When persecution comes your way, are your eyes fixed on the situation or on Him?
Daily Christian Living
Part 7: Bridge Builders
The reward of peacemakers is that they are recognized as true children of God. Peacemakers are blessed by God, even if they are ill-treated by man. Peacemakers are blessed to be among God’s children, adopted into His family.
Part 6: Cleansed and Focused
The person with a pure heart can see God in nature, in Scripture, in the people around. They will enjoy greater intimacy with God than they could have imagined.
Would the Lord find yours to be a heart that is pure?
Part 5: Compelled by Mercy
Those who are grateful for mercy, are merciful. The bottomless well of mercy extended, should motivate and compel one to pass on the blessing.
What compels your interactions with people?
Part 4: Starved and Parched
What do you and I pursue like we are starved and parched? What is it that drives us and all that we do?
Part 3: Calm and Resting
What today is keeping meekness from being evident in our everyday life fear, worry, anger, pride? May we continually seek to develop this much-valued trait of meekness by calmly trusting and resting Him.
Part 2: Heartbroken
Those who mourn can know the special fellowship with Christ in His sufferings and experience His divine comfort. Are we people who mourn?
Part 1 : Poverty-Stricken
Absolute poverty of spirit is the prerequisite to receiving the kingdom of God. The criteria of receiving the kingdom of God are not based on race, color, earned merits, or even zeal or wealth.
Introduction: Daily Christian Living
Series: Daily Christian Living We here begin a series on this passage in the gospel of Matthew 5, famously known as the Beatitudes. We will look together in the coming weeks at this section of Jesus’ teaching the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5 begins by saying,...