Day 7: Jesus is the Messiah or Christ Prayer: Our Father in heaven, show us Your magnificent plan that You had set in place before the foundation of the world. Help us to understand that Jesus is the One who was promised from the very beginning. Teach us the wonder of the Messiah. Amen. Primary Scriptures: John 1:41: He [Andrew] first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ). John 4:25-26: The woman said

Day 6: Jesus is our Rabbi, our Teacher Prayer: Our Father in heaven, help us to come to Jesus to learn from Him and to learn of You. Open our ears to listen; open our hearts to receive all that He wants to teach us through the Holy Spirit within us. Amen. Primary Scriptures: John 1:37-38: The two disciples heard [John] speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, w

Day 5: Jesus is the Lamb of God Prayer: Our Father in heaven, open the eyes of our hearts to see what it means that Jesus is Your Lamb, given to pay the penalty of death for the sins of the world, including our own sin. Amen. Primary Scriptures:John 1:29: The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:35-36: Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. And looking at Jesus as He

Day 4: Jesus is the only begotten Son of God Prayer: Our Father in heaven, thank You for sending us Your most priceless treasure, the gift of Your Son. Teach us to value Him as You do. Give us understanding.  Amen. Primary Scriptures: John 1:14, 18: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the

Day 3:  Jesus is the  Creator Prayer: Our Father in heaven, it was through Jesus, the Word made flesh, that You created all that is. As we look at all the wonders of the created universe and the beauties and marvels of the world in which we live, open our eyes to see the imprint of His fingers.  Amen. Primary Scripture:John 1:1-3:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him

Day 2: Jesus is God Prayer: Our Father in heaven, show us the fullness of Your glory through the flesh and blood person of Christ. Amen. Primary Scripture:John 1:1-2: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. As we saw with the first name of Jesus in the book of John, the opening verse takes us back to the “time” before time. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God…” And John 1:1 tells us that the God w

Prayer:   Our Father in heaven, Jesus told His disciples the night before He died that Your Holy Spirit would guide us into all truth, that the Spirit would take of Christ and reveal Him to us.  We pray for this gift of revelation and guidance by Your Spirit, that Jesus might be magnified in our understanding and in our lives.  Amen. Day 1:   Jesus is the Word Primary Scripture:   John 1:1:   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The

When the Bible speaks of goodness, it is often in relation to good works. I will never forget the time when I was studying the book of Titus, which is where older women are instructed to teach younger women to be good. I started the study because the book had seemed to me to be such a hodgepodge of random topics. I couldn’t see how the book all tied together. I spent over two weeks reading through the book everyday over and over, praying that God would help me understand it a

There is, of course, much more to the word good than the goodness of God displayed in creation. Goodness is full-orbed and many-dimensional. Like all the characteristics of God, it is holistic. When God instructs us to be good, He is first of all calling us to the goodness of character. As we saw in the last blog, God’s essential nature is good. He never calls us to something other than what He Himself is, for His goal in redemption is to conform us to His very own image. He

Older women, teach the younger women to be good (Titus 2:5). For me, as I thought through the list of seven things older women are to teach younger women, this word good seemed so common, so nondescript. I didn’t really know what exactly we were to teach. But a deeper study has opened up a treasure trove of specific and practical applications for us as women to inculcate (“to cause to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle” Merriam-Webster) into our l

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