Guidelines For Living Devotional
Religion & Spirituality
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A 5-minute daily devotional to help you fully live the life God has designed for you.
Episodes
- You’re Invited to a Party!
This episode, 'You’re Invited to a Party!', emphasizes the importance of accepting God's invitation. It suggests that while many excuses might seem justifiable for missing other events, neglecting divine invitations carries the most signif…
- God Knows What's in Your Heart
This episode explores the concept that nothing is hidden from God. It emphasizes that when we allow God to search our hearts, He reveals what is wrong for the purpose of forgiveness, healing, and guidance.
- Learn How God Sees Us Through Our Battles
This episode discusses the Christian life as a spiritual battle. It highlights God's call for believers to remain alert and equipped to face an enemy seeking opportunities for attack.
- Can You Trust God to Run Your Life?
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional, titled 'Can You Trust God to Run Your Life?', suggests that the God who governs the world can also carry your burdens when worry keeps you awake.
- Were Mistakes Made or Did You Lie?
This episode discusses the importance of honesty as called for by God, contrasting it with deception and lies that can erode personal integrity.
- What Jesus Promises You in the Storms of Life
This episode discusses how God uses life's challenges to foster perseverance, mold character, and cultivate an unwavering hope. It focuses on the promises found in facing life's storms.
- How Much Do You Need to be Satisfied?
This episode explores contentment, suggesting that the belief that happiness comes from material possessions leads us away from the truth that life's value is not determined by ownership.
- The 3 Things We Truly Need
This episode, 'The 3 Things We Truly Need,' explores the concept of needs versus wants, emphasizing that understanding this difference is crucial, especially in light of God's promises to provide.
- Here's What Stands in the Way of Your Prayers
Pride can be the biggest obstacle to prayer, preventing us from asking for help even when God is willing. This episode explores how our own pride can stand in the way of our prayers.
- Why Do We Hate Each Other?
Hatred often begins subtly in the heart, fueled by unchecked jealousy and bitterness, before escalating to violence. This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional examines the internal roots of animosity.
- How Do You Keep Love Alive?
This episode explores how marriages can lose intimacy over time when not actively nurtured. It discusses the importance of avoiding complacency to maintain a healthy relationship.
- Answer These 4 Questions to Find Meaning in Your Life
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional explores finding meaning by asking four key questions about your life's direction and your relationship with God.
- What Does God Say About Parenting in a Violent World?
This episode discusses how to make your home a place of safety, peace, and refuge for your loved ones, even in a world that feels corrupt and violent.
- Here's a Story of Real Faith You've Missed
The episode focuses on Noah's wife, highlighting her unrecorded but significant quiet faith and courage during a dramatic moment in human history.
- 5 Steps to Satisfaction in God
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional explores a path to finding satisfaction in God. It offers hope and guidance for those searching for His presence.
- 7 Guidelines for Financial Survival
This episode addresses financial stress, exploring what God's word says about money, debt, and stewardship when bills accumulate.
- Avoid These 3 Attitudes Toward Money at All Costs!
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional discusses negative attitudes toward money, emphasizing that debt enslaves individuals by borrowing from the future.
- Why You Can Count on God
This episode discusses trusting God's provision, emphasizing that it aligns with Christ's riches rather than human timing or comprehension.
- How to Live with Grace at Any Age
This episode explores how growing older presents an opportunity to live with grace, purpose, and the presence of God.
- How Can I Inherit Eternal Life?
This episode explains that true treasure is found by prioritizing Jesus, relinquishing possessions that hinder spiritual growth, and committing to following Him completely to inherit eternal life.
- Commit to 5 Minutes a Day with God
This episode focuses on the importance of a simple daily commitment to spend focused time with God, study His Word, and correctly handle the truth to master one's faith.
- Does Your Life Reflect Your Faith?
This episode discusses how genuine faith is outwardly visible, not just an internal belief. It emphasizes living as dead to sin and alive to God through faith in Christ.
- The Jesus You Can Know
This episode discusses how God communicates directly through Jesus Christ, offering a personal and living relationship to those who seek it. It emphasizes experiencing this divine connection in the present day.
- How Can We Understand God’s Thoughts?
This episode explores how to better understand the thoughts of God by looking beyond surface-level perspectives and embracing His wisdom to reshape one's values and purpose.
- 5 Ways to Respond to Criticism
This episode explores five ways to respond to criticism, emphasizing the importance of grace, discernment, and building up oneself and others through words and actions.
- Does God Exist for Our Benefit?
This episode discusses that true joy and peace are found not in manipulating God, but in acknowledging His supreme authority and living as a devoted subject. It emphasizes humility and devotion in one's relationship with God.
- The 3 Barriers to Knowing God
This episode explores how seeking God with one's whole heart can help overcome the three barriers to knowing Him, leading to a deeper understanding of life and oneself.
- How to Make Peace with Death
This episode discusses how accepting the certainty of death, with divine guidance, allows for a more fulfilling life, deeper love, and a significant legacy.
- You are a Missionary with a Mandate!
This episode discusses the missionary mandate, drawing parallels to the biblical question 'Whom shall I send?'. It suggests that answering this call with 'Here I am, Lord,' can initiate extraordinary events.
- Can We Demand Things from God?
The episode discusses Jesus' promise regarding prayer, highlighting a condition often missed by many. It delves into the implications of this condition for how we approach asking things from God.
- Don’t Waste a Wake-Up Call!
This episode focuses on the fleeting nature of life and the certainty of death, suggesting that survival from wake-up calls should prompt a focus on eternity and peace with God.
- Discover the Disciplined Power of “No”
This episode explores the concept that true freedom is found in adhering to divine boundaries. It suggests that the word 'no' serves as a protective measure, offering guidance and imparting meaning to life.
- What Your Words Say About You
This episode explores the connection between speech and the inner self, suggesting that the words spoken are a direct reflection of one's heart and soul.
- How To Be an Effective Communicator
This episode discusses the significant impact of effective communication, highlighting how carefully chosen words can profoundly influence hearts, shape historical events, and be particularly impactful when used appropriately.
- 5 Guidelines to Having a Great Conversation
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional focuses on the five guidelines for having a great conversation. It suggests that even reluctant speakers can connect with others through a willingness to listen, look, and care.
- Here’s How to Get Your Message Across
This episode emphasizes that effective communication requires love. Without it, even eloquent speech and knowledge are considered just noise.
- Are Men and Women Really that Different?
This episode discusses how failing to act on what is known to be right, especially in matters of love and listening, constitutes sin.
- When Your Dream Dies
This episode explores finding refuge in God during difficult times when dreams seem lost. It emphasizes that God remains a constant source of strength.
- Are You Living in Yesterday, Today or Tomorrow?
This episode advises listeners to avoid letting worry consume their present joy. It emphasizes that God grants each day its own grace, and tomorrow will take care of its own concerns.
- There’s Hope for Tomorrow!
This devotional focuses on preparing your heart today for the positive and amazing things that God has planned for your life tomorrow.
- Why We Struggle with Doing Wrong
The episode 'Why We Struggle with Doing Wrong' from the Guidelines For Living Devotional series explains that regardless of life's complexities regarding right and wrong, followers of Christ Jesus are liberated from the law of sin and deat…
- 10 Proven Tips for Parenting Well
This episode of Guidelines For Living Devotional offers 10 tips for effective parenting. It highlights that true love for children involves prioritizing their needs over parental comfort, even when it's emotionally challenging.
- Is There Meaning to Our Existence Without God?
This episode, "Is There Meaning to Our Existence Without God?" from the Guidelines For Living Devotional, examines whether intellectual skepticism can yield to belief in God's love and salvation.
- 5 Tips for Aging Well
This episode discusses aging well, using Moses' example at 120 years old to illustrate how spiritual strength and clarity of vision can be maintained.
- Don’t Give Up!
The episode 'Don’t Give Up!' from Guidelines For Living Devotional discusses how to persevere through life's storms and obstacles. It emphasizes that the race is not run alone and that support from others can help overcome tough challenges.
- Here is What Real Love Demands
The episode 'Here is What Real Love Demands' from Guidelines For Living Devotional discusses that true love is demonstrated through sacrifice, not just words or comfort, highlighting the act of laying down one's life for another.
- How Faith and Logic are Connected
This episode discusses how faith helps bridge the gap when logic fails, enabling the understanding of realities not yet seen.
- 3 Things Hard Times Do for You
This episode discusses how to find strength in God during difficult times, when life feels overwhelming and the heart grows faint. It emphasizes crying out to God and finding unshakable strength in Him.
- How Hidden Scrolls Give Us a Picture of God’s Plan
This episode explores how hidden scrolls provide insight into God’s plan, highlighting the enduring and powerful nature of God’s Word across time and civilizations.
- What Is Your Conscience?
This episode explores the function of the conscience and discusses the consequences of living in rebellion against God.