GROW UP - WEEK TWO - Day FIVE
Hello and welcome to your Daily Devos, following our Grow Up series at 29:11!
Take some time today to read through the provided scriptures, meditate on the lessons we’ve learned this week, and journal your prayers. Have an amazing week, 29:11 Church!
THEME SCRIPTURE:
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
- Acts 2:42-47 NIV
TODAY’S PASSAGE:
This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.”
- Ephesians 4:13-16 NLT
REFLECTION:
As we end this week, remember that WE are the church body. You make up an important, integral part of this community and body. We must nurture and grow the Body to ensure it’s healthy and full of love. Serving in your community is crucial to keeping the body healthy and whole. We are called to use our GIFTS for the NEEDS of others to fulfill God’s DEEPER WORK. So, as we “grow up” in our faith, let’s grow up in our ability!
THOUGHTS TO PONDER:
Ask God the hard questions and journal these questions in your time with God today. Where do i need to “grow up”? Am i contributing in a healthy or unhealthy way to the body? Am i utilizing my gifts he has given me?