God's Plan For The Man

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” Gen. 2:15

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
God gave women a nurturing instinct, but God gave men a different gift and task—to dress the garden. God equipped men with a hard exterior to be the providers and protectors, and because of this, men want to be admired by women. I want to be admired by my wife. I get more blessing when she admires me and says, “You are wonderful,” and she gets a blessing when I am romantic, loving, and tender toward her. 

1 Peter 3:7 says, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

ACTION POINT:
How can you show your wife a little tender loving care today? Now that you’ve thought of something, go do it! 

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

True Beauty

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“. . . even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” 1 Peter 3:4b

 

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

Are you a woman struggling with the way you look? We all know that women want to be beautiful, especially to their husbands and boyfriends, but so often women think that beauty is found at a cosmetics counter, on a dress rack, or in a jewelry box. Those things are corruptible, and what’s in vogue today is out of fashion when next year’s supermodels hit the runway.

 

The only thing that will make you more beautiful, day after day, is what you nurture within yourself - serenity.

 

The ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit is worth far more than even the most expensive jewel you can wear around your neck.

 

ACTION POINT:

Stand in front of the mirror today. Imagine Jesus by your side, and ask Him to create in you a gentle and quiet spirit of love.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

Let Patience Have Its Perfect Work in You

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” James 1:3-4

  

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

The trying of your faith is going to develop patience in you. And the Amplified Bible says, “Let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed in your faith, lacking in nothing.” When was the last time you asked God to make you perfect? Maybe you should have asked for patience as well, because it is only through patient, abiding faith and trust in the Lord that we become “perfect.”

 

Now, a lot of people confuse this word “perfect” with “sinless.” The Greek word for perfect in James 1:4 is teleios—it refers to a maturing growth. For example, an oak tree is the teleios of an acorn. It is the “perfection” of an acorn, which has now come to maturity.

 

So when you are discouraged and feeling a little blue,

Take a look at a mighty oak and see what a nut can do.

  

ACTION POINT:

Take a walk this week enjoying the beauty of God’s creation and ask Him to give you the patience and faith that can turn a little acorn into a mighty oak.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

The Greatest Event Of All Ages

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“. . . and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” Rev.17:14
 
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
The Second Coming of Jesus is going to be the greatest event of all of the ages. It is one of the grand theological truths taught in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

• The New Birth is vitally important, but it is mentioned only nine times in the New Testament.
• Baptism is vitally important, but it is mentioned only 20 times in the New Testament.
• Repentance is mentioned only 70 times in the Bible, as important and needful as that is.
• But the return of the Lord Jesus Christ is mentioned in God’s Word at least 380 times.
• One out of every 25 verses points with an eager finger to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 
ACTION POINT:
How are you getting ready for His Second Coming? What if He came this very hour?

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Humbly Grateful, Not Grumbly Hateful

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.James 1:2

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Sometimes we have to admit that it’s hard to “count it all joy.” Sometimes we complain and rather than being humbly grateful, we become grumbly hateful.
 
Oh, how I wish that, beginning today, we would emulate the faith of the saints that have gone before us—saints like Fannie Crosby, the great hymn writer.
 
For most of her life Fannie Crosby was blind, and yet, at the tender age of eight, Fannie wrote:
 
“Oh! What a happy soul am I, although I cannot see,
I am resolved that, in this world, contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy, that other people don’t.
To weep and sigh because I’m blind, I cannot and I won’t.”
 
And do you know what? .... She didn’t.
 
ACTION POINT:

• How can you apply this truth to your life today?
• How can you share this truth with someone else?

LWF Dr.Adrian Rogers 

The Testing Of Your Faith

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.” 1 Peter 4:12
 
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Has something bad happened to you and you said, “Oh me. What did I do? I must have done something terrible. Otherwise, this wouldn’t have happened!”
 
And before you knew it, you fell headlong into a pity party of morbid introspection—taking yourself apart piece by piece to see where you went wrong. If you’re like most people, you have.
 
But have you ever thought that maybe you’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, but God is simply testing your faith? This is an important truth for you to understand, because if you don’t, you may get discouraged. The seeds of doubt and discouragement sprout in the soil of ignorance.
 
ACTION POINT:
Read Exodus 16 about the testing of the Lord in the lives of the Israelites while they were wandering in the desert. What applications can you give to your life?

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Facing Temptation

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

When you face temptation, remember it is not a sin to be tempted. Temptation to sin is not sin.

If temptation were a sin, then Jesus would be a sinner, because Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”

Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. Jesus felt what you feel. He was just as much a man as though He were not God at all, and He was as much God as though He were not man at all. He was the God-Man, and praise God, Jesus never sinned though He knew those temptations.

ACTION POINT:

Are you facing a temptation today that you feel no one has ever faced? Turn to Jesus and He will meet you there.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers