Daily Devotional

may he equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to him. All glory to him forever and ever! Amen. – Hebrews 13:21 (NLT)

It can be easy to think that what God is calling you to do is too big or overwhelming. You might think of all the reasons why you can’t do what God is telling you to do.

However, today’s verse says that God will equip you with all you need for doing His will. Isn’t that good news? God will give you everything you need to do what He is calling you to do. Even when it seems scary or even overwhelming, God will help you do what He’s called you to.

So today, don’t give up on doing what God has called you to do because you feel afraid or overwhelmed. Know that God is going to equip for what He’s called you to. Walk in faith, knowing that God will help you do what He’s called you to do!

“Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. – Acts 13:36 (NIV)

Do you ever wonder what God has called you to do? Are there times when you question what your purpose is? If so, you’re not alone. The good news to remember is that you do have a purpose. You’ve been created to do something unique. Your talents and interests are God-given. God can use those interests to help those around you.

As you begin your journey in deciding what you’re going to do in the future, know this, you like David have a purpose. God called you to something. And it’s up to you to believe that you have a purpose, and then begin asking God how you can fulfill that purpose.

Today’s Challenge: Begin asking God how you can fulfill your purpose.

God wants to show you the purpose He has for you. So determine to spend some time with Him. Ask Him to give you the next practical step you can take to walk into what He has called you to do. As you walk out those steps He shows you, you’ll realize that He’s helping you fulfill your purpose in your generation, just like David.

If you want to study purpose more, you’ll want to check out the Purpose Planner. It will help you begin to think through your giftings and find out the purpose God has for you and give you practical steps to fulfill your God-given purpose.

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints – Ephesians 1:18 (HCSB)

Have you ever struggled with wondering what the next step was for your life? Maybe you’re finishing up the school year and you’re trying to decide what’s next. Perhaps you’re just thinking about your future and trying to decide what type of career would be a good fit.

Today’s Bible verse can help you. It gives us hope that we can know God’s calling. This verse gives us certainty because it tells us we don’t have to wonder about our calling, instead, we can know it. Knowing that gives us hope.

How do we begin finding God’s calling? A simple way is to pray this verse over yourself daily. Pray that you know the hope of God’s calling. Ask God that your eyes be enlightened and that you know what it is that He would have you do. If you’ll begin to pray these things over your life, you’ll be surprised to find that God will start to show you the next step to take in discovering your calling.

The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. – Psalm 32:8

It can be easy to think that God doesn’t really have your best interests at heart. You might find it hard to trust Him because you worry that if you totally submit your future to Him, He will make you do something you don’t want to do. So instead, you look to friends for validation and for your future.

However, today’s verse tells us something interesting. It tells us that God wants to lead you along the best pathway for your life. God doesn’t want to make you do something you don’t want to do or make you give up something. Instead, He wants to advise you and watch over you.

Today’s Truth: God Wants to Help You Make the Best Choices

God wants to help you make the best choices. He wants to keep you on track and help you avoid heartache. So today, choose to follow after Him. Don’t look to friends for validation and making choices for the future. Instead, look to God. He wants to lead you into the best decisions and the best path for your life!

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. – Romans 1:20 (NLT)

Often in life, we chase after things. We chase after friendships, popularity, or possessions. The things that we chase sometimes consume us to where it’s really all we can think about.

However, if we want affirmation that truly lasts the test of time, we’ve got to chase affirmation in something that doesn’t change. And that something is God. God created the world, He created you, and He loves you. From the beginning of time until now, He’s been chasing you because He wants to know you.

Today’s Truth: Chase Contentment Found in Your Creator

So instead of chasing things that change and chasing things that won’t stand the test of time, consider chasing something else. Chase after God. Chase your creator, get to know Him, and realize that He will give you the validation and fulfillment that you truly crave.

For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. – Hebrews 3:4 (NLT)

You might have a textbook or seen a book that promotes evolution and states how man and the world around us evolved into what it is today.

However, in the Bible, we see a different story. In the Bible, we see the design of God. We see God’s plan and how He created the world with a purpose. The world is too complex and the organisms in it are too complicated to have just happened due to chance.

Every house and building has a builder. You don’t assume that a house happened by chance. Instead, you know that someone spent time building it and planning it.

The same is true for us. Someone had to put us together. The complexity in each of our cells screams that we are not accidents. We have been created by God and God wants to know us in a deep and real way. So today, challenge yourself to really think about what it means that you’ve been created. That means that someone cared enough about you to put you here in the time in history that you’re at. That someone knew that you had something this world needed and that you have value because He created you.

Don’t believe that you’re not important. Instead realize that you and the people around you are important to God because He took the time to make them so wonderfully complex.

Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. – Ephesians 6:7

It can be really easy to fall into the trap of pleasing others. It’s easy to want to make other people happy and never let them down. However, there’s really only one person you should be trying to please, God. In your work at school or on the job, everything you do, you should be giving it your all.

You should be striving to work with enthusiasm and giving as much as you can. So no matter how much you hate school or your job, remember that you’re working for God. Let Him shine through everything you do. Look for ways to do your best and work hard.

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You’ll be glad you put in the extra effort. Choose today to be a person that works for God, not for men.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, – Gal 5:22 (NLT)

Have you ever tried to build character in your life, but failed? Maybe you tried really hard to stop being unkind, but the more you focused on trying to not do it, the worse it got, and the more unkind you were.

Trying to do the right thing and build character in your life can be challenging. Even though it’s not always easy to be a person of character, it’s the right thing to do. So how do we go from being unkind to kind? How do we get from being upset to being at peace? How do we let these fruit of the spirit rule our lives?

The answer is in focusing on the Holy Spirit. This verse says that the Holy Spirit produces fruit in our lives. So instead of focusing on how many times you mess up each day by not being patient or kind, focus instead on God. Realize that He has put His Holy Spirit in you and with His help you can work toward being kind. You don’t have to work on being kind on your own, rather you have a helper to partner together to do it.

Choose today to believe that you’ve got what it takes to be a person that is loving, full of joy, and living out the fruit of the spirit. Focus on God and realize that with His help, you can develop godly character!

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? – Numbers 23:19 (NIV)

Yesterday, we talked about how people can often let us down. Our friends can disappoint us. When friends let us down, it can be really hard. However, we can’t take the let down from friends or other people in our lives and put that onto God. God is not human. He doesn’t change His mind.

God doesn’t one day like you and say you have value, then the next day after you sin big and lie to your mom decide that you’re no longer valuable. No. God always thinks you’re valuable. He always sees your best.

Today’s Truth: God Will Always Come Through For You

God isn’t like a friend or parent who promises something really big and then isn’t able to come through with the promise. God isn’t like that. When you see a promise in God’s word, you can count on that promise coming to pass. God’s word is always truth!

People can let us down. There is no doubt about that. God can’t. He always comes through for His kids. So today, if you’ve questioned the goodness and the dependability of God, know that He cares for you. Boost your confidence in His goodness and His ability to do what He says He will do. God will always come through for you!