20 Things Godly Christians Do Every Day

Posted on June 6, 2018

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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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)

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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 (Psalm 32:5)

• Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (Psalm 51:2)

• He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

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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)

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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)

• No mercy will be shown to those who show no mercy to others. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (James 2:13 GWT)

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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)

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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)

Gods Influence on the Formation of the US Government

From the Founding fathers, looked to the Bible for guiding principles on political order, civil authority, civic virtue, responsible citizenship, and other features that are a part of a well-ordered political society. The framers drew on diverse political and legal traditions in crafting a constitutional republic. One of the most important but least studied sources of influence on our political culture, and our constitutional tradition, is the Bible. The Constitution contains many features in both content and design familiar to a Bible-reading people, and we cannot understand adequately our constitutional tradition or the historic events that produced our great political experiment in republican self-government and liberty under law without studying, without referencing, the Bible.

The U.S. Constitution specifies three separate branches that make up our government: legislative, executive, and judicial. These branches of government are not unique to the United States. Every government will carry out these functions in one way or another.

When it comes to the rule of God, His government performs the same legislative, executive, and judicial functions. Isaiah wrote, “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us” (Isaiah 33:22). We live under a different covenant today than the Israelites did at the time of this writing. They were part of God’s kingdom in the nation of Israel. We are part of Christ’s kingdom today in the church. But even today, when we examine the rule of Christ, we see that Jesus completely and sufficiently carries out the role of each branch of government in His kingdom.

The Lord is our Judge – While Jesus came first to save rather than to pronounce judgment (John 3:17), He has now been “appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead” (Acts 10:42). When He returns, we will “all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10). He is perfectly qualified to be Judge because He is unbiased (Acts 10:34-35) and, as the Word that was made flesh (John 1:14), He has a perfect knowledge and understanding of the law. Since He does not change (Hebrews 13:8), we know that He will render judgments uniformly and fairly. He has the exclusive right to judge us; therefore, we are not to allow the judgments of others, or the judgments we make ourselves, to overrule His (Colossians 2:16-17; 1 Corinthians 4:3-4).

The Lord is our Lawgiver – Isaiah prophesied that when the Lord’s kingdom would be established, “the law will go forth from Zion” (Isaiah 2:3). Some claim that Christians are not under a law today, but that is simply not the case. In trying to convert others, Paul said he became “to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ” (1 Corinthians 9:21). We have been given the Word which reveals Christ’s law. In it we see the commands we are to obey (Matthew 28:20) and the pattern to which we are to adhere (2 Timothy 1:13). We are told of the importance of finding authority in His word for all the things that we do (Colossians 3:17). In His word, we have everything we need (2 Peter 1:3; 2 Timothy 3:16-17), eliminating the need to look to others for instructions. Unlike the laws of man, His word does not change (1 Peter 1:25; Galatians 1:8) and is simple enough that we can understand it (Ephesians 3:4).

The Lord is our King – Jesus plainly affirmed to Pilate that He was a king. He told the governor, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm” (John 18:36). When Pilate then asked if Jesus was a king, He answered, “You say correctly that I am a king” (John 18:37). Many believe that Jesus today is a king that is still waiting to receive His kingdom. Yet the Scriptures teach that His kingdom is already in existence. He promised His disciples that it would be founded in the lifetime of some of those standing there (Mark 9:1). Paul told the brethren in Colosse that they were already in the kingdom (Colossians 1:13). He is a king and we must be part of His kingdom. To do so, we must submit to Him as the one who possesses all authority (Matthew 28:18).

The outcome of submitting to Christ and living under His government, Isaiah said, is salvation: “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us” (Isaiah 33:22). When it comes to spiritual salvation or punishment, no human government can save us. Isaiah made this point earlier (Isaiah 31:1). Salvation is only to be found in Christ (Acts 4:12). We must become part of His kingdom and submit to His laws so that we can be prepared to stand before Him in judgment.

Following are a few statements about the Bible by America’s Founding Fathers:

These quotes could be multiplied. They are gathered from many sources, such as The United States, Law, Government, Religion, Christianity, and Illegalities by Barak Josiah, The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations edited by James Hutson, and America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations edited by William Federer.

Many of America’s founders were members of and supporters of the American Bible Society, which was founded in 1816. The first president of the Society, Elias Boudinot, had been President of the Continental Congress during the War of Independence. The second president of the Bible Society, John Jay, was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826), second President of the United States. “I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world” (Works, Vol. X, p. 85, letter written to Thomas Jefferson).

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States. In 1811, Adams wrote the following to his son: “Let us then search the Scriptures. ... The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God; it contains the history of the creation, of the world and of mankind; and afterwards the history of one peculiar nation, certainly the most extraordinary nation that has ever appeared upon the earth” (Letter from John Quincy Adams to George Adams, Sept. 1 and 8, 1811).

PATRICK HENRY (1736-1799), officer in the Continental Army, Governor of Virginia. “The Bible ... is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed” (Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, William Wirt, 1818, p. 402).

JOHN JAY (1745-1829), first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Governor of New York. In 1784, he wrote the following to his eldest son, Peter: “Your aunt tells me that you love your books, and that you daily read in the Bible and have learned by heart some Hymns in the book I sent you. These accounts give me great pleasure, and I love you for being such a good boy. The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts” (The Winning of the Peace, unpublished papers of John Jay, edited by Richard Morris, Vol. II, p. 709).

ELIAS BOUDINOT (1740-1821), President of the Continental Congress, framer of the Bill of Rights. “For nearly half a century have I anxiously and critically studied that invaluable treasure [the Bible]; and I still scarcely ever take it up that I do not find something new--that I do not receive some valuable addition to my stock of knowledge or perceive some instructive fact never observed before. In short, were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive both to the wise and ignorant. Were you to ask me for one affording the most rational and pleasing entertainment to the inquiring mind, I should repeat, it is the Bible; and should you renew the inquiry for the best philosophy or the most interesting history, I should still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the Alpha and Omega of knowledge” (The Age of Revelation, or the Age of Reason Shown to Be an Age of Infidelity, 1801, p. xv, from the “Dedication: Letter to his daughter Susan Bradford”).

BENJAMIN RUSH (1746-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence, a founder of the Philadelphia Bible Society. “By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. ... It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published” (Letters of Benjamin Rush, 1951, Vol. I, p. 475). “[T]he only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible” (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical, 1798, p. 112). “The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world” (Essays, 1798, p. 93).

ROBERT TREAT PAINE (1731-1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence, Attorney General of Massachusetts. “I believe the Bible to be the written word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners” (The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, Vol. I, p. 49).

DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852), U.S. Secretary of State (cousin of Noah Webster): “... to the free and universal reading of the Bible ... men [are] much indebted for right views of civil liberty” (Address delivered at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1843).

NOAH WEBSTER (1758-1843), judge, legislator, educator, author of the American Dictionary of the English Language. “The moral principles and precepts found in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. ... All the ... evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible” (Webster, History of the United States, 1832, “Advice to the Young, p. 339). “... our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion” (History of the United States, 1832, p. 6). “The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society--the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men” (The Holy Bible ... with Amendments of the Language, 1833, p. v).

ROGER SHERMAN (1721-1793), signer of the Declaration of Independence, framer of the Bill of Rights. “The volume which he consulted more than any other was the Bible. It was his custom, at the commencement of every session of Congress, to purchase a copy of the Scriptures, to peruse it daily, and to present it to one of his children on his return” (The Globe, Washington D.C., Aug. 15, 1837).

JAMES MCHENRY (1753-1816), signer of the U.S. Constitution, founder and president of the Baltimore Bible Society. “All Christians allow that the Old and New Testaments taken together, are the only books in the world which clearly reveal the nature of God, contain a perfect law for our government, propose the most powerful persuasions to obey this law, and furnish the best motives for patience and resignation, under every circumstance and vicissitude of life. Even those writers who deny their divinity, have yet acknowledged that the matters contained in them are, at least, calculated to make mankind wiser and better. These surprising and salutary effects the scriptures have unequivocally produced, and whenever they are read and attended to, will continue to produce. Facts so fully ascertained and so clearly demonstrating the great importance of circulating the sacred writings have (within these few years past) called the attention of men more particularly to this subject, and given rise to the establishment of Societies whose object is to encourage their circulation. ... public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. Without the Bible, in vain do we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. ... Bibles are strong protections. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience” (One Hundred and Ten Years of Bible Society Work in Maryland, 1921, pp. 13, 14).

FISHER AMES (1758-1808), judge, representative to the Federal Congress, author of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools” (Palladium magazine, Sept. 20, 1789).

It must be understood that these were very educated men who were familiar with the best literature of world history, including that of the Greeks, the Romans, the English, the French, and the Germans.