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

For the believer, the death of the natural body makes way for the new and imperishable spiritual body. Death has no victory nor sting of sin for the believer because of our Lord Jesus Christ!🌷

Christ proved His supreme and indisputable sovereignty by being resurrected from the dead. His completed assignment of dying for man’s sin and being raised from death guarantees those of us who belong to Him will be raised as well. There’s more life- in fact a greater life- on the other side of this one🌷

As we commit our thoughts fully to the Lord, He will then cause our thoughts to come into agreement with His will, and so shall our plans be established and succeed. It is only in those ways that we give fully to Him that He will direct. What we keep for ourselves, He lets us direct! Who knows this life better than God, so let us take wholeheartedly our directions from Him alone!🌷

If we have a small living faith, as that of a grain of mustard seed, we will see much accomplished for the kingdom. It’s because we put our small faith in our “Big” God, who can do anything but fail🌷🙏🏼

One of my favorite scriptures. Here Paul, while in prison, joyously declares that God abundantly supplies every need whether it be spiritual or material to us all b/c of Christ Jesus!🌷

John 16:33- Jesus has already conquered the world. So when hard times, troubles and sorrows come in life, take heart. Jesus’ Spirit lives in us to encourage and assure us that He’s already conquered everything we may ever face, and He’ll see us through any adversity!🌷

Romans 8:35-39 is absolute in stating that nothing in the universe can ever separate us from God’s love. His love for us is permanent and everlasting‼️🙏🏼

Romans 8:30-34 God has both called and justified us. He didn’t withhold His best from us, and He will graciously give us other good things as well. No one or no thing can separate us from the love of God! His love for us is forever🙏🏼💕

The Holy Spirit is here to assist us and bears us up when we are weak! He will pray God’s perfect will for our lives because He can. He is God the Holy Spirit in us‼️🙏🏼

Our spiritual debt to the sinful flesh has been paid in full by Jesus Christ. Therefore, we are no longer obligated to live under its dominion. We should grow and live fully for Christ. Our daily lives should reflect how much we love God through our obedience to Him.🌷

The Spirit of Christ empowers your life. You’re no longer dominated by the flesh, but rather by God’s Spirit. Christ lives His life in you!🌷

When we accept Christ’s payment for our sins by receiving Him as Lord and Savior, He assures us His Spirit will be present to help. The indwelling Holy Spirit will empower us to deny the flesh and walk successfully in the Spirit.🌷

Adam’s disobedience brought all of us under sin. We didn’t have a choice. However through Jesus’ obedience, many shall be made righteous. With what Jesus did, we’re given the choice to choose grace over sin. His grace affords us righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord!🙏🏼

Adam’s sin brought death to all men, but Jesus Christ’s gracious gift leaves us free from our many failures. Jesus brings us into the perfect righteousness of God. We are declared acquitted- “Not Guilty.”

Because of Adam’s sin, death came into the world and reigned as king. Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, came and defeated sin, reconciling us back to God and forever settling the power of sin over man once and for all‼️

For it is through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” Thank God for Jesus’ ultimate and complete sacrifice. He paid it ALL for us. Our having peace with God was most important to Him🙏🏼

When we finally realize that as a child of God, we are completely loved and never alone, then we can better understand that trials can never separate us from Him either. I believe troubles give God more opportunities to show the world to what extent He takes to help His children advance and become more like Him! There is no failure in God🙏🏼

God uses the troubles and trials of this life to help His children develop patient endurance! Heat is to gold like pressure is to our lives. Both bring out impurities and help us look more like the one doing the refining. God wants us to mature and become more like HIM🌷🙏🏼

B/c of our faith, Christ has brought us into the highest place of privilege where we now stand enjoying God’s grace and glory. That’s why when we run into trials and troubles in life, we know they are good for us and help us to be more like HIM!!!🌷

Romans 5:1-2 introduces us into the wonderful peace we gain from God due to us being justified by faith. Because of Christ, He has afforded us access by faith into His wonderful grace! We can, as a result, rejoice in knowing that what we desired from God (His peace) and what He desired to give us all along was one and the same- His peace.🌷

I know we might think we must do something to earn God’s love and approval. But that is not the case in today’s episode. Christ did what no one else was capable of doing! He canceled our debt to sin, and nailed our sins to the cross. He freely died for us so that we can freely live for Him‼️🙏🏼

Christ has rendered powerless our sinful nature. So, it no longer has dominion over us, but rather He’s empowered us to have victory over it. The new life in Christ, as symbolized by baptism, is one that has been raised with Him through our faith in the power of God! We belong to God and no longer to the sin nature‼️

Jesus Christ our Lord has given us the great gift of freedom to be like our Creator. We are no longer confined to live based upon worldly standards, but to live far beyond the world’s limited view and be like Jesus!

Romans 4: 23-25 concludes our discussion on God crediting us as righteous as He did Abraham. When we fully believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, God credits us as righteous! It was Jesus and not us who died for our sins. Jesus alone was raised to life for our justification‼️🙏🏼