Devotions
The Dead In Christ Shall Rise
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. (1 Thess. 4:16 KJV) Those who have died believing in Jesus Christ will rise to new life. They...
Healing in the New Testament
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be...
Portraits of Our Redemption
"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto...
Reaching Forward
"Reaching forward to those things which are ahead" (Phil. 3:13 NKJ). Craning the neck, scanning the horizon, and shading the eyes with the hand in order to see at a distance: these are all expressed by the phrase reaching forward. Paul is telling the Philippians to...
Now At This Time
"To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3:26 KJV). Paul, in writing to the church at Rome makes a point in Romans 3:26. He says, "at this time" God's righteousness is...
Saying the Same Thing
"Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession confession" (Heb. 4:14). The Greek word translated "profession" here is translated confession elsewhere in the King James Version....
A Giving God?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" (John 3:16). For God so loved the world that He gave...and He gave...and He gave. That is the message the Bible brings us from beginning to end. It sounds simple enough. Yet few of us really...
Slavery Syndrome
When Israel reestablished their covenant of circumcision with the Lord, they returned to God with total abandonment. They didn’t want anything to stand in their way. They had witnessed the weakness of their fathers in the wilderness and now they only wanted God’s...
Love Makes Life Meaningful
We can tap into the deep, rich reservoir of God’s love residing within us even when people rub us the wrong way. Love is a force much more powerful than human emotion. The God-kind of love is the most powerful force in existence. It’s even more powerful than any...
The Power of the Blood is Not Limited
Remember when the children of Israel were rebelling against Moses? They rebelled with the words of their mouths. Every destruction they brought upon themselves was through their murmuring and complaining. There are examples all through the word of God to show us...