Month: July 2023

The Kitchen Table Devotions

1 Thessalonians 2  Day 10

For this reason, we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Always stay grateful.  It’s amazing what a grateful person can see and do.  But it’s awesome what a grateful person in God can see and do.  Those who are grateful in God are grateful for the good that God does in and through themselves and others.  There is power in the word of God.  God speaks and releases the power of His heart into this universe, and it is awesome.  Nothing else can compare.  Be grateful for the word of God and the world it touches.

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 9

just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and  imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, ¹² so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.              1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Everyone was born to a parent but not everyone has a parent.  What a difference they make in our lives.  They encourage us in the faith and lead us into the future God has for us.  Do you have one?  Will you be one?

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 7

For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God              1 Thessalonians 2:9

Recall what you saw.  When it comes to love, look for something lovely.  Love doesn’t come in words only but in work and walk.  If there is no effort in love, there will be no evidence of love.  God sent and Jesus came.  The Holy Spirit comes and talks and touches and takes into the glories of God.  Don’t be fooled, lust takes but love gives.  Think about it!

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 6

Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.                    1 Thessalonians 2:8

Knowing the love of Jesus makes us love with the love of Jesus.  It is the love of God and love for God that motivates the love of God’s ministers.  Love gives, it doesn’t keep.  All that God has given is meant to be given away.  He has more & loves even more.  People need the same of you we needed and found in the love of God and that love reaches past today and into eternity.  Think about that.

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 4

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness— ⁶ nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.

 1 Thessalonians 2:5-6

Living to impress man will keep us from being impressed by God.  Resist the temptation to live for prizes of this world rather than the passions and promises of God.  He is glory and He gives glory.  Living to walk with Him will release us from insisting on man’s authority for some things to receive His authority for all things.

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 3

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;   but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who  examines our hearts.                     1 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Never trade the approval of God for the approval of man.  It sounds simple but it’s not.  There’s a world that doesn’t hear or honor God’s word as truth, but only His word can bring light, love, and liberty to any soul who can believe.  Those entrusted with God’s word are those who have trusted in God’s word.  God knows our hearts.  Trust Him!

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 2

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit; ⁴  but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who  examines our hearts                     1 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let God go deeper in you so that He can work greater through you.  The right message from a wrong motive will end in a warped ministry.  Paul says, “we have be approved by God.”  Paul had let God test His heart, go deeper so that he could go greater for the glory of God.  There’s a boldness for things greater with our lives as we let God work deeper things in our lives..

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 1

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our  coming to you was not in vain, ² but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much  opposition

1 Thessalonians 2:1-2

A worthwhile life has a worthwhile mission with a worthwhile motivation from a worthwhile message.  It’s filled with value rather than vanity.  That’s the gospel life.  Where there is the worthwhile, there will be the wherewithal to live boldly and bravely for Jesus.  Know what you believe, who you believe, and why you believe, and make it where you believe in the power of God.