Our Freedom in Christ
Monday, July 5. Thank you Jesus that we can know that your words are truth and in them is freedom. “To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free’” (John 8: 31-32).
Tuesday, July 6. Give thanks for the gift of the Spirit. “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us” (1 Cor. 2:12).
Wednesday, July 7. Pray for the Spirit’s help to not only listen to Christ’s word but to do it and to recognize the freedom and blessing that comes from obeying it. “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says…. The man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:22, 25).
Thursday, July 8. Praise God that we are justified freely by his grace. “ …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24).
Friday, July 9. Ask for the Spirit’s aid to gladly share the good news of salvation with those around us. “Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach the message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near…. Freely you have received; freely give’” (Matthew 10:68).
Saturday, July 10. “And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way... Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Col. 1:10, 12-14).
Sunday, July 11. “Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—the Lord, who remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free” (Psalm 146:5-7).