Devotions
Growing in the Grocery Store
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” (Heb. 10:36). Contrary to what you might think, you don’t have to wait for a major trial to develop patience. We have wonderful opportunities in...
Stay Out of the Driver’s Seat
But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father …]. John 16:13 Amp A...
Lord, Teach Us Your Ways
Psalm 86:11 (NLT) Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, that I may honor you. Psalm 86:11 is a prayer I want to keep close to my heart and live out. When we know the ways of the Lord, we can live in His...
Grace Draws and Condemnation Repels
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?” (Rom. 6:1). When we teach, we can teach with an attitude of grace or with an attitude of condemnation. When I was young I was in “old-time revival tent meetings” where...
Hell Can’t Put Out the Light
“In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it” (John 1:4-5 AMP). Whenever things around you get dark and you feel the devil is about to overpower you, remember...
Invest What You Have
The third servant in the Parable of the talents was not commended by his master, but rather rebuked as a wicked and slothful servant. In addition, he was labeled unproductive. Why? What mistakes did he make? Where did he err? Let’s look at verses 24 and 25: Then he...
A Legend in Your Own Mind
“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith” (Rom. 12:3). Do you want to...
On The Inside
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle….” (Ps. 32:8,9) I knew by the...
Mix Faith With the Word
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it” (Hebrews 4:2, KJV). It is possible to come short of operating in the peace and rest that God has...
A Word Just For You
“For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace” (Isa. 55:12). The first time this verse ever came to me was in a moment of great need. I had just graduated from a Bible school with an evangelistic call on my life. Only one door was opened to...