Category: Devotionals

Devotionals

Baptized with the Spirit

Read: Matthew 3:13-17 Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. (v. 15) I am the kind of student who “learns by doing.” I learn best by following someone

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The Spirit-Filled Savior

Read: Isaiah 11:1-9 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him. (v. 2) For more than a decade, superhero movies have dominated the film industry. I understand the appeal. I

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Take Not Your Spirit from Me

Read: Psalm 51:7-12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (v. 10) When I was a child, one of my biggest fears was

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A New Heart

Read: Ezekiel 36:22-27 I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. (v. 26) One of my favorite Christmas stories is Dr. Seuss’ classic

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The Spirit That Is on You

Read: Numbers 11:16-18, 24-25 I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. (v. 17) Though no one knows exactly where it originated, the

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The Spirit at Creation

Read: Genesis 1:1-5; 2:7 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (v. 2) The Holy Spirit makes his first appearance in the opening verses of

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Love

Read: 1 Corinthians 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (v. 13) Love is the greatest and most costly Christian virtue,

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Hope

Read: Hebrews 6:13-20 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul . . . Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf. (vv. 19-20) On the front lawn of

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Faith

Read: Hebrews 11:1-12:2 Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (12:1) The last three virtues (faith, hope, and love) are called the theological virtues because