If you would like to extend this over a week, you can easily do one of the points each day of your devotion.  Here is a printable version.

25 Day Church Challenge
Devotional:  Giving God Complete Devotion  
 
Day 1

Spend time today meditating on Acts 2.

Acts 2:42-47 - They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Question:  Measuring your devotion:  How well you have fit into the first century church?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Day 2

Matthew 6:24 – “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
 
Question:  What is your definition of a master?  ________________________________________________
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The last part of verse 24 says “you cannot serve both God and money.”

Question:  Think of a time when you tried to serve both God and money. _____________________
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You will either place your trust in money, wealth, and the pursuit of security, or in God.

Prayer:  Lord, I want my total trust and security to be in you and you alone.

Day 3

God doesn’t just want to rescue you financially. God wants to have your total devotion, but His competition is your stuff.

Question:  Can you think of a time when your stuff became more important than your heart’s devotion to Christ? _______________________________________________________________________________
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Have you ever thought the reason why so many people are in financial chaos is because they’re not following what the Scriptures teaches about how we handle our finances?

Question:  List some ways God wants you to handle your finances.  ___________________________
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Three action steps to break greed:

• Give 10%, Save 10%, Live 80%.
  
  

Question:  If your finances are not similar to the percentages above, what steps can you take to get to those percentages?  _______________________________________________________________________
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Day 4

Matthew 6:24-32 - You cannot serve both God and Money. 25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things… 
 

• A pagan doesn’t believe that God is interested in their daily affairs.
  
  

Question:  Do you find yourself, more often than not, chasing after the things of this world?  If so, name the things that you are chasing.  _______________________________________________________
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Question:  How could a Christ follower live as if God wasn’t interested in his daily affairs?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Matthew 6:32-34 – “…and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first  his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” 

Our struggle with “seeking first his kingdom” is a constant battle that we fight.  Our struggle with chasing after the things of this world just reveals our devotion to his kingdom.  I’m not talking about our salvation, I’m speaking about the area of our heart or devotion that God controls.

Prayer:  Lord, I want you to have control of my total heart.

Day 5

If you made it to day five of this devotion, I’m proud of you. It is always difficult to deal with our heart and what we find out about our heart.

Matthew 6:33-34 - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Question:  Have you given any thought to what “all these things” he is referring to?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Question:  What is the promise that he will give us?  ____________________________________________
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Question:  What is the condition to receive that promise?  _____________________________________
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Question:  What areas of your life do you need to adjust to seek him first?   __________________
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Prayer:  Lord, make the adjustments YOU need.