Awake In The Dawn Daily Devotional Podcast

Jesus knew his mission well and how it was to unfold on this earth. It was one of great difficulty. It would have been easier for him to abort this mission, but he endured the cross until completion. Christ alone decided when his mission and his earth-life were complete, not his accusers, the Romans, or anyone else. Jesus alone had the power to declare “It is finished.”  Support the show When we c...

Jesus conveyed that God’s principal goal is for us to love him with unconstrained devotion and with the whole of our being—and obeying this commandment produces abundant life. Truly, loving God is the ultimate human experience; all other loves fail to compare.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us....

Through the redemptive work of Christ and our obedience to him, we get to step into a realm of things he has planned for us: good things that bring glory and honor to him as we walk where he leads us. He takes the bruised and broken parts of us and makes them new. He looks upon his sons and daughters with joy and the proud heart of a dad. Our God and Father of life does make beautiful things.  Sup...

In our hurry to meet our daily responsibilities, we don’t often stop to deliberately consider the incredible works of our King. Not only is his glory seen in the small things—the tiniest spring flower, a baby expressing joy for the first time, the majesty of a routine sunset—but we also see his glory in the big things—a person healed from sickness, a new Christian’s first encounter with the tangib...

Psalm 57 was written when David was in danger. Honestly, there are times I feel as bold as a lion in my walk as a believer (much like when I went outside into the dangerous storm and prayed), but other times I find myself confused in dangerous situations, and I simply run to God for mercy and protection, praying for the danger to pass over me. In either response, God is there, providing me with re...

In today’s scriptures, Levi provides us an excellent example of the proper response to this great invitation. Jesus invites Levi to follow him, and upon the invitation, Levi gets up, leaving behind every hindrance, and commits himself to serving Christ. Our response to the love of Christ should be the same: leave our life as we know it and follow him. It may not be easy, but it is the wise, right,...

While God does see us through the redeeming power of Christ’s work, we are living in a fallen world, and we still experience all the weaknesses and flaws that come with that. Though covered in his robe of righteousness, we humbly come before him and pray the words of this great psalm, asking that he would cleanse us from the things hidden, guide us to follow his way, and not let us fall into any s...

However unholy and undeserving we were before we met Christ, however unfit and unlovable we’ve been made to feel by the world’s standards—all of that is dissolved in the light of Christ’s mercy. Through the provision of the cross, he deems us worthy, lovable, righteous, and welcome as the children of God.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to...

When Jesus would set out to new locations, he would watch, discern, and minister along the way—and so should we throughout our day. And whenever Christ was confronted by those in need, he would come to their aid.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.com Awake In The Dawn: Livin...

Have the courage and patience to sit with small portions of God’s Word and drink deep. These eight words speak to our identity as Christians and illuminate our destiny. We love him; he is our strength.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.com Awake In The Dawn: Living The Lord&...

 We are given sufficient means to worship while living constrained in these earth shells. However, these passages hint of far more to come once we’ve stepped beyond this limited realm of the flesh and through the threshold into eternity. Absent there will be the constraints and limitations of all things temporal. God in his boundlessness will be forever worshiped in limitless fashion.  Support the...

 When difficult times come, we may not be able to change our circumstances—but the Lord will prevail. He is faithful to come to our aid and bring us out of our distress for his name's sake.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.com Awake In The Dawn: Living The Lord's...

 John clearly tells us the proof of our Christianity is in living life as Jesus did. He loved perfectly, and his focus was the will of his Father. He was selfless, with pure motives and character. All who say they are of Christ will look and live as he did.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. ww...

 The word forgiveness means “to cancel a debt, to be freed of an obligation, or to receive pardon.” And who are the subjects of Christ’s prayer here? The Roman soldiers hammering nails through his flesh into the wood? The temple guards who arrested him in the garden? Was it Judas, the betrayer, or maybe Herod, Pilate, or the false witnesses who led to his crucifixion? His disciples who ran? Or the...

 Although our sins separated us from God, Christ provided a way through his body and blood for us to experience the redemption and freedom we couldn’t earn on our own—new life! Love, grace, confession, and repentance result in spiritual new birth. When we experience new life in Christ, we are overwhelmed with gratitude, for spiritual new birth always brings joy to the family of God.  Support the s...

 Our day-to-day circumstances may weigh down our hearts, and although we are not exempt from experiencing real pain and suffering in this life, we can hold fast to the truth that even death itself cannot defeat the sons and daughters of God. The heart belonging to Christ is filled with joy and fueled with the knowledge of being eternally loved and provided for.  Support the show When we choose to...

 Who can understand why the Lord decided to extend his grace, to invite us into relationship with him? No one—but we are wise to humbly, repentantly, and gratefully embrace him in all his glory while submitting to his sovereignty and will.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.c...

Each spring reminds me of regeneration, the renewal of life, the sense of time’s passage, and the introduction of new beginnings. For me, spring is an annual reminder of the Lord’s continued faithfulness and goodness. Everything exists for God’s glory and divine enjoyment, including the changing of the seasons.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gi...

 Jesus shows us the entrance to his kingdom is open, yet he also reveals the way as difficult. The only thing that disqualifies us is our own unwillingness to fully submit our lives to the Lord, not age, ethnicity, history, background, or income.  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinth...

 Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous and often quoted military strategist, said this concerning Christ: “I know men, and I can tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man,” and “between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison.”  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us....

 Pride, criticism, and opposition will challenge the person given to fulfilling the will of God. There will be resistance and arguments, and they will seem—and may actually be—unfair. Difficulties will come to the believer in the form of insolence and perhaps from unexpected sources. When it happens, for surely it will, this passage instructs us how to respond in a way that will cause us to grow,...

 In Christ, we are embraced by God’s unfailing, fatherly love and faithfulness. The prince of this world and his plans for destruction were interrupted and thwarted by the Prince of Peace. Grace triumphed over injustice and goodness triumphed over evil. And in his abundant love, we have all received one gracious blessing after another!  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early mo...

 By participating in Holy Communion, we remember the empty, shallow, fruitless vanity of our once self-focused lives. We remember the helplessness we felt when attempting to redeem ourselves from the result of our sin. We remember the moment of our own salvation, a moment that transformed a familiar story in history into a personal, experiential encounter with the living God. We remember when our...

 Everything which has existed, presently exists, and will exist is because of the Lord and for the Lord. It’s all for him—even our own lives!  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.com Awake In The Dawn: Living The Lord's Prayer Morning Devotional (Hardcover) - Order Now All...

 Oh, but the victory and wonder of his resurrection!  Support the show When we choose to give the Lord our early morning moments, what He gives to us in return often surprises and delights us. www.awakeinthedawn.com Awake In The Dawn: Living The Lord's Prayer Morning Devotional (Hardcover) - Order Now All resources from Awake In The Dawn are directed and used towards Hope Villages for childre...