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 127-130. Opening Thought: When we are called by God to do something of importance, we will get a feeling which seems to pull us out of our comfort zone. Often, if not always, we are met with a sinister voice telling us that we are not equipped to do something so wonderful, so we might as well not. Nick shares a story about a peer of his who had a long life of abuse, mental illness and childhood trauma; a personal story which would make...

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 124-126. Opening Thought: In the devotion reading for today, Nick Vujicic speaks about his calling and how it was placed before him in contrast to the path that was originally suggested to him. I won’t get into his details, but the point is that it can be challenging to know where God is calling you. When I was high school, I always wanted to be in one of two profession, either a carpenter or a police officer. A builder or sustainer if...

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 121-123. Opening Thought: As I am writing this as the year approaches Christmas, I see many houses in my neighborhood with lights shining bright in the darkness. I am always marveled at the displays I see at Christmas partly because of the outward effort people put into them. Lights have the initial start costs, electric additional cost each season, and not to mention the manual labor of putting them up and taking them down each year. ...

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...