Carter Conlon | Daily Devotionals

If you've opened your heart to God, He has cleansed you. You don't have the right to call yourself unclean any longer. You no longer have the right to disagree with God because you are not God in this area of your life. 

Jesus Christ went to the cross, He shed his blood, He died for you. If you've opened your heart to Him, He has cleansed you. The Bible says that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. The Bible says that you are as clean as Christ Himself. You are clean despite all your struggles and failures because your sins have been washed away. 

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Seeing young people living for God gives me such hope for the future. They're the ones who will be the testimony that God is going to raise in this generation to prove that He is, indeed, God. As young people adopt God's plan and lay aside what would keep them in mediocrity, they will come into a supernatural life. 

When I say supernatural, I mean that it will be a supernatural strength that will cause them to do things they couldn't do through their strength or abilities. God will give them the giftings, the wisdom, and the courage to do what He's calling each of them to do. 

You will never know the supernatural life of Christ until you start moving into the call that He has for your life. Don't let it just be young people who call out to God today. You call out to Him, too. It's never ever too late.

It's now time to pray.

Acts 8: 29–31: “Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go near and overtake this chariot.’ So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ And he said, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.”

I get so wrapped up in my thoughts that I've become oblivious at times to the questions in people's hearts. How about you? God knows who is seeking truth and a way out of darkness. 

It should be the goal of every believer in Christ that, just like Philip, we can be led so that we can speak on God's behalf to many around us who are looking for truth. I don't know any other way to get there besides prayer. 

It's time to pray.

In Philippians 4:13, Paul says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” 

I returned from vacation to find a jury duty notification in my mailbox. To be honest with you today, it's about as refreshing as a mouthful of sand. I sit here in the jury waiting room hoping, and yes, praying, that my name will not be called. After all, I have to be in Ohio in a few days, and I'm doing radio on Wednesday. 

What if there is a divine purpose to all of this? All things do work together for good, don't they? What if I need to learn something, or someone needs a divine word of encouragement from me? Yet, in the stubbornness of my heart, I'd still rather that my name not be called. Christ can strengthen us any day and anywhere. 

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I want to remind you that God never calls us where we are comfortable. He never calls us where our natural skill set would take over. We would begin to do things as we think they should be; it's really that simple. We would rely on something other than God and start depending on our natural abilities. 

God will call us into an uncomfortable place where He has to equip us to perform what only He can do in and through our lives. Others can witness His glory when He does it this way. It's for us to know that we can trust the Holy Spirit to work on God's purpose and call in each one of our lives. 

We are sovereignly placed where we can bring glory to the one who deserves it. Today, I want to challenge you; let God start to lead you. Let Him begin to equip you. Let God glorify His name. 

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God has a plan for your life. He has bigger plans than the thoughts you have about yourself. He wants to affect the world around you in a way that perhaps you haven't even considered. Now, you might have a plan that isn’t bad, but what if it's not God's plan? What if it falls short of the glory of what God wants to reveal about Himself through you?

Do you want what God says about you to be what you say about yourself? Are you willing to let your plans go and embrace God's plan for your life? 

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When God told Noah that He would judge the world, He could have done it in a day. Instead, He waited decades for judgment. He sent Noah to build a testimony of His mercy. He called that society out of darkness and into life, but unfortunately, they rejected it. They thought their lives could go on forever and it would only get better. 

It seems like we've reached that point in history again where this generation thinks they no longer need God; they're now believing in their own truths. However, God has placed you right where you are to proclaim His mercy and love for all people. 

Mercy always triumphs over judgment. Allow God to display His mercy through you today. There will come a day of judgment. Let's warn the people about it, but until then, display God's mercy until it does. Remember that God loves you; He has a plan for your life.

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Proverbs 3:25, in the King James translation, says: "Be not afraid of sudden fear." 

Sudden fear happens when we're surprised by news or events we didn't expect to happen when our day began. It can hit us as suddenly as an earthquake hits an unsuspecting city—an unexpected confrontation, a cell phone call, a doctor's report. Each of them can shake our foundation and cause us to begin to crumble inwardly. 

However, God tells us that when our minds and hearts are focused on the promises He has made to us, He will keep us in perfect peace no matter what comes our way. I encourage you to read His Word today. 

Above all, remember, it's time to pray.

I'm concerned today. It's not right that God is not being glorified throughout the earth. It's not right that God's people are intermixing with the ways of this world, and there seems to be no demarcation of who is from God and who is not. 

We are supposed to glorify the name of Jesus Christ on the Earth. As the people of God, we must make a difference. We shouldn't be living in compromise. We should be standing as a part of God's army. We need to be making a difference in our generation. We must allow God's burden to come upon us so that it will shake us to the very core of our being and cause us to rise for the cause of Christ. 

When God starts leading us, it gets hard to push it away. That's what's happening in your heart right now. That's why you're feeling the way you are. We need to allow faith to rise within us and remember what God has promised when we turn back to Him again. 

It's time to pray.

Acts 19:15–16 says, “And the evil spirit answered and said, ‘Jesus, I know, and Paul, I know, but who are you?’ Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house, naked and wounded.”

I have a bit of advice for someone today. Before you run around using the name of Jesus, make sure you have a real relationship with Him. Ensure you've confessed your sin and received Him as the one who died for your wrongs. Make sure you’re determined to trust His power within you to live a new and God-honoring life and that your reason for living is to find and do His will for the rest of your days. 

If you do this, I promise the devils will know your name. 

It's time to pray.