The Knotted Cord

Feed your spirit— Bible rich devotions & daily encouragement.

Category: Sanctification

  • Take the Backseat to Your Worry

    Take the Backseat to Your Worry

    It’s not always best to call shotgun. When I was younger, my grandparents or parents and I would take a trip to Pigeon Forge every summer. Most of the time my younger brother and a few cousins would go along too. So there we were, packed into the back seat of this small, four door…

  • Not so Distant Love

    Not so Distant Love

    God I pray that you will give us a true, agape love for those that oppose us; not an irritated, unforgiving, distant love but a brotherly, non envious love. Agape [Ah-gah-pay]  love is true love; like God, unconditional, and unselfish. ” This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” -John…

  • The Holy Spirit is not Conscientious

    The Holy Spirit is not Conscientious

    Don’t confuse your Christian minded convictions to always be the perfect will of God; your gut feeling is not the Holy Spirit. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,…

  • When God Says Hush

    When God Says Hush

    Surrendering the tongue to the good intent and careful nature of the Holy Spirit not only safe guards those around you but also brings a new intimacy with God. In the process of zipping our lips, our heart slowly begins to look more like God’s. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,…

  • Jesus is the Balance

    Jesus is the Balance

    We find ourselves endlessly searching for the balance, forgetting that stability is only found in Him. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” -Mattheww 6:33 I’m one of the least coordinated humans on the face of this earth we’re living on. To prove…

  • The Situation of Sin

    The Situation of Sin

    [1/2 series] Sin is born a time after its conception. To win over sin, we have to stop waiting to kill off sin in it’s fully developed state and start nipping it in the bud of its creation. “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil…

  • Not this Lord

    Not this Lord

    Obedience looks like buying a house that only God has the keys to. “Trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5 My class of twenty-three 4-5 year olds bicker like crazy. Before kids you would never think someone could actually cry for twenty minutes over spilled…

  • Feed Your Spirit

    Feed Your Spirit

    If you want to be full, start starving. “Blessed are thye which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” – Matthew 5:6 There’s two kinds of people, people that can’t finish a plate of food and people that follow up their meal with “are you gonna’ finish that?” Unfortunately I fall…

  • Position of Purity

    Position of Purity

    [2/2 series] The position of purity isn’t a place of arrival or a specific distance away from sin but rather a state of mind, heart, and spirit. “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” – Psalm 51:10 God wants us to be pure. [Matthew 5:8] Whether or…

  • Hard to Offend

    Hard to Offend

    You can’t move on if you’re still holding onto offense. “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteosuness of God.” – James 1:19-20 Woe is me and my over-analytical brain, working like a dog; 168 hours…