Devotions
Purpose in Your Heart to Please God
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NLT) …Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts. We all know individuals who are people pleasers. They are also usually very unhappy. As Christians, we cannot be concerned about...
It’s Who You Really Are!
"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and...
Pressing Toward The Mark
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:14 KJV) No power in the universe goes backward on the time line, not even God's power. So many times we wish things could have been different or that we could have...
God Heals You Through Your Spirit
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Ps. 107:20) As you say the following confession, notice what happens on the inside of you: God's Word works. Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent His Word and healed them," so I know He sent His...
The Laying on of Hands
"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the...
A Lightened Load
"And strengthen your bones..." (Isa. 58:11 NKJ). This word strengthen has quite a few interesting definitions which can speak to us today. Chalats (kwaw-lats') is the original Hebrew word used by Isaiah. The King James translators rendered it "make fat" your bones....
The Final Payment for Sin
"I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust" (Ps. 91:2 KJV). The wages (or price tag, or salary) of sin is death. Sin always equals death. There is always a payment for sin. But we must focus on the fact that the price for...
Overcoming Faith
"For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). "I may be in the world, but I am not of the world. I am of God. My citizenship is in Heaven. And while I am in this world, I have the...
The Habit of Holiness
"He that hath my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him" (John 14:21). There's a dimension of living you can only experience when you make a...
Success In Life
All the years Israel wandered in the wilderness, the cities of Canaan feared the day when this nation would come with God’s mighty power. Israel finally began to trust God, and the man God had anointed. God now had this nation ready to take the land. They would...