Day 6

Scripture to Read: 2 Timothy 4:6

When we consider our lives and how we live for our Lord, we need to ask ourselves if we fully pour our lives out each day as a drink offering to our Lord. We find the drink offering first presented in Genesis 35:14, where Jacob poured out a drink offering to our Lord as a sacrifice. We also see the drink offering as part of the sacrifice to our Lord in the Law of Moses in Exodus 29:40-41 and Leviticus 23:13. The drink offering was emptied from the cup and totally given to God. The meaning behind the drink offering is to completely give our lives to the Lord and hold nothing back from Him in any area of our lives. Paul knew his physical life was drawing to an end and that he was going to be executed. But, Paul had also lived each day of his life as a drink offering to our Lord once he came to know Christ as His Lord and Savior. God also desires us to live each day fully poured out for His glory, honor, and praise because our lives no longer belong to us (1 Corinthians 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Therefore, we must pour our lives out each day for our Lord and honor Him in all we do and say. God uses Paul to challenge us to examine our lives to make sure we live entirely for Him. We must daily pour ourselves out for our Lord so we carry out His purpose and plans for us each day.

Challenge & Application

1. What did God teach you today about being a drink offering for Him? 2. How are you living your life each day and pouring yourself out completely for our Lord?

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

God continues to teach us through His Holy Word. We must remember that 2 Timothy is not just a letter from Paul to Timothy, but this letter is God’s revelation, through Paul, to Timothy and us. God has Paul begin 2 Timothy 4:1 with a command in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus. God wants us to realize that any command from Him is serio...

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Day 2

We continue to hear what God has to say to us through 2 Timothy 4:1-2. As we saw yesterday, God has commanded us to always be ready to preach His Truth. Today we read how God tells us to use His Word. As we know, God’s Word is “living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of b...

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Day 3

We know mankind has been living in the “last days” since Christ ascended into heaven, as recorded in Mark 16:19, Luke 24:50-51, and Acts 1:9-11. Also, remember that there has been evil in this world since the fall of man in Genesis 3. As we read 2 Timothy 4:3-4, the Truth of this Scripture was being lived out in the days of Paul and Timothy a...

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Day 4

After reading yesterday’s devotion, we could get incredibly depressed focusing on how bad people are in this world today. But God does not want us to focus on the negative, so He tells us where our focus must be so that we fulfill all He has for us to do. As we read 2 Timothy 4:5, we see that God tells us first of all to “be sober in all thin...

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Day 5

Today we focus on the end of 2 Timothy 4:5. We did not have the space to finish with 2 Timothy 4:5 in yesterday’s devotion, but God wants us all to fulfill the ministries each of us has been called to do. God has given each of us ministries to accomplish. We can read about the works God has for us to do in Romans 12:6-13, Ephesians 2:10, Titu...

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Day 6

When we consider our lives and how we live for our Lord, we need to ask ourselves if we fully pour our lives out each day as a drink offering to our Lord. We find the drink offering first presented in Genesis 35:14, where Jacob poured out a drink offering to our Lord as a sacrifice. We also see the drink offering as part of the sacrifice to o...

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Day 7

Though God used Paul to share with Timothy and us that his life was ending, God also used Paul to share a challenge and incredible words of encouragement for today. The challenge for us is whether we can say, each day, that we have fought the good fight, that we have finished the race for that day well, and that we have firmly guarded the gos...

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