Day 16 – Philippians 2:5-8
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling…
In this section, I hope to be able to share with you, as much as possible, the fruits and challenges from my daily devotion, and how we can try to use what we learn in our daily lives.
The goal is to, through sharing, have devotion together with your brothers and sisters, in hopes that each of us can experience God.
How can you take part? Brothers and sisters can, after doing the devotion, provide your feedback and even share what you’ve learned.
I especially hope that for brothers and sisters who may not have the Scriptures can read through the passages together with me, step by step, so that we can share together, improve together, and grow together.
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling…
1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit…
27-30 Meanwhile, live in such a way that you are a credit to the Message of Christ. Let nothing in your conduct hang on whether I come or not.…
22-26 As long as I’m alive in this body, there is good work for me to do. If I had to choose right now, I hardly know which I’d…
18-21 So how am I to respond? I’ve decided that I really don’t care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his…
15-17 It’s true that some here preach Christ because with me out of the way, they think they’ll step right into the spotlight. But the others do it with…
12-14I want to report to you, friends, that my imprisonment here has had the opposite of its intended effect. Instead of being squelched, the Message has actually prospered. All…
9-11So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your…
7-8It’s not at all fanciful for me to think this way about you. My prayers and hopes have deep roots in reality. You have, after all, stuck with me…
3-6Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with…
1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 3:1-2 –…
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.…
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 We have come to know and have believed the love…
8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU…
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered…
11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one…