Devotion in Action

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17   Sparkling Advent #12: Every Good and Perfect Gift (James

“As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long;     we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

“being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;” Colossians 1:11 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 “The Lord

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”  Galatians 3:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you,

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38 Or do you

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 Sparkling Advent #3: The Gift of Eternal Life (Romans 6:23) With Jesus, we receive so many gifts.