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,’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Romans 8:39 Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In the first eight chapters of the book of Romans, Paul has moved from the honest reality of sin, to our need for salvation made possible only through Jesus, to the...

Luke 24:27 He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. Many personal applications could be mentioned— all of which are connected to one overarching theme: every prophecy finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ. All the judgments...