Grateful for Love| Short Bible Study Devotionals and Encouragement for Christian Women

God wants us to get to know Him better through His Word. Joshua uses four words that begin with the letter "m" to illustrate how important God's words are to His children. Mouth - God's word should be in our mouths to speak them over our situations Meditate - focused thought on God's Word and character, to ponder and contemplate - Giving God a chance to speak to us May - a ch...

The portion of Ephesians describes so well who Jesus is to the believer. He is our truth, our righteousness, our peace, our faith is in Him, our salvation and He is the Living Word. Thank you Father God for providing all that we need in the personhood of Jesus the Christ, our Savior and Lord.

We are in a battle - a war for the souls of every man. The enemy uses deceitful schemes and tricks to entrap us. God has given us the very tools we will need to be successful and win. Suit up with Jesus and know victory!

As believers, we understand that we should be imitators of God. As the lesson continues on beyond husband-and-wife relationships, God expects His children to submit to one another in reverence to Christ. Children are to obey their parents in the Lord. Fathers are not to exasperate their children but lovingly instruct and discipline them in the things of God. Even as it concerns work, we should do...

This portion of Ephesians 5 deals with relationships in particular between husbands and wives. As you can see from verse 21 - God expects us to submit to one another in reverence to Him. So, what follows after this verse shouldn't be surprising! He asks wives to submit to their husbands and husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church. We already know that these verses are all in th...

God the Holy Spirit comes into our lives once we invite Him to live within us. Our relationship with Christ, grants us access to God's wisdom. He has every answer to every problem we will ever face in this life. We need not walk through life blinded by the darkness around us, we have His light from within to show us the way.

As members of the body of Christ, we are to be imitators of Him. He made the ultimate sacrifice to die for us, so we too must walk away from the darkness He delivered us from.

The Holy Spirit is given to us for empowerment to live lives holy and acceptable to God the Father. He enables us to put off all the trappings of our flesh that keep a wedge between the Father and His children. Holy Spirit is our guarantee that we belong to the family of God and that we will one day be with Him in our forever home - Heaven!

Our Heavenly Father has gone through great lengths to ensure our salvation and growth in His Son and through works of service by His Spirit. When we become fully mature in the things of God, we will no longer be tossed back and forth with every wind of teaching by crafty men with their deceiving schemes. Our individual growth in Christ's body ensures us that the body is fully prepared and equi...

The overall theme of these verses is that of Christian unity and walking in humility. We, as believers, should make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. We are all a part of the body of Christ, and we should, therefore, all walk together in a way that fully reflects Him.

Ephesians 3: 14 - 21 is a prayer from the Apostle Paul for inner strength and Christ's love for believers. He writes this book, along with a few others, while he is chained 24/7 to Praetorian Roman guards. He encourages both the Church at Ephesus as well as the church of today to be rooted in God's love. In spite of Paul being imprisoned, he was nevertheless encouraging all believers to st...

Although Paul was imprisoned in Rome during the time this book was written, he had the distinct privilege and boundless grace to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. v 8 God's intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. v10 The fact that God had done the seemingly impossible...

Ephesians 2: 21, 22 (The Passion Translation) 21 This entire building is under construction and is continually growing under his supervision until it rises up completed as the holy temple of the Lord himself. 22 This means that God is transforming each one of you into  the Holy of Holies , his dwelling place, through the power of the Holy Spirit living in you! May we come to appreciate the tremend...

"But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great, that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience, he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved." (Eph 2: 4, 5 - Good News Translation) Only by God's grace are we saved. It is nothing we can do to ever earn or work for it.

"I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God's power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you!" The same power that raised Jesus from the dead works mightily within the lives of believers to show forth the greatness and power of God for all to see.

Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a love gift from our wonderful heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus - all because he sees us wrapped into Christ. This is why we celebrate him with all our hearts. Ephesians 1: 3 (The Passion) Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is...

Our background text comes from St John 19:30, where Jesus declares "It is finished." These resounding words of Jesus satisfied the payment for sin on mankind's behalf. A brand-new beginning was afforded on that fateful day for all who would ever accept His payment personally as their own and invite Him into their lives as Savior and Lord. We can now live with Him forever.

As believers, we will all struggle with doubts from time to time. But like the father in today’s lesson taken from Mark 9:23-24, he told Jesus he believed, but asked of Him to help his unbelief! This father demonstrated both honesty and humility. We must not allow our doubts to derail us. Our doubts won’t deny God’s blessings to us. When placed in His hands, they can serve as a platform to help ou...

“But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew them all. There was no need for anyone to tell him about them, because he himself knew what was in their hearts.” ‭‭John‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬-‭25‬ ‭GNT‬‬ God is omniscient- He knows everything about everyone. He wants us to know and love Him not just for what He does, but genuinely for who He is. 🌷

I Peter 1: 8-9 “You never saw Him, yet you love Him. You still don’t see Him, yet you trust Him - with laughter and singing. v9 - Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.” (The Message) Even though we’ve yet to see our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, when we do finally see Him, our salvation will be fully complete. He is our gift of salvation!...

Colossians 1: 26 - 28 We learn through these scriptures that the secret God kept hidden in His heart for such a long time, has now been revealed to His people. Christ is in you and me - those who have accepted, believed and confessed Jesus as Lord. Share Him with others that they too can be a part of God's family. No more secrets!

Ephesians 3: 9, 10 clearly shows how God's intent of administering His plan of salvation to the world is through His church, His redeemed people from every tribe and tongue. All who receive His gift of salvation will experience a love like no other.

In today's episode taken from Romans 14:23, we've learned that faith should guide our actions and that anything done without faith is not in line with God's will for us. And, those who are weak in the faith should be treated gently. None of us knows what others of come out of at the point of coming to Christ. Therefore, we should all seek to keep peace and unity. Christ is key and His...

We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't' that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God...

However, as the scripture says, "What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him." But it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, even the hidden depths of God's purposes. I Cor 2: 9,10 GNT God, the Holy Spirit, teaches us (as children of God) all thing...