21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
As we enter 2025, many are eager for a new beginning. Amid the chaos, there is a longing for answers and tranquility. This serves as a powerful reminder that true peace is found in God. Let’s make 2025 a year of deepening our relationship with Him like never before. This year, as we embark on a collective fasting journey, let’s come together with others to form a community that rejuvenates our hearts and minds. We invite you to participate in this year's Fast. Together, as we seek God, we can conquer any challenge.
Today's Devotion
Spirit- Sourced Transformation
Sunday January 12, 2025
God’s holy presence has a weight and brilliance, and no one can be in His presence without experiencing profound change.
God’s holy presence has a weight and brilliance, and no one can be in His presence without experiencing profound change.
Today's Scripture
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)
- “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
Devotion
In the passage from 2 Corinthians, Paul refers to Moses beholding the glory of God in the cleft of the rock (Exodus 33). What must it be like to be covered by the hand of God? To feel the weight of His presence in the flesh?
Experiencing this changed Moses—it transformed him irrevocably. We know this because Scripture tells us his face shone, terrifying people (Exodus 34:29-35). Moses covered his face when he wasn’t in the Lord’s presence.
Because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we are able to stand directly at the source, before the weight and glory of God, and don’t have to be afraid or ashamed. We don’t have to cover ourselves. Because of Jesus, the glory of God shining in us will never fade away. In His presence, we are transformed more and more into the likeness of our beautiful Lord Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
In the passage from 2 Corinthians, Paul refers to Moses beholding the glory of God in the cleft of the rock (Exodus 33). What must it be like to be covered by the hand of God? To feel the weight of His presence in the flesh?
Experiencing this changed Moses—it transformed him irrevocably. We know this because Scripture tells us his face shone, terrifying people (Exodus 34:29-35). Moses covered his face when he wasn’t in the Lord’s presence.
Because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we are able to stand directly at the source, before the weight and glory of God, and don’t have to be afraid or ashamed. We don’t have to cover ourselves. Because of Jesus, the glory of God shining in us will never fade away. In His presence, we are transformed more and more into the likeness of our beautiful Lord Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer Points
- Take a moment to acknowledge the weight of the glory of God as you rest in His presence. Let it transform you into the beloved image of His Son.
- Ask God to increase your intimacy with Jesus, that your desire for Him and the things of Him would grow.
- Pray that churches would long to be transformed by His all-consuming presence, that the Spirit of God would baptize in fire, melting away fear and anything that doesn’t look or sound like Jesus.