Devotionals

A daily word of encouragement, exhortation and edification, drawn from the Scriptures.

For Adulterers Only … A Call Home

How would you react if you found your spouse lying with another man or woman? What emotions would arise? Anger? Hurt? Bitterness? I’m sure that just the thought of this happening enrages you. Did you ever stop to think about adultery of another kind – spiritual...

True Love

The Song of Solomon is one of the books of the Bible that is often overlooked. Its pointed love theme nearly causes one to blush. Sadly, it may sound like “the way it used to be” with us. This, like all other Scripture, is God inspired for the same reasons any other...

Walking by Faith

2 Cor 5.6-8 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...

Enduring Is Not Enjoying

Although we know that our faith in Christ is an objective, not a subjective feeling, we often find ourselves (or at least I do) mistaking our feelings as an indication of having inferior faith. There’s this little voice inside that conveys a message to my brain (a...

Jesus Christ, The Rock On Which We Stand

Isaiah prophesied that Christ would be “a foundation, a stone”. Paul called Jesus the foundation in 1 Corinthians 3:11. Christ, without controversy, is The Chief Cornerstone2 and Head of His Church. If there is to be any assurance of salvation and subsequent...

That Still, Small Voice

So many times after great victory, we find ourselves plunged into the pit of depression or fear of some sort. Why is that so? I really do not think that you have to be a prophet to conclude that the reason is simple. We are mortal; subject to change. Contrariwise, our...

Don’t Forget Jesus

“But we see Jesus” (Hebrews 2:9). How important it is for us to see Jesus throughout each day. Too often we only check in with Him in the morning, say goodnight, and throw in occasional “Please” and “Thank You” for other blessings. However, our faith in Jesus needs to...

We Know

The Christian faith isn’t a hunch. Nor is it the best possible choice out of a banquet of religious options. No, Luke wrote that we “may know the certainty of those things in which (we) were instructed.” (Luke 1:4) Notwithstanding all of the questions and...

Knowledge of, not knowledge about

When the Bible talks about renewing the mind, it speaks of much more than memorizing or quoting Scripture. Memorizing and quoting Scripture are valuable and important. But, the place where Scripture is to be hidden is in the heart, not the head. When Scripture is...

Why did Jesus Christ come?

1 Peter 3.18 For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. Amplified VersionOne of the most forgotten redemption truths of Scripture...

Bought with a price

1 Corinthians 6.20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.God has purchased the salvation of your eternal soul with the blood of His Son Jesus Christ. Your spirit and body belong to Him. Please know...

God's Human Spirit Battery Charger: Creation

Job 37.14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.If your soul is dry as a crust of bread, or you are feeling dull and blah. Try doing what God told Job, who was having a bona fide "pity party", stand still and look at My wondrous...

Be careful about cliches

2 Corinthians 4.10 as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.I was reading the blog of a church website and they were talking about how God provided them with furniture and things for their new children's ministry classroom....

Undivided Devotion

1Cor 7.35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to The Lord.In this section of his letter to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul is writing about issues of marriage, vocations and other...

Obedience is better than brilliance

Mic 6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?I want to share with you precious saints an observation that I have made as a pastor over the last 30...

Defining Greatness

John 13:13-17 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say...

The Narrow Path

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it....

The Mark of God

Ezekiel 9.4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Most bible believing Christians...

Blessed Are the Meek

The prophet Isaiah declared that The Spirit of the Lord GOD was upon Jesus Christ because the LORD had anointed Him “to preach good tidings unto the meek” (Isaiah 61:1). Scripture declares that it is the meek who receive the engrafted word, which is able to save their...

Blessed Filling

Every human being is born with an appetite that longs to be filled. Whether it be an appetite for food, or for pleasure, or a curiosity for knowing what makes things operate the way they do, we all possess this appetite. But where do we find satisfaction and...

Prayer for the Saints

This morning we will be looking at the first of two Spirit-filled prayers that Paul prays for the saints at Ephesus (Ephesians 1:15-20). These prayers, like all the prayers in the bible, can be used to help us in our prayer lives. In fact, I would say that one reason...

Why Do We Water Baptize?

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Water baptism is one of the two ordinances that Jesus Christ gave us to observe, the other being The Lord’s Supper. The last words of...

Sometimes or Still?

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. The apostle Paul wrote this verse to pastor Titus as a depiction of the unregenerate person....

Miracles and faith

Gal 3.2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of (with) faith? 3.5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?When...

It’s Not Over

Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days. It is estimated that Job was 70 years old when the calamity came. So God gave him twice as many years to enjoy the double blessings that came to him. Commentators suggest that the entire book of Job lasted around 9...

The Clock is Ticking

Acts 2:16-21 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old...

The Power of Desire

Proverbs 18:1,2 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. The English word desire is a translation of a Hebrew feminine noun meaning...

Victory in Jesus

1 Cor 15.57,58 But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. We...

The purposes of God

Ezekiel 14.23 and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. God was explaining to Ezekiel that the horrific judgments that were happening in the land were not done rashly, or for no reason. Both the land and the...