Devotional

JULY  23, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN GIVING (Part 1): TITHE“ Text: Malachi 3:8-12 Memory Verse:  “Genesis 14:19-20 – “And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him a tithe […]

JULY  22, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY WITH GOD“ Text: Psalms 63:1-8 Memory Verse:  “James 4:8 – “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Intimacy with someone is knowing that person and being known by that person. In an intimate relationship, it is

JULY  21, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN MENTORING“ Text: Titus 2:1-10 Memory Verse:  “Titus 2:3-4 – “the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things — that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,” A mentor, dictionary defines, is

JULY  20, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN HUMILITY IN THE CHURCH“ Text: 1 Peter 5:5-7 Memory Verse:  “John 13:14 – “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” Humility is one of the virtues, if not the greatest virtue in the Church. It can be said

JULY  19, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN LOVING MERCY“ Text: Micah 6:6-8 Memory Verse:  “James 2:13 – “For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” The word of God says in Lamentations 3:22, “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.” This signifies

JULY  18, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN DISCIPLING OTHERS“ Text: Matthew 28:18-20 Memory Verse:  “Matthew 28:20 NLT – “Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age”. Discipling others has an undertone of intimacy. It is

JULY  17, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN FRIENDSHIP“ Text: 1 Samuel 18:1-4 Memory Verse:  “John 15:15 – “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.” For

JULY  16, 2025 Topic:  “INTIMACY IN LOVING ONE ANOTHER“ Text: 1 John 4:7-11 Memory Verse:  “I Thessalonians 4:9 – “But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another”. One of the dictionary definitions of intimacy is “a close, familiar, and

JULY  15, 2025 Topic:  “FEATURES/CHARACTERISTICS OF GODLY INTIMACY: WALKING IN HUMILITY AND GRACE“ Text: Ephesians 4:1-3 Memory Verse:  “Be completely humble and gentle. Ephesians 4:2a If we want intimacy to grow among us, then we must allow humility to be our watchword. When we approach others gently, without a feeling of superiority in our hearts, we

JULY  14, 2025 Topic:  “FEATURES/CHARACTERISTICS OF GODLY INTIMACY: RESPECTING DIFFERENCES IN THE BODY“ Text: 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 Memory Verse:  “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 1 Corinthians 12:4 In our walk with God, we are not expected to be the same in thoughts and actions. It is okay for us