August 31

Spiritual Check Up Day 13 by SGLY Ministry

KNOWLEDGE
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14 (NKJV)

Today’s Action:
Believers, we have received the knowledge of God, which is the knowledge of His will.

In Christ, God has revealed His plan and purpose for our lives and He gives us the ability to know and understand how to walk in His ways.

He gives us His knowledge so that we will share it every place we go.
It is His desire that the whole world will see and desire His knowledge.

“For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” 2 Corinthians 2:15 (NKJV)

Spiritual Exercise:
We need to be spiritually healthy so we can walk triumphantly through this world daily and share His Knowledge with the world, so that all might come to know Christ.

God wants us walking with Him daily, spreading the gospel in every place we go.
Therefore, check yourself daily so that you will always remain spiritually healthy,
and “that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; ”Colossians 1:10 (NKJV)

This is the last Daily Devotional in Spiritual Health series.
I hope you have enjoyed this series. Please let me know your thoughts on it.

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"But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored." (NLT) - Nehemiah 1:9

Even if you have done wrong, God will always forgive you, take you back and welcome you with open arms. Is there something shameful in your past you've been carrying around? God can turn your circumstances around and use them to bring honor and glory to His name. Take a step towards returning to God, spend a moment in your Bible reading about God.

Daily Bible Devotion

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And walk in love, [esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. — Ephesians 5:2 (AMPC)

Walk in Love by Joyce Meyer

Jesus said, If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me] (Mark 8:34 AMPC).

Living a disciplined life and walking in love means laying aside personal feelings, discerning which choice is most important to God in each situation, and then allowing that choice to take priority over the others. Sometimes He’ll call us to set aside what we’re doing for a little while so we can show His love to someone. As Jesus laid down His life for us, He’s asking us to lay down our interests for His greater cause—loving people.

Prayer Starter: Father, please show me what I need to lay down in my life so that I can show Your love to the people around me. Thank You for giving me the wisdom and strength I need to walk in love today. In Jesus’ Name, amen.

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Isaiah 41:18 ‘I will open up rivers for them on the high plateaus. I will give them fountains of water in the valleys. I will fill the desert with pools of water.’

- Doing impossible things is not too difficult for God.
- Turning difficult situations around is not beyond Him.
- Making a way where there seems to be no way is something He specializes in.
- When it looks like there is no way – He will make a way.

PRAYER: Lord, I give You the challenges and the difficulties that I am facing and I ask You to do a miracle. You are the One Who can do more than I could ask or think and I ask You to work on my behalf. Amen.

Pastor Andrew Roebert

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Bible Verses

Philippians 4:8, “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

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“Create in me a clean heart, Oh Lord, and renew a right spirit within me.” - Psalms 51:10

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Mark 12:30-31 – "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." The second is this: "Love your neighbor as yourself." There is no commandment greater than these.

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Hebrews 10:23 – Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

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Prayers

Prayer of Thanks

Heavenly Father, I thank you for my life and everything you have bestowed upon me and upon all people, this day and every day. I thank you for the good and bad, the understanding of forgiveness, and your holy power, without which we would have nothing. I thank you this day for all your blessings, your gifts, your never ending love for us. Although we all are sinners, I ask you to forgive me every day for what I might have done wrong, that I might not have noticed. Even though we all come short of the glory of God, I thank you for the sacrifice of your only son Jesus Christ for all our sins. You and only you know us Father and you know if our hearts are true. So once again, I thank you with all my heart and soul. In the name of Christ I pray, Amen.

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And finally, may the grace of Christ our Savior, and the Father's boundless love, with the Holy Spirit's favor, rest upon me, and all of us, from above. Thus may we abide in union, with each other and the Lord, and possess, in sweet communion, joys which earth cannot afford. Amen.

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Dear Lord, just as each new day brings its own problems, so does each day show our need for You. ... Oh Lord, open my eyes to see that I need to come to You daily for guidance. I need to come to You in prayer and to study Your Word, in order to be able to recognize Your leading. ... You have said that man does not live by bread alone. ... Forgive us all, for too often we have wanted to go our own way, to "do our own thing." Remind each of us that while enthusiasm is laudable, wisdom is also necessary. Help us, Lord, to seek Your will and Your guidance each morning to be ready for whatever the day brings.

In Jesus' name I pray.

Amen.

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Lord, I ask for the power of your Spirit in my life that I may live in such a way that I show kindness in another’s trouble, and courage in my own. Amen.

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“A Prayer For Pleasing God”

Father, I make it my goal to please You. So many goals I make reap rewards that last only a season, but when I set goals for righteous living the rewards last not only for this life, but for all of eternity. In setting my goals help me to be willing to lay aside that which hinders and the sin that so easily entangles so that I will reap a harvest of righteousness and peace. I want my primary goal to be that which pleases You, and the only way I can learn about that is to read and heed the Scriptures. My overall goal is to persevere to the very end of this life so that when I enter the other side I hear these words of commendation, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Amen.

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You should think of us as Christ's servants, who have been put in charge of God's secret truths. The one thing required of such a servant is that he be faithful to his master. 1 Corinthians 4:1–2, TEV

Dear Father in heaven, open our hearts to see and feel how our lives have been blest. Open our hearts to your blessings so that we may look forward in thankfulness and joy to what lies ahead. Grant that we may be faithful to what we have received from you and never again lose ourselves in the passing moment. May we hold to all you have brought to our hearts from eternity, that your name may be honored and our lives shaped anew in Jesus Christ. Give us courage to overcome the evils in life and to look with joy and confident expectation to the future, when the powers of your kingdom will be ever more clearly revealed. Amen.

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Dear Father, give me the wisdom to be patient and kind. Help me understand that sometimes people struggle to be understanding and forgiving.

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Dear heavenly Father, so many people are caught up in the evil of alcoholism today, I want to pray for them. Lord, deliver those who are in bondage to alcohol. Father, forgive them, and touch them with Your Hand of mercy and grace. Lord, go deep in their souls and heal the wounds and remove the desire for this addiction. Let them feel Your love and set them free from the dependency of alcohol. May they depend on You to overcome the things that have brought them to this place. Cause their family and friends to be merciful to them and help them in the right way. May they experience Your touch this very moment. I ask this in the powerful name of Jesus! Amen.

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Dear Father, Thank you for this beautiful day. As I breath in the fresh air, please help me never forget that each day is a gift and that someday this beauty will be gone from my eyes.