Daybreak Devotions

It's a Friday Funday edition! Plus, Friday Fitness Day as we explore some key principles Paul offers the younger pastor Timothy in this trememdous letter! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

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We can give our resources (time, talent, treasures) to self-serving matters, meetings, religious activities that funnel everything back to ourselves, or we can give all we are and all we have to reaching the world! While we sit in our camp meetings and rejoice in our good fortune, there are multitudes still without the hope of salvation. Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist...

Listen as Missionary Charlie Russell finishes out this great message about how God will send the suffering we need to help us get free of a religious system that is blocking us from Him! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

To close out our Way of Holiness 2023 Conference, Missionary Charlie Russell preached this great message in our Sunday Morning Service! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

There is real thing known as spiritual exercise, training of the soul in godliness. We commonly call it spiritual discipline, and Paul exhorts Timothy in the need and the reasons for it in this chapter. As we begin our Way of Holiness Conference, this text is particularly helpful in understanding the reasons why. Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Everyone is filled with something, or someone, everywhere they go. The question is, am I filled with myself, or with Jesus?

Why is Peter so emphatic about this? It is certainly one of the strongest starts to any New Testament letter, this whole "giving all diligence add to" teaching. Peter knows some things which we should keep in mind, anyone, that is, who wishes to be a profitable minister to others. As this passage, and our meditation in it, comes to a close, we consider three words which help bring it tog...

This is it! The Pinnacle! What a thought, that we could become people who are so overcome with the divine nature that we are literally defined by agape! It is an amazing hope for our heart in Christ, and yet, it may feel so intimidating and, if we're honest, impossible. But here is the good news, God, the very essence and substance of agape, is already at work in you from the moment you truste...

Just how foreign to our modern society does this sound, “Brotherly kindness?" If we have doubted it, or just not seen it before, we have moved into that post-graduate level Christianity here. As those who are being transformed into the likeness of Christ, we are learning to love one another as he loved us, but it does help to like each other! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansvill...

Look up the definition of godliness, trying to find a good way to explain it, and you will find this, "piety." Well, that does not seem to help much either. Godliness is something that we know when we are around it, but how do we explain it? In this episode we will try to offer some help in understanding this great quality of the divine nature, and how we can go about adding godliness to...

Patience? A lot of misconception and half truth circulates on this character quality. Many people hear "Patience" and begin to think about the person who can stand in line without complaint, or who can drive the speed limit and not be in a hurry, or the person who can put up with annoyances which drive everyone else crazy. And this is right, but it is not complete, as far as the Bible wo...

Do you struggle with self-control in any particular area of your life? Chances are very good that the answer is Yes! This is not child's play, as they say, but rather this is the mark or maturing in Christ, the recognition of our struggle with keeping the self, or flesh, under, but the desire to pursue true Christlikeness in every area of our lives, including the appetite, the tongue, and the...

Now, we are becoming the person in Christ we are made to be. To our faith, the belief of God that guides our lives, we have added virtue, or excellence. We are pursuing faith that really stands strong, pursues God wholeheartedly, something more than a baseline belief. To this, we now add knowledge, the absolute knowing of truth by the act of having reasoned and tried our beliefs so that we no long...

Knowing we are on this journey to becoming who we are made to be in Christ, it is time to begin putting forth that diligent effort to "add to," or supplement our faith with virtue. But what is this quality of virtue and how does it fit with our faith? Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Before we dive into the actual process of adding to our faith, it will be helpful to consider the parameters Peter offers us in the first verses of 2 Peter 1. This will give us the groundwork for the becoming! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Let's look at this process of becoming which we are instructed in by the apostle Peter and elsewhere in scripture. Becoming is an action word, it is where God's grace meets our effort! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

With the AP on the scram and the sound system on the fritz, we are re-airing a broadcast from April of this year. What are you gonna do? Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

As we wrap up this discussion on Spiritual Warfare, consider this, how might a biblically informed, prayer sought, clear and concise set of principles help you live as a spiritual warrior? Perhaps it is time to think through this spiritual exercise of developing a statement about how you will love as a solider of Christ's kingdom. Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com McLeansville Baptist Chu...

David fought Goliath, King Saul did not, and the results were huge! Joshua and Caleb wanted to take the promised land of Canaan, but the other 10 spies said, "We can't handle the giants in that land!" It would be forty years before the nation of Israel got out of the wilderness. We must accept the reality of spiritual warfare and get in the fight. Many expend far more energy trying t...

As a break from the study in Galatians (though certainly not unrelated), we are following the lead of the Lord on this track for a few episodes... "If I won't fight, I will lose." This is the message that filled Pastor Mike's heart earlier in the week and it became an invitation into teaching the church some specific truths about the reality of spiritual warfare, the need for a t...

We've been given the call to become fishers of men. But what does that mean, and how do we prepare to do that? Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com   ⁠⁠McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Paul to the Galatians, "They are for themselves, with you as the price. I am for you, with myself as the price." The heart of every true pastor, missionary, Sunday School teacher, and witness for Christ in the workplaces and marketplaces, is revealed in this text! Write us at daybreakdevotion@gmail.com   ⁠McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Paul to the Galatians, having learned of their turn towards legalism and of their refusal to repent, “When I first came you loved me, you would have sacrificed your own selves for me, now, because I am holding firm to the truth and not agreeing to change, you are counting me as your enemy?” Are we or are we not bound to the moral law of God’s word? Honestly, we can debate many things about the law...

Today we revisit the necessity of resilience in our lives. As Jesus was teaching the disciples about the way the world would be during the final hours of the last days, he tells them a story of ten bridesmaids who are awaiting the coming of the bridegroom, and there were five wise bridesmaids and five foolish ones. The distinction? The wise had enough oil to keep their lamps burning, and this is t...