ZCC Devotional

• Have You Come to “When” Yet?
  

  The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends —Job 42:10

  A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the …

• My Utmost for His Highest
  

  . . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep —John 21:16

  Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get …

• Keep Recognizing Jesus
  

  . . . Peter . . . walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid . . . —Matthew 14:29-30

  The wind really was boisterous and the waves really were high, but Peter didn’t see them at first. He didn’t consider them at all; he …

• Beware of Criticizing Others
  

  Judge not, that you be not judged —Matthew 7:1

  Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, “Don’t.” The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism …

• “Will You Lay Down Your Life?”
  

  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. . . . I have called you friends . . . —John 15:13, 15

  Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, “I will lay …

• Get Moving! (2)
  

  Also . . . add to your faith . . . —2 Peter 1:5

  In the matter of drudgery. Peter said in this passage that we have become “partakers of the divine nature” and that we should now be “giving…

• Get Moving! (1)
  

  Abide in Me . . . —John 15:4

  In the matter of determination. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then have…

• Getting There (3)
  

  . . . come, follow Me —Luke 18:22

  Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament.…

• Getting There (2)
  

  They said to Him, ’Rabbi . . . where are You staying?’ He said to them, ’Come and see’ —John 1:38-39

  Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. “They . . . remained with Him that day . . . .” That is about…

• Getting There (1)
  

  Come to Me . . . —Matthew 11:28

  Where sin and sorrow stops, and the song of the saint starts. Do I really want to get there? I can right now. The questions that…