Author: debo

Every individual determines their personal speed of spiritual growth. Does that statement surprise you? It really is true. You determine your own spiritual growth. You have probably noticed that someone can be saved for many years, and still be a baby Christian. And on the other hand, you might have known someone who just recently has been saved, and have grown leaps and bounds, because they have dug into the Word of God, they have gotten involved in church life, they have spent time in prayer and they have planted themselves in a life giving small group. Those really are four keys to personal spiritual growth! Let’s talk about them.
1) Be a person of the Word. Dig in, find a good study program, do word studies, get in a Bible Study and really make the Word of God your life. YouVersiion.com makes it so easy if you like doing your study on your phone or tablet.
2) Finding a life giving local church is vitally important too. You want to be in a church that is equipping you to do ministry, a place where teaching the whole Word of God is central, and where you can call your church home.
3) A third key is having great communication with God through prayer. Prayer really is just a conversation, but it is with the person who has your best interest at heart and loves you the most.
4) And lastly, getting involved in a TeamLife group really helps you grow, iron sharpens iron, and you have the opportunity to grow spiritually in a small group, bringing refreshing to your life! What a great way to get recharged.

Intro:
Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your daily eword. I think we all have been in a dry place before, and need to be refreshed. In the coming weeks we will be talking about getting more “Re”in our life. Recharge, renew, restore, etc! I hope these daily encouragements designed to harmonize with our ladies fall bible study, will help you take a deep breath and breathe in all that God has for you. Be encouraged today! If you starting listening or reading your dailyeword each day, I hope you will start today. These few moments can be your daily recharge and encourage you to be in the Word everyday. Here is your dailyeword.

This week is the beginning of a really exciting Bible study. This introduction really is a great reminder of how important it is to have life giving relationships around us, and to be involved in a small group where we have accountability and encouragement. Why should you be in a small group? Because if we look at the pattern of Jesus’ life when he walked the earth, he had the initial small group. He had 12 men around him to were there to help and bless him, but also they grew and were blessed just by being around Jesus. So how about you, can you identify a small group where you can grow? Follow the pattern of Jesus and find a group where you can study and grow together. Our TeamLife groups have just started, so jump in, get involved! If you haven’t ever been in a small group, here is what to expect. You will find a group of people who have a common interest, and are wanting to grow in their relationships and in the love of God. What a great place for you! And what a great way to get refreshed and recharged this fall.

I think the “one another” that speaks to me the most is the first one we talked about and the one that started our one another list. It all starts with loving one another. We can forgive, accept, bear with, honor, share, carry, encourage, comfort, instruct, pray for one another, all because we love each another. With God’s heart of love on the inside of us, we can love without limits. Just like nothing can separate us from God’s love, when we operate in the love of God, we can see others drawn to God through His love in us. We can powerfully impact our world for the kingdom of God. Once others have stepped into salvation and joined God’s family, we can have limitless impact as together we lovingly serve others in the body of Christ. We can love as Christ loved, forgive as Christ forgave, and lay our lives down for each other, just like Jesus did for us. We need each other, and we are better together. Let’s realize this and become people that the Bible described. They will know us by our love. Let choose love, show love, and live out the love of God everyday!

What do you think of this quote from Larry Crabb? “We are not our problems. We are not our wounds. We are not our sins. We are persons of radical worth and unrevealed beauty.” I love it! We so often identify ourselves with the negatives and the problems in our life. What we have gone through, or are going through, or even how we view ourselves in light of our circumstances. That is not who we really are. We are people who are of radical worth! Not average worth, but amazing worth! And, there is beauty within us, that we haven’t discovered, and very likely others have not yet seen all of it either. As we conclude this series on relationships, it is so important that we know, deep down within us, that we are loved, valued, and worthy, not because of what we’ve done, or who we are, but because of Whose we are. Our value and worth is because of the cross, and what Jesus accomplished for us there. His love for us is what we should celebrate! We are not our circumstances, the problems we face, or our wounds from the past. We are hidden in Christ, and we are covered by the blood of Jesus. So let’s be our best self, and build great relationships, because Jesus made us worthy! He declared that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I’ll wear that robe anyday!

My prayer for you is that you begin to make life giving dynamic relationships a part of your life. Here is the long list of the “one another’s” in the New Testament! Love one another, Forgive one another, accept one another, bear with one another, be devoted to one another, honor one another above ourselves, greet one another, be hospitable with one another, be compassionate and kind to one another, share with one another, serve one another, carry one another’s burdens, build up one another, encourage one another daily, comfort one another, motivate one another to show love and do good deeds, instruct one another, admonish one another, pray for one another, confess your sins to one another, be of the same mind toward one another, and submit to one another in love. I hope you are inspired and encouraged to build your relationships so that they can be extraordinary! That’s what happens when we love each other. That’s God’s desire for us! Say this with me: I can love the people in my world, and build my relationships, to be all that they can be, starting in my home, at my church, in my community, and around my world.

I hope you are enjoying learning about developing authentic life giving relationships. It all begins with love, and comes from a heart to serve. It is so wonderful to be a part of the family of God. I love that we have so many others to do life with. We don’t have to be loners, just making it through by ourselves. When we hit a rough patch, when circumstances overwhelm us, we can lean on our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we have something to rejoice over, we don’t have to have a party of one. We can celebrate with our family, our fellow believers, our teammates in life. I hope that you received revelation in your own life of how to develop your relationships, so that your life is enriched. As much as your friendships and relationships are a blessing to you, my prayer is that you are enriching the lives of others around you daily as well. That’s what we are called to in the body of Christ. While I give out daily encouragement, I have people encouraging me. When you sow seed, you get to see a harvest! As the seed comes up and begins bearing fruit, you get to enjoy the fruit of your labor. By partnering together, in the body of Christ, and in our individual circles of believers, we get to experience in our relationships the very best of life, and the deepest joy that human relationships can offer. No a bad deal, any way you look at it!

Don’t you just love how Jesus presented truth while he was on the earth? He laid it out, and then let the people decide. He was not a high pressure salesman coercing people into an immediate decision. He laid the truth out there, and let them decide. People had the choice. I’m always surprised when people choose not to follow God. Really? You have the choice of life and death, please choose life! You have the choice to do life on your own, or with others who love and support you, please, choose God’s way! Jesus set the perfect example of letting people have their own journey. If you want to take the hard way, it is your choice, but if I can have the help of the Almighty on my journey, I am surely going to take it! In fact, once we get hooked up with Jesus, we are offered the power of the Holy Spirit to come along side and help us. Jesus said that when we would be filled with the Holy Spirit, we would have power to live for God, and to see others come into His kingdom. We have the choice to accept the power or not! Duh, I’m going for power! Lights on, or lights off? I prefer lights on! Bring on the power. What a wonderful advantage the Holy Spirit is in our life. But the choice is only for me. I can’t make anyone else desire the power. We can be like Jesus, set the truth and the choice before them, but it is up to them to say yes! Let’s say yes to all that God has for us!

Sharing input with one another is part of our Christian journey. We can partner together. In the family of God we are better as a team. You can be on my team. I can be on yours! The Bible says that one can chase 1,000, but 2 can chase 10,000. Its not basic addition, it is multiplication. The same is true when we come together in prayer, we can be in agreement, and experience the presence and power of God as 2 or 3 are gathered in His name, or even when multitudes are. As a family, as a team, as partners together, when we invite God in our relationships, they get better! We see greater results. We have more fun! Life is definitely more exciting with others in our life. God never intended us to do life by ourselves. We have the opportunity to share insights and revelation with others on our journey. “One body, one Lord, one Spirit, one Word, we are members in particular! Let’s let this message be heard.” Those are words from a song my husband wrote. We are not in competition, or trying to out do each other, we are working toward the same goal, and bringing as many people with us on our way to heaven as we can. Let’s learn to cooperate. Let’s have a heart for the house, no just for our own way! Let’s get in agreement in prayer, and see mighty things happen. Let’s be the winning team God’s wants us to be, and do the job God has for us here on earth. Together we are better!

Intro:
This week we will talk about how we can experience authentic relationships. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week’s encouraging word is all about partnering with others on our journey, and finding buried treasure in each other as we grow in our relationships. More than anything, my prayer is that we can be more aware of how we can build the relationships in our life, through being real and authentic. Sounds like the best kind of relationship to have! Here is your daily eword.

Submit to one another in love it says in Eph 5:21. I love this passage in the message Bible, it says, out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another. Richard Foster says submission is this: the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to be right. I love that! Those words make me smile. I know there are lots of us who like to be right and prove it on a regular basis. Isn’t it good to know that we don’t have to be right all the time? It allows someone else to be able to lead, and it lets us set the heavy burden of being right or having the last word down. What freedom that brings! Submission to one another is a result of love. We can choose to lay down our lives, and give someone else the opportunity to take the lead. When we submit our lives to God first, then we all can easily submit to one another. Teamwork makes the Dream Work! When we partner together, and help one another, we can let go of competition and struggling to prove ourselves. We respect each other, and are happy to let someone else win. We can see our God dreams and visions come to pass! It is a win for all parties! Submission isn’t a dirty word. It really is a word, when in the context of love, that brings victory and freedom!

During each of these seasons, we can take the opportunity to grow in our personal lives. I hope you have discovered that you are mighty because you’ve connected with God, and that your strength is multiplied when you band together with others. We are part of a body, and as a family, we can reach out and love our world into the kingdom of God.
It is usually pretty easy to love other believers (most of the time!). We are not just called to love those who already know and love God. We are to love those who are still lost. Love cares about the destiny of others. We know the final outcome of unbelievers. There is no pretty way to describe the hell that awaits those who reject Christ. We say it often and loudly that we want no one from our area to go to hell. We want to make it hard for them to get there. We want it to be easy for them to find and follow God. You can be a part of that process. We can change our world, one life at a time!
10 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also,[a] and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. 2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
During this season, I encourage you to go into all of your world, and be a part of bringing in the harvest.