In Touch Devotional

Topic:God may use defeat to show you when you are not following His will. God also used defeat to show the Israelites they were not following His will. After the peoples’ stunning victory over Jericho (see Joshua 6), they were filled with confidence. But God got their attention by allowing them to suffer an embarrassing defeat to the small town of Ai. …

Topic: Whatever It Takes Paul’s encounter with the risen Christ stopped him in his tracks. The Lord used temporary blindness to halt his persecution of the Christians, show him that Jesus was truly the Messiah, and transform his life so he would bear His name “before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15). Paul had to go through …

Topic: God may reveal His will through unanswered prayer. God answered Joshua’s prayer by literally causing the sun and moon to stand still. The miracle definitely got the Israelites’ attention, for the author of Joshua noted, “There has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man” (10:14). Yet sometimes, …

Topic: God will get your attention through an unusual blessing. God may also use an unusual blessing to gain your attention. Acheck may arrive in the mail for just the amount you need to fund a mission trip you are considering. Or maybe an opportunity suddenly opens up for a ministry you are contemplating. God will often open doors that …

Topic: God will get your attention through a spoken word God may also use a spoken word to break into your world and reveal Himself to you. He will get your attention by using the words of others. If several people within a short span of time begin telling you the same thing, you need to ask the Lord if …

Topic: God will get your attention through a restless spirit. First, He will give you a restless spirit. Sometimes, God will get your attention by making you unsettled in certain areas of your life. If you experience such restlessness deep within—something you cannot quite identify—it is time to stop and pray, “Lord, are You trying to say something to me?” …

Topic: God is committed to showing you how to follow His plan for your life.   God is committed to showing you how to follow the plan He has designed for your life. He wants you to listen for His voice to hear what He wants you to do and how He wants you to do it (see Isaiah 30:19–21). …

Topic: Close your physical eyes in times of trouble and open your spiritual eyes. The first thing to do is close your physical eyes because they’re not helping. Stop measuring your problems against your ability to handle them because the enemy will use your senses to magnify what you’re going through. Then you must open your spiritual eyes—the ones fixed on …

Topic: God can reveal how He is protecting you if you have spiritual eyes to see. How did David and Elisha know that God was protecting them? They listened to the Spirit of God. You may think it is difficult to pay attention to God when you face overwhelming troubles, especially those that seem impossible. Like Elisha’s servant, your mind …

Topic : You build faith in God by reckoning the victory. A final way to develop a faith that sees beyond human perspective is to reckon the victory. As discussed, even before David stepped onto the battlefield He knew it wasn’t his reputation on the line, but God’s. Elisha was also convinced of victory before the battle began, for he …