Month: August 2023

The Kitchen Table Devotions

1 Thessalonians 3 Day 2

Therefore, when we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone, and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,             1 Thessalonians 3:1-2

It’s easy to worry about a person’s feelings when what really matters is their faith.  Feelings follow faith.  When feelings become the priority, frustration becomes the reality.  A spiritual parent, or mentor, addresses your faith knowing that feelings follow close behind.  It’s possible to become a spiritual orphan without a spiritual parent.  Find one and be one.

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 14

For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul,  more than once—and yet Satan hindered us.                  1 Thessalonians 2:18

Don’t forget who and what you’re dealing with on this journey.  We have an enemy, and he is defeated but he is not dead.  Satan works through the agreement of men to aggravate the sons of God.  Where there is agreement there is authority.  That’s how Satan works with men but it’s also how we walk with God.  Don’t live for the approval of men, that’s often who Satan uses to hinder you.  Live in agreement with God and you will see the aspirations of men and the one they serve.

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1 Thessalonians 2 Day 13

They are not pleasing to God but hostile to all men, ¹⁶  hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

Don’t let the resistance of others steal the rejoicing that comes from God.  A world of darkness doesn’t embrace the world of light and love that Jesus brings to us.  The sad part is that those who hate and hinder the word and work of God are filling up for themselves, the measure of their sins.  It’s one thing to reject God personally, but it’s quite another to hinder another person from receiving God.  It’s very clear here, don’t hinder others from knowing God.  Judgment is coming for those who do such a thing.  Pray for them!

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1 Thessalonians 2  Day 12

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God but hostile to all men.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

There is suffering because there is Satan and sin.  Don’t blame it on God; anything built on deception loves & needs darkness, not light.  Now we stand in a place where we must stand for what is good and right and true.  Don’t take it personally, it’s a spiritual thing and darkness fears the power of light and love, the things that please God.  Hold the hand of God and stand with Him.

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1 Thessalonians 2 Day 11

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,            1 Thessalonians 2:14

We become what we really believe, and we will suffer for what we really stand for.  We don’t have to tell it over and over again, we just live it day after day, letting what we believe become how we behave.  That’s a disciple, that’s a follower of Jesus.  We don’t just say things are important, we make things important and it begins with believing what’s good and right and true.