Download our free app or request a daily email or our print magazine. If you aren’t already studying the Bible with Today in the Word, we hope you join us this month. Prepare your heart to be encouraged and motivated to live out your salvation and pursue holiness.Īs always, thank you for joining us as we learn from God’s Word. Baurain and managing editor Jamie Janosz give us important background about the author and setting. These brief Bible studies and theological reflections can help you deepen your understanding of Gods Word and apply the truth of Scripture to your life. Brad Baurain explains, “Our hope is not a vague notion, but embodied in Jesus Christ, who is our Living Hope!” Join us as we study the books of 1 and 2 Peter and learn about the hope we have today as followers of Jesus Christ, and the certain hope which guarantees our future (1 Peter 1:3-4).įor a sneak peek at this month’s study, don’t forget to watch our author video ! The Today in the Word YouTube channel features monthly videos with each of our authors. Or we hope our team wins the game.Īs author Dr. Imagine a name label on everything you see, "On loan from Almighty God." See how that changes your attitude toward all possessions.We sometimes say we are hopeful when we are feeling positive about a situation. For example, we may hope that a test result comes back with an all clear. The act of giving at the leading of the Holy Spirit is just a reminder that we are only stewards who should act according to God's direction when He tells us to do something with what is His already. Now do you still feel as generous about that last big offering you gave? It was God's already. Romans 11:35 35 "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? We have never given to God anything that was not His already. This acknowledgement of reality will also keep us from the selfish attitude that God owes us something. Each day is a new opportunity to grow closer to God. If we realize all comes from God and returns to God, we can let go, graciously thanking Him for the short time we were blessed to be the stewards of God's gifts. An online daily devotional Bible study brought to you from Moody Bible Institute. How should that affect our attitude when we must part with any of these? If we think we own something, we will cling desperately to it and be grieved when it is taken. We need to get a grip on this reality so that we don't get wrapped up in the idea of possessing things. He is all-powerful and so all power is from Him and returns to Him. Whatever you have, whatever authority or influence you attain to, it is all from God, and it will all return to God. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 12 Wealth and honor come from you you are the ruler of all things. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom you are exalted as head over all. 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. I am speaking not just of physical things but also power and authority. Everything is from God and will return to God. We are stewards over things but for a short time. We sometimes think of possessions as being ours. Psalms 24:1 1The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it
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