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So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture…

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways! Romans 11:33 (NLT) In obedience to God’s prompting to reprioritize my mornings, I prayed before opening emails or Facebook. I praised God for His magnificence and marveled at how beyond us and…

Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Instead, give yourselves completely to God… use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right. Romans 6:12-13 (NLT) You may know that I’m sometimes slow to catch on. Because of this character trait, God often repeats…

Yes, I have sinned. I have disobeyed your instructions and the Lord’s command, for I was afraid of the people and did what they  demanded. 1 Samuel 15:24 (NLT)   King Saul succumbed to popular opinion rather than following God’s instructions. Have you ever been in this situation?   The back story: The Israelites have…

You received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Romans 8:15 (NLT)   So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the…

Hallowed be thy name. Matthew 6:9 (KJV) Do we mean what we say in the Lord’s Prayer?   The Lord’s Prayer is among my most treasured scriptures. I have studied it in depth and pray the words with heartfelt sincerity. I’m continually bothered by the contradiction of our praying “hallowed be thy name” and our…