Biblical Principles Daily Devotional Day 3

Why I Believe What I Believe

Day 3:

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

Satan is a liar and deceiver. Satan will make things look good and right. We need to not worry as much about what we are hearing as we should whom is speaking. Why do you believe what you believe, is it because someone you trust told you to believe it? If that person is not the Holy Spirit through the Holy Scriptures then please question it.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Why do I believe what I believe is true? It is because of what we know from God’s Word.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Personal relationships allow us opportunity to interact with people during good times and bad. How many times do we give advice that sounds good but is a lie from Satan. How many times have you said to people, “Who am I to judge?” or “Don’t worry, it will all work out in the end?” Where do you find those principles in the Bible? They sound and look good just like the fruit in the midst of the garden but, are they true?

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Why do you give the advice you give? It should be from God’s Word and not a man-made philosophy.

Why do you do what you do? In your personal relationship with Christ or in your public worship in the church, you need to know why you do what you do. If you were to define your Christian life, how would you do it? Would you define it by what you do or by stating what you believe? In the Bible, James shows that you must do both.

James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

To define the faith side I would like to show that our faith is in the absolute truths of God’s Word. For the discussion, we will use the term “principle” for what we believe by faith - the absolute truths of God’s Word. We will use the term “practical” to define what we do - our works. This year, I am planning a daily blog to address the absolute truths in God’s Word and ways we can work to apply those truths. Our day needs to be filled with Biblical principles and practical actions that do not violate these principles. What I have found over a number of years of ministry is that people do not know why they do what they do, neither do they know why they believe what they believe. I hope this exercise will help provoke thought. 

Biblical Princibles Daily Devotional Day 2

Day 2

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:                                   

Man is a creation of God. Man did not evolve over millions of years. Man was made a living soul: body, soul (mind, will, emotions) and spirit (eternal being).

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 1:26-27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 5:1-2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Why do I believe man was created by God and not by evolution: God’s Word is clear that God made us in His image and has a plan for our lives.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Our body is not only a creation of God but has been purchased by His blood. What I do with and to my body must always be in consideration of God being in control of me. As the song goes: Oh, be careful little eyes what you see… Oh, be careful little feet where you go…Oh, be careful mouth what you say.  

Why do I look at what I look at, or places I go, or say what I say. The answer should be about honoring God for His creation.

Biblical Principles Daily Devotional Day 1

Why do you do what you do? In your personal relationship with Christ or in your public worship in the church, you need to know why you do what you do. If you were to define your Christian life, how would you do it? Would you define it by what you do or by stating what you believe? In the Bible, James shows that you must do both.

James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

To define the faith side I would like to show that our faith is in the absolute truths of God’s Word. For the discussion, we will use the term “principle” for what we believe by faith - the absolute truths of God’s Word. We will use the term “practical” to define what we do - our works. This year, I am planning a daily blog to address the absolute truths in God’s Word and ways we can work to apply those truths. Our day needs to be filled with Biblical principles and practical actions that do not violate these principles. What I have found over a number of years of ministry is that people do not know why they do what they do, neither do they know why they believe what they believe. I hope this exercise will help provoke thought. 

Day 1

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

God is. That truth begins everything. There is none other. God is greater than His creation.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Colossians 1:15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Why do you believe that God is: because the above verses show this clearly.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

Early in the morning at the beginning of the day, acknowledge the Lord by starting with prayer. “Lord I need you today.” Since God is, He is the only one Who can help you through your day. Why do you have time with the Lord in the morning: because God is.

On day one begin to make a list of everything you do on a daily basis, including those things on the schedule that do not seem to be spiritual things such as what you do for work or things as 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Then find a Biblical principle to back up what you are doing.