Word of the Day: From 1 and 2 Timothy

By Sherol Southerland

Do you need encouragement, affirmation, direction, and even correction? Do you need a word from God? If you're honest, the answer to both of those questions is YES. The word of God is alive and has much to say to guide us in this life. If you're holding this devotional in your hands, you're just pages away from getting the encouragement, affirmation, direction, and correction you need to not just survive in life, but to thrive in life. I encourage you to invest in yourself by taking a few minutes each day to read and meditate on the Word of the Day and how it applies to your life. You're worth the investment. I pray that you will be encouraged, convicted, empowered, and determined to go all out for God and let your light shine for Christ as you run this Christian race.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781098003296

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Word of the Day

From 1 and 2 Timothy

Sherol L. Southerland

Copyright © 2019 by Sherol L. Southerland

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Table of Contents

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

Day 12

Day 13

Day 14

Day 15

Day 16

Day 17

Day 18

Day 19

Day 20

Day 21

Day 22

Acknowledgments

To Kenneth and LeCora, the first recipients of the WOTD, thank you for your love, support, and belief in me. What an awesome and humbling responsibility to be gifted with you and entrusted to train you up in the way you should go! You continue to be my main source of inspiration! I love you!

To my husband, Kenny, I know there is a God! Thank you for believing in the God in me and encouraging me. I love you!

To my dad, Lee; my siblings—Ella, Alfreda, Troy, Larry, and Tasha—and my niece-sister-friend, Tamika, I love you! You have stood by me, held me up, encouraged me, met my practical needs, and believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. I am truly grateful for your presence and participation in my life. Ma would be proud!

To the WOTD Group, you ladies are so awesome! Thank you for your testimonies and words of encouragement. I share this moment with you! I love you!

To my special friends, my sisters and brother in Christ—Donna, Talaya, Jacqueline, and Jeff. Thank you for always being only a phone call, text, or Marco Polo away, for believing in the God in me, and for giving it to me straight (in love, of course). I treasure our bond more than words can express! I love you!

Introduction

This devotional is the first fruit of labor that began in March 2014. My family was going through a challenging time, and I was concerned about its emotional impact on my children. I noticed that they (ages fifteen and ten at the time) weren’t spending time reading their Bibles at home. It was important to me that my children read God’s Word daily and understood how it applied to their lives especially given what we were going through and not wanting the enemy to manipulate their emotions and cause them to fall prey to his tactics. In my prayer time, God instructed me to text my children scriptures with an explanation each morning to start their day, and I have been doing that ever since.

At a family Bible study four months later, I told my sisters and niece that I had