Battle Drill Daily Devotional (Audio) | Christian 5-Minute Bible Devotions

Weekly Summary This week in Battle Drill devotionals, following The Salvation Army's congress in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Together 2023, we consider what we can do to build up our church to be as beautiful as it can be. The Power of Unity in the Church Picture in your mind the people you worship with each week. You belong to them! And they belong to you! Every one of them is different...

Summary Confession is the first step on a life of integrity. Until you agree with God that you have failed to live a righteous life, integrity will evade you. Introduction What comes to mind when you hear the word confession? Depending on your tradition, or perhaps the way you’ve seen it portrayed in films or on television, you might picture a confession box in an empty church, and an embarrassing...

Summary Sin without confession creates distance between God and us. A prideful attitude that leads to complaining of others or circumstances simply deepens it. Introduction When things are going wrong in your life, what do you do? Do you complain that it’s everyone else’s fault or that events are conspiring against you? Or do you confess your part in what is going wrong? Complaining comes from a s...

Summary If you stumble, take it straight away to God. He will forgive you and help you grow away from what makes you stumble. Introduction Which do you find the most difficult? To confess to something you did years ago? Or about something you’ve just done? There is no right answer! Sometimes, it’s easier to confess something you did ages ago, because somehow the lack of immediacy takes the emotion...

Summary We will never be able to change unless we openly, honestly, authentically, and humbly confess our sins, our weaknesses, our faults, and our character defects to God and to others. Introduction If we ever want to change, then we have to move from blaming and complaining about everyone else and the circumstances we face, and confess the problems we bring on ourselves. God's People Confe...

Facing failure? This week in Battle Drill devotionals, we focus on confession. It’s tough to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God’s grace, but it is essential for our holiness and spiritual growth.  Each weekday we share hope and encouragement as we read and study the Bible together. Facing Failure Isn't Easy Do you find it easy to face your failures? I know I don’t! But sometimes, you...

Introduction God has the biggest and best gift you could ever receive. It's his grace. It's the gift that keep on giving, because as the songwriter reminds us: His love has no limits, his grace has no measure,His power no boundary known unto men;For out of his infinite riches in JesusHe giveth, and giveth, and giveth again. Annie Johnson Flint (1866-1932) Used By Permission. CCL Licence...

Introduction Do you want to know how to break free from sin? Do you have a persistent sin you wish you could get rid of? How can you do that? How to Break Free from Sin? Understand What Jesus Has Done for You When it comes to knowing how to break free from sin, the first step is to understand what Jesus has done for you. Paul reminds us that Jesus' death and resurrection has given us the free...

Introduction Do you ever feel imprisoned by the desire to do wrong and the failure to do the right thing? How can we break free from this prison life? The Power to Change: The Ability to Say "Yes" to Good Things When it comes to the power to change, freedom does not mean no rules or no limits. True freedom is when God gives us the ability to say "yes" to the things that are goo...

Introduction Giving yourself to God means learning to be a giver, not a taker. Many people in life are takers. They seem to live simply to consume. They're all about what's in it for them. Giving Yourself to God: Be a Giver, Not a Taker The best thing we can give God is ourselves. If we give ourselves completely to God, then he will use us for his glory. Our lives are controlled by his p...

Weekly Summary This week on Battle Drill Devotionals we examine the freedom Jesus brings from the power of sin. Each weekday we share hope and encouragement as we read and study the Bible together. Introduction Every day, you and I are controlled by something. Many of us are controlled by our desires. Others are controlled by fear. Some are controlled by guilt. Still others are controlled by the e...

Christianity began with a group. Jesus called together a small group of his closest disciples. They formed a community and lived and worked together for three years. The picture Jesus paints of us being in an eternal home with him in the future, reflects what life is like now: we were meant to be in community with each other. Trying to live life alone is stressful. For example, some of us are perf...

Our world is so noisy! Quiet time is at a premium. At home, the television or radio is always on. Some of us are surrounded by noisy family or pets. When we’re active many of us have headphones on. Some of us work in noisy offices, factories, even classrooms. All that noise leads to low-grade stress. It's hard to find quiet time. That’s why it’s important to carve out a daily quiet time and l...

Our culture favours multitasking. Those that do it are praised for their productivity and effectiveness. But it’s a lie. Multitasking doesn’t work. Multitasking leaves you stressed and distracted because we are unable to fully focus on more than one thing at a time. And it’s a real danger for those who follow Jesus. As Pastor Rick Warren often says, “If Satan can’t get you to be bad, he’ll get you...

Have you ever noticed you can’t please everyone all the time? You can’t always make everyone happy. If you find yourself living for other people’s approval, then being unable to please everyone all the time leads to stress. Jesus knew this. He didn’t live for other people’s approval. The only approval he looked for was his Father’s. Doing what God wanted was what motivated Jesus in both his life a...

This week in Battle Drill Devotionals, we focus on how to deal with stress through the eyes of Jesus Christ. How did he deal with it, and how might that help us today? Each weekday we share hope and encouragement as we read and study the Bible together. Stress is a major problem in our society. Globalisation, the 24/7 nature of information and communication technology, the speed of change, a great...

Our world says, “Love is God.” Put whatever you love in life – whatever makes you feel good – first, even if that means trampling over other people to do so. Our heavenly Father says differently. The Bible says, “God is Love”. When we get this the right way around, when we truly know and love our heavenly Father, we learn not to live in selfishness, but to love with the love of God. Because God is...

Your Heavenly Father loves you. Why is this important? We’re going to look at five different reasons – two yesterday, and three today. 3. Love is why God creates. Your Father in heaven created you knowing that you would be here on this earth, today, reading or listening to this devotional. And your Father in heaven created you so that he could love you as his child. His love motivates him to creat...

Your Heavenly Father loves you. Why is this important? We’re looking at five different reasons – we’re discovering two today, and we’re looking at the final three tomorrow. 1. Love is why Jesus died. You and I – in common with all human beings – often let our heavenly Father down. Nothing sinful or evil can exist in God’s presence. And so, God needed a solution to our sin. God’s love moved and mot...

No one I know has ever seen the heavenly Father Jesus encourages us to speak to. So how can we know him and speak to him if we’ve never seen him? It’s difficult to imagine this in a day and age when we can see people in so many ways – face-to-face, on television, over the Internet. But for most of human history, important people – like the king or queen, for example – would have been invisible – u...

This week on Battle Drill Devotionals, following Fathers’ Day, we focus on our Father, God, who encourages us, through the words of his Son, Jesus Christ, to speak with him like we would with a good human father. Each weekday we share hope and encouragement as we read and study the Bible together. Reading: Matthew 6:5-18 . Everyone agrees that love is important. We talk about it. We sing about it....

Deciding to follow Christ and to live out his purpose for your life is a tough choice. No one says it will be easy! Taking up our cross and following him means adopting different values, morals, and goals. They will often come into conflict with the world. Family and friends may see our acceptance of faith as a rejection of them personally. Suddenly, what we once believed, and the activities we di...

To stand up for Christ, we need to ensure we are not being misled by another worldview. How we view the world influences how we see everything. There are many non-Christian worldviews that compete for our attention each day. Having a strong Christian worldview - based on the Bible - allows us to stand as courageous believers in a sea of changing values. We can stand up for the truth of God’s Word....

Everyone has a worldview. How you see the world influences how you view everything in life. It affects your thinking on God, yourself, others, your past, present, and future, money, time, and even good and evil. Over the past forty or so years, I have watched as the worldview of individualism has replaced much of a society based on community. Our goal has become doing what’s best for me and leavin...

How you view the world influences how you see everything. It affects your thinking on God, yourself, others, your past, present, and future, money, time, and even good and evil. Another popular worldview is simply to do whatever you feel is good for you. In this worldview, the most important thing is to feel comfortable, and to have fun. Again, this goes against the Christian worldview. Happiness...