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The Key To It All Now Showing: Week 1 (November 1st-7th) | Week 2 (November 8th-14th) | Week 3 (November 16th-21st) | Week 4 (November 22nd-Month End)
November 30th: The Key to Life - One key opens up everything. Jesus is the one key in your life that will open up everything. Assignment: In your time of devotion and mediation, allow Jesus to use the key to unlock an area of your life that you have kept Him out and let the healing begin. November 29th: Blessed to be a Blessing - When you bless other people, God will make ways for you. If you don’t care for people, if you don’t have compassion, if you’re not sensitive, it doesn’t make any difference. Assignment: Bless someone today with an unselfish act of kindness. November 28th: Be Intentional - When you care for other people, God takes care of you. Assignment: Today, ask God to show you who He wants you to bless and how. November 27th: Caring Made EasyThe key is in the revelation of who Jesus is. When Jesus is in your heart, you start caring for other people. - Assignment: Read Matthew 25:35-46. Does your life reflect that you care for others?
November 26th: I Can See Clearly - The key Peter had when Jesus prophetically gave it to him because of his revelation as to Jesus’ identity as the Christ. You want to know where the key is? It’s in the revelation of who God is. Assignment: Read your favorite scripture today and share with someone how God is revealed in it.
November 25th: Love Beyond Measure - The key, the key, the key, the key, the key, the key, the key to all of this is love. That’s it. It’s there. Assignment: Read and meditate on 1 Corinthians 13. Consider, how do you love.
November 24th: No Strings - One of the worst things in the world is to expect something from somebody who doesn’t care for you. Folk will come and ask you to do favors for them, and you know they don’t care for you. You should be smart enough to do it with no expectation, no strings attached. Assignment: Think about a time when this happened to you. Did you do the favor with expectations and no strings attached? Or did you do it because you had a right heart although the requestor’s heart was not? Is there a way that this could have been handled differently? November 23rd: I Care - Jesus said if I cared for you, I want you to care for somebody else. It’s a question about how do you care? Assignment: Take the time today to let someone know that you care and appreciate them.
November 22nd: Love is the Key - Peter responds to Jesus’ question about his love for Him in the affirmative, “Yes Lord. You know I love you.” Jesus tells him to feed the mature, the seniors, and the babies. If you love men, Peter, the key to all of life is love. Assignment: Examine the works that you do in ministry. Are you doing them out of obligation or as an act of love?
Week 3 November 21st: Excuses - I’ve been pastoring enough to know when people find excuses about coming to church; it has more to do with their relationship growing cold with God than anything else. Assignment: Nothing is physically wrong, but have you noticed that your attendance at church began to drop off? Have you stopped doing the things you used to do in ministry? Take a self inventory to determine what has changed in your relationship with God to have this effect. What is your motive for coming to church and for participating in your ministry?
November 20th: Faith to Make It - Where would you be or where would I be if there wasn’t somebody who believed I us, independent of the stuff that we do? Somebody had faith in you. They knew you messed up, but they kept on saying “You’re going to make it. Keep on holding on.” Assignment: Think about the times someone encouraged you and prayed for you. Now take time to encourage and pray for some else.
November 19th: Show Me - Jesus’ question to Peter about his love for Him is a question of condition and a question of caring. Do you really, really love me? Assignment: We show our love for God by our heart condition and care for others. Meditate on 1 John 4:20-21. November 18th: Judge Not - We should be involved in looking for the best that’s in people. All of us have some hell in us! Assignment: Read and meditate on Matthew 7:1-5. Apply when necessary. November 17th: Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder - John 21:15-17 teaches us this: that Jesus is not interested in finding the worst that’s in us. Why are we so busy trying to bring out the worst in folk? Assignment: Look at the people in your sphere of influence. Who have you been busy trying to bring out the worst? Ask God to forgive you and if led by the Spirit, ask the person to forgive you as well. Finally begin to look for the good in this person as well as others. November 16th: Heart Condition - That’s a good question, “Do you love me more than these?” It’s not a question rooted in competition. It’s a question to explore the condition of one’s heart. Assignment: Consider your present circumstances, what are your priorities? What does this say about the condition of your heart towards God? Write down your thoughts and review in thirty (30) days to see if there is any change and record the results and the reason for the change if any. November 15th: Decisions - “Think not that I come to earth to bring peace, but I come to bring a sword. And for this purpose, mother shall be against mother, father against son.” “Do you love me more than these?” Assignment: Your relationship with God is the guide for all other relationships. Think about what changes need to be made in your life to go deeper in your relationship with God. Now put it into action.
November 14th: How Deep is your Love? - Peter was more into his possessions than he was in the person of Christ. And so Jesus is saying do you love me more than your career? Do you love me more than your family? Assignment: God is a God of order. Have you put your house in order? Read Matthew 6:33 and write a plan to follow to have this manifest in your life. November 13th: No Respecter of Person - My Holy Ghost tells me that Jesus did not compare Peter with the rest of the disciples. He is not a respecter of persons. He does not get involved in the minutia of competition. Assignment: Examine your relationships. Have you been a respecter of persons based on their wealth, physical attributes, what they can do for you? How will you modify your actions towards these persons to be more like Christ? November 12th: Divided - Whenever you involve yourself in competition, it breeds division. Assignment: Read Matthew 12:25. Where are you bringing division that should not exist? November 11th: No Contest - The Kingdom is not a contest. Spirituality is not a contest. Worship is not a contest. Assignment: Think about areas in your life in which you are competing with the Spirit of God instead of flowing with Him. Once you have identified those areas, ask for forgiveness and ask God to choreograph your life to move to His rhythm. November 10th: Compassion, not Competition - Jesus does not call us to be in competition one against the other. If the church would ever get beyond competition and get beyond comparing, and get beyond contests; the walk of Christ is not a contest. Assignment: Hebrews 4:15 tells us that Jesus is a High Priest that is able to have sympathy with our weaknesses because He was tempted as we, but without sin. This is one reason that He has compassion on us. Ask God to show you how to be more compassionate and not to have a spirit of competition and to walk like Christ. November 9th: Unity - Jesus does not major in competition. Jesus does not pit folk against one another. Jesus does not participate in comparisons. Now we do it. Assignment: Read and meditate on Psalm 133 and John 17:22-23. Identify those relationships that God leads you to restore. November 8th: Trust and Obey - After the disciples return to shore from catching the abundance of fish by following Jesus’ instructions, they return to shore and Jesus would dine with them and talk with them. He cooks them breakfast, and in the midst of the conversation, Jesus directs this question to Peter, “Do you love me more than these?” Assignment: You show God how much you love Him by obeying His commands or instructions. Write about what happened when you followed God’s instructions and a time when you did not. Share your testimony with someone to let them know how important it is to trust and obey God.
November 7th: No Ways Tired - The third occasion, the boys had been out fishing all night and caught nothing. Jesus said, “Cast your net on the other side.” They cast down their nets, and they took in a miraculous number of fish. Assignment:The disciples were tired and discouraged from being out all night and had nothing to show for their labor. However, at the request of Jesus they caught a miraculous number of fish. Recall the instructions God gave you in the midst of your fatigue and discouragement. Did you obey? What was your result? Share with someone today and encourage them. November 6th: In the Midst of It All - On another occasion the disciples had assembled themselves for fear of the Jews, the scripture says, in an upper room, and the doors are closed and locked. With the doors locked, Jesus appears in their midst. Assignment: Out of fear the children of God close themselves off from others, However in the midst of seclusion, Jesus will appear in the midst and bring comfort. How have you closed yourself off from others and need Jesus to appear to comfort and bring strength? November 5th: Hush, Somebody’s Calling My Name - In the book of John, Jesus firsts appears to Mary Magdalene in the garden. She asks him, “Sir, tell me where you laid him so I can go get him. I will move him myself.” And He calls her name, “Mary!” and she recognizes it’s Jesus. Assignment: Today, when you go to seek God, listen carefully to hear Him call your name and speak directly to you. Will you recognize Him and His voice? November 4th: Unlocked - Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was one key in life that would unlock every mystery that we encounter? Assignment: The Word of God holds the key to unlock every mystery we encounter. Whatever you have been wrestling with, turn it over to the Master Locksmith and allow Him to unlock the mystery and open the door unto you. November 3rd: Be Open - Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a key in life that opened all of our mysteries and would unlock all of our fears and would unlock all of our anxieties? Assignment: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.(Proverbs 25:2, NKJV) During your meditation of the Word, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal a truth to you that had not been revealed. November 2nd: Let Go, Let God - I just have a series of keys. And I’m so afraid to throw them away because when I come across something that I can’t open, what I normally do is run to my keys and try each one to see if it works. Assignment:Keys can represent solutions to our problems. When you live long enough you acquire solutions to help you get through many of your situations. Examine your current situation to see if it is now time to let go and let God because He can work it out every time. November 1st: Too Many - Over the years, I have accumulated a series of keys. I’m not a key collector, per se; but I have accumulated a number of keys. I’m afraid to throw them away because I may come upon something that needs to be unlocked and I don’t have the key. Assignment:Consider what you have accumulated over the years that you are afraid to let go. Is it something that you can share with others or should you trust God and release it unto Him?
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