Thomas Rende - author

Connect with God through today’s devotional!
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📖 Read: 1 John 4:16-21

🙏 Receive: When did you fail to love like Christ? How can you better show His love?

❓Respond: Please guide me to love like You, Jesus.

God wants to teach you through your troubles. He wants to develop your character through your crises.

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Today's moments with God: Belle’s Belief

📖 Read: John 3:1-6, 9, 14-16, 36

🙏 Receive: Dear Jesus, thank You for the purpose and plans You have for me!

❓Respond: How does God provide purpose for your life? What does it mean for you to find hope in Christ?

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Connect with God through today’s devotional!
https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/divine-restoration

📖 Read: Joel 2:21-27

🙏 Receive: How has God helped you during loss? How can you turn to God in your current situation?

❓Respond: Dear God, thank You for restoring me.

Connect with God through today’s devotional!
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📖 Read: Romans 6:4-12

🙏 Receive: Dear God, thank You for offering me new life, set free from sin, through faith in Christ.

❓Respond: What was your life like before you accepted Jesus as your redeemer? How would you describe it now?

"The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." (Proverbs 16:9)

Thank you to my good friend Andrew for sending me the inspiration for this project a couple months ago. He envisioned being on a pathway and not being able to see where it would take him, but that God would lead him and "be his steps". Thank you for sending in this idea! I think its a great encouragement to us all that our pathway isn't always certain or clear, but that God is always ahead of us. As the Bible says, He establishes (or directs) our steps so that we can follow after Him.

"The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way." (Psalm 37:23)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Connect with God through today’s devotional!
https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/fountains-or-drains

📖 Read: Philippians 2:1-4, 14-20

🙏 Receive: What can cause you to be more like a drain than a fountain in your relationships? How can you be more of a fountain to others?

❓Respond: Dear Father, please help me to be a fountain of life who pours encouragement and hope into everyone I encounter.

Connect with God through today’s devotional!
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📖 Read: Jonah 2:1-2, 7-10; 3:1-5

🙏 Receive: Why do you sometimes struggle to offer mercy to others? When have you seen God’s love seek out even the most difficult recipients?

❓Respond: Dear Jesus, thank You for loving me with such long-suffering love. Teach me, please, to do the same.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. Paul said, “We also have joy with our troubles, because we know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character, and character produces hope.” Romans 5:3-4 (NCV)

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