For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). As I was driving to work- a couple of days ago- I was listening to a Christian music radio station. It was brought to my attention that the
Category: Devotional
Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people; O visit me with thy salvation (Psalm 106:4). Favor is a word that is often mentioned in Christian ranks. Surely, Christians have God’s favor, but we should look at this word more closely than we sometimes do. First of all, we should
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon
But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Galatians 4:4-5). Have you ever been at the right place at the right time? Have you ever been
Hear, Lord, and be merciful to me, be my help (Psalm 30:10). For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy (Romans 9:15-16) The standard definition
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain (I Corinthians 9:24). Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to
“After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all people, to the land which I am giving to them – the children
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didyus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the prints of the nails, and put my finger into the prints of the nails, and
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). Now that we are in the first month of a new year, I have really been considering what is most important in life. I am not concerned with New Year’s resolutions. I am