Here are 20 things that godly Christians should do every day. There could be fewer if some of these were combined. There could be more. But these 20 are plenty to think about. Most Christians should do most of these every day. If you don’t think you need to do some of them, I hope you will do the rest of them and check up on yourself.
Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you. (Philippians 3:15)
Read the Bible
- Search the Scriptures (John 5:39)
- All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
- These things were written to teach us so that we might have hope (Romans 15:4)
- Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow (1 Peter 2:2)
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Pray (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, intercession)
- Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness to pray (Luke 5:16)
- Jesus teaches about prayer and fasting (Matthew 6:5-18)
- Thanksgiving and prayer (Philippians 1:3-11)
- Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God (Philippians 4:6)
- Pray continually, without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
- Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition (Ephesians 6:18)
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Love others (family, friends, neighbors, and enemies)
- So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. (John 13:34)
- Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. (Romans 12:10)
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3)
- Faith, Hope, and Love – the Greatest of these is Love
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Practice random acts of kindness
Because of this, make every effort to add integrity to your faith; and to integrity add knowledge; to knowledge add self-control; to self-control add endurance; to endurance add godliness; to godliness add Christian affection; and to Christian affection add love. If you have these qualities and they are increasing, it demonstrates that your knowledge about our Lord Jesus Christ is living and productive. (2 Peter 1:5-6)
- you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. (Colossians 3:12)
- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (Galatians 5:22)
- Caregiver or Clergy – Love in action in the parable of The Good Samaritan
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Be patient and longsuffering
- Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly (Proverbs 14:29)
- A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. (Proverbs 15:18)
- Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city (Proverbs 16:32)
- Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12)
- Love is patient (1 Corinthians 13:4)
- What about the time Jesus got angry?
Serve others
Through Jesus we should always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, words that acknowledge him. Don’t forget to do good things for others and to share what you have with them. These are the kinds of sacrifices that please God. (Hebrews 3:15-16 GWT
- Consider others more important than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3)
- Be concerned about the interests of others. (Philippians 2:4)
- We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. (Romans 15:1)
- Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the Law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2)
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Walk worthy of the gospel
But whatever happens, make sure that your everyday life is worthy of the Gospel of Christ. So that whether I do come and see you, or merely hear about you from a distance, I may know that you are standing fast in a united spirit, battling with a single mind for the faith of the Gospel and not caring two straws for your enemies. (Philippians 1:27-30 PHILLIPS
- Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord (Colossians 3:17)
- Always let others see you behaving properly (1 Peter 2:12)
- Walking worthily — lead a life worthy of God
Maintain a good testimony
- Whether I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know that you are standing (Philippians 1:27)
- For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men. (2 Corinthians 8:21)
- Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil. (1 Timothy 3:7)
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Be careful what you say
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)
- There are six things the Lord hates: … a lying tongue (Proverbs 6:16-19)
- Show integrity, dignity, and wholesome speech that is above reproach (Titus 2:7-8)
- in truthful speech and in the power of God (2 Corinthians 6:7)
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Edify one another (don’t bite and devour)
All of Moses’ Teachings are summarized in a single statement, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” But if you criticize and attack each other, be careful that you don’t destroy each other. (Galatians 5:14-15 GWT
- Encourage one another and build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
- Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen. (Ephesians 4:29)
- Speak the truth in love
Test your faith
- Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves! (2 Corinthians 13:5)
- God has given us everything we need for living a godly life … but those who fail to develop are shortsighted (2 Peter 1:3-9)
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- Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine
Crucify yourself daily
- If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:13)
- Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)
- Instead, train yourself for godliness. For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come. (1 Timothy 4:7-8)
- Stop doing these things (they will destroy the joy of your salvation)
- Take up Your Cross and Follow Jesus
Confess your sins to God
If we refuse to admit that we are sinners, then we live in a world of illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us. But if we freely admit that we have sinned, we find God utterly reliable and straightforward—he forgives our sins and makes us thoroughly clean from all that is evil. For if we take up the attitude “we have not sinned”, we flatly deny God’s diagnosis of our condition and cut ourselves off from what he has to say to us. (1 John 1:8-10 PHILLIPS
- Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah (Psalms 32:5)
- Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (Psalms 51:2)
- He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)
- Are you calling God a liar?
Confess your faults to one another
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again. (James 5:16-18 PHILLIPS
Forgive others as Christ has forgiven you
- Be kind and tender-hearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32)
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Restore others (to usefulness)
Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day’s out. Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law. If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived. (Galatians 6:1-3 MSG
- He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 2:25)
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- Stop doing these things (they will destroy the joy of your salvation)
Share your faith
Be ready at any time to give a quiet and reverent answer to any man who wants a reason for the hope that you have within you. Make sure that your conscience is perfectly clear, so that if men should speak slanderously of you as rogues they may come to feel ashamed of themselves for libelling your good Christian behaviour. (1 Peter 3:15-17 PHILLIPS
- Let your life so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16, 48)
- He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. (Mark 16:15)
- and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8)
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Fellowship with other Christians
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 NLT
Be doers of the word
- Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:22)
- So, whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (James 4:17)
- If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. (1 John 2:4)
- Persecution, hatred, and betrayal are signs of the end times
Keep on keeping on
Don’t be under any illusion: you cannot make a fool of God! A man’s harvest in life will depend entirely on what he sows. If he sows for his own lower nature his harvest will be the decay and death of his own nature. But if he sows for the Spirit he will reap the harvest of everlasting life by that Spirit. Let us not grow tired of doing good, for, unless we throw in our hand, the ultimate harvest is assured. Let us then do good to all men as opportunity offers, especially to those who belong to the Christian household. (Galatians 6:7-10 PHILLIPS
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