Posts with the tag “community”

“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of His return is drawing near.” - Hebrews 10:24-25  Do you have a community that can come alongside you when life hits you hard? Is there a group of people that you know, no matter what happens, will be ...  Read More

“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of His return is drawing near.” - Hebrews 10:24-25  Listen...I know what you are thinking. You read this title and think I am using this devotional as a platform to get you in the pews on Sunday morning....  Read More

“When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles” (Luke 6:13)Jesus didn’t walk through life on His own—He had brothers with Him. He chose twelve that would be His disciples, and wherever Jesus went, the twelve went with Him.Jesus calls us into the family, not because the Father cannot satisfy us, but because we grow better when we’re surrounded by...  Read More

“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers” (Acts 2:42).They devoted themselves “…to the fellowship…”What is fellowship? The word used in Acts chapter two is the Greek word, Koinonia, meaning ‘commonality’ or ‘community.’ The disciples didn’t just resemble one another or talk like one another—they shared the same spiritua...  Read More

“I have given them the glory You have given Me. May they be one as We are one. I am in them and You are in Me. May they be completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and loved them as You have loved Me” (John 17:22-23).During the mid-1700s, there was a spiritual movement known as The Great Awakening. People had come to rely on human knowledge, reason, and facts more than they did on fa...  Read More

“I am the vine, you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (John 15:5-7)Yesterday...  Read More

“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”(1 Corinthians 12:27)When it comes to the church, the Bible uses three analogies: the body, branch, and bride. The body is a representation of all of us individually. We all have different collaborative, contributing elements. The church is not just a building. It is us, and it is a body. And it’s important that whatever part we...  Read More

“A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.” - Revelation 12:1-2 When you were a kid and you were meeting someone new, particularly an adult, the first thing they probably asked you what was your name. After you told them, usually one of t...  Read More

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power for us who believe” (Ephesians 1:18-9). The Lord works in mysterious ways. We’re told that God’s ways are higher than our own, so we don’t always understand what His plan is, but there’s m...  Read More

“For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another” (Romans 12:4-5).   Have you ever thought that you could do something all on your own and you refused to ask for help? We get blinded by our own ambitions, thinking that we can take on the world alone, or worse, thinking th...  Read More