4111
I'm going to tell that dealer in no uncertain terms, "I paid the whole price! I should get the whole product - not just your spare parts!" Well, Jesus knows that feeling. A lot of us have tried to fulfill our commitment to Him by giving Him the spare parts of our life that we don't really care that much about. But He paid the whole price for us when He poured out His life for us. He should get what He paid for.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Spare-Parts-4111
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Looking Backwards - #4113
Unfortunately, a lot of people live their lives like the people on that roller coaster - always looking backwards, looking at where they've already been instead of where they're going. And that pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be a roller coaster ride!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Looking-Backward...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Joy of Facing Forward - #4868
I want to encourage you, on behalf of the Lord of new beginnings, to make today the day that you choose to finally close that dark old chapter. That may require forgiving someone who wronged you - not because they deserve it, any more than you and I deserved Jesus' forgiveness. You'll do it because Jesus commanded us to follow His example and to release that person by forgiving them - leaving them to God to make it right, committing to treat them, not the way they treated you, but the way Jesus treated you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Joy-of-Facin...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Finally Clean - #4871
Here's the point: if you will go to the place where God says you can be cured of your terminal sin-cancer and do what He says, He will make you clean and new. You can't buy His forgiveness by giving Him money. You can't earn His forgiveness by doing great things. You can only receive His forgiveness by going, in your heart, to Jesus' cross and throwing yourself on His mercy and His love.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Finally-Clean-4871