Why is reading the Bible and daily devotions something important for Christians? Well the reason they are important is because we need to spend time with the Lord. Think about it this way, we spend time with those who are important to us, our significant other, friends, family. We spend time with them because we enjoy being in their company and because we want to know them better. Well this is the same reason we ought to have a daily time set aside to spend with Jesus to get to know him better. Prayer and reading the Word of God will accomplish many things in our spirits.
1. It will bring us closer to Christ
2. It will transform our hearts and minds and make us more like Jesus.
3. It will reveal the Will of God to us for our own lives.
DAILY DEVOTIONS: Week of July 17 – July 21, 2012
MONDAY: 1 John 3:1-24; “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.
TUESDAY: Gen. 13:1-18; “And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere- this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah . . .”
WEDNESDAY: Deut. 10:1-22; “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you . . .”
THURSDAY: 1 Peter 2:1-25; “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
FRIDAY: John 16:1-33; “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.”
SATURDAY: Psalm 139:1-24; “O LORD, Thou hast searched me and known me.”