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Psalms 1:1-2 ESV
As followers of Jesus Christ we are no longer to be those who are following after the ways of the flesh and the ways of man and the ways of the world. We are to get our counsel and our instructions from God and not from the world. We are to follow after the wisdom of God and...
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Proverbs 13:12 NASB
As I contemplated the meaning of this proverb, and as I prayed for understanding, there were two main “deferred hopes” that came to mind. The first one is the hope of salvation for my loved ones who have not yet surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ. They are...
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 ESV
We Who Believe in Jesus
When we believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, and if our faith is genuine God-given faith, and not of ourselves, then we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and we are resurrected with Christ to walk (in conduct, in...
Video Talk
Psalms 16:7-11 ESV
I work for the Lord full-time. So he often gets me up in the night to counsel me or to have me pray for someone or to have me write a devotion or a poem or to record a video talk. And I realize that not everyone has that freedom of schedule to be up long in the...
In the middle of the night His love instructs me
He teaches me the way that I should go
He counsels me in every situation
And helps me understand what I don’t know
He whispers to me His truths, oh how gently
He lets me know what’s right and what is wrong
He gives to me a poem or devotion
And...
Romans 12:1 ESV
When Jesus Christ died on that cross many years ago, and he was resurrected from the dead on the third day, as he said he would, it was not just to forgive us our sins so that when we die we can go to heaven. It was to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so that we can now...
Psalms 119:21-24 ESV
The Insolent
Who are the insolent? They are those who do not show due respect for other people. They are also the brazen, the shameless who show scorn for others, marked by contemptuous disregard of others. They are evildoers, meanies, abusers, users, manipulators, liars...
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1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV
Well, before I read this passage of Scripture, the Lord put in my mind a song by the Gaithers titled, “I Am a Promise.” I don’t understand the title, how I would be a promise, but there are some good lyrics in the song which go right along with this...
1 John 4:1-3 ESV
With regard to testing the spirits to see whether or not they are from God, we need to read this in the context of the whole of the book of 1 John.
For in 1 John 1:6 we read:
And in 1 John 2:3-5 we read:
And in 1 John 3:7-10 we read:
And then we need to compare this to...
1 Peter 1:14-21 ESV
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’ And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially...
So life has its troubles and worries
Its snowballs and storms with their flurries
The change in the weather with high temps and low
Makes life with its bumps not so certain free flow
The colors of things always changing
For life has a way rearranging
What’s certain is not, rearranged on the...
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The Lord Jesus led me to share this old hymn:
Come, Ye Disconsolate
Lyrics by Thomas Moore, 1816
Arr. by Thomas Hastings, 1831
Music by Samuel Webbe, Sr, 1792
Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish,
Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here...
Colossians 1:13-14 ESV
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
When we believe in Jesus Christ with God-given and God-persuaded faith, and we are crucified with Christ in death...
1 Corinthians 1:18-19 ESV
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’”
I wanted to understand what was...
1 John 2:15-17 ESV
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world...
Before I begin this, I just want to say that I am sad for all people who are ill, who are suffering, and who have lost loved ones to death as a result of all viral infections and any other diseases, illnesses, disabilities, and/or injuries. And I also grieve for those whose loved ones are...
Psalms 57:1 ESV
“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
for in you my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.”
What “storms of destruction” are we, as Christians, being faced with today?
America’s Beginnings
In...
Jeremiah 7:21-22 ESV
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.’”...
The setting of this, as translated to our day and time: Many people who profess the name of Jesus Christ are living in open idolatry and spiritual adultery against their Lord God. God, in his great love and mercy, has been confronting his rebellious people with their sins of idolatry and...
Wantonly Treacherous
Psalms 25:1-3 ESV
“To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
O my God, in you I trust;
let me not be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.”
As followers...