Young Christians Calendar

November 2026

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life” (1 John 5:13).

A short while ago the father of a Christian friend of mine died. He was a true Christian, and when he died, he went to be with the Lord. A short time later my friend told someone at his work that his father had died, and that his father had gone to be with Christ. But his coworker said, “You mean, you hope he is with Christ.” “No,” my friend said, “I know my father is with Christ, because the Word of God says so.

There are many things that are uncertain in the world today, and sadly, there are many people who say things that they know are not true. But God cannot lie, and when He says something in His Word, we can fully trust Him. God wants us to know that we have eternal life, because we believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Friday, November 13, 2026

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“Ye were the servants of sin…being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Romans 6:17-18).

When we accept Christ as our Savior, we receive a new nature—a life that cannot sin. However, we still have the old sinful nature, and it is just as capable of sinning as before! All of us who are saved know that. So now a believer in the Lord Jesus has two natures.

If we are careless and allow the old sinful nature to act, we will sin. This does not mean that we are suddenly part of the family of the devil again, but we are acting like the devil’s family. We are still part of God’s family, but we are not acting like it. But God wants us to be like His family, and we do this by allowing the new nature to act in our life.

We need to remember that every time we sin, we are acting like the family of the devil. This is a very solemn thought!

Thursday, November 12, 2026

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“In Him [the Lord Jesus] is no sin” (1 John 3:5).

“The devil sinneth from the beginning…in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil” (1 John 3:8,10).

In our two verses for today we have a description of the two families of people that are in this world. Either we belong to the family of God, or we belong to the family of the devil. Some people would be insulted if they heard this, but it is true. Everyone in this world belongs to one of these two families. There is no such thing as a third family.

The Lord Jesus could not sin, for He has a nature that cannot sin. Those who are saved have also been given a new nature—a nature that cannot sin. But the devil cannot do anything but sin, and those who are not saved have a nature characterized by sinning.

Somebody may ask, What happens then when a true believer sins? How does that happen? We will see tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

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“And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth Himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).

Yesterday we saw that already we are children of God, but that we do not yet look like it. It will not be until the Lord comes that we will get our glorified bodies. However, there is one way that we can be like Christ in this world, and that is by purifying ourselves. We cannot change our bodies, but we can live and walk in a way that honors the Lord Jesus.

If we are truly saved, we have a new nature that wants to please the Lord. He wants us to let that new nature display itself in our lives in this world. It is true that none of us does it perfectly down here in this world, but when other people see the way we behave and live, they ought to realize that we belong to Christ. Today God wants us to be morally like Christ; in a coming day we will be perfectly like Him, both morally and physically.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

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“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2).

It is a wonderful thing to be a son (or child) of God! If we are truly saved, we have been brought into His family, and we belong to Him. Our verse today reminds us of this wonderful truth, but it also reminds us that while we are down here in this world, we do not look like children of God. Because sin has come into this world, we have bodies that are subject to aging, disease, and eventually death, if the Lord does not come first and take us home to be with Himself.

However, when the Lord does come, we will immediately have “bodies of glory”—bodies that are perfectly like Christ’s body. Later, when the Lord Jesus comes back to this world in power and glory to set up His kingdom and to reign, we will come with Him. At that time the whole world will see that you and I are perfectly like Christ. The Lord wants us to enjoy this hope, and to look forward to it!

Monday, November 9, 2026

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“For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways” (Psalm 91:11).

“The angels…are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for [take care of] them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:13-14).

As we go about our daily lives, we do not often think that the Lord has placed angels around us to look after us! We arrive home safely, even from a trip to the grocery store, and may not think that an angel may have redirected another car so that we passed safely by without an accident. We may miss a plane flight and feel frustrated, but perhaps the angels were saving us from harm in some way. Maybe there was someone else sitting in that airport that the Lord wanted us to meet and talk to that day.

When the Lord makes a promise to us in this way, it does not just mean “sometimes”! Every day we are lovingly watched over and guarded by His angels! Let’s be sure we thank Him daily for His care.

Sunday, November 8, 2026

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“They that hate Me without a cause are more than the hairs of Mine head: they that would destroy Me, being Mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away” (Psalm 69:4).

When the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross, He felt it keenly that so many hated Him—more than the hairs of His head. Do you realize that there are more than 100,000 hairs on the heads of younger people? All these people wanted to destroy the Lord Jesus, just because they did not like Him. Why did they not like Him? It was because He told them that they were sinners before God, and could not get eternal life by their own efforts.

But in spite of all this hatred, the Lord Jesus willingly went to the cross, and our verse tells us that He “restored that which [He] took not away.” It was man that had sinned and brought sorrow, pain and death into this world, but it was the Lord Jesus who suffered for sin, and made a way for men and women to be saved from all this. In fact, His work on the cross gave man much more than he had before sin came into this world. As a result of what the Lord Jesus did, we will spend eternity with Him in heaven, and eventually sin and all its sad effects will be totally removed from this entire universe. The restoration will be complete, and more than complete!

Saturday, November 7, 2026

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“The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them” (Psalm 34:7).

Have you ever been afraid? I don’t just mean things like being afraid that you might not pass your driver’s examination! Rather, I am thinking about a deep fear you may have of something that might happen to you. Even those of us who are older have fears, and sometimes even scary dreams at night. Sometimes terrible things happen, perhaps even to people we know.

But this verse is so wonderful, and gives us such peace. If we have the Lord “encamping” around us to deliver us, how could we be safer? He will not allow anything to happen in our lives that is not in His plan of love for us. To learn to trust Him even when we are young is a great cornerstone in our Christian lives.

Friday, November 6, 2026

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“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).

When I was in high school (way back in the early 1960s!) we were shown some movies that had been made in the USA in the 1940s to instruct the soldiers going off to fight in WW2, as to what and why they were fighting. I found those same documentaries on YouTube recently and found I had remembered them correctly. The countries with whom the Western nations (Britain, France, the USA, Canada, etc.) were at war at that time were training very young people. Right from the time they were children they were taught the values of their country and their army, so that when it came time to put on a uniform, they would be more than ready to fight.

This was a poor thing to be training youths to do, yet our verse today shows us that at an early age we are like a sponge. We soak up what we are taught, especially if it comes from those we look up to. It is wonderful if you are being brought up in a Christian home, where all that surrounds you has the context of the love of God, and His claims on us. Be thankful that your life is rooted in the Scriptures, and appreciate this immense privilege.

Thursday, November 5, 2026

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“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son” (Colossians 1:13).

Here is another “power”—one directly opposite to the wonderful power of yesterday’s verse. This is Satan’s power, that dark and gripping force opposing God’s power. We all know who will be victorious in a battle such as this, for we have been delivered from the power of darkness.

Many of us have grown up in Christian homes and most likely have not felt the depth and strength of the power of darkness. But as Christianity is given up in countries where once it was the foundation core of life, Satan moves in. An abandoned house is soon filled with rats and other undesirable animals. Satan gets his foot in the door of a “house” where the light of Christianity is fading. We who are part of the kingdom of “His dear Son” must be on guard, and as the world shifts course, we must keep our hearts anchored in God’s Word.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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“Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:11).

I am sure we all at some time have bought a “power drink” or a “power bar”—those quick snacks meant to give us that burst of energy to complete a task. Maybe you are running a race or doing a long hike and need some extra energy. For me, it’s something in my briefcase on a long plane flight where there are no meals served!

In today’s verse we are promised to be strengthened with all might and His glorious power. We have talked about this verse before, back in August, but here is a little different thought. Why are we strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power? That we may be patient and longsuffering with joyfulness. Not just a burst of energy, but a continuous power to help us walk our Christian life through what may be the petty things that bother us every day. And not only to endure them, but to do it with joyfulness!

If we simply trudge our way through difficult things, we are no better than the rest of the world. But if we do it with joyfulness, it is a testimony that we know the Lord Jesus!

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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“Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world” (1 Peter 5:9).

“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

In spite of the fierceness of the devil, and the way he comes at us as a roaring lion, we see clearly from the Word of God that we are to resist him. How can we do this? We can resist him because he is a defeated enemy, and he knows it. If we try to resist him in our own strength, we will surely lose, but if we resist him in the Lord’s strength, we will find that he will run away from us. He knows that the Lord Jesus won the victory for us at the cross, and that everything that he tried to do to the Lord Jesus ultimately failed.

Satan thought that he could get rid of the Lord Jesus at the cross, but our Lord rose triumphantly from the grave, and is now seated at God’s right hand. All power is committed to Him, and eventually Satan will be banished to the lake of fire forever.

If he tries to attack us, we can resist him in the Lord’s strength, and he will flee from us.

Monday, November 2, 2026

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“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

Have you ever heard a lion roar? Probably not, but I heard one once, in a zoo. Even though I knew that the lion could not harm me, the intensity and loudness of the roar was very frightening. It went on for quite some time, and reminded all who heard it of the power of that lion.

The Lord compares Satan to a lion, who comes at us fiercely, wanting to frighten us. Sometimes Satan attacks us through difficult circumstances in our lives, while at other times he may frighten us with discouragement. When difficulties pile up, and things are not going right in our lives, that is the time that Satan seeks to discourage us. He tells us that the Christian pathway is too difficult, that it is not worthwhile, and that we should rather take part in worldly pleasures than follow the Lord. He is looking for those “whom he may devour.” What are we to do? We will see tomorrow.

Sunday, November 1, 2026

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“Christ also suffered for us…who did no sin…who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously” (1 Peter 2:21-23).

When we think of who the Lord Jesus was—the Son of God, and the Creator of the universe, it overwhelms our hearts to think of what He suffered in this world. First of all, He suffered all the insults and physical abuse that man could heap upon Him. It is important for us to realize that all this was to show us how much He loved us; His sufferings from man did not put away our sins. It was only His sufferings in the three hours of darkness that put away our sins.

But in those sufferings from man, our Lord Jesus showed us how we should react to suffering for the name of Christ. The Lord Jesus had absolute power to deal with those who abused Him, but He did not use it. Rather He committed Himself to God His Father, and that is what we should do. If we are persecuted for Christ’s sake, the Lord takes note of it. We can leave the judgment of it all with Him.