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 […]
How can we come to the end of this day with “No Regrets”? (NASB) Colossians 3:12 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” For the followers of Christ, who do what His word says to do: you are chosen by God Himself. […]
What is the difference between Godly sorrow and worldly sorrow? (NASB) 2 Corinthians 7:10 “For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.” When we are truly repentant before God ~ that is Godly sorrow […]
We are to pray for ourselves and for others. The following prayer can be personalized for yourself as well as for others: (NIV) Ephesians 1:18-19 “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of […]
(NASB) James 4:1 “WHAT IS the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?” In a family, spouses are at odds with each other, parents and children at war with each other. Arguments, quarrels, bullying, abuse come from ‘within you’. What starts out […]
These verses are speaking to those who are followers of Christ Jesus: (NASB) 1 John 4:4-6 “You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, […]