Grow Devotes

“For He will order His angels to protect you wherever you go.”  Psalm 91:11 (NLT)   This verse about angelic protection is for the believer who chooses to surrender their life to God and spend time in His presence. It goes on to say about angels in verse 12, “they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.”    It is...

“…I am the Lord who heals you.” Exodus 15:26   Just like each Christian has their own testimony of their salvation story, those who receive healing have their own healing story. No two stories are the same. God is personal with each one of us, not only providing our healing; but also about His relationship with us as our healer.    God isn’t just about the healing; He’s about making...

  “…whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” Mark 11:23   Your words can be used as tools to exercise the authority that has been delegated to you through Jesus Christ. Words can also be used to locate your heart, revealing...

“…at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11   There are times when healing is a specific touch that cures a defined ailment, but divine health is a continual flow of power that we can live in everyday.  There have been occasions when a person has received a touch of God’s healing power, but later the symptoms of that physical ailment returned. This can happen for several reasons, but...

“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness- by whose stripes you were healed.” I Peter 2:24   The salvation that Jesus provided on the cross brought us wholeness in spirit, in soul, and in body. The Greek word for salvation is “sozo.” A study of that word shows that salvation not only included freedom from...

“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.” Mark 11:24   To receive eternal life, we believe the message that God loves us, He wants to save us from eternal torment, and He sent Jesus to die in our place for our sins. Then we ask Him to forgive us and we believe we receive the...

“…Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”  Matthew 18:3   In Matthew 18:3, the Greek word for little children is literally a nursing infant. A nursing baby is dependent upon its mother for milk as well has for its care. This is an accurate description of our faith relationship with God – one...

”For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.” Galatians 5:6   Real faith avails something; real faith has results. This verse says that faith is working. That means that faith is activating, energizing, and working, and it’s working through love.    It makes sense that faith and love go hand-in-hand. I John 4:7 tells us that God is love. If we are going...

“If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36    When we lean on the Lord in faith, we not only believe in Him, but we put our active trust in Him. In a relationship with the Lord, He will cause us to experience a powerful liberty from anything that has a binding grip on us. There is nothing that is stronger than our God! We...

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105    Real faith is dependent upon God in a trusting relationship with Him. There have been several times in scripture when God required people of faith to trust Him by acting in obedience by taking one step at a time. They didn’t always know the full picture or the next step in God’s plan,...

“…fulfill your ministry.” II Timothy 4:5   To fulfill a ministry, a person also needs to grow their ministry. Starting a ministry is not the same as growing a ministry or bringing a ministry to a place of fulfillment.    Aim Your Ministry – To grow your ministry, you need to have a vision for what God wants to accomplish in that ministry. One you know where you are going,...

“…be filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians 5:18   If we want to fulfill our ministry, then we and our ministry are going to need to stay refreshed. Acts 3:19 mentions times of refreshing that follow our surrender to the Lord. Those times of refreshing from the Spirit of God come continually as we consistently position ourselves in His presence.    Ephesians 5:18 says that we are to be filled with...

“Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:23   If we want to fulfill our ministry, we need to guard our ministry. To guard our ministry, we need to first guard ourselves in spirit, soul, and body. As leaders, we also must put a guard on the issues that surround us in our...

“…I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God  in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:14   To fulfill the ministry that God has called each of us to, we have to stay true to our calling. To stay true to our calling requires that we stay focused and diligent to our task. It requires that we stay consecrated to a holy lifestyle. It requires that we...

“…Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men.”  Colossians 3:23   If we want to fulfill our ministry, we need to apply ourselves to do the work of the ministry. That means we need to put forth effort, effort toward both spiritual and natural matters that pertain to the ministry that we’ve been called to. The work that we do should be done diligently,...