Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe. (1/3)

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe. (1/3)
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. (1/3)
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Today’s devotional
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Generosity Encouraged - 2 Corinthians 8
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Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (1/2)
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. (1/2)
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. (1/2)
Some say we should only pray to the Father.
Yet Stephen, full of the Spirit, looked to heaven and said: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 7 shows prayer to Jesus is appropriate.
Some say we should only pray to the Father.
Yet Stephen, full of the Spirit, looked to heaven and said: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 7 shows prayer to Jesus is appropriate.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart.”
Ecclesiastes 3
We long for more because we were made for more. Only God satisfies that longing.
College students always ask, “What’s on the final?”
God has already told us the answer for eternity: Life is in His Son. Have the Son → have life. No Son → no life.
Is your view of Jesus really that important?
1 John 5 says yes.
Jesus is the Christ — fully human and fully divine. The water, the blood, and the Spirit all testify to it.
Belief in this is essential.
What is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?
1 Corinthians 12:13 “We have all been baptized into Christ’s body by one Spirit…”
It’s not a later special experience for some. It's how EVERY believer is placed into the body of Christ
Physical descent from Abraham didn’t make them children of God.
Their actions revealed their true father — the one who hates the truth and loves to lie.
Whose character do your actions reflect?
John 8
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For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; (1/3)
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 1 Corinthians 12:7
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1/2)
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being. 1 Corinthians 10:23-24