Posts Tagged ‘Christian Devotionals’

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“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”  2 Corinthians 5:17 (New Living Translation).

In regards of the new life Jesus offers, He expects it to actually be totally new; and not a mix between the past and the new. The key to having a life totally new is to believe with all your heart that it’s about Jesus, not about you. When the life of Jesus is given to new believers trough faith, they are also given the power to be like Jesus. Not by human strength but by the resurrection power of Jesus.    (more…)

 When I was a child, I liked to watch at the clouds for prolonged time, just there contemplating the clouds. Later, with my daughter I had more opportunities to continue enjoying that celestial and majestic dance. Still today, I fascinate when contemplating the immense sky created by Our Lord. decked out with their cloudy beautiful formations. The imagination overcomes its free flight and far more, this among them. Thy show off what appear: battles, faces, forms of animals, trees, ships, landscapes”. and any possible formation running trough my mind. What beauty, my Lord.!.

In the face of similar stateliness my soul bursts in commendation, as well the psalmist expressed it: O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens”. (Psalm 8:1 KJ2000). (more…)

freedom3There are a lot of religions, sects and movements in the world; though not all of them deliver souls from slavery, sin and hell. There is only One that can set free from anything and Jesus is His name. There may be many ways in which people seek freedom and fulfillment, but none of them offer everlasting life and God himself dwelling among them as Christianity.

What Jesus did in the Cross gave Him authority over everything; to set free captives, to heal the sick, to restore the broken, to bring joy to the depressive, to sanctify sinners and to brake any yoke of darkness. Only trough Jesus salvation can be found. There is no other way of going to heaven. No matter how attractive seem other gods, they can’t offer what Jesus can: true freedom. (more…)

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Ephesians 2:10 New Living Translation (NLT)

If somebody had told me what the LORD was going to do trough me when I got saved, I just would not have believed it. I was not what you would consider good material or at that time “usable”. In my conversion I was not sure if I would ever have a normal life, this for consequences of my previous life. The LORD entered fully in my life and gave me the promise of restoring my life and being His witness (Isaiah 43 and 42). (more…)