Whether Christians like it or not, we are at war. The Bible is very clear about whom our enemy is, and how we ought to protect ourselves from the devil. Skirmishes are fought in the heavenly realm and not just… Read More ›
INSPIRATIONAL DEVOTIONS
You Can’t Spoil a Baby
“But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way….” Acts 9:27 I’ve heard that in the first year of his life, it is virtually impossible to… Read More ›
You Can’t Spoil a Baby
“But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way….” Acts 9:27 I’ve heard that in the first year of his life, it is virtually impossible to… Read More ›
Beautiful Garbage
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth…but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven.” – Matthew 6:19-20 Years ago I read about a man who had a rather ingenious way of getting rid of his garbage. He would… Read More ›
Down in the Valley
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me …” – Psalm 23:4 Until the fourth verse in this psalm, David has been talking about the Lord…. Read More ›
Between Two Mountains
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil…“ – Psalm 23:4 “… I lift up mine eyesunto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” – Psalm 121:1 In Psalm 23, David… Read More ›
Window Shopping Through the Bible
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Most of us just kind of go window-shopping through the Bible. “Oh, isn’t that a precious promise?” “Hmm, what a… Read More ›
One of Our Greatest Fears
BIBLE MEDITATION “…for He has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: This is one of the most encouraging verses in all the Bible. Greek scholars tell us this sentence, “I will never… Read More ›
The Love that Will Never Let You Go
BIBLE MEDITATION “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” – Jeremiah 31:3 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: George Matheson, a student at the University of… Read More ›
Anchored
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.” –… Read More ›
What Your Heart Really Longs For
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desire of your heart.” – Psalm 37:4 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: This verse doesn’t mean you’ll have every whim and fancy met—that you can have an island paradise somewhere,… Read More ›
What Your Heart Really Longs For
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desire of your heart.” – Psalm 37:4 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: This verse doesn’t mean you’ll have every whim and fancy met—that you can have an island paradise somewhere,… Read More ›
You May Have All of God that You Want
BIBLE MEDITATION: “He that loveth silver shall never be satisfied with silver.” – Ecclesiastes 5:10 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: We live in a day that has confused luxuries and necessities. Material things can never bring contentment, for they can never satisfy the… Read More ›
The Disease of Discontent
BIBLE MEDITATION: “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” – 1Timothy 6:6 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Many times we think we need something when we really don’t. Sometimes we want things we don’t need. We get our luxuries and our necessities confused…. Read More ›
What Gives You the Right to Pray?
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lordmy God…the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being… Read More ›
What Gives You the Right to Pray?
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lordmy God…the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being… Read More ›
Fear Hinders Our Work For Christ
God does not turn a deaf ear to any righteous person crying out for help. The Lord hears their cry. Every believer should embrace this promise. And although God is spirit, and we are spirit encased within flesh, He hears… Read More ›
What Do You Seek Most?
BIBLE MEDITATION: “O Lord, according to all Thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem… Read More ›
What Do You Seek Most?
BIBLE MEDITATION: “O Lord, according to all Thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem… Read More ›
A Clear Picture When You Pray
BIBLE MEDITATION: “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments…O Lord, righteousness belongeth to Thee…. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness…for… Read More ›
A Clear Picture When You Pray
BIBLE MEDITATION: “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments…O Lord, righteousness belongeth to Thee…. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness…for… Read More ›
The Casual Prayer Life
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.” – Daniel 9:3 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: So often our prayer is casual prayer, prayer that comes with almost… Read More ›
The Prayer that Makes God Angry
BIBLE MEDITATION: “And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession…We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments.” – Daniel 9:4-5 DEVOTIONAL… Read More ›
You Won’t Have One without the Other
BIBLE MEDITATION “In the first year of his [King Darius] reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lordthrough Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the… Read More ›
The Spiritual Discipline That Is a Lost Art
BIBLE MEDITATION: “I, Daniel…set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.” – Daniel 9:2, 3 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Someone has called fasting “the weeping of the soul.” Fasting is a… Read More ›
The Spiritual Discipline That Is a Lost Art
BIBLE MEDITATION: “I, Daniel…set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.” – Daniel 9:2, 3 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Someone has called fasting “the weeping of the soul.” Fasting is a… Read More ›
The Changed Life
BIBLE MEDITATION:The Changed Life “The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” – 2 Peter 2:22 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: An unsaved person can sit in church, sing in… Read More ›
The Changed Life
BIBLE MEDITATION:The Changed Life “The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” – 2 Peter 2:22 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: An unsaved person can sit in church, sing in… Read More ›
“Lo, I Am With You”
BIBLE MEDITATION: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe… Read More ›
The Hidden Cupboard
BIBLE MEDITATION: “Search me O God and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” – Psalm 139:23-24 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: F. B. Meyer… Read More ›