Dr. Scott Ferrell

Though self-flagellation has gone out of style, many of My children drive themselves like racehorses.  They whip themselves into action, ignoring how exhausted they are.  They forget that I am sovereign and that My Ways are higher than theirs. Underneath their driven service, they may secretly resent Me as a harsh taskmaster. Their worship of Me is lukewarm, because I am no longer theirFirst Love.

My invitation never changes: Come to Me, all you who are weary, and I will give you rest.  Worship Me by resting peacefully in My Presence.

1 Timothy 6:15-16 ¹⁵ which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

Isaiah 55:8-9 ⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares theLord.  ⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Revelation 2:4 ⁴ Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”

Daily Devotional from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

I want you to live this day abundantly, seeing all there is to see, doing all there is to do.  Don’t be distracted by future concerns.  Leave them to Me!  Each day of life is a glorious gift, but so few people know how to live within the confines of today.  Much of their energy for abundant living spills over the time line into tomorrow’s worries or past regrets.  Their remaining energy is sufficient only for limping through the day, not for living it to the full.  I am training you to keep your focus on My Presence in the present.  This is how to receive abundant Life, which flows freely from My throne of grace.

Matthew 6:34 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

John 10:10 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

James 4:13-15 13Now listen, you who say, “Today ortomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Walk with Me in intimate love-steps, but do not lose sight of My Majesty, I desire to be your closest Friend, yet I am also your sovereign Lord.  I have created your brain with capacity to know Me as Friend and Lord simultaneously.  The human mind is the pinnacle of My creation, but so few use it for its primary purpose-knowing Me.  I communicate continually through My Spirit, My Word, and My creation.  Only humans are capable of receiving Me and responding to My Presence.  You are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made!

Psalm 34:4-7 4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him are radiant;  their faces are never covered with shame. 6This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;he saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.

2 Peter 1:16-17 16We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

John 17:3 3Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Psalm 139:14 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

This is the path I have set before you.  As you follow it wholeheartedly, you experience abundant Life and Peace.

Psalm 89:15-16 15 Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD. 16 They rejoice in your name all day long; they exult in your righteousness.

Psalm 16:8 8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

2 Peter 1:2 2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

Keep bringing your mind back to the present moment.  Among all My creatures, only humans can anticipate future events.  This ability is a blessing, but it becomes a curse whenever it is misused.  If you use your magnificent mind to worry about tomorrow, you cloak yourself in dark unbelief.  However, when the hope of heaven fills your thoughts, the Light of My Presence envelops you.  Though heaven is future, it is also present tense.  As you walk in the Light with Me, you have one foot on earth and one foot in heaven.

Exodus 15:2 2 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.  He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

2 Corinthians 10:5 5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Hebrews 10:23 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young