by Ray Viola | May 20, 2019 | Devotionals
What does a blessed life look like? Or let me put it this way: What does God say that a life that is blessed looks like? The answer is found in the Holy Scriptures. In beginning a teaching in what has been called “The Sermon on the Mount”, The Lord Jesus Christ opens...
by Ray Viola | Mar 8, 2019 | Devotionals
The Psalmist declared in 68:19, “Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits, even] the God of our salvation. Selah.” As the dawning of a new day is upon us beloved, may the precious truth that God has loaded our life today with benefits...
by Ray Viola | Feb 21, 2019 | Devotionals
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...
by Ray Viola | Feb 20, 2019 | Devotionals
The Beatitudes are a description of a disciple of The Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:3-12). They are a description of Christian character which is the fruit of abiding in Jesus Christ (John 15:1-16). As we ponder this list, it does not take long to discover that God’s...
by Ray Viola | Apr 13, 2013 | Colossians, Ephesians, Philemon, Philippians
Paul is completely convinced that he is in prison according to the good, perfect and acceptable will of God. Instead of moaning and crying and complaining, he is: Abiding in Christ and looking for ways to bring glory to him as long as he is there. Concerned for others...