February 10th
February 10th Read: Matthew 6:25-34; Matthew 4:1-11 Have you ever noticed how complicated our lives become? It was the same when Jesus walked in Galilee. Folks then wanted more than the necessities of life just as we do now. Jesus chose to live the simple life. He had little of this world’s goods, and He could have …
February 9th
February 9th Read: 1 Peter 1:6-9; Psalm 51:9-12; Isaiah 35:10; John 15:11 Peter understood joy. He had failed and then been forgiven and restored to fellowship with Jesus. His was not a surface happiness because circumstances were good all the time. No, his was a bubbling spring of all he knew of life in Jesus …
February 8th
February 8th Read: Proverbs 17:17; Proverbs 18:24; Proverbs 27:5-10; John 15:12-13 When my first husband died suddenly on our patio, I was immediately surrounded by friends: an elderly neighbor who heard my cries, a young neighbor who had seen the ambulance arrive and who pulled me to my feet away from Al’s body: our pastor …
February 7th
February 7th Read: James 1:17; Hebrews 11:8-12 and Hebrews 13:5; Matthew 6:33; John 14:2 God is dependable. That is what James 1:17 means. When He makes a promise He keeps it. Remember Abraham and Sarah? Isaac was born from a womb that had been dead for years, because God had promised Abraham a son and many …
February 6th
February 6th Read: Hebrews 4:14-16; Proverbs 15:8; Revelation 5:8; Psalm 22:3 God’s Word says that the prayers of His saints are sweet incense to Him. He enjoys our prayers. He inhabits our praises for as believers we are spiritual Israel. Somehow in our private communications with God we are lifted from this mundane world to …
February 5th
February 5th Read: Proverbs 20:22; Romans 12:17-21 Arthur W. Pink in his Life of David, 2 has this to say: By nature there is a spirit in us that is turbulent, revengeful, and desirous of returning evil for evil; but when we are able to deny it, we are ruling our own spirit. Failure to …
February 4th
February 4th Read: Psalm 37:4; Revelation 5:1-7; and Revelation 22:3-5 The children of Israel had a geographical land to which they were being led, but what of us? How does that fit into our situation? When we bind ourselves together with the LORD in Christ and keep His way, we too have an inheritance, a …
February 3rd
February 3rd Read: Psalm 23:1-6; Psalm 116:15; 1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 Someone has said succinctly, “Death is a fact of life.” To the saints of God death is more than that! Death is the gateway from mortality to immortality when we go through Jesus Christ. It is the dividing line between corruption and incorruption …
February 2nd
February 2nd Read: Isaiah 26:1-3; Ephesians 6:12-17; Psalm 103:3; Joshua 1:9 LONELINESS AND THE DOUBLE CURE Wilily they slip into the lonely mind: thrusts of doubt quietly piercing confidence, barriers of self pity changing the direction of healthy thoughts into dead-end lanes of discontent, whispers of rebellion implying that none cares, not even God. Stealthily …