Focused Life Ministries

December 3, 2021 Scripture: So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. 1 Corinthians 14:12, 20, […]

December 2, 2021 Scripture: And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, […]

December 1, 2021 Scripture: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV Observation: Having challenged the Corinthians to exercise their spiritual gifts for the benefit of the church as a whole, Paul […]

November 30, 2021 Scripture: Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” John […]

November 29, 2021 Scripture: If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:26-27 ESV Observation: Having chastised the affluent Corinthians for their selfish behavior that neglected the needs of the poor among their fellowship, Paul then turns […]

November 28, 2021 Scripture: But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:31-32 Observation: In this chapter of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he addresses distractions in appearance and self-indulgent […]