Category: Daily Devotional

“I’m Afraid”… What happens when we admit we are afraid? What happens when we are small child and say to our parents “I’m afraid!!” Even really bad parents will attempt to comfort their child. Really good parents will not only comfort their child they will explain to them their fear is unfounded – they’re afraid of something that doesn’t exist – there is no monster under the bed, there is no monster hiding in the closet. “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matt 4:19) Come to…

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Substance and Evidence… Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. ~Hebrews 11:1-2 NKJB It is in our belief that all things begin to unfold. It is the Way of Jesus Christ that fills our cup and nourishes our bodies, we can not do that.  When we drink of the Living Water we thirst no more and when we eat of the Bread of Life we hunger no more. Fear begins to subside and…

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Learning To Never Fail… Jesus said to him “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” ~Matthew 22:37-40 NKJB Jesus teaches us, and promises us, if we believe in Him, love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength while…

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Seeking The One… “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ~Matthew 18:12-13 NKJB The difference in Jesus and all the other gods that have ever been is Jesus comes after us. Jesus came down to meet…

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Beauty From Ashes… When we cry out to the Lord with an earnest heart the Lord hears and the Lord responds immediately. Immediately may be a different time frame than we humans know, but His response will rain down like a spring shower – drops everywhere, covering every inch of our being. Whom shall we fear? Where are the ashes of our tragedy? They were transformed through confession, repentance and redemption. Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In…

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Constant Reassurance… How do we avoid becoming dull of hearing? Crying out to God, our Father, in loud cries with tears of pain and joy in a bold tone to say to God we will not let go until we hear Your direction, until we hear Your Word and have a dynamic image of the next step along the narrow path. We want the Truth in order to know the Way so we can live the Life You have for us in this world so that we may enter into…

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Pray Into Fear… Heavenly Father, we place Your name in its rightful place above all names. To You all the glory. Father, help me, for I know not what I am doing or what I should be doing to cause great things to happen in Your name. Father God, we seek Your direction, Your beauty, Your face to guide us, to direct us and tell us what we are to do. We will not let go, we will not falter until it is clear. Father we ask that You remove…

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Generation Upon Generation… When reading the Gospel According to Matthew the first chapter begins with a long list of family heritage. Each name through 42 different generations is accounted. Probably a lot of us have never understood why there was all this time and effort afforded to listing out all these names, the “begotten of… and begotten of…” line after line. The importance of this exercise can not be overstated. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,…

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Hate The Sin…Love The Sinner… Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; ~Psalms 139:23 Where is the phrase Hate The Sin…Love The Sinner written in the Holy Bible? Where did Moses, David, any of the Prophets or Jesus Christ himself ever say anything remotely like “hate the sin, love the sinner”? Which is to say, “I don’t like that person (those people), I don’t like their actions, but I love them as Gods children.” If someone could point to the specific chapter and…

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The Omnipresence of Jesus… When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden something happened and sin was born. The first two people believed they could “hide” from God, however, they discovered, very quickly, that was impossible. God was right there the entire time. They tried to “hide” their shame with a fig leaf, but the leaf was the wrong size and didn’t hide anything. God is with us always. God will never turn away from us under any circumstance. We, on the other hand, will turn our back…

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