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Devotional: Welcome to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! This week we are looking at the idea that we should first take a step, then learn to trust. We see stories in the Bible where people have to step into something without fully knowing what they are stepping into and what’s going to happen once they do it. In Joshua 3, as Joshua and the Israelites were getting ready to cross the Jo...

Devotional: Welcome to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! We are in Joshua 3 this week, and something I really love about Joshua is that he is such a strong leader. He was always listening to God and then obeying Him. He had a level of trust in God that was particularly unique. I suspect a good reason for that was because he had walked with Moses. Joshua got to be the right-hand man to...

Devotional: Welcome back to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! Not only do I hope you have enjoyed it so far, I hope God has been able to speak directly to you throughout this fast. Today, for our devotional, we're going to talk about the idea that first we have to take a step, and then we are able to trust God. In the story that we're going to be looking at today, Joshua 3, as Joshua i...

KEY POINTS - Your priorities matter. - Scripture is not just advice – it’s a command. - Our faith isn’t meant to be comfortable. - God goes before our step of obedience.

Devotional: Hey Be Hope Family! Welcome to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. This week we have been talking about putting God first and setting our priorities with him. Matthew 6:33 says, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” When we seek after his kingdom first, in everything we do, God provides us with everything we nee...

Devotional:   Welcome to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! I want to take a few minutes to share something that’s been on my heart lately. You know, we all have this incredible calling from God. He invites us to step into His purpose, to use the unique gifts He’s given us – not because we’re perfect, but because of His amazing grace.   This calling, though, comes with priorities. It’s...

Devotional:   First God, Then… Recovery!   In James 4:13-15, it says, “Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we wi...

Devotional:   Hello and welcome to day 2 of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! This week we are going through the idea of “First God, Then…” fill in the blank. We need to seek God FIRST, and then we take steps forward from that. God is speaking to each and every one of us and has created a unique calling on our lives.   I love what it says in Romans 12:6-8, “We have different gifts, according to the g...

Devotional: Welcome to 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting! This season we are in the series, “First This, Then That.” So today, on Day 1, we will start with “First God, then…,” and then we get to fill in the blank. What has God done in our lives? What has God done in your life? Romans 12:1-2 says, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sac...

KEY POINTS - We can’t fit God in because we’re too busy fitting in. - First God’s will, then you will. - You can live or your can limit. - The quality of our God-designed life is limited by our underlying motives. - People who make God first are highly focused on what God can get FROM them, not what He has FOR them.

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KEY POINTS - Waiting is a part of the process, but what you do while you wait matters. - God promises light in your life. - It takes courageous to wait. - Courageous people experience the promises of God.

KEY POINTS - Maybe God is getting started in the last place you’d look. - Failure is God’s foundation for new beginnings. - Sometimes God calls you out so He can call you into. - God uses our failures to redirect our futures.

KEY POINTS - Courage is not a rational response to our fear, it’s an unreasonable response to our faith. - “Where this is no vision, the people perish”

KEY POINTS - When it looks like our story is almost over, God is just getting started. - How we choose in the hard times determines our legacy after. - God takes messes and makes them miracles. - We don’t have to like suffering, but our feelings don’t have to determine our responses.

KEY POINTS - We often elevate something when it solves a pressing problem. - The greatest threat to an elevated faith is one that you’re not aware of. - If you’re spiritually empty, you’ll never have a heart to serve. - The way we elevate our faith is to chase God’s agenda.

KEY POINTS - God sent the Spirit so we could experience and live in the fullness of our status as sons and daughters. - The Spirit is our inheritance. - You have access. - You have affection. - You have authority. - You have assurance. - God sent the Son to change your status, and He sent the Spirit to change your experience.

KEY POINTS - Becoming a champion is not about what you do, but it’s about who others become by you doing it. - We are not meant to be alone, but to work alongside each other. - Our strength comes from the Lord. - We have been given the Holy Spirit so that we can be bold in leading others in faith.

KEY POINTS - Becoming a champion is not about what you do, but it’s about who others become by you doing it. - The struggle with ambition is knowing the moment that it becomes selfish. - What starts as an act of service unchecked becomes an act of selfishness. - Money is often a reflection of our true ambitions. - Do good and be generous. - Generosity is the mechanism that God uses for miracles. -...

KEY POINTS - God helps us create a new story of the world. - We are chosen. - We are blessed. - We need both the “choosing” and the “blessing” because choosing without blessing is just tolerance. - You don’t die for the people you tolerate. - We grow best when we remind each other that we belong. - We deal with brokenness. - We are given.

KEY POINTS - You choose your level of connection. - It’s easier when you’re not inconvenienced. - Faith causes inconvenience. - God’s greatest lessons are often in our unwanted frustrations. - A champion doesn’t just experience victory – they help others experience it as well. - There is no greater victory than watching people cross the line of faith and find their purpose in Christ.

KEY POINTS - Champions of faith are our biggest challengers as well as our biggest cheerleaders. - Challengers aren’t afraid to call us out when we’re wrong. - Cheerleaders encourage us to remember who God is. - In order to move into where God is calling you, you have to surround yourself with champions. - The greatest champion you can have in your life is Jesus.

KEY POINTS - There’s nothing worse in faith than knowing that God called you but having no idea how you’re going to get there. - It’s your responsibility to carry the presence of God. - Stop carting off when you were called to carry. - Surrender is your best strategy. - God never calls you to something that He isn’t a part of.

KEY POINTS - When you’re unfit in life, you’re foggy in faith. - You’ll never be happy where you are if God is not the Lord and Leader of your life. - Maybe you aren’t where you want to be because you aren’t willing to be where you don’t want to be : “to see the stream, you have to be willing to brave the wasteland.” - God can change you in the cave you choose. - You have to choose to come out of...

KEY POINTS - You can’t assess where you are until you know where you want to go. - Where you want to go is not always where God needs you. - You cannot go where God needs you until you see a need. - When you stop fighting for needs, you fulfill your own selfish desires. - Worship realigns you with God’s purpose for your life – which is where He needs you to go.