August 19 | How Does God Want Me To Raise My Children?

Proverbs 22:6, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” God wants us to raise our children with the love and teachings of Jesus. God has given parents the responsibility of developing and nurturing the human soul (mind, will and emotions). We are…

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August 18 | What is God’s Order For the Family?

Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” God’s order in the family is for a husband to love his wife as Christ does the church, the wife to submit to her husband as unto Jesus and for the children to obey their parents. When the…

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August 17 | How Do I Know Who God Wants Me To Marry?

Proverbs 18:2, “He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.” God will direct both the man and woman through His Spirit to meet each other, fall in love and marry. Today’s passage teaches the traditional role of the man pursuing the woman, however, both should pursue God and in…

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August 16 | What Is God’s Purpose for Sexuality?

Hebrews 13:4, “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” God’s purpose for sex is for one man and one woman in marriage to enjoy themselves in intimacy with the desired outcome of having children. Certainly, married couples can enjoy sex…

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August 15 | How Do I Overcome Sad Times?

Isaiah 61:1, “He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.” God wants us to overcome our sadness in life by giving Jesus all of our hurts and pain. Many times in life’s tragedies people ask, “Where is God?” The Bible teaches us that God is always with us and is personally aware of our pain.…

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August 14 | How Do I Change The Parts of Me I Don’t Like?

2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” To change your life, you must be born again and then believe you are who God says you are. Don’t be deceived into believing today’s self-help gurus that teach you are the source of…

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August 13 | How Do I Move Past My Past?

Philippians 3:13-14, “13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” You move…

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August 12 | What Kind of Person Does God Want Me to Be?

Matthew 28:19-20, “19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” God desires all…

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August 11 | What Does it Mean to be a Child of God?

John 1:12, “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” To be a child of God means to be born again and adopted by the Father into His family. Sad but true, many people think that everyone is a child of…

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August 10 | What are God’s Four Priorities for My Life?

Matthew 6:33, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” God’s four main priorities for your life are; (1) Faith, (2) Family, (3) Function and (4) Fellowship. In today’s passage Jesus corrected the wrong priorities of people in the world. For example, many people place…

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