Daily Devotional

It is not by advancing in spiritual growth that we move towards peace with God. It is from peace with God that we advance in spiritual growth. How many are spiritually working really hard to get close to God, when the truth is, “But now in Christ Jesus, you who formerly were far off HAVE […]

Isaiah 53:5 NASB95  But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. Romans 5:1 TPT  Our faith in Jesus transfers God’s righteousness to us and he now declares us flawless in his eyes. This means

Colossians 3:3-4 NASB95  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. [4] When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. I love the way the Passion Translation (paraphrase) puts verse 4, “And as Christ himself is seen for who he

Faith saves us, but how? – By making us aware of Christ, who saves. Faith does not make things what they are but shows us them as they are in Christ. Faith is evidence, and evidence is not the thing itself but proof that something is already true or has already happened. Faith is not

2 Corinthians 5:15,17-19,21 NASB95  and He died for all so that they who live might no longer themselves do the living, but the One who died and rose again on their behalf so He could do the living. [17] Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away;

The reason that Jesus died and rose from the dead was that he might accomplish our union with Him. No words of Scripture, other than “God manifest in the flesh,” hold within themselves a deeper mystery than this simple blueprint of the Christian life, “in Christ.” This is how God saved us. There is no

2 Corinthians 5:15 – “and He died for all that they who live (are living) no longer themselves live, but the one who died and rose again on their behalf.” Think about what that verse is saying. Why did Jesus die for the whole world? Was it to pay for their sin, or was it

One of the reasons that we miss out on breakthroughs is that we often try to fit God into our theology about how to get a breakthrough instead of allowing God to fit us into His theology. If you force God into your conviction about what a breakthrough, or getting a breakthrough, looks like, then

Jesus became what was true about us that we might become what is true about Him. “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. The Christian life is not a reformed or improved life. The Christian life

Three different times in the book of the Revelation, it is said about Jesus that He “is, was, and is to come.” Trying to explain all that those words represent would be like trying to explain infinity. Let me just emphasize one extraordinary truth that description of Jesus speaks of. My story became Jesus’s story