DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 20th

January 20, 2024

📖 Also [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up). ⎻Luke 18:1 AMPC

When you are a person of prayer and the Word, it’s hard to give up. It becomes difficult to throw in the towel. When you are constantly in fellowship with the Father, and you’re resting in His promises, it becomes hard to faint and lose heart. Things become easier because you are resting in your Heavenly Father. You know that He cannot lie and that He will give you victory. Having done all to stand, continue to stand. Don’t ever give up. Don’t give up on God. Don’t give up on yourself, your dreams, or your family. God always causes us to triumph. You are more than a conqueror. You were built to outlast the devil. You win!

#winner #nevergiveup #devotional

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 19th

January 19, 2024

📖 The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. ⎻2 Peter 3:9 AMPC

Thank God for His mercy. Thank God that He is long-suffering. Aren’t you glad that God isn’t like some of us? We tend to give up on and write people off. We can sometimes become impatient. God is ever merciful. He is aware of what is taking place on the earth. He is aware of the sin, crime, and atrocities that are taking place. Instead of judgement to take place, God is being extraordinarily patient. He is waiting on us to get our act together. We must be the same way towards people and the promises of God. We must not give up on the promises of God, and we cannot give up on people. We must be like our Father, extraordinarily patient. When we are, it's just a matter of time before we experience the fulfillment of the promises of God.

#Godspromises #devotional #vcccharlotte #mercy

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 18th

January 18, 2024

📖 As soon as the meal was finished, he insisted that the disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he dismissed the people. With the crowd dispersed, he climbed the mountain so he could be by himself and pray. He stayed there alone, late into the night. -Matthew 14:22-23 The Message

Are you spending enough time with God? We are all busy. A lot of us have a lot on our plate, but despite all that is going on in our lives, it is still vital that we get away and spend time with the Father. He wants to talk to us about what's going on in our lives. He wants to lead us and guide us, and He wants to let us know what’s up the road. God won’t force Himself on us. He won’t turn our phones off for us. He’s not going to turn the television off for us. Those are the things we must do. God will impart to us His Wisdom, but He will not force it on us. If Jesus could still away and take the time to fellowship with God, how much more should we? We are without excuse. Let’s make time for our Father in Heaven; it's always worth it when we do. 

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 17th

January 17, 2024

📖 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!" ⎻Hebrews 12:2-3 The Message

Jesus is the perfect example of fulfilling the will of God. He put up with a lot of stuff, but He did not allow those things to distract Him. He knew what His purpose was, and He would not allow anyone, or anything, to stop Him from walking in it. When they tried to make Him a king, He hid Himself. When they wouldn’t receive Him in Samaria, He was so focused that it did not bother Him. They lied on Him. They mocked Him. His family misunderstood Him, yet He kept going despite all of that. He saw the end from the beginning and kept His eyes on that. He is now at a place of honor because He finished His mission. If we want the same result, we must finish our mission. We must fulfill the will of God for our lives. If we imitate Him, we will be victorious like Him. We will experience the exhilarating finish in and with God. We will finish the course and finish it with joy.

#JesusChrist #triumphant #determination #joy #stayfocused #devotional #verseoftheday

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 16th

January 16, 2024

📖 And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed. ⎯Daniel 11:32 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

God’s will is for us to succeed in every aspect of life. He desires for us to “prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers” (III John 2). Our victories will come out of our relationship with God. As we walk with God, He will give us divine instruction and insight into our situations. He will lead us and guide us in the way that we should go, and He will fight for us. God will defend us against our critics. He defended Moses when Miriam criticized him. God even let her know that He did not speak to Moses the way that He spoke with people: He spoke to Him face to face. He was implying that there was a closeness there, a relationship. Every good father desires to have a relationship with their children. As we fellowship with God through the Word and prayer, we will have a better understanding of who He is and of His ability. Knowledge of the Word and application of the Word will cause us to prevail and succeed in any situation the enemy brings our way. God always causes us to triumph, and that victory comes through knowing Him.

#success #devotional #vcccharlotte #goodfather #victory #message

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 15th

January 15, 2024

📖 For the Lord has chosen Zion, He has desired it for His habitation: This is My resting-place forever [says the Lord]; here will I dwell, for I have desired it. I will surely and abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread. Her priests also will I clothe with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There will I make a horn spring forth and bud for David; I have ordained and prepared a lamp for My anointed [fulfilling the promises of old]. His enemies will I clothe with shame, but upon himself shall his crown flourish. ⎯Psalm 132:13-18 Amplified Classic

God desires to manifest His goodness in our lives. In the text, we see that when He decided to dwell with the people, changes had to take place. He would bless their provision and satisfy the poor with bread. There would be joy throughout the land, and there would be fulfillment of the promises of God. Their enemies would be clothed with shame, and there would be prosperity in the land. God’s will is for us to prosper in every area of our lives. When we make Him number one in our lives, His Word also becomes a priority in our lives. When we are doers of His Word, we can expect God to manifest His goodness in greater ways. He will do so as we allow our lives to be a dwelling place for Him.

#goodgod #vcccharlotte #devotional #peaceofmind #monndaymotivation #verseeoftheday

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 14th

January 14, 2024

📖 Those who trust in the Lord are steady as Mount Zion, unmoved by any circumstance. ⎯Psalm 125: 1 The Living Bible

Believers are peculiar people. We are not to be moved by natural circumstances. We are to keep our eyes on the Word of God. The things we see are temporary, and they are subject to change. Every challenge, every obstacle, every attack of the enemy is subject to change. The Bible tells us that weeping may endure for a night, but joy will come in the morning (Psalm 30:5). Psalm 126:5-6 tells us that, “they that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him”. There may be tears today, but joy will eventually replace it. You may bring your seed in tears, but you will be rejoicing with the harvest. No matter what the circumstance may be in the natural, we know that it is subject to the Word of God. We are steady and immovable because we know that God is watching over His Word to perform it. We know it is impossible for Him to lie.

#harvest #joyinthemorning #devotional #vcccharlotte #godisgood #jesuschrist

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 13th

January 13, 2024

📖 For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him). -Romans 5:17-19 Amplified Bible Classic Edition

When Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, all of mankind came under the curse. Mankind had the sin nature on the inside of them and was destined for a life of failure and calamity. Mankind had become united to Satan and was unable to attain a right standing with God. Jesus came to alter the destiny of mankind. He became a curse for us so that we could be free from the law of sin and death. Jesus became poor so that we might be made rich. He took on sickness so that we could be well. He became sin so that we could become righteous. Jesus came so that we could not only have life, but that we could also reign in this life as kings and priests. We are to be the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. We can stand before God as if we have not sinned one day in our lives. Adam caused misery for humanity, but Jesus redeemed us from that misery. He made us more than conquerors!

#conquerors #redemption #Godissgood #devotional #victory #verseoftheday #inspiration

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 12th

January 12, 2024

📖 Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! Then flew one of the seraphim [heavenly beings] to me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the altar; And with it he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity and guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for and forgiven. -Isaiah 6:5-7 Amplified Bible Classic Edition

Isaiah claimed to be a man of unclean lips who dwelt among a people with unclean lips. God did something about it. He touched His lips. He dealt with his words. What would set Isaiah apart and what would cause him to be used by God was a change in his words. God dealt with Isaiah’s mouth, and He wants us to deal with our mouths as well. We dwell among people of unclean lips, but we don’t have to talk like them. We don’t have to talk doubt and unbelief. We don’t have to talk about sickness and disease like the world does. We don’t have to be people of unclean lips. God gave us His Word to purify our words and to begin to talk like He does. God wants to use us, and He wants us to be His examples in the earth. It starts with us getting born again, and then we must purify our lips. We must begin to talk the way that God does. When we do, we will also live the way He lives. We can expect to live a life of victory.

#victory #vcccharlotte #verseoftheday #talk #holiness #bible #wordofgod

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 11th

January 11, 2024

📖 Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:] Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, But stripped Himself [of all privileges and [rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!” -Philippians 2:5-8 Amplified Bible Classic Edition

How much does God love you? How much does heaven value you? God sent Jesus to the earth to die for humanity. Jesus not only came to die for humanity, but He also emptied Himself of all the attributes that made Him God. He allowed Himself to become tired. He allowed Himself to experience what it feels like to feel hunger. He allowed Himself to bleed and to feel pain. He lived like a man. He became human so that we could live on a higher level. We are not mere men. We are made in His class. Jesus humbled Himself so that we can become more. He abased Himself so that we can experience life and have it more abundantly. Jesus did not come to the earth for Himself, He came down for us! He came down so that we could come up. He experienced death so that we could experience life, the God kind of life. Let us show our appreciation for the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. Let's never take what He did for granted. If Jesus can humble Himself, we can humble ourselves. Afterall, we are who we are by His grace.

#grace #devotional #jesuschrist #Godlovesyou #message #sacrifice #humility

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 10th

January 10, 2024

📖 "God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” -I Corinthians 1:9 Amplified Bible Classic Edition

God is faithful to His Word. It is impossible for Him to lie. It is a divine truth that He cannot lie. God’s Word is the only means we have of trusting Him. We cannot see God nor can we touch Him. We can read God’s Word, and we can trust Him. In fact, trusting God’s Word is like trusting God Himself. When we choose to believe God’s Word, it causes a dependency on Him just like you would depend on the word of a man or woman. We trust man daily. We trust the bank. We trust our supervisors. We trust the doctor. Unfortunately, sometimes we tend to trust everyone and everything except God when he is more dependable than man. He is more faithful than any man. We must get to a place where we can put more trust in what we read in God’s Word, than what we hear from the words of a man. Man may let you down, but God will not. He is reliable, trustworthy, and ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on.

#trust #Godisfaithful #dailydevotional #motivation #verseoftheday

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 9th

January 9, 2024

📖 "Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [for He is perfect and never changes].” -James 1:17 Amplified Bible

God is a good God. He is only capable of doing good. Jesus tells us that the thief (the devil) comes to steal, kill, and destroy. If something has been stolen from you or destruction has taken place in your life, you can trust and believe that it did not come from God. ONLY good things come from God. The late Oral Roberts once stated that, “There is nothing good in the devil, and there is nothing bad in God”. Everything that is good in our lives came from God, and He wants our lives to reflect His goodness towards us. When He approached Abram, He told him that He would bless Him. That was one of the first things He said to Abram, and God honored His Word to him. The devil even commented to God that Job only served Him because He had blessed the works of his hands (Job 1:10). As we walk with God, we should expect our lives to get better. We should expect nothing but good, because that is all that is in God. He is perfect and never changes.

#perfection #vccccharlotte #GoodGod #abraham #walkwithgod

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 8th

January 8, 2024

📖 "My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.” -Proverbs 4:20-23 Amplified Bible Classic Edition

We must endeavor to keep our eyes on God’s Word if we are going to walk the faith walk that God has instructed us to walk. We are faith people, and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. As we put the Word of God in our hearts and keep it there, the Word will produce. The Word will produce what it promises. The Word will bring healing, peace, prosperity, provision, and anything else we will need in this life. We must protect our hearts from doubt and unbelief. Those things will choke the Word and keep it from producing in our lives. As we stay diligent in the protecting of our hearts, we will see the results that the Word of God promises. God’s Word always works.

#Bible #devotional #faithwalk #vcccharlotte #verseoftheday #trustGod

 

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 7th

January 7, 2024

📖 "I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” -Psalm 34:1 King James Version

We are to always bless the Lord. When things are going well, we bless the Lord. When things aren’t so good, we bless the Lord. His praise should continually be in our mouths because praise stills the enemy. Praise causes the enemy to leave because the devil cannot stand praise. God on the other hand inhabits the praises of His people. Praise ushers in the presence of the Lord. We should desire the manifested presence of God at all times. Praise is what will cause that to take place. We may not like everything that occurs in our lives, but we can always praise God because He can change whatever circumstance we may be facing. Praise will usher in His presence and stop the devil from wreaking havoc in our lives.

#devotional #vcccharlotte #blessthelord #praiseandworship #message #verseoftheday

 

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 6th

January 6, 2024

📖 "Jesus said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you are wrong, because you don’t know either the scriptures or God’s power?” -Mark 12:24 Common English Bible

Sometimes believers can have a wrong theology. They may think that healing went out with the apostles. Some think that God wants them poor because money is the root of all evil. They don’t even know that it is the love of money that is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10). These mistakes are made because they have no knowledge of the Word of God. God wants us healed (III John 2, I Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5). God wants us to prosper (III John 2, Psalm 35:27, Deuteronomy 8:18). God’s thoughts towards us are only good (Jeremiah 29:11). We must have a solid foundation in the Word of God; it takes studying and meditating on the Word of God day and night. As we become established and knowledgeable of the Word of God, we will then become acquainted with the power of God. God acts on His Word, and He is watching over His Word to perform it. Let us not stay ignorant of the Word of God. God’s people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).

#prosper #Godlovesyou #vcccharlotte #dailydevotional #verseoftheday #saturyay

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 5th

January 5, 2024

📖 "But on that day I will separate and set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of insects will be there, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that I, the Lord, am in the midst of the earth. I will put a division (distinction) between My people and your people. By tomorrow this sign shall be in evidence." -Exodus 8:22-23 Amplified Bible

We have been translated out of the domain of darkness, and we have been translated into the kingdom of God. God will take care of those who are inside of His kingdom. He will take care of His own. God set a distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians. The chaos and the damage that was taking place in Egypt was not taking place in Goshen. There may be chaos and destruction taking place in the world, but it doesn’t have to affect us. We are in the Kingdom. Satan is the god (ruler) of this world. This is why the world is in the shape that it is in. However, our Heavenly Father desires to shield us from what is going on in the world. We can have prosperity in a famine. We can walk in divine health in the middle of a “flu season”. We can have peace while the rest of the world is nervous and troubled about tomorrow. We may be in this world, but we are not of it. We function in another realm; we function in the Kingdom of God.

#kingdomofGod #vcccharlotte #israelites #Godisgood #verseoftheday #tgif #message

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 4th

January 4, 2024

📖 "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” -I John 5:14-15 KJV

Isn’t this a wonderful Scripture? To know that if we ask anything according to the will of God (the Word of God), we can know that God not only hears us, but we know that we have the very thing that we are asking for. 2 Peter 1:4, tells us that God “has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness”. Anything that you have need of pertains to life and there is a promise in the Word that covers your situation. We must study the Word, and be knowledgeable of the Word in order to know what God has said about the matter. One thing that we can count on is that the promises of God in Him are yes and amen (2 Corinthians 1:20). God has already said yes to all His promises, the key is to know what He has said and then to stand on those promises. Once you have prayed according to the Word of God, you can then rest assured knowing that it's just a matter of time before you experience the fulfillment of that promise in your life.

#promisesofGod #vcccharlotte #devotional #bible #prayer #confidence #verseoftheday

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 3rd

January 3, 2024

📖 "Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him." -Romans 12:2 Contemporary English Version

As we continue to walk with God, we must continue to renew our minds to the Word of God. God has given us His Word to change our thinking. In order to live on a higher level, we must think on a higher level because as a man thinketh, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). Our outer world is simply a reflection of our inner world. As we feed on the Word of God, it will change our image. It will change how we see yourself and a correlation will take place on the outside. God doesn’t have limitations. All things are possible with Him. His Word tells us that all things are possible with us as well. We are made in God’s image, and we are capable of living in victory the way He walks in victory. The Word of God even tells us that as He is (Jesus), so are we in this world. God expects us to rule and reign as kings in this life. As we renew our minds to the Word of God, eventually we will.

#renewyourmind #vcccharlotte #jesuschrist #bible #verseoftheday #devotional

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 2nd

January 2, 2024

📖 "Take with me your share of hardship [passing through the difficulties which you are called to endure], like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier in active service gets entangled in the [ordinary business] affairs of civilian life; [he avoids them] so that he may please the one who enlisted him to serve. 5 And if anyone competes as an athlete [in competitive games], he is not crowned [with the wreath of victory] unless he competes according to the rules." -2 Timothy 2:3-5 AMPC

We are soldiers in the army of the Lord, and we are called to prevail and conquer regardless of the hardship that comes our way. God has a destiny for us he wants fulfilled but that will not happen if we crumble under pressure and hardship. Paul went through many different difficulties in his life yet at the end of his journey he was able to say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”. Let us embrace our calling to take on hardship because as we stay with God, we will emerge victorious. We are more than conquerors and greater is He who is in us than he that is in the world. We have the ability and the goods to overcome every obstacle that comes our way. Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:22-27 talks about how much hardship he had gone through in his life, but he did not quit or give up. God has equipped us with the ability to survive the hardships we are called to endure. May we always remember that we can do all things because Christ is the one who strengthens us according to Philippians 4:13.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL | January 1st

January 1, 2024

📖 "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own? -Luke 16:10-12 NKJV

If we want the fullness of what God has in store for us when it comes to life, we must be faithful. We want many things in life like a higher-paying job, a new leadership position, or to create a successful business but we are not faithful in the place we are right now. In Proverbs 20:6 NKJV it says, “Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, But who can find a faithful man?” In the world, some people go from one job to the next leaving each one for the slightest inconvenience. That ought not be for the believer, we should show faithfulness in our lives because God is a faithful God. Proverbs 28:20 NKJV says, “A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.” When we are faithful to our family, our church, our jobs, etc., blessings will come upon us and overtake us. You may not have everything that you want in life right now but if you remain faithful blessings will come. The Bible tells us to not despise the day of small beginnings which means no matter how small or insignificant things may seem to us, we must remain faithful so God can bring us into greater things. When we look at the life of David he is a good example of someone who had to remain faithful. Before becoming king, he started as a shepherd boy and even after being anointed king he still tended to the sheep. Then he served King Saul until he had to escape for his life. David remained faithful and did not despise the day of small beginnings, and as a result, he was brought into great and mighty things. Let us remain faithful. Blessings are coming!

#blessings #happynewyear #faithful #verseoftheday #bible #endurance