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';My prayer is that this will be one of the most exciting years of your life.'Lloyd John Ogilvie Don't Settle for Anything Less A lot has changed since this timeless devotional was first released almost 40 years ago, but one truth has stayed the samea loving Savior still calls you closer to Him and wants His very best for you. Will you accept His gracious invitation? These short yet powerful devotions will take you less than 10 minutes each to read, but their impact on your daily life will be incalculable. As you fellowship with God and learn more about Him, you'll experience anew His grace, mercy, wisdom, and more. This beautifully designed edition of this classic devotional makes an ideal gift or a great way to rededicate yourself to spending more time in God's presence. Are you ready to experience His best? Start today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- January 1: The Best Year of Your Life
- January 2: A Year of Jubilee
- January 3: A Nook with the Book
- January 4: Through the Valley of Fear
- January 5: A Full Life with Purpose
- January 6: Stop Complaining; Start Confessing!
- January 7: The Help of His Presence
- January 8: The Answer Is the Asking
- January 9: Who Is Your Burden?
- January 10: If God Knows, Why Pray?
- January 11: Ask and Abide
- January 12: Laying Hold of God’s Willingness
- January 13: What Do You Expect?
- January 14: Expecting Too Little
- January 15: The Problem of Seemingly Unanswered Prayer
- January 16: God’s Best Answer
- January 17: Wandering Attention
- January 18: The Eyes of the Heart
- January 19: The High Way and the Low
- January 20: God Can Change Our Minds
- January 21: Something More Than Happiness
- January 22: Back to Grace and On to Joy
- January 23: Brooders
- January 24: A Joy-Infused Temperament
- January 25: A Mood Modifier
- January 26: When We Don’t Feel Like It
- January 27: What Is Your Body Saying?
- January 28: A Luxury We Cannot Afford
- January 29: The Decision to Love—Anyhow
- January 30: Failure to Allow God to Use Failures
- January 31: A Bloomin’ Fret!
- February 1: Strain and Stress
- February 2: Power for Pressure
- February 3: The Pressure Habit
- February 4: Let Go!
- February 5: The Pressure of Religion
- February 6: Under Pressure or a Source of Pressure?
- February 7: An Undeniable Purpose
- February 8: Under Direction or Off in All Directions?
- February 9: Living with Conflict
- February 10: The Peace Which Lasts
- February 11: Love Lifts the Burdens
- February 12: A Host with Hope
- February 13: Beyond Glibness to Greatness
- February 14: Loneliness
- February 15: Who Will Remember?
- February 16: Life’s Awesome Choice
- February 17: When Our Name Is Legion
- February 18: Divine Discontent
- February 19: When We Are Not Able
- February 20: Intercessory Involvement
- February 21: He Knows All About It
- February 22: Christ Makes Us Stable
- February 23: Stability in the Storm
- February 24: The Stability of Our Times
- February 25: A Vision for the Night
- February 26: Fullness to Fill the Emptiness
- February 27: Exceeding Joy
- February 28: Life’s Most Crucial Decision
- March 1: Hope for the Hassled
- March 2: Once and for All and Daily in All
- March 3: Supernatural Power
- March 4: Missing the Mark
- March 5: Creative Pride
- March 6: The Mighty Mite
- March 7: Criticism of Greatness
- March 8: The Ultimate Miracle
- March 9: The Miracle Is You!
- March 10: The Power of Prayer
- March 11: The Gift of Joy
- March 12: The Courage of Contentment
- March 13: The Confirmation of Closed Doors
- March 14: The Cost of Following Jesus
- March 15: The Way of the Cross Leads Home
- March 16: There’s No Other Place to Go
- March 17: Self-Pity
- March 18: A Calvary Within Calvary
- March 19: Today’s Cross
- March 20: A Daily Cross of Forgiveness
- March 21: We Can Never Say It All
- March 22: Where Are the Figs?
- March 23: Unbinding People
- March 24: The Password to Power
- March 25: Nothing to Lose and Everything to Give
- March 26: Save Now!
- March 27: When God Cried
- March 28: You Bet Your Life
- March 29: Rejoice Greatly!
- March 30: The Scrutiny of Jesus
- March 31: Paint Yourself into Calvary
- April 1: Oh God, That Was My Cross
- April 2: The Paradox of Power
- April 3: Unqualified Love
- April 4: Paradise Is Now!
- April 5: A Gift to Each Other
- April 6: The Depth of Love
- April 7: To Quench Our Deepest Thirst
- April 8: The Finish of the Beginning
- April 9: Unreserved Trust
- April 10: Putting Our Life on the Line
- April 11: A Realistic Easter
- April 12: Death with Dignity
- April 13: Our Worst Fear Defeated
- April 14: A Transition in Living
- April 15: Between the Lightning and the Thunder
- April 16: Peace Be with You
- April 17: An Open Door
- April 18: Power to Match the Potential
- April 19: Are You Surprisable?
- April 20: Honest Doubt
- April 21: The Thomas Test
- April 22: Is It a Sin to Doubt?
- April 23: When Doubt Turns to Negativism
- April 24: The Soul’s Invincible Surmise
- April 25: How to Handle Failure
- April 26: Meet the Real You
- April 27: A New Beginning
- April 28: Debilitating Comparisons
- April 29: The Fellowship of the Flaming Heart
- April 30: In the Palm of His Power
- May 1: Christ Sees Beneath the Surface
- May 2: The Need to Fall in Love Again
- May 3: Turn Around!
- May 4: Fruit from the Tree of Life
- May 5: All or Not at All
- May 6: Beyond the Breaking Point
- May 7: Praise and Not Presumption
- May 8: The Alpha and Omega
- May 9: Given Away to Serve
- May 10: Twice Born—Never to Die
- May 11: The Four “C’s” of Communicating with the Lord
- May 12: The Dearest Idol
- May 13: Follow as They Follow Christ
- May 14: Creative and Destructive Compromise
- May 15: How Churches Die
- May 16: As Strong as the Weakest Point
- May 17: The Need of Having No Need
- May 18: Opportunities Unlimited
- May 19: The Command to Persevere
- May 20: The Rewards of Faithfulness
- May 21: When Culture Captures the Church
- May 22: Christ at the Door
- May 23: The Victorious Life
- May 24: Learning to Wait
- May 25: Wait for the Power
- May 26: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
- May 27: The Threefold Test
- May 28: Come, Holy Spirit—We Need You!
- May 29: The Inner Special
- May 30: Pentecost Is Every Day
- May 31: A Spirit-Filled Life
- June 1: Occupied by a Through Passenger
- June 2: A Benchmark for a Great Church
- June 3: The Most Joyful People Alive
- June 4: Look at Us!
- June 5: What Do You Know for Sure?
- June 6: Yes!
- June 7: The Crucial Question
- June 8: An Engine Without Fuel
- June 9: Put It in His Hands!
- June 10: A Recognition of Need
- June 11: The Poverty That Leads to Richness
- June 12: To Be Truly Sorry
- June 13: Grief That Leads to Grace
- June 14: Under the Reins
- June 15: True Comfort
- June 16: Flexibility
- June 17: Moldable Meekness
- June 18: Hunger and Thirst
- June 19: A Family Likeness
- June 20: Truly Satisfied
- June 21: How to Be “Right” All the Time!
- June 22: Steadfast Love
- June 23: To Will One Thing
- June 24: The Tools of Our Trade
- June 25: Healing the Wounds
- June 26: The Peace of a Deathless Life
- June 27: The Zest of the World
- June 28: Sheer Sparkle
- June 29: A Light in the Darkness
- June 30: A Hand, Not a Chip, on Our Shoulder
- July 1: By All Means Witness
- July 2: What an Example!
- July 3: A Full Set of Keys
- July 4: Dependence Day
- July 5: An Influential Person
- July 6: “My” Gospel
- July 7: Dealing with Anger
- July 8: Straight Arrows
- July 9: An Artesian Flow
- July 10: A Wordless Denial
- July 11: A Talent of Words
- July 12: Get to the Point!
- July 13: Giving and Forgiving Love
- July 14: Second-Mile Living
- July 15: Get Cracking!
- July 16: Love Becomes Involved
- July 17: When God Is Our Audience
- July 18: When Our Own Horn Is Flat
- July 19: An Uninformed Left Hand
- July 20: Praying to People
- July 21: The Secret Place
- July 22: The Model Prayer
- July 23: The Fatherhood of God
- July 24: The Key to Power
- July 25: Daily!
- July 26: Let God Forgive You
- July 27: Lord, Help Me!
- July 28: All That We Need
- July 29: A Disciple’s Prayer
- July 30: The Window of the Heart
- July 31: Joy’s Secret Place
- August 1: Someone Is Watching You
- August 2: When the Lord Smiles at You
- August 3: The Anointed Heart
- August 4: Treasuring the Right Treasure
- August 5: What’s Really Important?
- August 6: The Indestructible Treasure
- August 7: The Kingdom of Thingdom
- August 8: What Do You See?
- August 9: The Mammon Membrane
- August 10: When Possessions Possess Us
- August 11: Who Is Running Your Life?
- August 12: Strangling the Soul
- August 13: God Really Cares
- August 14: The Father’s Good Pleasure
- August 15: What Can I Say?
- August 16: Love Is the Antidote to Fear
- August 17: Sure Anchors in the Storm
- August 18: Creative Anxiety
- August 19: Today Is All We Have
- August 20: The Boomerang of Judgments
- August 21: Plankated Vision
- August 22: When Analysis Brings Paralysis
- August 23: The Context of Criticism
- August 24: Before You Criticize
- August 25: Stumbling Block
- August 26: The Cure of Negativism
- August 27: A Major Cause of Criticism
- August 28: Mercy Triumphs over Judgment
- August 29: Spiritual Snobs
- August 30: Lifting Up Each Other
- August 31: The Danger of Too Much Self-Criticism
- September 1: When to Offer the Pearl
- September 2: God’s Best Gift for My Life
- September 3: Fruitfulness
- September 4: God’s Best Enables Our Best
- September 5: Productive Branches
- September 6: Faith on the Job
- September 7: Our Wills to Make Them God’s
- September 8: Lord, What Do You Want Me to Say?
- September 9: True Stability
- September 10: Not What, but Whom
- September 11: An Astonishing Life
- September 12: Over the Rainbow
- September 13: Dare to Risk
- September 14: Old Ways in a New Life
- September 15: The Parable of the Red Volkswagen
- September 16: Oh, Really?
- September 17: Walk Through the Promise!
- September 18: It’s Going to Be a Great Day!
- September 19: By Faith Alone
- September 20: Marching to a Different Drummer
- September 21: When and When Not to Laugh
- September 22: Who or What Is Your Isaac?
- September 23: The Lord Will Provide
- September 24: Great Parents of Great Children?
- September 25: Making the Willful Willing
- September 26: When Circumstances Contradict Our Vision
- September 27: God Uses Everything
- September 28: Life Makes Us Bitter or Better
- September 29: God Knows What He Is Doing!
- September 30: God Is Faithful
- October 1: One Thing Which Is Certain
- October 2: Be Careful What You Call Impossible
- October 3: Anything’s Possible
- October 4: By Whatever Name, Remember!
- October 5: Stale Grace
- October 6: The Royal Order of Aaron, Hur, and Joshua
- October 7: The Everlasting Arms
- October 8: I’ll Do It His Way!
- October 9: The Cloud Where God Was
- October 10: When We Get Tired of Waiting
- October 11: A Broken Sentence from a Broken Heart
- October 12: The Ultimate Prayer
- October 13: Face to Face
- October 14: Things Become What They Seem
- October 15: Willing to Receive Wonders
- October 16: The First Step Is the Hardest
- October 17: Take Courage!
- October 18: The Secret of Spiritual Power
- October 19: Contagious Courage
- October 20: Clothed with the Spirit
- October 21: Go for It!
- October 22: God’s Peace Is Our Fleece
- October 23: The Rudder of Guidance
- October 24: The Audacious Assumption
- October 25: A Daring Adventure
- October 26: Criticizing After the Battle
- October 27: The Listener
- October 28: Ebenezer and Jehovah-Jireh
- October 29: Our Awesome Power to Limit God
- October 30: God Uses the Ordinary to Do the Extraordinary
- October 31: A Person After God’s Heart
- November 1: Affirming the Gifts of Others
- November 2: Saul’s Problems with Saul Called David
- November 3: Misplaced Praise
- November 4: The Alarm Signal
- November 5: Helping People Deal with Their Feelings
- November 6: Whom Shall I Fear?
- November 7: Glorify and Enjoy God!
- November 8: The Affirmation of Life
- November 9: God Can Make Us Wise
- November 10: Let Me Go!
- November 11: We Are Never Finished
- November 12: Fire Out of the Ashes
- November 13: Where Is Your Nineveh?
- November 14: His Love Knows No Limits
- November 15: A Gifted Life
- November 16: The Gift of Love
- November 17: The Gift of Gratitude
- November 18: Patient Love
- November 19: Love with Sensitivity
- November 20: Christian Maturity
- November 21: Love Does Not Give Up
- November 22: When the Bind Is Broken
- November 23: Take No One for Granted
- November 24: Good Comfort
- November 25: A Friend Who Won’t Go Away
- November 26: Happy Thanksliving!
- November 27: Before We Can Love Others
- November 28: The Other Half of Grace
- November 29: “You Are Mine”
- November 30: 20/20 Hindsight
- December 1: A Realistic Reason for Hope
- December 2: Stand Up, Stand Tall, Stand Ready!
- December 3: Before You Give Up
- December 4: Twice Born
- December 5: Born Again to Hope
- December 6: New Wine in Old Bags
- December 7: An Authentic Encounter
- December 8: Through It All
- December 9: No Longer Part of the Problem
- December 10: The Final Assurance
- December 11: Old Measurements for a New Life
- December 12: Heresickness
- December 13: The Boast That Banishes Burdens
- December 14: With the Help of Our God
- December 15: Ready for Christmas
- December 16: Open Before Christmas!
- December 17: The Crèche and the Cross
- December 18: The Gift of Self-Esteem
- December 19: A Christmas List of What to Forget
- December 20: Tidings of Great Joy
- December 21: The Hope of the World
- December 22: An Anchor of the Soul
- December 23: Peace for Broken Pieces
- December 24: Christmas Peacemakers
- December 25: Christmas Day: The Experience Which Changes Everything
- December 26: The Heart of God
- December 27: Therefore!
- December 28: Old Attitudes in a New Life
- December 29: Spread It Out Before the Lord
- December 30: The Lord’s Prescription
- December 31: Remembrance and Resolve
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