Daily Devotionals

Pressure Point Week 8: Friday

So I replied by sending this message to them: “I am engaged in a great work, so I can’t come. Why should I stop working to come and meet with you?” Nehemiah 6:3 There is a reason people say, "keep your e...

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Pressure Point Week 8: Thursday

And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. Colossians 3:17 If you have children in your life, you know what motivates them. They may be motivated ...

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Pressure Point Week 8: Wednesday

Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:14b-15 What comes to...

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Pressure Point Week 8: Tuesday

Look here, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit." How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? James 4:13-14a Life...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Saturday

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor. James 4:10 When pride is revealed in our lives, we have three options: We can minimize it, saying that it is not that big of a problem, maximize it, dwelling on our prid...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Friday

Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. James 4:8 Pride is something that tempts all of us. Unfortunately, if we give in t...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Thursday

And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." James 4:6 Pride is part of our sinful nature. When sin entered the world, pride became a natural temptation for us. We will be be...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Wednesday

You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. James 4:4 As we read through Scripture, it becomes cle...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Tuesday

Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong-you want only what will give you pleasure. James 4:2b-3 I heard a story last Christmas about som...

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Pressure Point Week 7: Monday

"What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it awa...

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