'Attitudes' Tagged Posts (Page 3)

'Attitudes' Tagged Posts (Page 3)

Daily Devotional – Yielding

Yielding from Utmost.org March 14, 2016  …you are that one’s slaves whom you obey… —Romans 6:16  The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because…

Daily Devotional – Total Surrender

Total Surrender – from Utmost.org March 12, 2016  Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.” —Mark 10:28  Our Lord replies to this statement of Peter by saying that this surrender is “for My sake and the gospel’s” (10:29). It was not for the purpose of what the disciples themselves would get out of it. Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result. For example, “I’m going to give myself…

Daily Devotional – Is He Really My Lord?

Is He Really My Lord? – From Utmost.org March 5, 2016 …so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus… —Acts 20:24  Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing. The joy our Lord experienced came from doing what the Father sent Him to do. And He says to us,…

Daily Devotional – The Discipline of Spiritual Perseverance

The Discipline of Spiritual Perseverance from Utmost.org February 22, 2016 Be still, and know that I am God… —Psalm 46:10  Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may be only exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.…

Daily Devotional from Utmost.org

Is Your Mind Stayed on God? February 11, 2016 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. —Isaiah 26:3  Is your mind stayed on God or is it starved? Starvation of the mind, caused by neglect, is one of the chief sources of exhaustion and weakness in a servant’s life. If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now. There is no…