November 11 Losing Your Life For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.—Matthew 16:25 Christians are commanded to lose their lives. This means they ought to deliberately release their lives to God and His kingdom. One ofRead More …

November 10 Press On Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,—Philippians 3:13 The world will tell you that the dominating influence in your life is your past. If youRead More …

November 9 New Strength . . . but those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.—Isaiah 40:31 At times you may feel so worn out and stressed that you are notRead More …

November 8 Steadfast in Your Resolve When the days were coming to a close for Him to be taken up, He determined to journey to Jerusalem.—Luke 9:51 It is easy to become distracted in the Christian life! The moment you understand what God wants you to do, it will seemRead More …

November 7 Tempted by Shortcuts Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t [have to strike] him twice!”—1 Samuel 26:8 You will sometimes be tempted to take shortcuts to yourRead More …

November 6 Don’t Avoid the Impossible “They don’t need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”—Matthew 14:16 Jesus asked His disciples to do something that clearly was impossible. There were five thousand men, along with their families, and they were famished. There were only fiveRead More …

November 5 Wisdom Justified “Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”—Luke 7:35 The world is full of “experts.” There are people everywhere who want to convince you of the wisdom of their opinion. Yet God says that it is not the one who declares his viewpoint the most loudlyRead More …

November 4 Let No One Look down on You No one should despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.—1 Timothy 4:12 Timothy was a sincere young man who earnestly desired to serve the Lord. YetRead More …

November 3 Counted Faithful I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry. . . —1 Timothy 1:12 From a human perspective, the apostle Paul’s record as a zealous persecutor of Christians should have precluded him from being used inRead More …

November 2 Have You Done What You Know to Do? So, for the person who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, it is a sin.—James 4:17 It is never a minor thing to know God’s will and not do it. God calls this sin. We can make excusesRead More …