Devotions

Day   1

Wildest  Dreams

Eph   3:20 Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this.   He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most   unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them   all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. (TPT)

Father   God wants' to hear your dreams, your desires, your needs. But, He wants to   out do them. He wants to surprise us. He goes beyond our wildest dreams.

God   is a God of wonders.

Day   2

Maturity of Faith, Childlike Trust

For it is God’s will for   you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

As God’s loving servants, you should live in complete freedom, but   never use your freedom as a cover-up for evil.

Recognize the value of   every person and continually show love to every believer. Live your lives   with great reverence and in holy awe of God. Honor your rulers.

1Pe 2:15-17 (TPT)

Doing good, doing what   is right silences the ignorance of foolish people. What is right?

Accepting one another -   “Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory   of God.” 

Rom 15:7 (NASB) 

There is no conditions on this. Rather they are   goth, a freak, a teacher, a lawyer, Gay, straight, a hooker, a porn star we   are to accept one another the way they are, and IF they need to change, well,   that's Gods job. Not ours.

Be patient with everyone - We urge you, brethren,   admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient   with everyone. 

1Th 5:14 (NASB)

Be patient with everyone. People are going to   mess-up. We are going to fall short. That's when we encourage one another,   and lift them up, not knock them down and tell them, “You screw-up.” Don't   judge and condemn someone for being weak and messing-up. Be patient, and   encourage them to move forward.

Accepting and patients is a sign of Maturity in   Christ.

Maturity of faith is found in childlike trust.

Our maturity of faith, trust as a child that God   will do what needs to be done in each one of our lives. It's our job to   accept, encourage, love, and be patient to all. It's God's job to work out   the details.

Day   3

Stairway to Heaven

Meanwhile,   Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. 

At sundown he arrived at a good place to   set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his   head against and lay down to sleep. 

As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that   reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up   and down the stairway. 

Gen   28:10-12 (NLT)

Many   translations use the word ladder.

A   stairway or ladder is only good if it reaches from one point to the other. In   this story, it reaches from lower earth to highest Heaven.

Jesus   is our Stairway to Heaven. He came from highest Heaven and came to the lowest   parts of this earth and made it possible for us to get to Heaven. He went to   the most wicked, evil and lowly people, so they can reach the beauty of the   highest Heaven.

Jesus   is our Stairway to Heaven.

Jesus   is the Way to Heaven.

Joh   14:6  Jesus explained, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life.   No one comes next to the Father except through union with me. To know me is   to know my Father too. (TPT)

When   we reach the top, He is also the Door.

Joh   14:6 Jesus told him, "I am the   way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through   me. (NLT)

Joh   10:9 "I am the door; if anyone   enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.   (NASB)

There   are many different ways to get to your favorite store.

There   only One Way to Heaven.

Mat   7:14 "Because narrow is the gate   and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.   (NKJV)

Day   4

That  which I hate

Rom   7:15 What I don't understand about   myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I   absolutely despise. (MSG)

Rom   7:15 For what I am doing, I do not   understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing   the very thing I hate. (NASB)

Rom   7:15 What am I suppose to do? The exact thing I don't want to do, I do. I   want to do what is right, but I don't. The exact thing that I hate doing,   this is thing I do. (Pastor DW Riffe Translation)

So,   we mess up. We will always mess up. God knows this. He is never surprised   when we mess up. Jesus doesn't lean over to Father God and say, “Father did   you see what they did? Can You believe it?” No. He Knows and gives grace and   has compassion on us. He still loves us.

If He unforgives us when we mess-up none will make it. But, that's not the case. We are always forgiven. Because we are we do what we hate.....sin.

OutCast,   when you mess up – you are loved.

OutCast,   when you stumble – you are loved.

OutCast,   when you do what you hate – you are still loved.

Heb   13:5  Don’t be obsessed with money but live content with what you have,   for you always have God’s presence. For hasn’t he promised you, “I will never   leave you alone, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your   life!” (TPT)

Day   5

Treasured   Possession

Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and   heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who   feared the LORD and esteemed his name.

“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured   possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Then once more you shall see the distinction   between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who   does not serve him.

Mal   3:16 – 18 (MSG)

And they shall be Mine, saith Hashem   Tzva'os, in that Yom when I make up My segullah (special treasure,   possession); and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own ben haoved oto   (son that serveth him). 

Mal   3:17 (Orthodox Jewish Bible)

The  word fear can be translated, respect, honor, care and love.

In Hebrew the word for “special” is the same word used for “possession”,   “segûllâh” meaning; Jewel, treasure. 

The Timeless-One looks at us as a treasure, a precious jewel, His very own “Jewel   of great value.”

So,  those who fear, respect and love the Lord makes up His treasured possession.

And  there is a big distinction between the ones who are God's Segûllâhs and the   wicked. The ones who are in right standing with God and the ungodly.

Because   you dress like the Brady Bunch and go to Church every Sunday, does not make   you righteous. And, because we wear all black, white and black make-up and   purple hair doesn't make us wicked.

Again,   God sees the heart.

So,  if we OutCasts, freaks, misfits, weirdos and goths fear, respect, honor and   love the Lord, then we are His Treasured Possession, His Segûllâhs.