#mark 16:20

Devotional for June 29th

And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs. - Mark 16:20

Insight

Mark's Gospel emphasizes Christ's power as well as his servanthood. Jesus' life and teaching turn the world upside down. The world sees power as a way to gain control over others. But Jesus, with all authority and power in heaven and earth, chose to serve others. He held children in his arms, healed the sick, washed the disciples' feet, and died for the sins of the world.

Challenge

Following Jesus means receiving this same power to serve. As believers, we are called to be servants of Christ. As Christ served, so we are to serve.

Devotional for June 29

And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs. - Mark 16:20

Insight

Mark's Gospel emphasizes Christ's power as well as his servanthood. Jesus' life and teaching turn the world upside down. The world sees power as a way to gain control over others. But Jesus, with all authority and power in heaven and earth, chose to serve others. He held children in his arms, healed the sick, washed the disciples' feet, and died for the sins of the world.

Challenge

Following Jesus means receiving this same power to serve. As believers, we are called to be servants of Christ. As Christ served, so we are to serve.

Friday, 11/28/25

SCRIPTURE:

They were saying to each other, “Who’s going to roll the stone away from the entrance for us?” When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away.  (And it was a very large stone!) ~ Mark 16:3-4

OBSERVATION:

"...the stone [at] the entrance..."

My willfulness "blocking" the entrance of His will to my heart...

A sort of self-inflicted blocking of His resurrection in my life...

...my focus on my failures in faith and obedience and willfulness...

Who's going to roll that "very large stone..." away?

"When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away."

Is this "stone" there because I haven't "...looked up..." and seen it's been rolled away?

...that my focus on me has been forgiven...?

...if I'll just "look up and see"?

It was a very large stone!

Thankfully, Jesus is bigger than any stone I might roll (or re-roll) across my heart and life...

There's nothing I've done that His death and resurrection - that God's grace and mercy - can't move from blocking my life if I'll just "look up..."

...and see...

APPLICATION:

Change my focus...

Look up and see!

Verse 20:

Go out...

Proclaim the message everywhere...

PRAYER:

Gracious and merciful Father God - Forgive my self-focus - my thinking that You can and do forgive others, but that the things I've done and thought can block You from coming into my heart and filling the emptiness I sometimes feel at my failure to do what only You can do within and around me... Thank You for this new day and the opportunity to pause and reconsider my wants in light of Your will... May I look up, see, go out, and proclaim Your love and forgiveness in both word and actions - to others and myself - for Your glory and honor - In Jesus's Name, and for Your worshipful praise...

For Him... for you... for yours...

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