Family Devotions

Week 12

eugeneis — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:00:46 +0000

SUNDAY
GUARDED MIND Job 23:10
“…He knoweth the way that I take…”
1. Knoweth: Understanding through observation and experience.
2. Why should we try to make a map when He knows the way already?
3. The closer I get to God the more I’ll know about the way.
4. Psalms 23:4 Psalms 1:6

MONDAY
HOLY HANDS Ephesians 3:17-19
1. Grounded: To lay a foundation in preparation for building.
2. How much of God’s love have you experienced in your life?
3. Love empties us of ourselves and fills us with all the fullness of God.
4. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 Romans 5:3-5

TUESDAY
GUIDED FEET Matthew 9:36
1. Compassion: An inner yearning on another’s behalf.
2. Do you ever take time to think on the needs and condition of those around you?
3. The Christian must learn about need on three levels. I see my need. God meets my need. I become God’s tool to meet the need of others.
4. 2 Corinthians 8:1-5 Galatians 6:10

WEDNESDAY
EARS TO HEAR 2 Timothy 3:16
1. Inspiration: By the breath of God.
2. What other book could make the claim to be God breathed?
3. A perfect God promises a perfect book, profitable in all its parts.
4. Psalms 19:7,8 Psalms 12:6,7

THURSDAY
EYES OF FAITH Psalms 27:10
1. Take: To enfold in one’s arms.
2. What relationship is stronger than God’s relationship with his child?
3. He who claims to be forsaken has never truly known God.
4. Isaiah 49:15 John 9:35-38

FRIDAY
HUMBLED HEART Proverbs 12:3
1. Established: To make stand by reason of a strong foundation.
2. Can evil intentions produce good works?
3. Success, built upon the wrong foundation, will always crumble.
4. Psalms 1:3 1 Corinthians 3:11

SATURDAY
LEARNING SPIRIT Joshua 7:1-26
1. Sanctify: To make clean. (Josh. 7:13)
2. Does God really hate sin?
3. If you let God point out your sin you will never have the problem of overlooking it.
4. Proverbs 15:3 Zechariah 8:17

Week 11

eugeneis — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:00:33 +0000

SUNDAY
GUARDED MIND 1 Samuel 17:47
“…the battle is the Lords.”
1. Battle: The struggle to overcome.
2. Who is the enemy?
3. God reserves the battle for Himself the victory is His gift to us.
4. 1 Chronicles 29:11 1 Corinthians 15:57

MONDAY
HOLY HANDS Galatians 5:22,23
1. Fruit: A ripe or useful crop; ready for plucking.
2. Have you ever seen a good fruit crop that came without any hard work?
3. Fruitfulness is usefulness.
4. John 15:5 Colossians 1:10

TUESDAY
GUIDED FEET Matthew 9:30
1. Charged: Sternly commanded.
2. Could you serve God faithfully if no one knew about your service but you and God?
3. If you seek the approval of men you need not look for the approval of God.
4. Galatians 1:10 Ephesians 6:6

WEDNESDAY
EARS TO HEAR 2 Peter 1:21
1. Moved: To be picked up and carried.
2. When does God stoop to carry man?
3. When man’s will and weakness are submitted to God there is no limit to how God can use him.
4. Numbers 16:28 Ezekiel 13:7

THURSDAY
EYES OF FAITH Proverbs 3:3,4
1. Favour: Acts of kindness.
2. If Mercy and Truth forsake me whose fault is it?
3. When Mercy and Truth are combined they become the greatest act of kindness.
4. Ephesians 4:32 Romans 12:10

FRIDAY
HUMBLED HEART Proverbs 11:24
1. Scattereth: To give riches to many.
2. Does the law of sowing and reaping apply to money?
3. To give is not to spend, to keep is not to save.
4. Luke 6:38 Haggai 1:6,9

SATURDAY
LEARNING SPIRIT Joshua 6:1-27
1. Given: Put into one’s hand. (Josh. 6:2)
2. Whose wisdom and power provided the victory?
3. God’s methods rarely resemble man’s methods.

Week 10

eugeneis — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:00:26 +0000

SUNDAY
GUARDED MIND 1 Samuel 16:7
“…the Lord looketh on the heart.”
1. Heart: The control center for our desires, delights, decisions, and doubts.
2. What does God see when He looks on your heart?
3. Though hiding sin from man may sometimes be easy, hiding it from God is impossible.
4. Psalms 139:23,24 Jeremiah 17:10

MONDAY
HOLY HANDS 2 Corinthians 12:9,10
1. Perfect: Made useful.
2. Why would Paul list weakness and its companions as a pleasure?
3. Weakness acknowledged in prayer brings power clothed in humility.
4. Isaiah 40:29 Hebrews 11:32-34

TUESDAY
GUIDED FEET Matthew 9:23-25
1. Scorn: Laughing to make someone look small.
2. Is it time to forsake the truth just because most people are laughing at it?
3. The mockery of man appears small beside the smile of God.
4. Psalms 2:2-4 Psalms 1:1

WEDNESDAY
EARS TO HEAR Ephesians 2:1,5
1. Quickened: To bring back to life.
2. Dead to God or dead to sin, which do you want to be?
3. Sin has a habit of killing. God has a habit of making alive.
4. James 1:15 John 10:10

THURSDAY
EYES OF FAITH Revelation 3:19
1. Rebuke: To tell someone their fault.
2. Does love withhold punishment?
3. Love always moves its object toward goodness, whether it is affection or affliction that causes the movement.
4. Hebrews 12:6,11 Proverbs 13:24

FRIDAY
HUMBLED HEART Proverbs 11:13
1. Secrets: Words that reveal a person’s strengths and weaknesses.
2. If I betray another’s trust can I expect to be counted trustworthy?
3. To tell another’s secret is to tell about my own dishonesty and disloyalty.
4. Proverbs 10:19 Proverbs 25:9

SATURDAY
LEARNING SPIRIT Numbers 22:1-35
1. Opened: To remove that which is blocking one’s sight. (Num. 22:28)
2. Does God smile on partial obedience?
3. Partial obedience blinds us to the part of our life that is disobedient and to the blessing God has in store for complete obedience.
4. 2 Kings 6:17 Psalms 119:18

Week 9

eugeneis — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:00:44 +0000

SUNDAY
GUARDED MIND Jeremiah 33:3
“Call unto me and I will answer thee…”
1. Call: Speaking to get the attention of one close by.
2. Will the answer always be the same?
3. Only those who see the need to call will ever see the answer.
4. 1 John 5:14 James 4:2,3

MONDAY
HOLY HANDS 2 Corinthians 10:4
1. Mighty: Having great abilities.
2. Why do God’s children so seldom use spiritual weapons?
3. Carnal weapons yield temporary victories but eternal loss.
4. Isaiah 54:17 Ephesians 6:17,18

TUESDAY
GUIDED FEET Matthew 9:10-13
1. Sick: Those held in misery.
2. Could Jesus claim to love sinners if he never spent any time with them?
3. The man who seldom sees the need of others will seldom show the love of God.
4. Psalms 147:3 2 Corinthians 5:20

WEDNESDAY
EARS TO HEAR Revelation 20:14,15
1. Death: That which separates.
2. Can you picture the paralyzing fear that will grip those who stand in judgment before God?
3. Eternal separation is too high a price to pay for sinful pleasure that only lasts for a season.
4. Romans 3:19 John 3:36

THURSDAY
EYES OF FAITH Jeremiah 6:16
1. Old: Eternal.
2. Why seek something new and unproven when you can have that which has survived the tests of time and eternity?
3. When we find the right paths they lead to the right place, rest.
4. Hebrews 4:9-11 Matthew 11:28

FRIDAY
HUMBLED HEART Proverbs 11:2
1. Lowly: Clothed in humility.
2. Can a heart filled with humility have any room for pride?
3. When Pride throws out Wisdom it brings in Foolishness and Shame to take Wisdom’s place.
4. Philippians 3:19 James 3:14,15

SATURDAY
LEARNING SPIRIT Numbers 21:5-9
1. Looketh: To view carefully. (Num. 21:8)
2. If you are busy finding solutions, do you have time to complain?
3. God’s solutions to our problems are always simple but never easy because they always center around humility.
4. Mark 10:24 John 6:60

Week 8

eugeneis — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:00:49 +0000

SUNDAY
GUARDED MIND Joshua 24:15
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
1. Serve: To labour on another’s behalf.
2. What do you need to know in order to decide whom you will serve?
3. The choice to serve no one is not available to anybody.
4. Romans 6:13,16 Acts 11:23

MONDAY
HOLY HANDS 1 Corinthians 14:40
1. Order: The arrangement of a situation so as to make that situation most useful to its author.
2. What part of your life is not in order?
3. Confusion is the Devil’s tool by which he makes us useless to God.
4. 1 Corinthians 14:33 Psalms 71:1

TUESDAY
GUIDED FEET Matthew 9:9
1. Follow: To join one’s self to another.
2. Would you choose as a follower a tax collector who was known as a liar, a cheat, and a thief?
3. It was not what Matthew was that caused Jesus to choose him but what he could be by the grace of God.
4. 1 Corinthians 15:10 Matthew 16:24

WEDNESDAY
EARS TO HEAR Hebrews 9:27
1. Appointed: Already waiting for you.
2. Why is it that men refuse to believe in the reality of their own death until it stares them in the face?
3. How you face your appointment with death will depend on what you have done with Jesus Christ and His plan for your life.
4. 2 Timothy 4:7 Psalms 23:1,4

THURSDAY
EYES OF FAITH Deuteronomy 4:29
1. Seek: To search for with great effort.
2. How much time and effort do I spend in searching for God?
3. There is a search beyond salvation. It is the search to find God working in every movement of my life.
4. Psalms 63:1,2 Philippians 3:10

FRIDAY
HUMBLED HEART Proverbs 10:4
1. Slack: Dishonest in effort.
2. Is there such a thing as a half-hearted success?
3. The slack hand hangs at the end of an arm that belongs to a self-centered man.
4. Colossians 3:23 2 Chronicles 31:21

SATURDAY
LEARNING SPIRIT Numbers 13:1-33; 14:1-45
1. Able: To have power. (Num. 13:30)
2. Is there any circumstance God cannot overcome?
3. To say, “No,” when God says, “Yes,” is to ask for sorrow.
4. Psalms 142:6 Romans 8:31