Day 6

Scripture to Read: 1 Peter 1:2

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 Jesus Christ (because His blood has cleansed us and made us new). That’s humbling, amazing, encouraging, mind-blowing, etc… Being Three but One, God is doing all of the work on our behalf. We must choose to believe the fullness of His Truth so that we walk in obedience to His Truth. Too many Christians stay spiritually immature because they never move beyond the “milk” of the Word (1 Corinthians 3:1-3). These immature Christians, by choice, submit more to their flesh than they do the Spirit within them. God warns us as believers not to grieve or quench the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30 & 1 Thessalonians 5:19). As God’s children, we are to be imitators of Him (Ephesians 5:1). If we would fully believe God’s Truth, we all would then daily walk in the fullness of the freedom that our Lord Jesus Christ has given to us (John 8:31-32). Christ’s death, burial, resurrection, and ascension have set us free from the power and penalty of sin. Thank Him today for His life in you, and then live each day of this new year in the fullness of the life you have in Him.

Challenge & Application

1. As you consider all that God has done for you, how are you enjoying the freedom you have in Christ? 2. What changes will you make?

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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