Proverbs 27:17
Sunday, July 5, 2026
This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch SUNDAY NIGHT PRAYERS - LECTIO 365 by 24-7 Prayer:
This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch SUNDAY NIGHT PRAYERS - LECTIO 365 by 24-7 Prayer:
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There’s a price tag attached to it…
There’s a price tag attached to it…
It comes at a cost, *|FNAME|*.
The powerful calling placed on your life comes with a price. Isn’t that true?
We all long for God’s guidance.
To hear His voice.
To receive clarity.
But what we often forget is this: when God speaks, it rarely ends with beautiful words alone…
Because His calling for your life carries weight.
Abraham didn’t just receive a beautiful promise. It came with an assignment. He was given a test of courage, responsibility, and a season full of hard questions.
“Why?”
And do you know what God asked of him?
Everything.
And here is what I can’t stop thinking about: Abraham had no idea how it would end. He had no backup plan or safety net… He didn’t have a second son in case God truly took the only one he had.
He had only this one calling—a calling that would cost him everything.
Scripture says: “By faith Abraham … obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” (Hebrews 11:8, NIV)
And *|FNAME|*, that is exactly the price tag: moving forward without knowing how it will end.
God often shows you only the next step—rarely (or maybe never?!) the whole picture. And that is where it becomes costly. Because suddenly it costs you:
— your security
— your understanding
— your need for control
And honestly? That is often harder than anything else.
But this is exactly where something powerful happens:
Abraham obeyed before he understood. And only afterward did God intervene.
He wasn’t blessed because he said, “I trust God.” He was blessed because through his obedience, he showed: “I truly trust God.”
Trust means moving forward, not just talking about it.
So let me gently ask you today: What if your breakthrough is waiting exactly where it costs you the most to take the next step?
You are a miracle!
Déborah Rosenkranz
Following the Way of Jesus
Following the Way of Jesus
Discipleship is at the center of the Christian life. To be a disciple means to be a learner. It means following after Jesus, and patterning our life after His.
Jesus tells us that the starting point of following Him is to deny ourselves. Denying ourselves means we choose to put Jesus’ desires above our own. This means that we must come to recognize that we do not have all the answers, or know the right way to go through life.
Discipleship is not something we do once or twice. It is a lifestyle that must be lived out each and every day. We will spend our entire lives becoming more like Jesus.
The way of life Jesus modeled was to suffer on the cross. When we deny ourselves, we choose to humbly follow Jesus. And as we become more like Jesus, we will also need to take up our cross. We will also suffer for doing good, and for denying things that seem enticing in the moment, but ultimately keep us from God. But when we bear our suffering, we represent Christ to those around us.
The paradox of following Jesus is that when we give up our life for His sake, we receive eternal life in return. When we hold onto our life and keep it from Jesus, we don’t get to experience the abundant life that He promises.
Take some time today to consider how you’re living a life of discipleship. Take inventory on the ways you are denying yourself and living for Christ, or living selfishly for your own pleasure and gain. Commit to following Jesus no matter how hard the path gets. And pray for strength and endurance as you follow Him.
“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.” Luke 9:24 NLT
“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.”
Luke 9:24 NLT
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