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Devotionals don’t have to be boring … we make them fun, applicable and powerful each and every day. Pamela will get you fired up for life and lather the love of Jesus on you … and make you giggle. Download a new episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast each weekday.

    1604 Why It’s Good Friday

    1604 Why It’s Good Friday

    Good Friday, the day we remember the crucifixion of Jesus. The personal sacrifice of One for all. For me. For you.







    On this day we remember Jesus carrying that cross for us. We remember him willfully stretching out his arms as they nailed him to that cross, signifying “this much.” This is how important you are. This is how loved you are. This much, with arms wide open. And we remember his excruciating death, the pain inflicted, the burdens carried, the weight of it all which took his final breath.







    What an incredibly sad day. The day the world fell dark and our Jesus was crucified for being nothing other than holy, righteous, miraculous and pure.







    And yet, we call it Good Friday.







    The worst day in history when evil prevailed and the son of God was unjustly put to death between two thieves. It was bad. Painful. Dark. Terrifying. Unfair. And yet it was Good.







    It was the ultimate good.







    It was the good the world could not see which God had planned. The good which would not be revealed without the bad. The good which would allow the worst to first unfold. The good which would require some time. (Maybe there’s some good in the works in your life, but right now it looks bad. Take notice of how God works.)







    Let’s read the story of this day:







    Mark 15: 22-39 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.







    **Do you know why the offering of this wine mixed with myrrh is important? Why such a specific, seemingly unimportant detail to be included in the record when Jesus refused it? It’s important because this mix was a drug which dulled the senses. An offering to the one facing an agonizing death by crucifixion, making it more bearable. But Jesus refused. He refused ease from the suffering. He wanted a clear mind while he hung on the cross. Why? So he could think of me and you. So he could give wholly of himself, enduring it to the full for us.







    24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.







    It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.







    They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!” In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.







    ***Could he have come down at that moment? Could he have called down an Army of angels from heaven to avenge him and destroy his accusers? Absolutely. It was all within his power, but it wasn’t within his purpose. His purpose was to pay the ultimate price for us. And because of that purpose, he endured. Because of that purpose, he took the insults, he took the pain and he took the punishment, so that we wouldn’t have to.







    33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).







    When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.”

    • 19 min
    1603 Repping Jesus Here

    1603 Repping Jesus Here

    We have one last stop in our study of the final week of Jesus’ life here on earth, before arriving to the cross tomorrow. One more important lesson to teach this week. I so wanted to tell you all about the foot washing. I wanted to tell you about the last meal with Jesus. I wanted to tell you about the man who carried Jesus’ cross when Jesus was too weak from the beating to continue his destined journey. But I can’t. I can’t because these roosters will NOT stop crowing, y’all.







    I’m in a darling little cottage high atop a mountain on the island of Oahu where it is very much like a jungle. It’s just us and the wild chickens up here. And this morning during my study time, more than ever, the roosters are crowing. Every time I begin to write about foot washing, the last supper, or the journey with the cross, another rooster crows and stops me.







    Lord, I hear you. Today, we will talk about the part of the story I don’t want to talk about. The part of the story that gets really personal. How I too can deny Jesus. How I can fail to represent myself as a girl who hangs out with Jesus. How the rooster crows reminding me of my continual need for forgiveness and redirection.







    Jesus had gathered his best friends for one final dinner together. He gave them the bread that represented his body. He gave them the wine that represented his spilled blood. He knelt down and washed their feet in humble service. He prayed over them and asked God to protect each of them from the evil one. He promised them the power of the Holy Spirit.







    What a day they had shared! Then we come to Luke 22 where Jesus tells Peter that Satan has asked to sift him like wheat. But Jesus says in verse 32, “But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your bothers.”







    Jesus prayed for Peter! He prayed that his faith would not fail. He prayed that after he failed, that he would return and then lead others. Jesus knew Peter would fail, but he had already talked to God about his return!







    And Jesus already knew you would fail too. He knew you would get a little lost along the way. He knew you would get all fleshy and mess things up for a bit. But, my sister, he’s already prayed for your return. He’s already planned for you to come back! And when you do, you will be a strength and guide to others. That’s just the way Jesus does things! We see that in Peter.







    Peter boldly says to Jesus, “Lord I’m ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Then Jesus says in verse 34, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me.”







    Peter just couldn’t accept that he would fail his Jesus. He loved him. He had walked on the water with him. He knew he was the Son of God and the Savior of the world. No way would he deny him. It just couldn’t be.







    I feel the same way. There’s no way anyone could make me deny Jesus. I know who he is and I know what he’s done in my life. Maybe you feel the same way. But let me tell you, Satan works hard on God’s girls to trip us up.







    What caused Peter to deny Jesus? Yes fear. Yes weakness. But there were steps that brought him there, and they are the same steps God wants us to be aware of so we don’t get tripped up too.







    Luke 22: 54-62:







    “They arrested Jesus and led him to the high priest’s home. And Peter followed at a distance. The guards lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there. A servant girl noticed him in the firelight and began staring at hi...

    • 15 min
    1602 Midnight In the Garden

    1602 Midnight In the Garden

    This week we’ve been looking at the final week of Jesus’ life. He knew this was it, so everything he did was with tremendous meaning and intention. On the final night, he prayed a prayer that my human mind has trouble comprehending. He asks if God can save me and you in any other way than the agony he himself faced. He grieved over what was to come, and he fully submitted to God’s will even when it was the hardest thing he would ever do.







    Today, we will read that prayer together, then we will dive deeper into the feelings of Jesus on that final night. Through this, may we fully recognize the sacrifice Jesus made specifically for each of us, the unfathomable price that was paid for our souls, and the perfect example Jesus has set for us when facing hardships we wouldn’t have chosen.







    What does Jesus do? He prays. He asks others to pray with him, but he himself prays. He goes to his father. He honestly lays his feelings down before God, then he surrenders to God’s divine will.







    Will we do the same? Even when we don’t want to? Even when we’re facing unfair hardship? Even when we know it will hurt? Will we seek God’s will over our own and surrender in prayer?







    Matthew 26: 36-46:







    In the garden of Gethsemane, “Jesus bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”A second time he prayed, “My Father! If this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will be done.”Then he went to pray a third time, saying the same things again.”







    To understand the emotions of Jesus, I will share pieces of a reading from a website called Biblecourses.com.







    Sometime around midnight, Jesus entered the garden of Gethsemane, a place were olives were crushed and pressed to process their valuable oil within. Jesus rarely spoke of the emotions that surged at times within his soul. Remember, Jesus was fully God, but he was also fully human. He felt. He hurt. In Gethsemane, we see the heart of Jesus as never before.







    In this garden, Jesus experienced something that He had never before encountered during His earthly life and ministry. We cannot understand fully what was happening, but let’s try to imagine it.







    The struggle Jesus experienced involved intense sorrow. He told the three friends He had taken with Him that His soul was “deeply grieved”. As He drew closer to the time when He would carry that awful burden of sin upon His soul at the cross, He became overwhelmed. The world’s guilt was descending upon His pure, innocent mind and heart with a crushing force. The weight of all my sin was on him. The burden of all your guilt was his to carry. It must have been overwhelming. It must have been so heavy.







    The battle for the salvation of the human race loomed large, dark, and frightful. His humanity was depressed by it; His divine spirit groaned over it. He groaned over me. He groaned over you. We were on his mind.







    His struggle was so severe that it began taking his physical body down to death itself. Matthew 26:38 says his soul was “deeply grieved, to the point of death,”. His sorrow and grieve were so consuming that there was a danger his body couldn’t bare it. An angel from Heaven came and strengthen him. Had he not received this strength, he wouldn’t have been able to offer his body on the cross for us. He would have collapsed before the cross.







    I’ve always imagined the pain of the cross, but never had I been aware of the agony of Gethsemane. As Jesus prepared His soul for the conflict over the souls of men,

    • 11 min
    1601 Force Of Faith

    1601 Force Of Faith

    We continue our journey through the Holy Week, seeking what was mostimportant to Jesus in his final week of life. Today we study thewithered fig tree and the mountain moved in faith. This is a veryspecial, unplugged devotional, so grab your bible and a cup of coffee,and let’s chat about these lessons taught by Jesus in Matthew 21: 18-22.







    Follow Pamela on Instagram – https://instagram.com/headmamapamelaOr Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pamela.crimFind out more about BIG Life – http://biglifehq.com

    • 15 min
    1600 The Chosen Donkey

    1600 The Chosen Donkey

    This is the week leading up to Easter. The final week of Jesus’ life … and he knew it.







    What would you do if you knew it were your last week? What would you do on Monday? On Tuesday? On Wednesday? Who would you spend your time with? Where would you go? What would you intentionally do and say, knowing this was your last chance?







    To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have done the same things Jesus did. Actually, I know I wouldn’t have. I wouldn’t have spent time with those I knew would betray me. I wouldn’t have willingly been in the wrong place at the wrong time to make everything right for people who would deny me. But, that’s what our Jesus did. He knew. And he did it all willingly.







    To better know our Jesus, I’m spending this week digging deeper into his words and actions in his final week of life here on Earth. I believe you can really learn a lot about a person by seeing what they do when they know this is really the end. Think about what you would do if you knew it was the end … wouldn’t it reveal what was truly most important to you?







    In that final week, every detail was intentional for Jesus. Just as your final week would be filled with very intentional acts if you knew. Not a single detail of that week is without significance, so, let’s study the details.







    It all begins with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the place designed for his death. He knew every step toward Jerusalem brought him closer to the end. And how he entered would have significant meaning.







    Mark 11: 1-7, “As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two of them on ahead. “Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As soon as you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks, ‘What are you doing?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it soon.’”The two disciples left and found the colt standing in the street, tied outside the front door. As they were untying it, some bystanders demanded, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” They said what Jesus had told them to say, and they were permitted to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it, and he sat on it.”







    Here we find intentional details. Details we are to study so we understand what was truly important to Jesus.







    Jesus specifically asked for a donkey to ride into Jerusalem. The donkey was waiting, destined for it’s divine purpose of carrying Jesus for his entry. But why?







    First, it was to fulfill the prophesy written 500 years earlier in Zechariah 9:9, “Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey’s colt.” Just as it was written, Jesus arrived riding on a young donkey. John 12: 16 says, “His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him.”







    As it was happening, it made no sense to the disciples that Jesus would specifically request a donkey to ride. But, looking back, they saw the fulfillment of the prophesy concerning the Messiah down to every detail. There would be no doubt, Jesus was truly the Son of God and the savior of the world.







    This is how we see the fulfillment of God’s promises in our lives. We look back and we see everything he said has happened for us. Not as we thought it would, and not when we expected it would, but without fail, it happens and every detail is as God has promised. We can count on that.

    • 16 min
    1599 Not What I Asked For

    1599 Not What I Asked For

    Have you ever asked God for one thing and you feel like you get something totally different? Have you started to question Jesus’ word where he says “ask and ye shall receive”? Yeah Lord, I’ve been asking but what I’ve been receiving has been disappointing in comparison to what I was expecting.







    The Israelites were hungry in the desert and they asked God to supply their needs and give them food to eat. The next day they woke up to manna. We know manna as this miraculous bread directly from God which sustained the Israelites where there was nothing else to eat. But let me tell you, THIS WAS NOT WHAT THEY WERE EXPECTING.







    Exodus 16: 13-15 “In the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.”







    I propose they woke up that morning and saw this white dewy, sticky substance all over the desert ground and they really said “What the heck is THIS?” I don’t know, maybe they were expecting Sarah Lee herself to appear at sunrise baking her fresh loaves of bread, but this … this is not what they were expecting. What is this and what am I supposed to do with it?







    And this is why they called it manna. Manna to them meant “what is it?” It meant “now what do we do”?







    Maybe you’ve been asking God for guidance and there hasn’t been a single flashing sign making the way clear yet. You’re just as confused as you ever were as doors continue to close and you wander along. But my sister, don’t miss the fact that closed doors are guidance. That no you received was in response to your request for guidance. Sure it’s disappointing, but you simply don’t know what God was protecting you from when he shut that down. Nor do you know the open door with something better than you ever imagined still awaiting you. The only way God guides you to it is to disappoint you by closing those other doors you were so willing to settle with.







    Yes, this is what guidance looks like. It doesn’t feel miraculous, but it is. You just don’t recognize it for what it really is.







    The Israelites didn’t recognize the white dew covering the ground for what it was either. It didn’t look miraculous. It didn’t look like loaves of bread, but they didn’t yet know what God had given them. There’s more coming here.







    We all know better than to pray for patience, right? What happens when you pray for patience? You’re given complete chaos with an invitation to calm the heck down in the middle of it.







    Patience isn’t developed in the calm, honey. Patience is developed in those moments where you have to bite your tongue so hard it bleeds. Patience is developed when you’re stuck waiting and every ounce of you wants to lash out, respond, fight back, and push forward.







    Oh, that’s where you woke up? You woke up in the training grounds for patience today? You may not like this, but God sure likes what he’s developing in you here. He sure likes the lessons you will learn in this. He sure likes how much more you’re becoming like the girl he created you to be through this training.







    So, he’s not going to get you out of it. He’s going to provide in miraculous and mysterious ways right in the middle of it … and you may not recognize it for what it really is.







    Marriage doesn’t look the way you thought it would, does it?

    • 14 min

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