Consider Your Ways

Today is the first day of the year 2017. Today is the day that many people begin that new diet, or exercise program, or budget. It is a day when we reflect on the past year or years, and come to the conclusion that something has got to change. The status quo is...

Emmanuel, God With Us

Chances are that many of you here this morning and reading this devotional do not feel like God is with you. Beloved, may I kindly say this to you. Do not let your feelings (for whatever reason) defy the truth of Holy Scripture. This name of Jesus is slowly becoming...

Priorities

How sad for us human beings that it often takes a tragedy to get our priorities right. Haven’t you found after some tragic event that things that you and I thought were very important have become insignificant? What is our purpose on earth? What is really important?...

Guidance Through Prayer

If Paul was left to minister according to his own understanding, I doubt he would have been as fruitful as he was. Paul was convinced that if anybody could reach his fellow Jews, it was he. After all he had the top notch Rabbinic Scholar as his mentor. Nobody could...

Such As I Have Give I Thee

How much better and blessed are the plans of the Lord in comparison to ours! What if the beggar in Acts 3 got what he was asking for, silver and gold? For a short period of time things might have been a bit easier for him in some respects, but in due time the money...