NorthStar Community Daily Devotional

Day 293 – Week 42 at a glance

Having a Heart in a Sometimes Heartless World

Scripture focus: It’s news I’m most proud to proclaim, this extraordinary Message of God’s powerful plan to rescue everyone who trusts him…God’s way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: “The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.” Romans 1:16-17 The Message

A review of the first seven lessons…

Lesson one: Don’t bluff your way through life – think before you act.

Lesson two: It’s not the foolish who seek wise counsel – it’s the wise. Learn how to ask for help, and choose your advisors wisely.

Lesson three: Surround yourself with awesome friends, and learn how to appreciation correction.

Lesson four: Develop an understanding of the true meaning of forgiveness, and practice forgiving (and asking for forgiveness) in all your affairs

Lesson five: Develop an attitude of gratitude – we don’t get what we deserve.

Lesson six: Trials will come – learn how to make lemonade.

Lesson seven: Live life on God’s terms, and he will provide us with everything we need.

Life lessons learned this week from Pausch and other awesome people…

Lesson eight: Listen to your parents – and learn from them. Learn from their positive influences, and make the decision to stop repeating multi-generational unhealthy patterns.

Lesson nine: Work hard and love your work. The value may be in how you work more than the task at hand.

Lesson ten: Live life God’s way.

Lesson eleven: Learn how to live with this belief – “I have everything I need.”

Lesson twelve: Learn to live life God’s way, and in so doing – experience joy.

You have completed two hundred, ninety three days of your three hundred sixty six days of devotionals. Do you feel the joy?



Recommended reading: Jeremiah 36 and 37 in the morning; 1 Timothy 5 and Psalm 66 in the evening

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