Devotions
More Than a Greeting
“Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ” (Eph. 1:2). Have you ever stopped to think what that phrase “Grace be to you” actually means? I think most people just read over it assuming it’s just a...
Living Like God
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9 KJV ) God demonstrated His love for us by sending Jesus to give us His life. The love of God was made clear to...
Don’t Base Your Faith on What You Can See
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Cor. 4:18) I remember an Assembly of God woman down in east Texas who had double...
A Crippled Man Walks
“And throughout Lycaonia they preached the gospel. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: the same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that...
God’s Not Impressed With Boasting
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world (Gal. 6:14). After having preached a milestone message in a Southern California town, I was interviewed by a reporter from a local...
God Loves You
“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises” (Heb. 8:6 KJV). I believe one of the major reasons why we have not seen just what they saw in the...
Only Our Diseases
He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not. But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried: while we indeed esteemed him...
Sure to Win in Him
“Wherefore remember, that…at that time ye were without Christ…having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:11-13). Have you ever really...
Love Is A Gift
God’s love in us is a gift, but it must be developed before it will help us deal with the pressures we face in every day life. God’s love doesn’t increase in us by merely trying harder or holding our negative feelings inside. Instead, love grows as a result of...
Let God Be God—of the Future
“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome” (Jer. 29:11). God has a plan and purpose for each of us and a specific way and...