Know God: A 28 Day Devotional For Students

Getting our students to connect with God personally is an area where a lot of student ministries struggle. Knowing God doesn’t happen in a moment. It’s not like your student will wake up one morning and BAM! They know God, they have Him all figured out, no doubts or questions. This is why Orange decided to develop Know God: A 28-day devotional for students, and that is why the Oakwood Student Ministry decided to make a big deal about it this February.

TONIGHT IS FUZE NIGHT 6pm to 8pm in the Student Worship Center.  HEAR, PRAY, TALK, LIVE are KEY WORDS we have used for each week as we have walked through the Know God Devotional.  TONIGHT WE  ARE ENDING WITH LIVE.  The main thought is that if you want to know more about God, make Him more important than anything.

What it’s not: This devotional isn’t about knowing everything there is to know about God. Students can read every word in this book, fill in every blank, follow every suggestion, and still not understand ALL there is to know about God.

What it is: It is about students starting a journey to help them know God more and discover Him on their own. Because, even though there’s no checklist for knowing everything about God, there are a few things they can do every day that will help them know Him better. The Know God devotional can help your students learn how to have daily devotions while developing spiritual disciplines.

We invite you to check out Know God: http://t.co/KlaqYnFqNO.

The Game On series includes four devotionals excerpted from Know God that we have used for discussion each Wednesday in February. The devotionals would be a great follow-up to the series for teens who are interested in developing a consistent daily time with God and His Word, or for simply learning more about God.  You can download them below.

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Game On Wk3 Devotional – Light in the Dark

Bottom Line: You talk by the way you walk.

In Daniel chapter 6, the Babylonians, who were the rulers when we last saw Daniel, have been taken over by the Persians.  Daniel has faithfully served God, won the favor of a king, and now that kingdom is taken over by an entirely new empire.  But like the king of Babylon, the king of Persia notices Daniel too:

Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom (Daniel 6:3 NIV).

It wasn’t so much about what Daniel said. It was about what Daniel did.

In fact, in one translation, it says that God gave Daniel a Spirit of Excellence.  Meaning, that he was not only a sharp individual, but God blessed him in his efforts to do well at his job.  What a great example that we can all look to for our own lives, whether that is our school work, paying job, or the time we give to a cause or a program.

Click here for the Game On Wk2 Devotional

In any kind of competition or event, winning is almost always connected to the amount of preparation. The practice and the skill building may not seem necessary in the moment, but when it’s Game On, those skills are what take us all the way. Daniel was a young Jewish boy who encountered his “Game On” moment over and over. Ultimately it was the preparation of his faith skills that helped him through the most difficult of moments.

Bottom Line: Prayer is about knowing Someone, not getting something.

Bottom Line Session 1:  Our faith grows when we apply the Bible to our lives

In any kind of competition or event, winning is almost always connected to the amount of preparation. The practice and the skill building may not seem necessary in the moment, but when it’s Game On, those skills are what take us all the way. Daniel was a young Jewish boy who encountered his “Game On” moment over and over. Ultimately it was the preparation of his faith skills that helped him through the most difficult of moments.

Here is the first week Devotional

GameOn_Week 1 Devotional