Today's devotional: becoming a living sacrifice
In a devotional today at Words of Hope, Jessica Heikoop asks if Christians are truly...
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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Accidentally on Purpose - #4278
The only way most people meet the folks at the auto body shop is by accident. No accident, you don't ever feel the need. I got to thinking that God could hang out a sign like that - "We meet by accident." An "accident" - well, something in our life that goes wrong and we can't fix it. That, for many of us, is the only thing that really makes us ready to get serious about what God wants. We don't run to God until we've run into something!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Accidentally-on-Purpose-4278
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Walked On, But Still Victorious - #4299
I have a Savior like that. There are plenty of people who have no time for Jesus, no interest in Him, who have basically blown Him off. There are even people who consider Jesus something we used to believe in, something needed only be weak people. And in most workplaces and schools, you can hear Jesus' name used as a swear word most every day. Oh yes, His name has been trampled on.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Walked-On-But-St...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - God's Strange Road to Power - #4793
before there can be the conquest of the Jericho that looms before you right now, there must be the conquest of you. God allows things into our life that will bring us to the end of ourselves where all your experience, and your talent, your wisdom, your connections, and your persuasion are useless in getting an answer. God has brought you to this moment of total helplessness, not so you would give up, but so you would give over the controls to Him totally, unconditionally.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/God-s-Strange-Road-to-Power-4793
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 - Never Forgetting the Cost - #4196
There's a man who tried to live his life here in light of what was sacrificed for him. I understand that. I hope you do.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Never-Forgetting-the-Cost-4196
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Unbaptized Hand - #4055
This "withholding approach" to Christian commitment has a long history. It goes back at least as far as the incident in our word for today from the Word of God, beginning in Acts 5:1.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Unbaptized-Hand-4055
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Most Powerful Prayer You'll Ever Pray - #4073
Which leads us to the most powerful prayer you can pray. "Lord, I give up." It could be those three words are all that's keeping you from a supernatural answer - "I give up." You've been like that frustrated ladybug my wife watched for so long trying to climb our window. You've reached an obstacle that you just can't get over. And you've been struggling so hard to find or concoct an answer, that you've limited yourself to you getting yourself over this. You've come at it from one direction, then another, only to end up frustrated and unsuccessful every time.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Most-Powerful-Prayer-You-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Beachhead Victory Plan - #3858
In other words, while you're trying to give Jesus everything, be sure you surrender a specific something to Him each new day. That's why Jesus said to take up His cross daily. There's no grand and glorious dedication decision that you can make that settles this once and for all.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Beachhead-Victory-Plan-3858
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Incredible Shrinking Me - #5597
There are two lifelong battlefields where we wrestle with the Lord over the "me first" thing. One is the area of control. We don't mind giving the Lord time, or money, or service. We give Him loyalty and hard work. We'll give Him anything but control. I want to maintain control of the areas that really matter to me: maybe my career, or my family, my money. I want to control my ministry, or my image, my talent, my plans. For most of us, there is a major control issue that lets the control of Jesus Christ go only so far.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/The-Incredible-Shrinking-Me-5597
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Stubborn Heifers - #5606
A farmer has to put cumbersome yokes and sometimes painful constraints on a stubborn one. And that may explain why life has been so difficult for you, why there's been so much grief. It's unnecessary grief - grief because you simply will not do it God's way. You insist on your way - your outcome - your timetable. In certain areas of your life or your personality, you just have your mind made up how it's going to be and you're determined that not even God is going to make you change or move.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Stubborn-Heifers-5606