by Ray Viola | Aug 12, 2023 | Devotionals
Legalism places the burden of responsibility upon the shoulders of men. God never intended that we carry this heavy weight around. The government of God is to be placed upon the shoulders of Jesus Christ. This was beautifully typified in the Old Testament picture of...
by Ray Viola | Jan 10, 2022 | Devotionals
Almost one-third of the books in the Bible mention a yoke and often the reference is figurative or symbolic, necessitating the knowledge that a literal yoke is a wooden frame, fitted across the neck of two animals, that joins them together. Man, by birth, is yoked to...
by Ray Viola | Dec 11, 2021 | Contemporary Christianity
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. The yoke of Jesus destroys every yoke of bondage. Isaiah wrote that the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (Isaiah 10:27)....
by Ray Viola | Nov 22, 2021 | Devotionals
Isaiah 19:19,20 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the...
by Ray Viola | Sep 30, 2020 | Devotionals
Romans 6.18-21 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield...