Devotional

The natural mind questions if there is a God. Also, even if there were, why would this God hear people’s prayers? These are very relevant questions. Why should a Holy God answer the prayers of a sinner? Let's face it, a sinner is not a friend of God. Living outside of God’s law makes them His...

Romans 14:7;15:13 Hebrews 10:32-34 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17 KJV Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost...

Read: 1 John 4:7-21; 5:1-3 2 John 1:5-6 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His...

Read: 1 Peter 1:24-25; 2:17;4:8 1 John 2:4-5; 3:11-24 The Word of the Lord endures forever! "Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king." 1 Peter 2:17 NASB "Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8...

Read: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-25; Hebrews 13:1-4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but...

[ ] Read: John 13:34; John 14:15; John 15:9-17; “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know...

Spiritual Fruit- Love- Matthew 5:43-48; Matthew 22:35-40 Luke 6: 27-36; Luke 10:25-37 "One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart , and with all...

It takes a lot of longsuffering in copy and pasting what I have to say, because my keyboard doesn't stay open for this blog. But I think blogging keeps me accountable to keeping in the Word. And maybe someone reading grows a little closer to God with these shared scriptures. Im going to start...

Read: Matthew 28:16-20; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-14 "He then led them out of the city over to Bethany. Raising his hands he blessed them, and while blessing them, took his leave, being carried up to heaven. And they were on their knees, worshiping him. They returned to Jerusalem bursting with...

Read: John 20-21 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”...

Read: John 19:17-42 Pilate caved in to their demand. He turned him over to be crucified. They took Jesus away. Carrying his cross, Jesus went out to the place called Skull Hill (the name in Hebrew is Golgotha ), where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, Jesus in the...

Read: John 18:28-19:16 “My kingdom,” said Jesus, “doesn’t consist of what you see around you. If it did, my followers would fight so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. But I’m not that kind of king, not the world’s kind of king.” Then Pilate said, “So, are you a king or not?” Jesus...

Read: John 14-15 “If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you...

Read: Luke 10:25-37 Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead. And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other...

Read: Mark 10:17-31 Jesus said, “Mark my words, no one who sacrifices house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, land—whatever—because of me and the Message will lose out. They’ll get it all back, but multiplied many times in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land—but...

Read: Matthew 18:21-19:15 “The king summoned the man and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave your entire debt when you begged me for mercy. Shouldn’t you be compelled to be merciful to your fellow servant who asked for mercy?’ The king was furious and put the screws to the man until he paid back...

Read: Matthew 17:24-18:20 Message: "At about the same time, the disciples came to Jesus asking, “Who gets the highest rank in God’s kingdom?” For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room, and said, “I’m telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to...

Read: Matthew 8:31-33;9:30-32; Isaiah 50:6-7; Isaiah 53:4-12 "The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered...

Read: Mark 5:1-43 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the demon-delivered man begged to go along, but he wouldn’t let him. Jesus said, “Go home to your own people. Tell them your story—what the Master did, how he had mercy on you.” The man went back and began to preach in the Ten Towns area...

Once God moves you to a new place, the old paths and ways simply don't work anymore! If you continue to try to go the same way as you always have, you will stub your toe! You will run into walls and possibly even dead ends. God is saying today that He has moved you to a new place! You no longer...