"Prayer, at its core, is how communicate with God. It is the official communication method for reaching heaven from earth. There’s no pressure to be perfect in language, but an invitation to be honest in heart. Prayer is essential to the life of the believer; it’s as vital to our spirit as oxygen is to our bodies."

Find the rest of the devotional: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/20/pray-daily

"In today’s text we’ve highlighted two instances where Apostle Paul mentions this mystery we call regeneration or renewal. It’s the process of spiritual renewal that Jesus refers to as being born again during his late night conversation with with Nicodemus in John 3. Here’s the truth, once you’ve accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior, you’ve been given a new life, a new song and a new rhythm. All things are new! And today I want invite you to walk in the Rhythm of Renewal."
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Read the entire devotional: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/19/the-rhythm-of-renewal

"Friend, we have a mighty God that gives us the ability to bounce back. How do you know that you have a bounce back in your spirit? Because the same Spirit in you is the same Spirit that is in Jesus Christ and Jesus is the epitome of a bounce back. He came into a twisted world, rejected by His own creation, placed on a cross, beaten until He was unrecognizable, yet there was nothing that could keep Him down! There was a bounce back in Jesus! On the third day, He rose again. Understand that the same bounce back, that same resilience that is in our Savior is inside the believer! Yes, there’s a bounce back inside of you!"

Find the rest of today's devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/16/build-resilience-the-bounce-back

"For many of us by the time we realize that something has become twisted (internally or externally), it’s already done extensive damage to its environment. It could be years, even decades before you realize that something is terribly wrong. The reason why is that perversion, or the twisting of a thing, is not always obvious in the beginning. Instead it begins and is comprised of a series subtle shifts."

Read the entire devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/14/study-subtle-shifts

"Who’s king in your life? The reason why this is so significant is because Paul expressed in Romans 5:21 “So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead...” The word “rule” is not one we should glaze over or ignore. This word (rule) distinguishes the difference between between lordship and kingship. Follow me as we go deeper. We understand that God is the Lord of all. The Bible says “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Psalms‬ ‭24:1‬ ‭KJV‬‬). So whether you accept it or not, you belong to God. You are owned by and belong to Him. He’s the creator of all and is Lord of all. But He cannot be King of everyone unless we accept Him as King. You see, that is the fundamental difference between lordship and kingship, it’s based on who rules. When God becomes King over our lives, that means we accept and receive His rulership in our lives."

Find today's entire devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/13/who-s-king-in-your-life

"What the devil desires to do is to take what is good and twist it. At it’s core, that’s what perversion is - twisting something, twisting the interpretation, twisting the meaning, twisting the purpose - that’s what the devil desires to do. Understanding this, you can see that sin, at its core, is the perversion of God’s command. We saw this originally in the Garden of Eden where God instructed Adam and Eve to not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Satan disrupted their lives with a question that created a twist in Eve’s understanding of God’s command (Read Genesis 3). There was a twisting."

Read the rest of today's devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/12/resist-the-twist

God is not powerful without love, nor is He wise without power. We don't experience God in one characteristic without experiencing Him in others. God doesn't uncover our sins with His wisdom without love, he doesn't demonstrate his power without wisdom. There's never a moment where He's limitless in love and not limitless in power and wisdom. He's all three all the time... And in all of His limitlessness, He made the conscious decision to give us grace. I want you to see today that grace is not just a place, but it's demonstrated in the person of Jesus. God gave His one and only son as complete payment for our sins. While fully capable, He did not choose to destroy us. Instead, He looked beyond our faults and saw our need. God gave us grace.

Find the entire devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/09/he-s-all-three-all-the-time

One day we were leaving the home of Chanell’s parents and as we approached the car, Elisha looked up to the sky and pointed, saying “Daddy, I can see the Big Dipper.” I paused and glanced up and quickly located the collection of stars that form the Big Dipper and said “Yes, sweetie, I see it.” I thought to myself, “When was the last time I looked at the stars?” At that moment I was reminded of the innocent perspective of a child. How they are able to see the things that we’ve grown to overlook as adults. It’s not that we cannot see, but our minds are clouded by the various concerns of life. We’re often trying to figure things out, such as our finances, the well-being of our children (both young and old), relationships, and our future. Our minds are constantly calculating, analyzing variables and estimating outcomes. We lay down at night with so many problems unsolved and matters unresolved, only to wake up the next day and pick them back up again. - Find today's devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/08/the-limitless-wisdom-of-god

Have you ever seen a snowball on a cartoon where it starts at the top of the hill and as it rolls down it gradually gets bigger and bigger until it’s larger than the person or thing it crashes into? Sin has been a lot like that snowball; over the course of time it has become more wicked, wiser, greater and stronger. But in the midst of this, God responded. It was one man that brought sin into the world. How amazing it would be if God in turn, used one man (being all man + God in one - Jesus). This is amazing because through one man, this gift of grace, shown through Jesus Christ, was able to come when sin was at its greatest. He was able to deal with sin all by Himself.

Find today's devotional here: https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/07/the-limitless-power-of-god