Cgeneration devotional

Philippians‬ ‭2:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”

Hebrews‬ ‭10:7‬ ‭NLT‬‬ ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God— as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”” What is driving your ambition?

Should we be ambitious as God’s children and and what kind of ambition should we have? In 1 Timothy‬ ‭6:9‬ ‭GNB‬‬, the bible says “But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.” But Ecclesiastes 9:10 says ‘whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might ‘. So how can we hav...

Luke‬ ‭6:32-33‬ ‭ICB‬‬ “If you love only those who love you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners love the people who love them! If you do good only to those who do good to you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners do that!” ‭

Psalms‬ ‭103:10-12‬ ‭GNB‬‬ “He does not punish us as we deserve or repay us according to our sins and wrongs. As high as the sky is above the earth, so great is his love for those who honour him. As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us.”

Genuine love is not convenient but sacrificial. It will cost you and sometimes hit you where it hurts. Sacrificial love requires that we set aside ourselves, set aside our own desires, needs, wants, pride etc for the benefit of others. Jesus made sacrifices and gave himself up for us. Who are you making sacrifices for? 1 John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says “We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his...

You can give without loving but you can never love without giving. Loving and giving go hand in hand because giving is a natural expression of love. God, who is our ultimate standard on love has demonstrated His love for us by giving. Ephesians‬ ‭5:2‬ ‭GNB‬‬ says “Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that...

Titus‬ ‭3:4-5‬ ‭GNB‬‬ says “But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour was revealed, he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.” ‭‭ But how can we unconditionally love people who consistently hurt us and do the wrong things?

People want love but they are not willing to pay any price for it because of the belief that love is free and because it’s perceived to be free, they don’t value it. But let’s think about it, is love really free? Even though love is freely given, it comes at a cost to the giver. The love God has for us cost Him the Life of His only son! So even though we give love freely, we must give it to those...

The ‘better half myth’ is the idea that we all have someone out there who is our better half, who is perfect for us and who we expect to complete us and fill that void in our lives. So did God create us incomplete? Colossians‬ ‭2:10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says “So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.”

People, society and popular culture have made us believe that love is all about how we feel. So when someone makes us feel a particular way then we love them but when we don’t feel that way anymore then we don’t love the person anymore. But what would Jesus do? Jesus said in John‬ ‭13:34‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ ‘’A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love...

When it comes to love and relationships, the cliched advice a lot of people give is ‘follow your heart’. But what does the bible say about the heart? Jeremiah‬ ‭17:9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says ““The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”

Love Myths: ‘happily ever after’ John‬ ‭16:33‬ ‭NIV‬‬ ““I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.””

Judges‬ ‭6:12‬ ‭GNB‬‬ “The LORD's angel appeared to him there and said, “The LORD is with you, brave and mighty man!””

Isaiah‬ ‭54:10‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”

Isaiah‬ ‭53:3‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.”

We all want to be loved and accepted and nobody likes to face rejection. But unfortunately, rejection is a natural part of life and we will not always be accepted. We won’t always fit into the mould that the world, society or family places on us and because of that we will face rejection but that doesn’t mean that we are not good enough or that we are not loveable.

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.” Mother Theresa

Genesis‬ ‭29:32‬ ‭CEV‬‬ ‘’Leah gave birth to a son and named him Reuben. Then she said, “The Lord has taken away my sorrow. Now my husband will love me more than he does Rachel.””

Psalms‬ ‭147:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.”

This valentines season, many people are going to be saying ‘ I love you’ but what does their ‘I love you’ really mean? What does God mean when He says ‘I love you’?

1 John‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!..

Many people say that fasting only changes us and it doesn’t change God in any way. What examples can we see from the bible?

1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:3‬ ‭NLT‬‬ “If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.”

Isaiah 58: 3-4 NLT …Even while you fast, you keep oppressing your workers. What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.”