Category: Daily Devotional

Honoring Our Father… Most of us refer to our dad as “father”. The past several weeks there has been a concerted effort to make a change, even so far as stopping, mid sentence to make the correction.  Our Father is our Father and our dad is the head of household. This may not be how everyone sees these titles, but it is how we can make a clear distinction between whom we are referencing. There are a number of references throughout the Bible calling for children to honor their parents,…

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Submit to God Comes First… Submit to God comes first, resist the devil comes second. You can yell and scream at the devil all you want but if you’re not fully surrendered to Jesus you’re yelling has no power. ~Pastor, Bill Johnson, Bethel Church Is this putting the cart before the horse – or said another way, putting the Crown before the Cross? We want the Power, we just forget where who provides the Power and how we walk in His Power. We must put Jesus Christ first, then entire…

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We Are Not Orphans… Guilt of the past and fear of the future are very heavy shackles that weigh down the soul. Those who believe do not have to carry these shackles, nor have to be bothered with them – they can be left behind forever. We have to release ourselves into the arms of Our Father. If you want to be confronted with fear try releasing yourself into the arms of Freedom. The moment just before release may be the most fear any person will ever face. While it…

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Ask, Seek, Knock… These three words mean so much to the Christian faith and believers around the world. Small, one syllable words that carry the weight of mountains. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he…

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The Strength To Live… Before I met God, His one and only Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, if someone said “Let’s get stoned!” that would’ve been cause for “celebration! Has anyone among us been stoned by a multitude of people lately? No, not recently or ever. Paul was stoned by the people and they thought that had killed him. They thought this to the point of dragging his body outside the city. This was done because Paul had preached the Word of the Gospel. The only problem was…

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Good Men Doing Something… It has been said before…The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke Let’s turn it around so that good men are a reflection of the Word of God. The only reason a tool has value is because it is used for it’s intended purpose. We stand at a crossroads in our nation. Christians have God to thank, God to turn to and God’s strength and power to transform lives. We must turn to Him, we must…

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Why Would Anyone Cross The Road… Jesus Christ loves you, loves me and loves everyone else, He is never separated from us, we, on the other hand, separate ourselves from Him continuously. Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” ~Luke 17:11-13 NKJB Everyone, except Jesus, had…

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Surrounded By The Spirit… Walking through this life we encounter all types of people. People we want to meet, people we want to spend time with, people we want to love all over and a wide variety of other people we want to encounter on a deeper level than merely passing as ships in the night. There are also people we would prefer not meeting. People that challenge our senses, people that walk over us, people that mean us harm and a wide variety of other people we prefer not…

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Hearing The Gospel… Many years ago it was said by an anonymous source that we humans are “slow to learn and quick to forget“. That held true when spoken, it holds true today and will be true in the future. We have to continually learn, relearn and then relearn again tomorrow. This seems to be especially true with the Gospel, the Word and living the Life we are suppose to live. We need to hear the Gospel everyday because we forget it everyday. ~Martin Luther For though by this time…

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Freedom and Peace… And when I’m breathing I don’t understand But I can fell it Every waking moment In your presence This peace won’t let me go There is freedom Laying all my worries At your feet again Even in my struggle I’m surrendering Your peace won’t let me go ~Peace, Josh Baldwin No matter who a person is, where they live or what they do, this is all most, if not all of us want in our life – freedom and peace. Boil it all down and that’s what…

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