BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

Jesus says we will be known by our love, and our love is to make Him known. But let me ask you a question:

Who is the hardest person for you to love?

Oh, I know exactly who it is.

It’s someone you live with. Someone you work with. Someone in every one of your circles.

It’s YOU.

You are the person you are hardest on. You know every flaw, ever...

Today we’re living in the middle of a story that’s already promised an eternal ending, but we’re not there yet. We’re here – in the middle. In the middle of real life with real problems, real threats, real pain. Every day we are closer and closer to what is promised, but we’re not there yet.

Within our Bibles is a story which so sweetly shows us our Jesus standing with...

Did you know in Jesus’ time of walking this earth and preparing his disciples to spread the gospel and reach the ends of the world with his offer of salvation, he never once taught them how to preach. He didn’t teach them how to organize a mission. He taught them this one thing … HOW TO PRAY. In teaching how to pray, we learn how to surrender to the Father, how to grow in tru...

One day while Jesus is teaching, an expert in religious law asks a question – “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life.” Today we think of eternal life solely as life after death – heaven. But this word ‘eternal’ was used as a particular QUALITY of life that comes from God. Eternal life was a life that could be had living right here and right now when living God’s w...

Sometimes, to understand the meaning of a story Jesus told, you have to back up and understand the entire scene. For today’s parable, we can’t just jump into the story without looking at what happened right before it. The situation leading up to the parable is actually the key to understanding why Jesus told it in the first place.

So, before we get to the story, let’s ...