Day 5

Scripture to Read: 1 Peter 1:2

Today we look at the work of the Holy Spirit. When we came to the point of surrendering to Jesus Christ as our Lord, He immediately came to live in us through His Holy Spirit. Jesus talked a lot about the Holy Spirit in the book of John. Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit before the Holy Spirit came to dwell in saved souls in John 14:16-17, I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. It’s incredible to know that Jesus the Son told His disciples that He would ask God the Father to send another Helper and that this new Helper would NEVER leave us. Then, just so the disciples, and us today, would know who Jesus was talking about, Jesus said that this Helper is the Holy Spirit. So, the Holy Spirit came in Acts 2:2, and He has been coming to dwell in every believer ever since Acts 2. Jesus also said in John 14:17 that the Holy Spirit would lead us into all truth. In 1 Peter 1:2, we read that the Holy Spirit sanctifies us (makes us holy). Without the Holy Spirit, holiness is an impossibility. But, because He lives in us, living Holy is possible. We must choose to walk in obedience daily to God's Word through His power in us.

Challenge & Application

1. What needs to happen for you to walk in the fullness of holiness each day? 2. What are some ways the Holy Spirit has revealed God’s Truth to you as you read and study God’s Word?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

This week we begin a brand new study on the book of 1 Peter. God led the apostle Peter to write this letter to the believers in his day. But, as we examine all that God led Peter to write, we’ll see how God is speaking directly to us today as well. Peter was one of the original disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter was originally a fisher...

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Day 2

Persecution is our focus today because in 1 Peter 1:1, we see that the believers had been scattered. Persecution of Christ’s followers has been going on since the beginning of the church. In Acts 6, Stephen is introduced, for Stephen became the first martyr (the first Christian killed because of his faith in Christ) for proclaiming Christ as ...

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Day 3

Living in a country that is not the same place where you were born means you are a foreigner. Some would call those people aliens, strangers, immigrants, outsiders, and maybe even unwelcome. As God led Peter to write this first letter, Peter described the believers he was writing to as aliens, exiles, or foreigners. These followers of Christ ...

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Day 4

Today we focus on God the Father. Though God is One, He has made Himself known to us in three distinct persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As God led Peter to write 1 Peter, we read today that God the Father knew each of us and chose us before anything was ever created. Being chosen is a great feeling, for when we know that we’re chosen, w...

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Day 5

Today we look at the work of the Holy Spirit. When we came to the point of surrendering to Jesus Christ as our Lord, He immediately came to live in us through His Holy Spirit. Jesus talked a lot about the Holy Spirit in the book of John. Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit before the Holy Spirit came to dwell in saved souls in John 14:16-17...

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Day 6

So far this week, God the Father has encouraged us to recognize the fullness of His work in our lives as Father, Son, and Spirit. Today God reveals to us that because His Holy Spirit has made us holy (and continues His work of making us holy each day) that He (the Holy Spirit) also gives us His power (because He lives in us) to obey our Lord ...

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Day 7

Today we prepare our hearts as our pastors unpack 1 Peter 1:1-2. As we finish with verse 2 today, we see a word of blessing to the first Christians and also to us today. In the Amplified Version of the Bible, the end of 1 Peter 1:2 reads as follows, “May grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be yours in increasing abund...

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