The virgin Mary was sent a message from heaven. The angel Gabriel brought it from God Himself. (NASB) Luke 1:26 “Now…the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin…and the virgin’s name was Mary.” God does that every day! He has sent you messages every day […]
(NASB) Psalm 139:1-3 “O LORD, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.” Mary was a virgin, doing her everyday duties […]
The angel Gabriel had visited Zacharias at the altar of incense in the temple at Jerusalem. No one else was around. Zacharias, an old man, doubted the angel’s message from God. He shouldn’t have for his elderly wife became pregnant and then in her sixth month, Gabriel visited Mary in Nazareth of Galilee. From the […]
Psalm 139:1-4 “O LORD, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before there is a word on my […]
The Messiah (the Christ) is The Anointed One of God. To learn more, click on the “Attributes and Names of God” and then click on “Christ”. To see this same page in the devotionals go to Monday, June 20, 2011. Do you worship Messiah when you pray? He is the Anointed One of God – […]
Elizabeth was going to have a baby…even at her advanced age, and she was in her sixth month of pregnancy. The angel Gabriel had told her husband that a boy would be born, his name was to be John. Now the writer of this gospel, Luke, tells of the next ‘big’ event. (NASB) Luke 1:26-27 […]
See the devotionals of this week for the background for today’s devotional. (NASB) Luke 1:23-25 “When the days of his (Zacharias’) priestly service were ended, he went back home. 24 After these days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying, 25 ‘This is the way the Lord […]
Zacharias was ministering within the temple and he didn’t come out, and he didn’t come out…the people were waiting for him…and still he didn’t come out…he was delayed by an angel giving him a message from God about a son who would be born to him and Elizabeth, his wife. Because he didn’t believe it […]
A university Men’s Basketball coach uses the expression “No doubt about it…” frequently and means it. How often do you believe without any doubts that God says what He means and means what He says? What do you believe about His words in the Holy Bible? 1- Do you say there is no doubt about […]
(NIV) Psalm 119:89-90 “Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. 90Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.” To You O LORD, belongs praise and thanksgiving.