by Ray Viola | Jun 18, 2024 | Devotionals
Isa 9.1 “Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in...
by Ray Viola | Jun 12, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalms 119:80 “Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.”May this be a part of your prayers this morning, loved ones. Let my heart be sound in Thy statutes. The Hebrew word that is translated “sound” here is also translated,...
by Ray Viola | Jun 10, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalms 45:7 “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”In this Messianic Psalm, we read that Jesus Christ, Son of Man was a man anointed with gladness because He...
by Ray Viola | Jun 8, 2024 | Devotionals
Hebrews 8:6 “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”One of the oft repeated words used in the book of Hebrews is the word better. Our passage...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Nov 3, 2023 | Devotionals
Eight times we find the phrase, “the righteousness of God” in the Scriptures, and five of them are in the epistle to the Romans. The word “righteousness” has both a doctrinal and a practical implication. Doctrinally, righteousness is that right standing with God...