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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | August 3rd

Periodically, every believer should take the time to evaluate ourselves. It is good to reflect on where we are and where we should be. We should look at our spiritual lives as well. Asking questions like, “Where am I in my faith walk”? Am I on the same level I was three years ago? Am I becoming more patient? More loving? Sometimes to grow, we must evaluate our progress and see if we are maturing spiritually or whether we are stagnant? God wants us to go from glory to glory. For that to take place, we must be co-laborers with Him. When He speaks to us about an area of our lives, we must be willing to take the necessary steps to improve in that area. We must continue to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the things of God. We strive to become stronger in the things of God. We must grow in faith for finances, healing, and every other area that belongs to us as believers. We examine ourselves so that we can be all that God wants us to be and have all that God wants us to have. 

#introspection #bible #faithwalk #vcccharlotte #iamvictory 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | August 2nd

There is a spiritual side to things, and there is a practical side. Many times, we can focus on one side more than the other. This verse focuses on the practical side. To get to where God wants us to be it takes knowledge (learning), skill, and wise counsel. Jesus Himself when He was twelve years old was in the temple listening to teachers and asking them questions. When His parents asked him why He was there, He replied that He “must be about His Father’s business” (Luke 2:46-49).

Being about His Father’s business was the spiritual side, but He had to go about it from a practical side. He had to learn what the teachers of the law knew because He knew that was an important part of walking in what God had for Him to walk in. If Jesus had to increase in learning and skill and even counsel from His teachers, we must be willing to do the same. We must acquire knowledge, skill, and even allow ourselves to be mentored and learn from our teachers. The student is not greater than his master. If Jesus was willing to do it, we must be willing to do the same.

#wisdom #proverb #dailydevotional #teacher #Jesus

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | August 1st

Peter was experiencing a miracle. He had acted on the words of Jesus. Jesus was standing on the water and just told him to, “Come”. He had received an invitation to experience the same miracle that Jesus was experiencing. Initially, he was walking on the water, but then he lost his focus. He took his eyes off Jesus and placed his eyes on the storm. He started to sink when he lost his focus. The same thing could happen to any believer. We always have a choice to focus on either the Word or the storms of our lives. When we keep our eyes on the Word, the Word will calm the storm. The Word will change our circumstances. If we keep our eyes on the storm, the storm will stay the same. Let’s keep our eyes on the answer, not the problem. The Word is always our answer, it always will be, yesterday, today, and forever.

#bible #dailydevotional #motivation #walkingonwater #jesus

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 31st

It is the desire of most believers to live a blessed life. We see in this text a secret to living a blessed life. We must love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and we must love our neighbor as ourselves. The Bible tells us that God is love (I John 4:8). We must love humanity with the same love that God gives toward us. We are capable of walking in that type of love because the Bible tells us that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost (Romans 5:5). As we love our neighbor, it will cause compassion to rise within us and to become a giver, the way our heavenly Father is. As we confer blessings upon others, we in turn put the law of giving and receiving in place; and we place ourselves in a position to receive from God. Staying in the love walk is the best way to live. It keeps you in the faith walk, and it causes people to identify you as a Christian, a Christ like one. 

#blessed #compassion #dailydevotional #faithwalk #vcccharlotte

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 30th

God desires for His people to always experience His peace. For that to take place, we must receive His Word as final authority in our lives. Isaiah 26:3 tells us that He will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our minds stayed on Him. We keep our minds stayed on Him by keeping our minds on what He has said in His Word. Whatever God says about us should be what we expect, regardless of what it looks like. We are who He says we are, and we can do what He says we can do.  
 
God tells us that He is our Healer, so we can be at peace about our health. God tells us that He will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory, so we can be at peace concerning our financial needs. We can enter God’s rest because we trust Him. Unbelief is what will disconnect us from His peace. The Israelites refused to believe God’s Word, and it cost them. It shut them out of the promised land and caused them to die in the wilderness. If we do not receive His promises, we will not be able to enter our promised land. God’s Word is the key to our entering in all that He has for us. 

#trustGod #Bible #encouragement #iamvictory #devotional 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 29th

When we speak the Word of God, heaven will back us. When Joshua was fighting against the Gibeonites, Joshua spoke to the sun and the moon, and they obeyed. The Word of God tells us that God heeded the word of a man (Joshua 10:12-14). Heaven will back us when our words line up with the Word of God. Heaven will not back up words of sickness and disease, poverty, lack, insufficiency, defeat, etc. The angels of God hearken to the voice of God (or the Word of God) and God’s Word does not promote defeat. God’s Word causes us to triumph. Speak what you desire, not what you have. Speak the Word of God.

#speaktheword #confession #dailydevotional #vcccharlotte

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 28th

God wants to be everything we need. God watched over Israel. He protected Israel. He led them through the wilderness. He did it all by Himself. God did not need any help to take care of Israel or to cause them to inherit the promised land. He caused them to ride upon the high places of the earth. God did all of this for His people, and He has not changed. What He did for the Israelites, He will do for us. He will navigate us through this life so that we can experience His best. God loves us, and He has nothing but the best in mind for us. We are His covenant people, and we can expect no less than what He did for the Israelites. Keep your expectations high and know that God will never fail us, He is bound to His Word.

#Godlovesyou #Provider #dailydevotional #inspiration #vcccharlotte

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 27th

God is the One with the plan. He is the One who knows what is up the road. He not only tells us what is about to take place, but when it is good, He knows how to make it happen. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in a certain place, God can all of a sudden, place you in a position totally different from where you were earlier.

For example, Joseph was a prisoner when he woke up in the morning, but he was the prime minister by the time he went to bed that night. God had revealed to him that he would be in leadership later in life and that his brothers would bow before him. God interpreted Pharoah’s dream through Joseph, and Joseph was promoted the same day. When God reveals His will and plan for our lives, we must receive it and understand that if God is the One revealing it to us, God is the One who will make it a reality. Not only can He make it happen, but He can make it happen suddenly! 

#devotional #doitGod #joseph #iamvictory #trustGod 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 26th

As human beings, we are limited in what we can do. Doctors cannot cure every disease. We sometimes can get to a place where we can’t figure out how to solve our problems. Sometimes there are things in our lives that take place, and we don’t know what to do. The good thing is that we serve an unlimited God. There is no problem that He cannot solve. There isn’t a situation that His wisdom cannot handle. There isn’t a sickness He cannot heal. There is nothing too hard for God. It doesn’t matter what the doctors are saying. It doesn’t matter how bad it looks; God can do what men can’t. Keep your eyes on God and take them off men. 

#nolimits #trustGod #devotional #iamvictory 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 25th

Jesus came to set us free. We are to live independent of this world’s system. We are to depend on the kingdom of God and not this world’s system. This is one reason why it is so imperative that we renew our minds to the Word of God. By renewing our minds to what God’s Word says, it will give us revelation and insight on how to function within the kingdom of God. The world has a way to prosper, but God does too. The world has healthcare system, and so does God. God wants us to depend on Him and to take the same time with His Word that we took to learn how to function within this world’s system. The Bible tells us that the Blessing of the Lord makes one rich and adds no sorrow to it (Proverbs 10:22). There are no ill side effects to God’s way of healing. There is no added interest when God blesses us financially. God’s way of doing things is always the best way of doing things. 

#freedom #JesusChrist #dailydevotional #motivation 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 24th

It is God’s desire that He manifests His will in our lives. His will is for us to prosper in every area of our lives (3 John 2). God’s desire is for us to be whole, spirit, soul, and body. He sent Jesus so that we can have life and have it more abundantly. It was never His desire for us to be sick, broke, confused, discouraged or to have any other negative experience in our lives. God gave us access to the kingdom of God so that we can experience the “Garden of Eden”. That simply means life without the effects of the curse. The conditions were perfect in the Garden before the fall of man, and when we stand for the promises of God, we are restored back to that place. We can experience that reality if we can believe God for it. Be it unto you according to your faith. 

#faith #motivation #vcccharlotte #trustGod 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 23rd

Paul had just been told that bonds and afflictions were awaiting him in every city that he was going to minister in. That would have scared off the average Christian. No one likes to be mistreated. No one enjoys persecution, yet Paul was told that this is what he would face this in every place that he would preach. What focus. What dedication. For a man to be so committed to the will of God, that he was willing to go through anything. Too many Christians want to live on easy street, yet Jesus told us that the servant was not greater than his master. If they mistreated Jesus, then they will mistreat His followers. Jesus was committed to the will of God. Even when He understood the cost, He stayed committed. God would not ask us to do something that He was not willing to do. Let’s not let God down. Let’s stay committed to God, no matter what, it is all worth it in the end.  

#staycommitted #bible #focus #dailydevotional #vcccharlotte 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 22nd

We all have a path that God has for us. God has a design for all our lives. It is almost like a movie script. When the actor sticks to the script and says his lines the way it was written, the play or movie turns out good. It is when the actor or actors get off script, that the movie or play does not always turn out the way it should have. That is the case with us. We are simply walking out what God has preordained, or scripted. When we stick to the script, we can trust that the movie of our lives will turn out great. The Holy Spirit is a great writer and producer. He knows how to direct us. It is best for us not to walk off alone and do our own thing. God is the ultimate producer and when we stay with the script of our lives, we simply experience a beautiful production from a writer who has never authored a bad story. His story is always good, just like his thoughts toward us. 

#GodsPlan #purpose #dailydevotional #trustGod #psalm 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 21st

It doesn’t matter what calamities may occur here on the earth, there is nothing that can keep us from the love of God. God’s love for us will cause Him to manifest His promises in our lives. He not only loves us, but He has a covenant with us that He will not break. If God has to perform miracles in order to meet our needs, He will do so. God is obligated to His promises. He has also promised us peace. It doesn’t matter what storms may be taking place in our lives, we can have peace in the midst of the storm. Jesus walked in that peace when a storm arose while He and His disciples were on the way to their destination. The Bible tells us that Jesus was sleeping while the storm was raging. Jesus had confidence in His Father’s love and His Father’s promises. Jesus knew that He could not perish because He told the disciples to go to the other side. If Jesus could have peace, then we can experience that same peace. God is no respecter of persons; He is simply a respecter of faith. When He sees us standing on His Word, He has no choice but to confirm His Word in our lives. It is impossible for God to lie. He is alert and active and watching over His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12).    

#sleepinthestorm #trustGod #Jesus #peaceofGod #dailydevotional 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 20th

This is a psalm of David as he was fleeing from his son Absalom. Absalom was attempting to steal the throne from David, and David and his men had to flee for their lives. Even though things looked bleak for David, his trust was still in his God. The same God that had delivered him from the lion, the bear, Goliath, Saul, and countless battles, would deliver him again. Based on his covenant and his experience with God, he knew that God would sustain him and keep him during this time. David knew that his help came from the Lord. We must come to the same conclusion. Regardless of the circumstances, God is with us, and God is coming through for us. If thousands come against us, they will be unsuccessful, because we understand that if God is for us, no one can successfully be our enemy. It doesn’t matter what the enemy may do, no weapon that is formed against us can prosper! 

#prosper #myhelpcomesfromtheLord #devotional #iamvictory 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 19th

Jesus knew the importance of fellowshipping with the Father. The text tells us that Jesus would pray as often as possible. It didn’t matter if He had to get up early or if He had to stay up late after a long day of ministry, Jesus would spend time with God. He understood the necessity and the value of prayer. There were times when Jesus prayed all night long. Before Jesus went to the cross, He was in the Garden of Gethsemane, praying to the Father, drawing the strength that it would take to carry out what He was sent to do, sacrifice His life for humanity. Jesus is our example. If He, being the Son of God, spent much time in prayer while here on earth, how much more should we? God is the vine, and we are the branches. We get our life, our strength, our everything from Him. He is our sufficiency. If Jesus was able to fulfill His purpose through seeking the Father, we should do the same. 

#dailydevotional #purposedriven #Jesus #praywithoutceasing #bible 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 18th

There are many believers who ignore the Word of God. Many don’t mean to do it, but it is so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life. We must make time for the Word. Satan will see to it that we stay busy. He wants us to be on the grind from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed. We must prioritize the Word of God. When we recognize the importance of the Word, we see to it that at some point, we read the Word of God. We have to imitate Job who said, “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” It would be hard to ignore the Word of God when you esteem it more than your food. It was said of Smith Wigglesworth that after every meal he would pull out His bible and say, “We have fed our body, now let’s feed our spirits.” Where would we be spiritually if we fed our spirits as much as we fed our bodies? Let us try and see. Honoring God’s Word in our lives will bring honor and it will cause prosperity in every area of our lives. 

#feedyourspirit #motivation #bible #prosperity 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 17th

It is always in our best interest to be generous people. Our Heavenly Father is generous, and we should always endeavor to be like our Heavenly Father. The Bible even tells us that if He did not spare His own Son, will He not with Him freely give us all things (Romans 8:32). A person who is constantly giving will eventually get to the place where they are constantly receiving. When we give, it is given back to us good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men will give unto our bosom (Luke 6:38). It is always beneficial to be a generous man or woman because God’s Word is always true. If we sow, we will also reap. If we choose to be callous and oblivious to the needs of others, we are setting ourselves up to reap the same. Let us always keep the golden rule in our minds, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. 

#mercy #dailydevotional #encouragement #bible #goldenrule #dogood 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 16th

Wisdom is far more effective than any human weapon. We have access to the wisdom of God. His Wisdom will cause us to get out of any jam or any situation. There is nothing too hard for God and there is nothing too hard for His Wisdom. If a poor man’s wisdom could deliver a city, what could God’s Wisdom do for our lives and our situations. It is not always knowledge that is needed, but how to apply what we already know. Knowledge is great and is an important asset, but the Wisdom of God is so much more valuable. Jesus has been made wisdom unto us (I Corinthians 1: 30) and His wisdom is much greater than Solomon’s, and he was considered to have been the wisest king to have ever lived. God’s Wisdom is available to us, we simply must ask for it (James 1:5-8) and believe that God will give us the answers to whatever problem that we may face. We are not in this world without help, we must simply ask. When we do, we can expect victory every time. 

#wisdom #devotional #victory #trustGod 

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL | July 15th

There’s something about the presence of the Lord. The Bible tells us that is His presence is fullness of joy (Psalm 16:11). The Bible also tells us that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). When God is with us, He causes remarkable things to happen in our lives. This text reminds us that the presence of God brings refreshment. It brings to mind the Scripture in Isaiah that tells us that “those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint “(Isaiah 40:31). Notice at the beginning of the text that it tells us to repent so that our sins may be wiped away. It is our sins that separate us from God. We must resist sin and understand the destruction that it causes. We should value our relationship with God to the point that we would be willing to remove any and everything that would come between us and God. Our success comes through walking with God daily. Let us not take our relationship with God for granted. In His presence is times of refreshing and restoration. 

#presenceoftheLord #dailydevotional #vcccharlotte #restoration #motivation  

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