Day 23: Live Life Devotional

Day 23

Understanding Process

We need to get closer to receiving a vision from God. In order to do that we need to understand Process, Planning, Presentation, and Provision.

Understanding Process: This is not an overnight project. You must learn the medium. In art, the medium is the material that you use in order to create the artwork you wish to create. Some artist paint, some artist use ink to print, some artist manipulate wood, metal, or plastic, some artist make pottery, some carve stone. With each medium, there are tools to learn about, there are techniques to learn, and there are years of study that goes into learning the best way to create. As an artist keeps studying and practicing, he develops his own individual style, technique and personal aesthetic. He basically gets to know who he is as an artist.

When we commit ourselves with this type of study to the word of God, we get to know who we are as an individual in the Kingdom. We slowly begin to see through the process of growth, what we were made for, our gifts, our talents, and our unique interpretation of the world around us. God has made us and is continuing to perfect us as we live this life.


Your tools are your gifts. What tools do you think God has given you to successfully live this life?


Let us meditate on this passage today. Try to read it through 3 times today so that it can speak to your heart:

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.

In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well.If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.

Romans 12:1-8 NLT