How does a dictionary define “salvation”?  1. Preservation or deliverance from evil or difficulty.  2. A source, means, or cause of such deliverance or preservation.  3. a. Theology. The deliverance of man or his soul from the power or penalty of sin; redemption.   Why is salvation so important for you and me?    […]

  How have you responded to the following invitation? (NASB) Revelation 22: 17 “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’  And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’  And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.”   How are you praying for others […]

  The dictionary defines “atone”: to reconcile or harmonize.  To conciliate; appease.   And that is just what Jesus Christ did on the cross.  He has reconciled, harmonized and appeased God’s requirement for the payment of sin.  My sins and yours.   The atoning work of Christ can never be overestimated in its importance.  It […]

  God’s solution for sin is through His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.    The prophet Isaiah wrote as if Christ had already taken the punishment for your sins and mine.   The prophet Isaiah wrote as if Christ had already healed me by the wounds He suffered before and during His crucifixion. […]

  What does the Holy Bible say about the beginning of sin?  Who is included in the term, “sinners”? (NASB) Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”   The measuring stick is not my own evaluation or the evaluation of others; it is in comparison to God Himself! […]

  Adam and Eve had sinned and they immediately clothed themselves with the inadequate covering of fig leaves sewn together.   The Lord God found Adam and Eve cowering in their fig leaf coverings behind the trees in the cool of the evening.    Guilt and fear do that – we provide our own inadequate […]

  In the Garden of Eden, Satan enticed the woman to eat that which the Lord God had forbidden – the only fruit God said not to eat.  Her husband knowingly ate it and immediately both knew true guilt – the guilt of sin against God and what He had told them.  (NASB) Genesis 3:1-7 […]

Psalm 27:1-2 “THE LORD is my light and my salvation –     whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life –     of whom shall I be afraid?”

  From time to time this devotional passes on prayer requests for believers in Jesus Christ.  These are men, women and children who are suffering persecution.  As believers, as followers of Christ, we need to be praying for these individuals and for their persecutors.    They are hurting and they are in an elite group, […]

  How blindly do you follow the traditions, rituals and ceremonies of your religion, your church, your denomination?  Most traditions, rituals and ceremonies are based on something.  Is it man’s ideas or God’s?  If it is based on the living God of the Bible then it will follow His words from the Holy Bible.  God’s […]