Devotionals (Page 2)

1 Samuel 11:1-3 (NASB) Now Nahash the Ammonite came up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.” But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of everyone of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel.” And the elders of Jabesh said to him, “Let us…

Hebrews 8:10 (NASB) For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them upon their hearts. And, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Hebrews 12:1-2 (NASB) Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles…

James 3:10 (NASB) from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Ephesians 4:29 (NASB) Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. Have you ever had a slip of the tongue…a time when you just were not thinking and shared or expressed something…

It wasn’t long after becoming a new believer that I desired to reach out to people. I knew hospital visits were one thing many Christians did, so I started making them too. A woman came to me and shared that her elderly unsaved father was not expected to live much longer. She asked me to visit him. Iagreed, went to the book store, picked out a nice Bible for him and had it engraved. When I arrived, the man was…

Ephesians 3:16-18 (NASB) that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with allthe saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up…

Portions of 2 Tim 1:6-14 (NASB) And for this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you…For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of Our Lord…who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus…

There was a time when I considered challenges to be a bad thing. I saw them in a strictly negative light. Perhaps many other people do as well. However, challenges, when faced and conquered with the help of the Lord, can be extremely rewarding, ultimately life changing, character building, reassuring and even quite satisfying. They can also become stepping stones to a more substantial and affective life. Challenges, when orchestrated by God and willingly placed in His hands by trusting…

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NASB) All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Hebrews 5;12 (AB) For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God’s Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. When I was a brand-spanking…

Acts 26:13-18 (NASB) “…at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me. And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ And I said, ‘Who art Thou, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I…

Psalm 119:51 (KJV) The proud have me in great derision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law. Romans 1:11-12 (NASB) For I long to see you in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. The Illinois River flows through many memories from my early years. Because…