3/04 JAMES 3:8-10
8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. 10 And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!
WATCH
Watch what you say.
Surrender your mind and your mouth to the Lord.
Give Him your obedience.
He will guard your tongue.
3/03 JAMES 2:14-17
14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do?
17 So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.
TALK
Talk is cheap.
Doing requires real effort and constructive faith.
We put our faith to work and let it control our hands and feet.
We make our faith active and let it control our resources.
Love one another.
Do for others as the Lord does for you.
Be Jesus in action.
The world needs Jesus.
3/02 JAMES 1:22-25
22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
WORK
Work at your faith.
Learn the Lord’s rules and do them.
It is one thing to know and not do-just fooling yourself.
It is a faith walk to do what the Lord says.
Half obedience is no obedience.
Confess you sin, change, do.
Jesus loves you.
3/01 JAMES 1:2-7
2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
ASK
Testing our faith isn’t fun but it does produce growth.
Ask the Father for help.
Ask the Father for strength.
Whatever else you need be sure to ask the Father.
Focus on Jesus-no divided loyalty-faith in Him.
He will see you through.
Jesus will never abandon you.
One day soon you will experience the end of the testing.
Your joy will be complete-you now know He will see you through the trial.
By faith we walk.
Our journey is straight to Jesus.
Walk worthy.
Walk in faith.
The Lord Jesus loves you.
2/29 EPHESIANS 1:5
5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
ADOPTION
I am a child of God.
He has adopted me into His family.
It was a grace gift.
I claim that gift by faith.
I walk in Him by faith.
I talk with Him and listen to Him by faith.
The Holy Spirit guides me and I believe it by faith.
One day I will stand face to face and see Jesus.
Praise the Lord that marvelous day.
2/28 1 JOHN 3:1
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
BLIND
The world is blind to the Lord.
They do not see Him nor do they believe in Him.
The hate us for claiming Jesus as Lord.
Stand your ground.
Pray for the lost.
Glorify God by the things you do.
Love others and care for them the way the Father cares for you.
2/27 PSALM 36:5-7
5 Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the ocean depths.
You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
7 How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
All humanity finds shelter
in the shadow of your wings.
CLOSE
The Lord God Almighty is close by.
I live in His presence.
His Holy Spirit indwells me.
His strength and power enable me.
I know His joy, it fills me.
His safety covers me.
He cares for me.
I belong to Him.
2/26 PSALM 5:11-12
11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
let them sing joyful praises forever.
Spread your protection over them,
that all who love your name may be filled with joy.
12 For you bless the godly, O Lord;
you surround them with your shield of love.
FILLED
The love of Christ fills me.
The Holy Spirit brings that love into me.
I experience it.
I believe it by faith.
His joy encourages me to have joy.
Jesus loves me.
2/25 EPHESIANS 3:18-19
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
FAITH
I experience Christ’s love by faith.
I can’t define it and in some cases it may be unique.
But Jesus loves me.
I believe it and experience it.
2/24 ROMANS 8:35, 37-39
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?
37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[p] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
THE QUESTION
Can anything separate us from Christ’s love?
No.
Nothing can separate us from Christ’s love.
Nothing.
