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This Devotional is day 2  from week 6 in the SoulStrength Fit Parables of Jesus Workout Program found at soulstrengthfit.com .  “You ought to live holy and godly lives,” Peter writes, “as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.” What do you think it means to live a “holy and godly life,” and how can you better prepare yourself for the Lord’s second coming? Be sure to check out Sou...

This Devotional comes pairs with workout 1 from week 6 in the SoulStrength Fit Parables of Jesus Workout Program found at soulstrengthfit.com . Jesus takes matters of earthly wealth, possessions, and resources seriously.  How we handle our money is a tip off to how faithful we would be in other areas, and faithfulness in this and all areas of our lives are rewarded with spiritual treasures. Be sur...

This Devotional comes pairs with workout 3 from week 5 in the SoulStrength Fit Parables of Jesus Workout Program found at soulstrengthfit.com . It is foolish to live as if this life was all that mattered, yet many people do.  We will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.  “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that face judgment…” we will all one day be judged for things done,...

Be sure to visit soulstrengthfit.com for the full downloadable devotional and much more faith and fitness content. Jesus didn’t come to overthrow the Romans, but to overthrow Satan, and the religious leaders did not like this.  Jesus challenged their authority and called out their hypocrisy, making them like Him even less.  In today’s passage, Jesus healed a blind and mute man and delivered him fr...

This Devotional Pairs with Week 5 Workout 2, from The Parables of Jesus Workout Series in SoulStrength Fit found at www.soulstrengthfit.com We can have the reputation of a good Christian.  We can do all the “right” things - go to church, tithe, help those less fortunate - and still be out of touch with the Father just as the religious leaders were.  They were active in all sorts of religious thing...

This Devotional comes from the Parables of Jesus workout program at www.soulstrengthfit.com . Luke 16:1-9: The Bible is clear that salvation is by grace, but that a transformed life is evidence of genuine faith.  Jesus wants us to live our lives for God. He wants us to stay deeply rooted in His Word and remain in His presence in all we do.  He tends to our branches, and He expects a fruitful retur...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 1 from Week 5 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com The Rich Fool - pairs with Workout 1 When things go well in your life, when you’ve worked hard, found success, and prospered in some way, do you congratulate yourself or stop and thank God?  Do you attribute your success to intelligence, your hard work, your education o...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 3 from Week 4 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com We are called to follow Jesus’ example, to be gentle and humble in heart.  But to understand and pursue humility, we must understand pride, and recognize how easy it is to fall into prideful thoughts and actions. Part of the problem with pride is that it is easy to see...

This Devotional is part of week 4 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com When Jesus says, “you are the salt of the earth…you are the light of the world,” He is effectively saying, “You’re my plan for bringing transformation.  You are my plan for spreading the gospel.  You are my hands and my feet.”   Imagine that you are a part of the crowd of people gathe...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 2 from Week 4 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com The foolish are the ones who don’t know the Lord.  When Jesus returns, many who have considered themselves to be children of God will be shown not to be.  The foolish young women were unable to borrow oil from the wise, and so it will be at the end of time.   No one wil...

This Devotional is part of  Week 4 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Unless you choose to live by God’s power and for God’s glory, you will never find true fulfillment in life.  How do you live a fulfilled life, the kind of life God intends you to live? Be sure to check out SoulStrength Fit for more great faith and fitness content and programs.

This Devotional pairs with Workout 1 from Week 4 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Today’s parable will highlight a problem that is applicable to all of us when we assume that because we have served or walked with the Lord faithfully for years we deserve anything from Him. It’s easy to forget that God owes us nothing, and in fact, without His generous...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 3 from Week 3 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com As followers of Jesus, we live in a world that doubts, criticizes, or is hostile toward Christ.  As Paul wrote in the book of Philippians, “our citizenship is in heaven,” not here on Earth.  We face not only the opposition or hostility of mere people such as ourselves,...

This Devotional is part of  Week 3 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Although this may be a very familiar passage for you, listen to it with fresh eyes.  What is God saying to you in this passage today? Be sure to check out SoulStrength Fit for more great faith and fitness content and programs.

This Devotional pairs with Workout 2 from Week 3 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com In your life, you are always doing one or the other.  If you’re not praying, you’re giving up.  And if you’re giving up, it’s because you are not praying.  Rather than worrying, Jesus is telling us to pray.  Persistently.  Without giving up.   What are you worrying abou...

This Devotional is part of week 3 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Today’s reading is not a parable, but rather a story of faith. In what ways have you seen God bless people who trust Him? In what ways have you seen God bless YOU as you trust Him? Be sure to check out SoulStrength Fit for more great faith and fitness content and programs.

This Devotional pairs with Workout 1 from Week 3 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Today’s reading states quite clearly that there will be a final day of reckoning, illustrated when the “master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.” Spend a few moments to come before God, asking HIm to make clear to you some of the resources and talen...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 3 from Week 2 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com “He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.” The sheep represent true believers.  They are dependent on the shepherd and they follow His lead.  In what way...

This Devotional  is part of Week 2 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com , where workouts and Bible study come together! Jesus is the door.  He is the way, the truth and the life.  If you acknowledge Him as your savior, you have indeed passed along the narrow way through the narrow door that leads to salvation.  God’s free gift of salvation is for anyone...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 3 from Week 2 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com In today’s reading, an expert of the law asks Jesus the question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”  This very important question isn’t just answered BY Jesus.  It’s answered THROUGH Jesus.  Jesus came to bring eternal life through grace, and it’s in this new li...

This Devotional  is part of Week 2 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com , where workouts and Bible study come together! We are all sinners.  We are all lost.  But we are also all precious to our God and Father who is anxiously wanting to bring us each back to Him. Among the parables of Jesus recorded in the gospels, a number of them deal with salvation. ...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 1 from Week 2 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Today we reflect on the Parable of the Prodigal Son.  This parable is about the relationship of God to his faithful children and his unfaithful ones.  It paints a picture of a Father who desires his children to return to him, to be renewed and restored.   What steps hav...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 3 from Week 1 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Simon had lost sight of his need for God’s forgiveness.  And we too, as we journey through our walk with God, can become desensitized to our own sin and forget our own deep need for forgiveness.  What happens when we become so accustomed to our faith that we forget the...

This Devotional pairs is part of Week 1 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com , where workouts and Bible study come together! When we pursue our own agenda, fixing our eyes only on the here and now and what we want at the moment, we lose sight of eternity.  But, if we let go of our own selfish aims and ambitions and entrust ourselves to the Lord Jesus, li...

This Devotional pairs with Workout 2 from Week 1 in the Parables of Jesus Fitness program found @ https://www.soulstrengthfit.com Reflect back to when you found Jesus. Was it difficult  to make the decision to follow Him?   What changes in your life occurred since following Him?  And consider as well, has some of the early enthusiasm and joy for the kingdom been lost since then? Be sure to check o...