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BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

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BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Romans 12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2 TPT
experiencing all that delights God’s heart becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.
3 I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
Romans 12:3 TPT
A warning about pride:  Be emptied of self-promotion and don’t create a false image of your importance. Instead, honestly assess your worth by using your God-given faith as the standard of measurement, and then you will see your true value with an appropriate self-esteem.
4-6 In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we’re talking about is Christ’s body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn’t amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.
6-8 If you preach, just preach God’s Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don’t take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don’t get bossy; if you’re put in charge, don’t manipulate; if you’re called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don’t let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face.
9-10 Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.
11-13 Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.
Romans 12:11-12 TPT
Be enthusiastic to serve the Lord, keeping your passion toward him boiling hot! Radiate with the glow of the Holy Spirit and let him fill you with excitement as you serve him.  
Let this hope burst forth within you, releasing a continual joy. Don’t give up in a time of trouble, but commune with God at all times.
14-16 Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.
Romans 12:15-16 TPT
Celebrate with those who celebrate,

Transcript

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Congratulations. Your gift of a new day is here. Ready to live it big. You're listening to the Big Life

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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

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Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life.

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Happy Wednesday, my friends.

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Here we are the final day of April 2025 ever.

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Ever.

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This is it.

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The last day of April.

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And isn't it good to get to be alive to wake up today? I bet you are surrounded by

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blessings. There are so many things that are truly good and right and working and coming together.

0:47.5

And then there's their share of hard things, things that you don't understand, things that you

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cannot see getting better or coming together.

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And God says, my girl, I hold you in the palm of my hand. You can trust me. Doesn't that feel good

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today? All right. Well, we're going to do something a little bit different for today's devotional.

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I really don't know that I've ever done this before. So we're actually just going to open up our

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Bibles and we're going to read an entire chapter of scripture together. This morning here in

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North Bali, I was sitting around this beautiful table having breakfast

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with a few of my big life sisters. And we are high atop a mountain in the jungle, looking out

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over the Indian Ocean. And we just kind of had a Bible study time together, and it was so beautiful. And the Bible app

1:47.8

actually took us to a scripture in Romans chapter 12 today, and it was so good we decided to

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read the entire chapter together, looking at a couple different translations. And it was just so good. There was really nothing I could add to

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it. Certainly didn't want to take away from it. And it just felt right to share with you today.

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