Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale
Andi and Brian bring you daily devotionals to help elevate your day!
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Apart from the act of Creation, can you find where God decided to do something for humanity anywhere in the Bible without some conversation or partnership with humankind?
When the world became so dark and evil, to the point where God regretted creating people, there was a man who found favour in His eyes. God partnered with Noah and preserved the human race. Without Noah r...
For nothing will be impossible with God. – Luke 1:37 ESV
Has your heart ever been tangled up in doubt and unbelief? You want to stay in faith, but you just can’t seem to marry up the hours of praying and declaring with the results you are seeing in the flesh?
When you find yourself without a job and you just don’t have enough money to make it ...
Grace and conviction aren’t just words. They are powerful actions that offer freedom. Throughout the Bible, grace and conviction changed the lives of King David, the woman at the well, prostitutes, the thief on the cross, and a fisherman named Peter.
Fishermen were considered uneducated men with hot tempers and vulgar language. Seeing beyond the surface, Jesus asked Pet...
Guilt leads to condemnation unless we learn to live in conviction. Conviction is a process where God uses our guilt to guide us towards grace and growth. As we give Him access to our thoughts and motives, He uncovers sin and reveals its true nature. Seeing our sin and hating it, we realize our desperate need for God and grasp onto His forgiveness. His grace covers us, so His conviction can change us.
<...as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. – Romans 4:17
Grace is a word that can refer to mealtime prayers, ballerinas, and personalities. But God’s grace isn’t just a ...
Guilt is a natural reaction to sin. If we’re not careful, it stops being a reaction and becomes a lifestyle that guides our decisions, influences our truth, and leaves us leading a life of condemnation.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. – Romans 8:1
For a long time, condemnation and I were good friends. ...
I started carrying guilt around at a young age. In the seventh grade, I felt guilty for making the cheerleading squad when my friend didn’t. In high school, I couldn’t stop beating myself up for stealing. Now, as an adult, I encounter guilt for yelling at my kids, not spending enough time with my husband, and not having a handle on money. I hide i...
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. – Galatians 6:9
Kylie is my oldest and dearest friend, and like so many of my friends, she frequently runs in marathon races. I am not sure if I am living vicariously through them, but I seem to have amassed many fri...
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26
I love to run, though I’m totally not a serious runner. My idea of running is a five-mile slow jog, and when I say slow, I mean mothers pushing their babies in strollers can overtake me. My f...
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” – Genesis 8:22
Do you have a dream? An idea? A yearning to do something that just won’t go away that you know God has placed in your heart? When God gives us a dream, He is calling forth what He pl...
always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. – Philippians 1:4-6
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He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40:29-31
Here are the Four Stages of Discipleship we have covered this week.
- The Infant Stage
- The Maturing Stage
- The Others Stage
- The Disciple-Making Stage
Matthew 28:19 tells us to go and make disciples of all nations.
Mature Christ followers have a deep conviction that they’re called to make disciples. If you don’t gr...
Every stage of your walk with the Lord is part of the growing process. No matter where you find yourself as you’ve been reading over the last several days, don’t be discouraged! Take one practical next step to continue to grow! Today, we are talking about the third stage of discipleship—the others stage.
In this stage, the Christian knows a lot about the Word of God and th...
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. – Hebrews 5:14
No parent wants their kid to stay stuck as a baby. They can’t wait to watch them take their first step, say their first word, and lose their first tooth. Yet imagine if you ju...
Over the next several days we will look at four stages of discipleship. Pay close attention to your own life and ask the Holy Spirit to show you where you are in your walk with Jesus so you can take your next steps and grow as a disciple.
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. – Hebrews 5:13
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. – Matthew 16:24
When you hear the term “follower,” you probably immediately associate it with a social media number or popularity gauge. Because being a “follower” can be ...
As I wait for my flight I watch the parade of people. Disgruntled teenagers with caps pulled down over their eyes trailing behind determined parents. Bright-eyed couples holding hands with the honeymoon sun still on their faces. A group of grey-headed ladies in pink matching t-shirts laughing and exchanging stories while they sip coffee.
I wonder about all of them. Where h...
The rough wooden boardwalk is cool beneath my feet as I make my way to the sand. The sky is still the thick, deep blue of night, and gray shadows sway in the salty wind. I’m not a morning person, but I’m at the beach, and I’m determined to see the sun climb like a rising warrior above the waves at least once.
As I get closer to the shore, I can see more people who have dec...
I hold a list filled with words written in black ink on cream paper. The page is small but the sentences scrawled on it feel big, more than I can handle.
I’m part of a group and our assignment for this week is to write down our fears. The facilitator says, “Okay, we’re all going to read our lists out loud.” I panic for a moment. Read them out loud? Where people can hear? F...
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