by Ray Viola | Jul 23, 2020 | Devotionals, Who is Jesus?
Imagine sitting in the congregation in Thyatira and hearing the pastor say, “I have a letter from the risen Lord Jesus, the Son of God.” I would fully expect that each person in that room would be sitting on the proverbial “edge of their seats”! These are the words of...
by Ray Viola | Mar 9, 2020 | Devotionals
Zephaniah 3.1,2 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. The prophet Zephaniah is writing a word of judgment and woe to the people...
by Ray Viola | Feb 27, 2020 | Devotionals
Psalm 1.2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. I don’t know about you, but my mind can be an endless stream of busyness and flat out wrong thinking about things. That in and of itself is one reason why I need...
by Ray Viola | Jan 16, 2020 | Devotionals
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Let me give you a couple of other ways that this passage can be understood. Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up. Anxiety in a man’s heart...
by Ray Viola | Jan 10, 2020 | Devotionals
James 1.22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway...