Devotions
Conditioned Responses…Of the Faith Kind
“Who God satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Ps. 103:5). I love to talk about my youth being renewed, praise God! When someone talks to me about getting old and feeble, it’s like waving a...
Fellowship With God—Really?
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” (1 John 1:6 NASB) If we say that we are having fellowship with Jesus and yet we are walking about conducting ourselves in ways that are not...
The Laying On of Hands Is a Point of Contact
…They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. ( Mark 16:18) When my wife and I moved to Oklahoma from Texas, we had to get Oklahoma driver’s licenses. We picked up an Oklahoma driving manual, because in different states, the laws are a...
A Withered Hand Becomes Whole
And it came to pass also on another Sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath day; that they might find an accusation...
Eternal Rewards
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit” (Is. 48:17). Profiting is more than making money. It can include financial increase, but it has a much more blessed scope than just material things. The Hebrew word translated “profit” here...
Deliverance from Temptation
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished” (2 Peter 2:9 KJV). God can and will deliver you from temptation. You just need to know what you must do to get free from a...
Man of the Heart
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the HIDDEN MAN OF THE HEART, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet SPIRIT, which is...
Free From Fear
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7). What would you think if I told you that you could live without fear? Would you believe me if I said that despite what you saw on the news...
Direction, Power, and Wisdom
Because we have been destined by God to live in the Spirit we hunger for the supernatural. If we will move with the Holy Spirit, He will move in us. After the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus, He exhibited a tremendous change. The Spirit of heaven came to rest upon...
Settling the Question of Healing
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5). When Jesus was raised from the dead, was He still sick? No, He was raised with a...