Daily Devotion “We need personal holiness in order to help other people. To become involved in the ministry is to invite people to drink deeply from your life, and who wants to drink from a dirty vessel?” Walter A. Henrichsen (“Walt … [Read more...] about Day 2/25 – Comparison
Marriage
Day 2/6 – Love For Profit
Daily Devotion "One of the most precious gifts an individual can bring to the marriage bed is purity. Prior experience causes the mind to remember the past in the midst of the presence, making the act of love less beautiful than God meant it to … [Read more...] about Day 2/6 – Love For Profit
Day 2/1 – A Contest of Wills
Daily Devotion "The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives … [Read more...] about Day 2/1 – A Contest of Wills
Day 1/7 – Love and Hate
Daily Devotion “Solomon says that this life is the seedtime for eternity. No one escapes the "grim reaper." Mortality is 100 percent. God brings grief into your life to sober and prepare you, not to discourage you. God sees "the end from the … [Read more...] about Day 1/7 – Love and Hate
Day 12/7 – The Wife of Your Youth
Daily Devotion “Our Lord always lived by principle, never by circumstance. As His disciples, how do we live? By circumstance or by principle?” Walter A. Henrichsen (“Walt H”) ——:///// Thoughts from the Diary of a Desperate Man by Walter … [Read more...] about Day 12/7 – The Wife of Your Youth
Day 11/27 – Law and Request III
Daily Devotion “Where is your line across which you refuse to go? You do well to draw it before your time of testing.” Walter A. Henrichsen (“Walt H”) ——:///// Thoughts from the Diary of a Desperate Man by Walter Henrichsen Law and Request … [Read more...] about Day 11/27 – Law and Request III
Day 10/15 – Exalting Jesus
Daily Devotion “Every problem a person has is related to his concept of God. If you have a big God, you have small problems. If you have a small God, you have big problems. It is as simple as that. When your God is big, then every seeming … [Read more...] about Day 10/15 – Exalting Jesus
Day 10/8 – Guilt and Shame
Daily Devotion “When God bestows His abundance upon you, He expects you to be grateful, for you are blessed. But never forget that that is only half the equation; the more you have the more accountable you are.“ Walter A. Henrichsen … [Read more...] about Day 10/8 – Guilt and Shame
Day 8/25 – Marriage or Celibacy
Daily Devotion ""... Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar ... " Romans 3:4 There are times when people say, ‘I prayed and nothing happened.’ ‘I had devotions and it’s not working.’ ‘I go to church and don’t receive anything.’ ‘I’m doing … [Read more...] about Day 8/25 – Marriage or Celibacy
Day 8/21 – Unity and Union
Daily Devotion “You can no longer view people "after the flesh." All are of equal worth and significance in the economy of God, and you must view them through that lens. This does not come naturally. You must discipline yourself to treat people … [Read more...] about Day 8/21 – Unity and Union
Day 8/19 – An Illustration of Grace
Daily Devotion “You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.” Walter A. Henrichsen (“Walt” ---------/:///// Thoughts from the Diary of a Desperate … [Read more...] about Day 8/19 – An Illustration of Grace
Day 8/2 – Repentance
Daily Devotion "… our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. … [Read more...] about Day 8/2 – Repentance
Day 6/6 – Law and Request
Daily Devotion “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (II Corinthians 5:10). This is not judgment for sin, … [Read more...] about Day 6/6 – Law and Request
Day 5/31 – Awakening Appetites
Daily Devotion "Lukewarm deeds result from attempting to harmonize the wisdom and morality of the world (cold) with the wisdom and morality of God (hot)." from "The Discipline of Delusion: How Secular Ideas Became the New Idolatry" by Jerry … [Read more...] about Day 5/31 – Awakening Appetites
Day 4/27 – Preach the Correct Sermon
Daily Devotion “When God thrusts you into darkness, you are most apt to despair, concluding that He has abandoned you. Darkness and despair often precede deliverance. The time to express gratitude to God is when in the darkness, not after … [Read more...] about Day 4/27 – Preach the Correct Sermon