Category: Daily Devotional

Turning Away From God… We can’t see the wonders and miracles of God in our everyday life for two very distinct reasons – we don’t believe with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind Mark 12:30 NKJV. Second, we live in sin – separated from God because we don’t know who we are in Christ. When Peter and John visited the temple, with the gate called Beautiful, and the Lord, Jesus Christ, through Peter, healed a man who was lame from birth, the people in…

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Filled With Wonder… It’s amazing the number of stories in the Gospel that mention how the people that witness the power of God respond to such “miracles”. The people even refer to them as something extraordinary when, in reality, it’s simply God being God and doing what God does – love and heal His children. If we believe these events should not be something out-of-the-ordinary but rather another action taken by our Father in the care of His children that believe He is sovereign, He is God and His name…

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Prayer Life… Over the past, almost two decades, prayer life has been in a constant state of change. For the past three years the change has been on the increase. Before, it seems, that prayer time would easily get away, but today there seems to be a desire to dedicate more time to prayer and time spent with the Lord. Not only is this pleasing to our Lord, Christ Jesus, it brings about a more calming, clearing of the heart, mind and soul. The pastor who performed the baptismal taught…

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The Breath of God… The Holy Spirit is one of the greatest gifts given to mankind. When filled with the Spirit – for those that believe – it’s easy to know that our actions, our words and life, during that moment, are not ours. We did nothing. There are moments when the Holy Spirit reigns down in our lives that afterwards we simply stand in awe and wonder of what happened. It’s like being in a trance or just out-of-body. The more we ask, seek and knock the more the…

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What He Sees… We have no problem hearing what the enemy says and then internalizing and accepting it. We do it all day long. Some do it better than others but most, if not all, of us do it. The enemy loves it, the enemy knows it and the enemy uses it to our great peril. We “hear it” then it moves into our heart and the next thing you know we are acting as if what the enemy said carries weight – it doesn’t. It’s simple to turn it…

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Full of New Wine… Being familiar with the effects of “old wine” and what happens when one is “filled”, looking at being filled with new wine takes on a completely different view. When a person is filled with “old wine” or said another way – drunk – they tend to speak gibberish, sometimes incoherent words that mean nothing, go nowhere and are often repeated for no apparent reason. Being filled with ‘new wine’ can in fact make a person speak in a language that is not their own, but it…

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Changing The World… When an empty vessel can be used to start a brushfire that begins changing the world it may be well that others mimic what has been done. If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could…

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Visions Of Glory… What will it be like when I hear that sound? All of heaven’s angels crying out: Singing holy, holy, holy are You, Lord Singing holy, holy, holy are You, Lord Singing holy, holy, holy are You, Lord Waiting my whole life for that day Until then I’ll live to hear You say Well Done by Jason Ingram and Matt Fuqua As prayer life evolves and we ask, seek and knock more and more and more, it seems sometimes we are given a glimpse of things that are…

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Let Him Hear… Over the past several weeks there has been a change occurring and the Holy Spirit has been moving about in ways previously unknown. Jesus Christ has been the guiding Light over life in ways never thought possible and God has been present softening the heart, opening thine eyes and ears to see and hear the truth, possibly for the first time. When we awaken our lives must change. We can no longer be “lukewarm” but committed or not committed we can not be both, lest we be…

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Listening To and Listening For God… And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because of the Midianites, that the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage; and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and…

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