Devotions

To spend quality time with God is so important: not only as individuals, but also as a family from time to time. These short devotions could be used in several ways:

To help get your family devotions started by prompting some discussion.
To give some food for your soul to ponder on.
To be used at work over a short tea break, or
To simply read through one in the morning at work together with your e-mails!

The devotions are written twice a week by some of our missionaries and the spiritual leaders of our church and community, who all have a passion for our Lord. Our hope is that these devotions will inspire you to serve Him with the same passion in all walks of life.

The devotions are meant to be used, but not published. Although the authors encourage anyone to use these devotions in any way possible to further the ministry, or even photocopy it for further study, they would like to retain copy right in terms of publishing the devotions or any part thereof.

All text references will be from the New International Version (NIV), unless otherwise noted.

Daily Devotions

May 18, 2013

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LIVING INTENTIONALLY

by Susan Miller

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first pure, then peace loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. James 3:17

I'm sure that many of us are great at creating "lists"—grocery lists, to-do lists, honey-do lists, the "lists" could go on and on. We make lists to help us organize our thoughts and to help keep us focused. Have you ever tried to grocery shop without a list? The cart piles with so many things yet we usually forget the one most important thing we went for.

Aren't our days like that too sometimes? We start out knowing that we need to glorify God and include Him in all that we do, but we quickly are distracted. We get so busy that we neglect to do so. If we are going to live a life that glorifies God we have to be intentional with our time and wise with our choices. We must be careful to keep a sense of purpose. What if we made it a priority to start a list each day that looked like this:

1) Glorify God today

2) Study scriptures to find out what pleases God

3) Obey God

Gracious loving God, help us to turn our hearts and minds to you so that we may glorify you in our daily choices, actions, and decisions.

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Devotions

To spend quality time with God is so important: not only as individuals, but also as a family from time to time. These short devotions could be used in several ways:

To help get your family devotions started by prompting some discussion.

To give some food for your soul to ponder on.

To be used at work over a short tea break, or

To simply read through one in the morning at work together with your e-mails!

The devotions are written twice a week by some of our missionaries and the spiritual leaders of our church and community, who all have a passion for our Lord. Our hope is that these devotions will inspire you to serve Him with the same passion in all walks of life.

The devotions are meant to be used, but not published. Although the authors encourage anyone to use these devotions in any way possible to further the ministry, or even photocopy it for further study, they would like to retain copy right in terms of publishing the devotions or any part thereof.

All text references will be from the New International Version (NIV), unless otherwise noted.

LIVING INTENTIONALLY

by Susan Miller