Myles Munroe - 40 Days to Discovering Gods Big Idea for Your Life. A Personal Devotional Designed to Change Your Life

Copyright 2008 Myles Munroe

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A Personal Devotional Designed to Change Your Life

BOOKS BY MYLES MUNROE

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Gods Big Idea

In Pursuit of Purpose

Kingdom Parenting

Kingdom Principles

Maximizing Your Potential

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The Glory of Living

The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

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Rediscovering the Kingdom

Releasing Your Potential

Single, Married, Separated and Life After Divorce

Understanding Your Potential

Waiting and Dating

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T his devotional journal is a continuation of the concepts and principles presented in Gods Big Idea. Gods idea originated in the mind and heart of the Creator and was the motivation and purpose for the creation of the physical universe and the human species. His idea is superior to all the collective wisdom and ideas of human intellect. It is an idea that is beyond the philosophical reserves of human history and supersedes the institutions that govern humankind since his first human society.

This 40-day devotional journal is designed to help you discover how Gods Big Idea includes you. God wants to make the Earth a place of Kingdom harmony and peace and He would like you to be a part of His plan.

Each day is divided into four inspiring and thought-provoking sections:

Scripturerelevant and life-changing words from God.

Devotionexcerpts from Gods Big Idea.

Considerationsquestions and ideas for thoughtful pause.

Meditationthoughts that prompt introspection and action.

Each day brings you closer to discovering Gods love and plan for you, including how to fulfill your destiny now; enjoy continuous fellowship with the Lord; turn the Earth into a place filled with His culture; and how you can make a positive difference in what happens on Earth.

You will experience for yourself through personal devotion and journaling how to be directly involved in Gods Big Idea by helping to plant and multiply His garden communities where all Gods children live fruitful and abundant lives.

G OD BLESSED THEM AND SAID TO THEM, BE FRUITFUL AND INCREASE IN NUMBER; FILL THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT. RULE OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND OVER EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVES ON THE GROUND (GENESIS 1:28).

TODAYS DEVOTION

R eligion is mans idea, not Gods.

Gods original idea is much bigger and much better than anything we humans could ever dream up. And what was Gods big idea? He decided to extend His heavenly Kingdom to the earthly plane, to expand His supernatural realm into the natural realm. Or, to put it another way, God decided to fill the Earth with the culture of Heaven. How did God bring His big idea into being? In this, as in almost everything else He does, God did the unexpected. Typically, human kingdoms and empires riseand fallthrough war and conquest. Not Gods. Because His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways (see Isa. 55:8), God did something completely different. When God decided to bring the culture of Heaven to Earth He did not use war. He did not use conquest. He did not issue a code of laws. No, when God set out to bring Heaven to Earth, He did something much simpler, something uniquely beautiful and wonderful.

He planted a garden.

(Gods Big Idea, Chapter One)

CONSIDERATIONS

1. Can you think of three earthly kingdoms that have risen and fallen? Name them and the reason for their ultimate demise.

2. In what ways has religion failed humankind?

3. What is the alternate government that will change the world?

4. Because many cultural conflicts are religiously based, what can be done to help solve the differences in ideologies?

5. How can you personally tap into Gods big idea to help change your world for the better?

MEDITATION

God initiated His Kingdom on earth by planting a Garden in Eden, a place specially prepared as the habitation for the first human representatives of His Kingdom government on earth. From this hub of abundance and beauty, they would follow their governments mandate to Be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28 NKJV), filling the Earth with their kind and planting Kingdom gardens wherever they went. In this manner, like leaven in bread, they would infuse the territory of Earth with the nation of Heaven.

(Gods Big Idea, Chapter One)

Are you willing to plant a garden in your neighborhood or your city?

What could your first step be?

T HE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD;THE SKIES PROCLAIM THE WORK OF HIS HANDS (PSALM 19:1).