The Games We Play
Romans 8
It is amazing how I listening to David Platt's series "Abide" and today's devotion focuses on governing the mind through the Spirit.
I am reminded of Pastor Scott's sermon how we find happiness. He used the Sermon on the Mount for the series and specifically for this sermon he focused on Matthew 5:6:
My Prayer: Lord Jesus, You designed us to crave and You alone can fulfill our desires and cravings...You provide for all our needs and You bless us when we come to You. I have experienced this in my own life - what an awesome God You are. I am not worth all the ways You have blessed me...I continue to battle with fits of rage...please forgive me Jesus. Thank You for Your grace and patience that You have dispensed already but I need more! Help me overcome my sin and turn towards You instead. Help me love You with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength. Help me love others as You do. Help me grow in my faith. Give me strength. Give Lisa strength. Strengthen her bone density. Please heal and cure her of her cancer and the side effects from chemo and radiation. Help me lead and serve Lisa, Zach and Dustin, and serve You. Help me understand, be obedient to, and apply Your message for me today and every day.
Romans 8
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life[ because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. v5-11
It is amazing how I listening to David Platt's series "Abide" and today's devotion focuses on governing the mind through the Spirit.
I am reminded of Pastor Scott's sermon how we find happiness. He used the Sermon on the Mount for the series and specifically for this sermon he focused on Matthew 5:6:
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
My Prayer: Lord Jesus, You designed us to crave and You alone can fulfill our desires and cravings...You provide for all our needs and You bless us when we come to You. I have experienced this in my own life - what an awesome God You are. I am not worth all the ways You have blessed me...I continue to battle with fits of rage...please forgive me Jesus. Thank You for Your grace and patience that You have dispensed already but I need more! Help me overcome my sin and turn towards You instead. Help me love You with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength. Help me love others as You do. Help me grow in my faith. Give me strength. Give Lisa strength. Strengthen her bone density. Please heal and cure her of her cancer and the side effects from chemo and radiation. Help me lead and serve Lisa, Zach and Dustin, and serve You. Help me understand, be obedient to, and apply Your message for me today and every day.
