by Dana Sereg | Feb 22, 2024 | Vital Life Application Devotions
Mark 11:21-26 New International Version (NIV) 21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!” 22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’...
by Dana Sereg | Feb 19, 2024 | Vital Life Application Devotions
Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. There’s something about Paul’s writing here that resonates. Paul is being honest and vulnerable, and here we see him wrestling deep inside himself and not simply with...
by Dana Sereg | Feb 16, 2024 | Vital Life Application Devotions
Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Paul has said that sin is a problem not simply because it is wrong but because its wrongness poisons who we are with God. We try to do good, but evil is right there beside us. At...
by Dana Sereg | Feb 15, 2024 | Vital Life Application Devotions
Romans 8:5 Those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. In Romans, God makes clear that evil is always right there with me. But even more important and more powerful! God also makes clear that if I belong to Jesus, then...
by Dana Sereg | Feb 14, 2024 | Vital Life Application Devotions
Romans 8:28 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. With these words, Paul keeps building on the positive results of belonging to God in Christ. He has been brutally honest about sin and why we need Jesus. Now Paul builds further on...