DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 19th

When a person makes Jesus Christ the Lord of his or her life, they become a new creation. One version of the Bible says that we become “a new species of being, one that has never existed before”. That is good news. It is good news because our past has been removed from us. There is no evidence that you were a sinner because you are now a new person altogether. Paul received a revelation of that. Despite his persecuting the church before his conversion, he was able to later say that he had wronged no man. He had a revelation of the Blood of Jesus. He had a revelation of redemption. We have not only have we been recreated, but God has also reconciled us to Him and made us to be in right standing with Him. We can come before God as if we have not sinned one day in our lives when we make Jesus the Lord of our lives. Even when we sin, if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9).  We must meditate on these spiritual truths until they become a reality to us. When we receive a revelation of who we are in Christ we can say something like Jesus when He said, “Father I know that you always hear me (John 11:42). 

#forgiveness #newman #newwoman #redemption #JesusChrist #devotional #iamvictory 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 18th

We have a secret weapon in prayer. When a Christian is filled with the Holy Spirit, that person receives a special prayer language. When a person prays in tongues or in their heavenly language, they are speaking mysteries and secret truths according to I Corinthians 14:2 (NKJV and Amplified Classic). When praying in the Spirit, your spirit is praying, and your understanding is unfruitful (I Corinthians 14:14). When making intercession for an individual, we may not always know what to pray, and that’s when we switch over to our secret weapon. That is when we pray in our prayer language, and the Spirit of God prays through us the perfect will of God concerning that individual or concerning the situation if we are praying about a specific situation. When the Spirit of God is praying through the perfect will of God through us, we then know that all things will work together for good. Let's use our secret weapon in prayer, it will cause us to come out on top every time. 

#holyspirit #trustGod #strength #dailydevotional #christianity #power 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 17th

In this passage, Jesus is speaking. He is our example...our model. Notice His attitude in reference to the will of God. He says that He does not seek His own will. He goes on to say that He has no desire to do what is pleasing to Himself, He only desired the will of God. That must be our posture as well. We should only desire God’s will for our lives. We only desire to get His orders so that we can carry them out. True fulfillment can only come through walking out the Father’s orders. He always knows what is best for us. Let us be like Jesus. Let’s seek the will of God for our lives. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and His ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:11). 

#higher #Jesus #devotional #iamvictory #sunday #vcccharlotte #HeavenlyFather 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 16th

When God wants to take your life to another level, He sends someone into your life. Unfortunately, the devil does the same thing. When he wants to destroy your life, he will send someone into your life. As believers, we must be led by the Holy Spirit when it comes to choosing our friends. Friends should make you better. Friends should also be people who bring you closer to God. A godly friend would never ask you to do things that will jeopardize your salvation or compromise your value system. Every now and then we need to evaluate our friendships and make sure that our friends are making us better, not causing us to get worse. We should also be sure that we are a godly influence on the people in our lives. We should strive to be the light of the world, the salt of the earth. 

#ironsharpensiron #friendshipgoals #friendship #bible #dailyddevotional #saturyay

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 15th

These were the words spoken to Saul. Saul disobeyed God. He was supposed to destroy everything in the city, instead, he saved the best of all that was good and did not kill the king as he was instructed to do. His disobedience cost him the crown. Samuel reminded him that when he was small in his own eyes, God placed him in a position of royalty. He was the king of Israel. God wants to promote His people. However, one thing that could be hindering Him from doing that is our pride. The Bible tells us that pride comes before destruction. We must all get to a place where we understand that we are who we are by the grace of God. We must understand that our intelligence, talents, and abilities, all came from God. When we get to a place that we think we are smarter than God, we are on dangerous ground. Saul disobeyed God and thought his idea was better than God’s. We must never get to that place. We must be doers of the Word of God and, we must obey God at all costs. Let's stay little in our own eyes and keep our dependency on God. Without him we are nothing.

#dailydevotional #bible #GodofIsrael #trustGod #Humility #faithfulness #tgif

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 14th

God is our Source. God was Abraham’s Source of Blessing. Abraham even told the king of Sodom when the king tried to give him the spoils of a recent battle, “I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich” (Genesis 14:22-23). Abraham would not take anything from the king. He was determined that God would be his source of blessing and towards the end of his life, his servant said, “The Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great; and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. (Genesis 24:35)” God is no respecter of persons. We also have access to the Blessing because we are part of the body of Christ which means that we ALSO have a covenant relationship with the God of Israel like Abraham. Make God your Source today. It is a decision you will not regret. 

#covenant #trustGod #blessings #vcccharlotte #iamvictory #Abraham 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 13th

Perspective is very important. We must always see things from God’s perspective. The servant of the man of the God woke up and all that he could see was an army surrounding the city. Elisha saw something different. He knew who was with him. He knew that they who were with him were greater than the army that he could see with his physical eyes. The Bible tells us that we are to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7) Many times when situations take place in our lives, we may have a tendency to look at it purely from a natural perspective, and we don’t look at it from God’s perspective. God’s Word should always take precedence over what we see in the natural because God’s Word can change everything we see in the natural. Let's keep things in their proper perspective and recognize and understand that no matter what we face in life, we can face it knowing that if God is for us. No one can successfully be your enemy. 

#trustGod #elisha #nofear #havefaith #dailydevotional #iamvictory #GodIsForUs  #wednesdaywisdom

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 12th

Do you want your world to get larger? Do you want to experience more of the blessings of God? The Word of God tells us that the world of the generous gets larger and larger. The one who is stingy is the one whose world gets smaller and smaller. According to our text, the one who is willing to be a blessing to others will himself/herself receive blessings. It reminds us of Luke 6:38. In that verse, it tells us that “with the standard of measurement you use [when you do good to others], it will be measured to you in return” (amplified version). When it comes to receiving from God, we determine the standard of measure that we receive from God by the measure that we give. If you don’t like the state of your world, change your standard of giving, knowing that God is not a man that He should lie. When you change your standard of giving, you will change your standard of living. 

#devotional #generosity #GodIsFaithful #vcccharlotte #bible #terrificTuesday #motivation 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 11th

God has blessed all of us with gifts, talents, and abilities. It is on us to develop the talent that is on the inside of us. We all have the potential to become more than what we currently are. The question is are we taking the necessary steps to unleash our full potential? God expects us to become more. Many people want to stand before great men and women but are unwilling to do what it takes to stand there. We must develop the gift. We must strive to become better and better. David’s gift brought him before Saul. He was known for playing the harp, and when they were thinking of someone who could play some anointed music to bring Saul relief from an oppressive spirit, someone brought up David. David’s development of one of his gifts brought him before the king. If we will do the same, we will too.

#MondayMotivation #Talent #Developement #Progress #Success

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 10th

The Holy Spirit has been given to us to help us. The Holy Spirit is there to be a counselor to us. The Scripture above lists all the things the Holy Spirit is to be to us. He wants to be in close fellowship with us to help us in every area of our lives. Later on in the chapter (verse thirteen), Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit will receive from the Father, and He will share those things with us. He even said that the Holy Spirit will show us things to come. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. We are not in this world alone, we have help. The Holy Ghost is our helper, and He is standing by, ready to assist us in whatever situation we face.

#Help #Helper #HolySpirit #Strength #Comfort

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 9th

It is so good to know that we serve a merciful God. The Bible tells us that His mercies are new every morning. Before Paul’s conversion, he brutally and mercilessly persecuted the church. He had men and women put in prison and he was consenting to the death of Stephen. Paul had just received letters to do even more damage to the church when he had his Damascus Road experience. When God got a hold of Paul, He totally turned his life around and Paul began walking in the call that God had preordained for him to walk in. It doesn’t matter how many times we fail. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes we make. When your heart is to please God and to be what He has called you to be, He knows how to get you where you are supposed to be. He doesn’t consult your past to determine your future. Don’t allow the enemy to bring up your past, it’s over with. Your latter end will be better than your former. God knows the plans that He has for you, a plan to give you a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

#Mercy #BrightFuture #MovingForward #Purpose #Forgiveness

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 8th

With everything that is going on in the world today, it could seem like you are walking through the shadow of death. What is important is our perspective. Yes, there are things in this world that seem insurmountable, and there are things going on that are downright troubling. What should cause a difference of perspective is that we know who is with us. God is with us, and He protects and guides us. He always leads us into green pastures. He will lead us to a path of overflow and abundance. God is a good God, and He sent Jesus so that we can have life and have it more abundantly. Our abundant living is not based on what is going on in the world. Our abundant living is based on several factors, including our ability to hear His Voice and to obey once we hear. It doesn’t matter how dark it gets, we have a God. We have a God who loves us and desires to prosper us wherever we may find ourselves.

#Godwillneverleaveyou #shadowofdeath #devotional #bible #psalm #protection #iamvictory

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 7th

When you make God the Source of everything in your life, including protection, He always comes through. When God is your Source, no evil will befall you and no plague or calamity can come near your dwelling place (home, apartment, etc.). That is good to know in the times that we are living in. There are all kinds of sicknesses, plagues, and then there is the potential for tragedy because Satan is the god of this world, and he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Fortunately, when God is watching over you and His angels are keeping charge of you, no tragedies can come near your habitation. In verse seven of this psalm, it says that “A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you.” Whatever caused the thousands to fall will not harm you, it cannot even come near your dwelling place. Take your eyes off what is going on in the world and keep your eyes on the promises of God. They will be life to you and health to all of your flesh (Proverbs 4:22).

#psalms #divineprotection #thankfulthursday #dailydevotional #iamvictory #MyRefuge #protector

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 6th

It was never the will of God for His people to experience the evil of the world. It was never the will of God for there to be evil in the world to begin with. Because of the fall of man, sin entered the world along with the curse. The curse included sickness, poverty, and spiritual death. But thank God that He sent His Son Jesus into the earth to take on the curse for us. The Bible tells us that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13). Because we have been redeemed, we can walk in divine health, divine wealth; and we can receive salvation by making Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. We can live in this world and prosper when the rest of the world is going under. We can stay healthy in the middle of a pandemic. We can have joy in the middle of all the chaos that is going on around us because of the Greater One living on the inside of us. Let's go out and win today, we have been redeemed! 

#redemption #morethanaconqueror #devotional #goodGod #vcccharlotte #wednesdaywisdom #provider 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 5th

God desires to be our source of blessings. He desires to feed us, guide us, and protect us. That is what He did for the Israelites in the wilderness. He fed them with manna. He led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, and He protected them from their enemies. Lack came through the curse. God even told the people that when they ate and were full …to not to forget the Lord their God (Deuteronomy 8:12, 14). God even told His people that He was bringing them into a land where there was no lack (Deuteronomy 8:9). Our Heavenly Father has not changed. It is still His desire to bring us to a place of abundance and surplus. It starts with a relationship with Him, and as we pursue God, all of the things that we need will be added to us, for God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Matthew 6:33; Hebrews 11:6).  

#Provider #GodIsGood #blessingsonblessings #devotional #vcccharlotte #iamvictory #theLordIsMyShepherd  

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 4th

As believers, we have been born of God. God’s DNA is on the inside of us. God’s Word tells us that we are one spirit with the Lord (I Corinthians 6:17). The Bible tells us that we are the temple of God (I Corinthians 6:19). God is greater than anything that we can face in this world. He is greater than Satan, who is the god of this world. There is nothing that the enemy can throw our way that we cannot handle. Because God is on the inside of us, the answer to every problem is on the inside of us. We have God’s Wisdom, and God will speak to us, lead us, and guide us because the Word promises that He would do that. When you become God-inside minded, you will get to a place when you become unstoppable. The revelation that the God of the universe is living on the inside of you will cause boldness to rise and you face anything the devil throws your way, with a knowing that you will win. You will have a knowing that regardless of how hard the devil attacks, your victory over him is certain because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

#greaterishe #bigGod #Bible #dailydevotional #1John4v4 #bold #mondaymotivation #vcccharlotte 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 3rd

Words are very important. Many of us know the importance of words and how they are a creative force. Words are also important because of the effect that they have on other people. Words can wound. Words can uplift. Our words should be used to uplift and build up others. The Bible tells us that sweet water and bitter water should not come out of the same fountain (James 3:11). We should be careful what we say to people because as believers, we want to always build people up, and not tear them down. Let’s be careful how we use our words today. It could be the one thing that motivates a person who is on the verge of giving up, to keep going. Let’s make a decision to bring hope to people not hurt. 

#hopegiver #inspiration #motivation #sunday #devotional #bible #wordshavepower 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 2nd

It is important who we associate with. The Bible tells us that, "evil communications corrupt good manners” (I Corinthians 15:33). A part of our success is in our associations. Our associations can make us, or they can break us. We must constantly evaluate who our friends are because associations can determine your destiny. One man said, “when God wants to take you to another level, He will send someone into your life. When Satan wants to derail you, he sends someone into your life. Watch who comes into your life, it could take you up or it could bring you down. 

#associations #iamvictory #1Cor15v33 #ironsharpensiron #relationshipgoals #dailydevotional #saturyay 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | April 1st

The Shunamite woman had received a miracle. She'd been unable to have children, but the man of God had given her a Word. He told the woman that she would conceive and about a year later, she had a son. After some time had passed, her son died after working with his father in the field. On multiple occasions she had the opportunity to talk about her circumstances and to talk negatively. However, instead of doing that, she continued to say, “It is well”. She must have had some understanding of the power of words because she never said that her son died. She simply went back to the man of God. Eventually her son was raised from the dead by Elisha. When we find ourselves in desperate situations, we must discipline our tongues because “death and life is in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21). We must call those things that be as though they were until they are. The words of the Shunammite woman played a significant role in her receiving her miracle. Your words will do the same. So, watch your words and ask God to put a watch over your mouth (Psalm 141:3). Your words will frame your world. 

#watchyourwords #dailydevotional #vcccharlotte #biblestories #tgif #discipline #iamvictory 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | March 31st

When it comes to believing God, perhaps all of us at some point thought we knew how God was going to meet our need or answer our prayer. We may have checked the mailbox or looked for a “blessing” handshake. The truth is, however, that we just don’t know how God is going to meet our need. We have to take the limits off of God. God has a million ways to meet our needs. We must allow Him to do it in the way that He wants to. Eventually Naaman obeyed the man of God and received his healing from leprosy, but he had to humble himself and get over his expectations. We must do the same. We must be doers of the Word of God, and if there are any instructions from the Spirit of God, we must obey Him. Our job is to believe, it is God’s job to bring His Word to pass. He is watching over His Word to perform it. 

#GodisFaithful #Godwillprovide #faithful #vcccharlotte #iamvictory #dailydevotional #bible 

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