Becoming closer to God requires prayer – time communicating with Him.Knowing someone can only really come by being around them. There is no substitute for spending time with God. If we believe He is alive and loves us, we can be in His presence. Take the time to get to know the person who died for You.
Think of the person you talk to on the phone the most. …
Beginner’s Bible Study: The goal is not to understand the Bible, it is to become closer to God so we can glorify Him better.We all need to have the proper goal when we start. Reading the Bible and understanding it better will bring us closer to God, which will help us bring Him glory. In the broadest sense, that really is what life is all about. Sometimes we look …
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
All died…does that mean me too Jesus? I don’t feel like I am dead to this world. I still worry and think about “stuff” …
7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
I am barely a clay jar! I am so week and faithless, and yet You are in me. Sometimes I don’t think I see a lot of Your power in my life, and yet I am here with You though many trials have tried to tear us …
6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”a made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
Jesus, I want so bad for some people who are close to me to know and love You. I want to convince them with logical arguments and discussions. I am so frustrated that …
18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflecta the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
How can I reflect Your glory Jesus? Father, I am so weak and so sinful. How do I show Your glory? Father, You know my heavy heart. How does my sadness show Your glory? I must assume this pain …
14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.
Lord Jesus, Father, You are telling me that our presence alone spreads Christ to those around us. What a wonderful thing! It is good for me to know that my children and friends can find You when they are around me without me …
9The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
Father, protect me from …
13For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, 14as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Jesus, Paul has written so much of the New Testament, and sometimes, it does seem hard to understand. Yet, …
12Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God’s grace.
Jesus, please let this be how I conduct myself, especially to my wife, children and friends. I once was a very manipulative person, …