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January 31 • Put on the Breastplate of Righteousness
When we visualize the breastplate in a suit of armor, what does it cover? It covers the chest, protecting all the vital organs, especially the heart. The enemy knows that if he can get to your heart, he can control everything else. If he can control your feelings, emotions, and beliefs, he can push you…
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January 30 • Have an Eternal Focus
With any worldly pleasure at our fingertips, it’s easy to lose focus on Christ. But let’s not be deceived into thinking easy means better. 1 John 2:17 reminds us: “And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” (ESV) The easy things of this world…
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January 29 • How to Remove Your Idols
What will suffocate your passion for God more than anything? Idols. Now, don’t assume idols are only the golden calves we read about in the Bible. We still have idols today. They just look different. An idol is anything or anybody we place before God. An idol is anything we place our faith in other…
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January 28 • Put on the Helmet of Salvation
To protect themselves from spiritual warfare, the Apostle Paul writes believers in Ephesians 6:17 to “Take the helmet of salvation.” (ESV) A soldier’s helmet, at the time of Paul, would have been made of leather and studded with metal for extra protection. Sometimes these helmets would have some sort of extra design on them to signify the…
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January 27 • Forgetting What Lies Behind
In a race, the last thing you want to do is look back. Doing so takes your eye off the finish line, and it causes you to get off track. To win, a runner needs to stay focused on what’s ahead. The same is true for our relationship with God. The apostle Paul says in…
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January 26 • God is Greater Than Your Wilderness
No one wants to go through a wilderness season. I’ve learned, however, that these seasons have a purpose we don’t want to miss. On the other side of Jesus’ wilderness season was a ministry that would bring salvation to the world. On the other side of Elijah’s wilderness season was a personal, life-changing encounter with…
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January 25 • Enlist Help
A person would be crazy to go to war all by himself, yet we do this all the time. When people ask how we’re doing, so many times we say we’re “fine” when we really are not. I get it. We don’t want people all up in our business. We aren’t always sure they sincerely…
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January 24 • Enjoy the Good
One would think being happy is an easy thing to do, especially when life is going well. Yet even during good times, anxiety can crush our hopes for happiness even when nothing bad has actually happened. Sure, things may be good now, but we can’t even enjoy life because we’re anxiously waiting for the other…
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January 23 • God Knows What You Need
Jesus makes it clear in Scripture that worry should not be a part of the Christian life. Not because we don’t have challenges. Not because our lives magically become easy once we place our faith in Christ. Jesus tells us not to worry because God is in control. In Matthew 6:31-32, Jesus tells us: “Therefore…
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January 22 • The Faith to Overcome Obstacles
When a woman who suffered from a bleeding issue for twelve years heard about Jesus, she set out to see if Jesus could heal her. When she saw him, he was surrounded by a crowd of people. In her weak condition, it would have been easier to give up hope. But she didn’t. In Mark…