Live | Move| Have: A 21-Day Devotional Guide to Being

By Greg Fawcett

To LIVE | MOVE| and HAVE in Christ is quite simple. Yet we make our lives so complicated. Our human nature is to WANT, GET, AND CONQUER, yet God's Word will give us all the fullness of life we could ever want by simply obeying the instructions and promises that God has for us all.

We'll never fully understand the scope of God's love until we meet Him face-to-face. Paul tried really hard to express it in terms that we could understand. In Acts 9, Paul experienced a face-to-face encounter with Jesus, one that changed the course of his entire life. This encounter hit Paul so hard that he spent the rest of his life trying to teach everyone he touched the love of God.

This devotional is a guide that is supported by biblical teachings to BEING. Right or wrong, we all have courses set out for our lives. Sometimes we get off course and need to hit the reset button. Think of this perhaps in GPS terms, a recalculation to get us back on the right course that God wants for us. We are all unique and have special gifts that God can use to further His kingdom. By studying His Word together, we'll discover how to recalculate our lives to LIVE | MOVE | and HAVE what God wants for our lives.

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, "For we are also His offspring." (Acts 17:28 NKJV)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886169911

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Live | Move| Have

A 21-Day Devotional Guide to Being

Greg Fawcett

Copyright © 2023 by Greg Fawcett

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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

Introduction

When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:14–21 NLT)

To live , move , and have in Christ is quite simple. Yet we make our lives so complicated. Our human nature is to want , get , and conquer , yet God’s Word will give us all the fullness of life we could ever want by simply obeying the instructions and promises that God has for all of us.

We’ll never fully understand the scope of God’s love until we meet Him face-to-face. Paul tried really hard to express it in terms that we could understand.

In Acts 9, Paul experienced a face-to-face encounter with Jesus, one that changed the course of his entire life. This encounter hit Paul so hard that he spent the rest of his life trying to teach everyone he touched the love of God.

This devotional is a guide that is supported by biblical teachings to being. Right or wrong, we all have courses planned for our lives. Sometimes we get off course and need to hit the reset button. Think of this perhaps in GPS terms, a recalculation to get us back on the right course that God wants for us.

We are all unique and have special gifts that God can use to further His kingdom. By studying His Word together, we’ll discover how to recalculate our lives to live, move, and have what God wants for our lives.

I pray that you’ll read this devotional slowly and methodically, studying the scripture references that will move you through a transitional period to get you back on course, strengthen, or even begin a new course that the Lord has for you. He holds our future in His hands. He is for us and not against us. He sings over us and loves us more than we could ever ask or imagine.

Let God’s Word soak into and soothe your spirit and lead you and guide you for your future.

Jesus taught us to love deeply first the Lord and second others:

Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. (Matthew 22:37–40 NIV)

We’ll need to use that as our compass while reading this book to keep everything in proper perspective. God’s love is so wide, long, high and deep it takes a lifelong journey of seeking Him to even begin to understand it.

But this is the beginning of your journey. This is a new day to start the new purpose that God has for your life. Let’s get started!

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. (Acts 17:28 NKJV, emphasis mine)

Foreword

If the devil cannot make us bad he will make us busy.

—Corrie Ten Boom

Life can be crazy. We have so much going on whether it be work, school, family, friends, relationships, church, and so much more. We get so overwhelmed with everything going on in our lives that we start to neglect things that are important because we do not have time.

Although we have time to scroll through social media, stream movies, etc., when it comes to reading our Bibles or spending quiet time with God, we are suddenly too busy. Being busy is no excuse. Jesus never asked us to be busy. Jesus asks us to pursue Him and His plan and purpose for our lives

Greg Fawcett’s twenty-one-day devotional guide will help you in your journey in pursuit of God. Whether you’re in high school, college, grad school, or just adulting, Jesus is calling you to slow down, take a few moments each day, and give Him a chance to speak to your heart. Greg’s daily devotionals are encouraging, inspiring, and word-centered, and each day closes with a corresponding prayer. Read all twenty-one days, and you’ll find you are more equipped to pursue God more earnestly and experience more of His goodness and love

God bless you.

Pastor Rodney Finch

Senior Pastor

Calvary Chapel Cary

Apex, North Carolina

Live

Day 1

Abba, Father

And because we are His children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6 NLT)

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as His own children. Now we call Him, Abba, Father. For His Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are His children, we are His heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share His glory, we must also share His suffering. (Romans 8:15–17 NLT)

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16 NKJV)

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:28–29 NKJV)

Inever really understood the relationship between our heavenly Father and us until I had children of my own. I am now (at the time of writing this) approaching the age of fifty-four. My children are all grown adults now and are adulting for themselves.

When I think back to when my first son was born, I looked at him and thought I could never love a human being more than this child, and it immediately struck me that this is just a fraction of the love that God has for all of us. This was a real light bulb moment in my Christian walk.

As my children grew, through little league baseball, karate, Cub Scouts, camping, vacations, and all the wonderful experiences my wife and I shared with our three boys, as their daddy, I would do anything for them so they would avoid suffering and live a happy, joyful life.

Likewise, God has done everything for us to accomplish salvation by sending His Son, Jesus, to die in our place so that we can experience eternal joy and happiness with Him.

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God, the Creator of all things in the entire universe, is for us. As His perfect creation, made in His own image, we are loved as His children, and He wants us to live with a right relationship with Him.

God used many names for Himself throughout the Bible. Perhaps there are not enough descriptors in all the world to truly tell us of the wonders of our Creator. But one that we should all love is ABBA, Father, signifying an intimate relationship of a father and his child, as well as the childlike trust that a young child puts in his daddy.¹

Not everyone has the privileged relationship of having a heavenly daddy—that is, until one believes in Christ Jesus as his or her Lord and Savior. When we accept Jesus as our savior, we then become coheirs with Christ and thus have access to the throne of grace and our Abba, Father.

With this close-knit intimate relationship with our Father, we know that He lovingly blesses His children. When we pray and seek His face and truly ask according to His will, God is most gracious and giving to us, His children. This does not mean we have a genie in a bottle that we can just ask for anything we want and we will get it. On the contrary, it means that God wants to bless us as we yield our will to His will.

We do not know the plan from the beginning to the end for our lives, but He does, and He knows what is best for His children. We sometimes feel like the answer to our prayers is never going to happen, and sometimes on this earth, it does not. But when prayers are offered up earnestly and humbly before our God, He will answer in His timing.

When we live with our entire being in Him, we can live with an expectancy of the unexpected. God can use us mightily for His kingdom by us simply yielding to His will. There may be twists and turns that could shake us, but we live for a kingdom that is unshakeable. God will take care of all the details. Our duty is just to live in humble adoration and