Month: January 2023

Kitchen Table Devotions

James

Day 2

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces  endurance. ⁴ And let  endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be  perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.                  James 1:2-4

Learn to always look for God in all things.  God is working in us and through us continually.   Paul also wrote, “for we know that in all things God works together for the good of those who love God” (Rom 8:28)  There’s also the Joseph principle which says, “It’s no what is happening to you, but what is happening in you, that matters”.  Hold on, something bigger than you is happening.  Believe it!  God is creating the character of Jesus in us.  Always entertain and expect the word of God, not the world’s worries.  To think and trust like Jesus, we must learn to love and look for God at all times in all things.

Kitchen Table Devotions

James

Day 1

 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,  To the twelve tribes who are  dispersed abroad: Greetings.                  James 1:1

This is your life.  It is God-given (1 John 5:11) and you will be accountable for what you did with it (Romans 14:12).  Life doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does need to be contemplative.  So, think about who and what you listen to.  Find someone who has a life that works and is working it.  James was one of those guys.  He was a bondservant of God, sold out, committed to, and living for God.  Here’s another thing, James was compassionate, he was writing people in need, desperate and dispersed from the homeland.  Real confidence and courage come with compassion.  It has good in mind and heart.  Know who you’re listening to, where they’re coming from, and what they’re aiming for before you turn your life over to their advice.

Kitchen Table Devotions

Christmas 2022

Day 15

And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, ²⁵  but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.           Matthew 1:24-25

Joseph called His name Jesus.  That seems so natural but it’s spiritual and supernatural.  Later, people will call Jesus other derogatory things and names.  It’s easy to lose sight of the significance of what God is doing when we lose sight of the sacredness of what God has done.  Joseph called Jesus by the name God gave Jesus.  Keep what’s sacred, sacred!  If something or someone is sacred, speak sacredly about that person or thing.  God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are sacred, let your speech voice what you value.  Life is sacred, it’s a gift from God and so are people including your family, spouse, kids, and friends.  Joseph had several reasons to call Jesus something other than God’s gift, but he called Him, Jesus, and the rest is history.