SAINTJOHNLUTHERAN EMPORIAVA.COM
  • Home
  • What we believe
  • Daily Devotion
  • Media
  • Calendar
  • Sermon Archive
  • Contact us
Picture

​

August 23rd, 2020

8/23/2020

0 Comments

 
August 23, 2020Today’s devotion is based on Matthew 16:15, Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”
Jesus and his disciples had been traveling in the country regions. They were in a remote area near the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 15). There the disciples had seen the seven loaves and a few small fish that Jesus had blessed and miraculously multiply as the disciples distributed them to the crowd.
Jesus had earlier asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ They gave various replies. ‘But what about you? Who do you say I am?’ And Jesus said Peter’s response was revealed by his Father in heaven, not from people.
Who do you say that Jesus is? Have you been in conversation about your walk with Jesus and heard yourself say something new and significant about that? You recognize you didn’t think that up; it was given and revealed to you as you were speaking it. Like what happened to Peter!
Like those first disciples, there’s so much for us to learn to walk in, exercising faith in using the keys of the kingdom of heaven to change things here on earth as we bind and loose, in the authority Jesus gives us, for God’s kingdom purposes. As with Peter, though, it’s not in our own strength but by the Holy Spirit teaching and training us.
Please pray with me the prayer for today:  Heavenly Father, creator, and sustainer of all things, seen and unseen, thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. For it is only through the Holy Spirit that I can believe in Jesus, my Savior.  All praise to you. Amen., 

​
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    D Rhoads

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019

    Daily Devotions

    All

    RSS Feed

Site powered by Weebly. Managed by SiteGround
  • Home
  • What we believe
  • Daily Devotion
  • Media
  • Calendar
  • Sermon Archive
  • Contact us