Master Your Battles
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.—Epehsians 6:12 (NIV)
Devotions
Take Refuge in the Lord
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people.—Psalm 118:8 (NIV)
A Child’s Bedside Manner
“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”—MATTHEW 21:16 (NIV)
Finding Sunshine
How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone’s eyes to behold the sunshine!—ECCLESIASTES 11:7 (ISV)
Honor Our Shepherd
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.—Matthew 9:36 (NIV)
Little Memories
You will increase my honor, and comfort me once more.—PSALM 71:21 (NIV)
Expect Uncertainty
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)
Solitude and Rest
He told them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while,” because so many people were coming and going that they didn’t even have time to eat.—MARK 6:31 (ISV)
The Gift of Freedom
I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding.—Psalm 119:30-32 (NIV)
Burst Bubbles
My kindness is all you need. My power is strongest when you are weak.—2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 (CEV)
Into the Fire
This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, “They are my people, and they will say, The Lord is our God.”—Zechariah 13:9 (NIV)
Keeping Watch
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.—JAMES 1:27 (NIV)
