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Scripture-rooted encouragement by Frank Mann Jr., written every weekday morning since 2018. Browse by topic, scripture, or the message you need today.
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July 15, 2025
Freedom from Guilt Through God's Grace
When friends come to us, it’s our chance to bear witness to the Grace God has shown us. It’s our chance to share what has so freely and undeservingly been given us...it’s also a chance to remember the enemy is closer than we think. That in itself gave me pause to think. You know, we try all sorts...
gods-loveJuly 14, 2025
God Knows You and Loves You Anyway
It’s not a throwback Thursday, but I was talking over the weekend about this very topic and it reminded me of this one I wrote from several years ago...God knows you, he made you. So who are trying to kid? Why are we trying to hide from God? He can read our mind... “You know when I sit down and w...
gods-sovereigntyJuly 11, 2025
This Isn't My World: Finding Peace in God's Control
You know, it’s tough when things don’t go the way we think they will. All of us struggle every day to try to get control of our environments. We try to build financial wealth so that we won't suffer need. We try to take care of our health so we don't feel pain or suffer illness. We try to manage...
prayerJuly 10, 2025
Stop and Really Listen: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Every once in a while I will stop, take a breath and really listen. What I mean is we live in such a fast paced world and our brains pick up on things that provide stimulus to us an it deciphers what we are hearing or reading without us consciously really reading or hearing it. You dig what I’m t...
fellowshipJuly 3, 2025
Having Church with Friends: Faith in Fellowship
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."”Matthew 18:20 So, I love it when I am talking with friends, making new ones or talking with people I have a professional relationship with and our shared Faith comes up. I love it when this happens, and to be honest, it happ...
repentanceJune 26, 2025
Let Go and Let God: The Refreshing Power of Repentance
I was thinking last night about my life and how it has changed over the years. It’s funny, things that I thought I couldn’t do without are oddly no longer part of my life. You know, thinking about our past and learning to let God show us a new way of life has me thinking about repentance. We all...
witnessJune 25, 2025
Let Your Light Shine: Living Credible Faith
Should we care what people think of us? Should we care what we post on social media? I mean, we hear all the time, “God’s judgement is the only one that matters”, right? While I agree with the later, I disagree. We should care what others see from us, it’s our light. As disciples of Christ, we ne...
salvationJune 24, 2025
Salvation Security: God's Unbreakable Promise
You ever wonder if you’re saved by God through Jesus Christ, can you lose it? Can God change His mind? Let’s be honest, as good as we try to be, we all fail and will fail some more. But God doesn’t break promises He makes and your salvation is one of his promises. Jesus talks about being born aga...
fearJune 18, 2025
Don't Let the Past Dictate Your Destiny
So, I’ve been thinking lately, reflecting on the past both good and bad, and one of the things I keep coming back to is what and why I feared some of the things I’ve been through and survived and what or why would I fear what’s ahead of me. I think with the current environment we are all wonderin...
prideJune 17, 2025
Pride Goes Before the Fall
The Bible tells us that the devil lost everything he had because arrogance took roots in his heart.How many times have we watched this play out in the lives of famous athletes, celebrities and even people we’ve know in our open lives?We need to be careful with our thoughts. Some of them are proud...
givingJune 13, 2025
Give in Secret
Let’s continue down this journey of what lies in our heart that is behind our actions. Yesterday we talked about having to lofty opinion our ourselves and how that aligns with God’s views of our actions. Today, I’d like to take this a little further and talk about how we give and why. We live in...
fellowshipJune 11, 2025
Exercising Faith Through Fellowship
We’ve talked about having Faith for the past couple of days now and I’d like to wrap up how we exercise that Faith in overcoming our troubles and fears through fellowship with others. When was the last time you shared your fears and struggles with a close friends? You see, we were designed to go...
faith-vs-beliefJune 10, 2025
Faith vs Belief: Love That Casts Out Fear
So I made the comment yesterday that, “Believing is not Faith”. I’m confident of this and I believe that, while related, they are drastically different. Faith is not believing in God’s goodness only when we are out of the storm; faith is believing in God’s goodness right in the middle of it. The...
anxietyJune 9, 2025
From Anxiety to Faith: Who Holds Your Future
Are we addressing the real issues in our anxiety over what the future holds? Is our anxiety a product of not knowing what the future holds? I submit to you that we are anxious because WE are trying to control what happens and not truly giving our lives to God to navigate. We may “believe” he has...
heart-renewalJune 6, 2025
Restarting Your Heart: Aligning with God's Thoughts
So, as I think about letting God restart my heart, I am asking myself, “a restart is from what exactly?”Well, for me I think it is understanding that my understanding and thoughts about any situation I am facing is nowhere near as perfect as God’s thoughts...“For my thoughts are not your thoughts...
gods-sovereigntyJune 4, 2025
Remember: God is God and He Has a Plan
“remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'”Isaiah 46:9-10I don’t know about y...
freedom-from-pastJune 3, 2025
Let God Wipe Away Your Past and Transform Your Future
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."”Revelation 21:4 I’m going to keep this simple today because the point I want is simple. When you are in Christ, your p...
gods-knowledgeJune 2, 2025
God Knows You Completely and Loves You Unconditionally
Almost everyday I like to look back at what I wrote and what we were talking about in the past years. It’s hard to believe I’ve been at this now since 2018. I am still humbled by the fact that you’re still here. Amazing really...so thank you. Anyhow, this is a throwback to five years ago. I remem...
happinessMay 29, 2025
Don't Let Your Situation Define Your Happiness
“When I stopped letting my situation define my happiness, I began to find happiness in my situation.”You see, if you don’t give people or situations permission to steal your happiness, they can’t take it. It’s pretty simple I think and we visited it last week. I want to go back there for a bit. E...
humilityMay 28, 2025
Two Ways to Learn Humility: The Hard Way or the Worse Way
I think at some level we all struggle with pride and have a hard time with humility. I know I do, at certain times more than others. How do you grow in humility? I know of two ways. One of them is hard and the other one sucks. The first and hard one, is to value humility so much that you develop...
identity-in-christMay 27, 2025
Your True Identity: Adopted Child of God
Ask yourself this, what is your identity? People mostly answer that question with a title. I’m a mom. I’m a dad. A golfer, racer, vegan, cross fitter, husband or wife...whatever. But that’s not necessarily your identity. It’s regarding the world but what about your identity in Christ? Well, you’r...
life-without-jesusMay 26, 2025
Life Without Jesus: A Foundation of Gratitude
What would your life look like without Jesus? I don’t know if you think about that, but I think about it often. I cringe at the thought of what my life would be without Jesus. I’m sure my heart would be cold because I felt it headed that way when I met Christ. I’d probably be pretty lonely. I may...
forgivenessMay 23, 2025
Forgiveness as an Act of Worship
Welp, we made it another week! Let’s take the weekend and think about forgiveness. It’s not that I’m saying we don’t forgive, I just think we can all use a reminder as we part for a couple of day about the one thing that is the essence of who we are...forgiveness. You see, God loves you! And he k...
gods-graceMay 21, 2025
God's Grace is Greater Than Our Sin
We’ve been doing this since sometime in 2018. I know I’ve written le about 1615 devotionals. I don’t think that’s all of them because I’m sure I’ve accidentally deleted some and reused some…but I digress. In the beginning, I use to sign off our devotionals with God is greater than me. (God > Me)...