Devotion
You Can!
I do believe; help my unbelief (Mark 9:24). Someone has said that success comes in cans and failure in cannots. The "Twenty Cans of Success," taken from God’s Word, will expand your knowledge of our faith-object, the Almighty God. Building your faith by internalizing these truths over the next two days will help lift you […]
Uninhibited Spontaneity
Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness; come before Him with joyful singing (Psalm 100:1, 2). Have you ever planned a major fun event and then asked yourself, "Are we having fun yet?" Fun in uninhibited spontaneity. Chances are the last time you really had fun it was a […]
Invisible Gold
Read: ! Peter 1:1-7 You have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold…,may be found to praise, honor, and glory. -1 Peter 1:6-7 In the 1980s, Northern Nevada was the site of a gold strike. The discovery would have been beyond the imagination of 19th-century […]
Knowing God (Spurgeon)
Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotions Morning, August 4 "The people that do know their God shall be strong." – Daniel 11:32 Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength to the Christian. It strengthens his faith. Believers are constantly […]
You Can! [2]
The righteous man shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). Believing that you can succeed at Christian growth and maturity takes no more effort than believing you cannot succeed. So why not believe that you can walk in faith and in the Spirit; that you can resist the temptations of the world, the flesh and the […]
Jesus Is His Name
"At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." PHILIPPIANS 2:10,11 He is HOPE for all the hopeless, The WAY for those who seek, A LIGHT for those in darkness, […]
Encouragement When You’re Weak
Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotions Evening, July 19 "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench." – Matthew 12:20 What is weaker than the bruised reed or the smoking flax? A reed that groweth in the fen or marsh, let but the wild duck light upon it, and it […]
Authority And Power
He [Jesus] called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons (Luke 9:1). Jesus gave His disciples both authority and power over demons. What’s the difference? Authority is the right to rule; it’s a positional issue. A policeman has the right to stop traffic at an intersection because of the […]
Weighed Down Or Way Up?
Read: 1 John 2:12-17 Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us. -Heb. 12:1 A former commander of the Imperial Russian Navy said that he went to London during World War I for training. There he learned how to fly one of three dirigibles that Russia had bought from […]
The Song Of The Magpie
Cavan Brown reflects on Australian spirituality by tracing the ‘songlines’ of the magpie. The magpie is Australian but its name is not. This bird was named by the early settlers after the magpie of Europe, a black and white bird belonging to the Corvidae family and therefore related to the crows and ravens. Australian magpies […]
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