Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 118-120. Opening Thought: There is the old expression that “sex sells”, this is true, but what works better is FEAR. People have always spun fear to control other people, you can see it throughout history, but even look close to home. The product industry always paints pictures of how horrible your life will be without their products; how much beautiful you will miss out on if you don’t dress or mark up your face the way they promote. ...

T his blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 115-117. Opening Thought: It is always wise to take pause and evaluate your life, in the good time and the bad times. One of the best skills you can learn, is how to be mindful to your surroundings, thoughts and emotions. When you take stock and review how things are going, you will be better able to prevent hardship, better able to recognize what helps you do well, and if hardship does hit, then you know yourself better to help yours...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 112-114. Opening Thought: Our words have power, when we  speak something, even if we know it is not true, we begin to believe it just a little bit. Say it enough times then suddenly it become inherent and you are not sure how you got from point a. to b. It doesn't help us that in our vernacular we often use hyperbole to make points. Hyperboles are points in speech where we exaggerate our statement to the extreme to drive home a po...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 109-111. Opening Thought: Setbacks are one thing, and feeling down is challenging, but when it all hits at once sometimes we spiral and have what we would call a 'melt-down'. The challenge with meltdowns is that everyone does it differently, some people explode in anger, some crumble in sadness, mid-aged people will often have a mid-life crisis, others may burry themselves in obsessive work. Vices will often take hold of people in thes...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 106-108. Opening Thought: The challenge of getting back up is sometimes that needs to be thought through, we often attribute a resurrection to an emotional appeal, but emotions can only take us so far. We need to have a balance between emotional motivation and pragmatic resolution. If we do not take practical steps towards climbing back up, then we are doomed to fail. I really enjoyed this devotion by Vujicic today, as it gives a three...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 103-105. Opening Thought: The best line from this devotional chapter is “There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.” I have come across many young people, (and in my experience, more young men), who have fallen into the danger of not trying. It is like the wind has been taken out of their sails and even though many of them pretend or posture a disposition of trying, their lives seem more bou...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 100-102. Opening Thought: The scripture for today’s reading I feel is something many people if not all people should aim to memorize. Contentment is, in many ways, the most superior emotion, “superior” can be a troublesome word, but here I may adopt it, as contentment needs to be one of our bases in life, and to find contentment we need to feel secure in something beyond ourselves and world. If we are bounded to earthly things for our ...