Category: Declarations of Truth

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts I love the connection between the story of Hezekiah in 2 Chron 32:7-8 and Jesus prayer in John 17:15-17. In 2 Chron 32 Hezekiah was facing a huge army that had conquered several other nations (2 Chron 32:14). The king was cocky and proud. He was telling the people of Judah […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts: We learn best when we do something with the information we are given. There is a place for classroom teaching, and for Sunday morning preaching. But the lesson that stick the most are ones that involved hearing, feeling, doing… and ultimately having to teach it ourselves. In John 13:14-15 we see […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts As I meditate on the story of Jehoshaphat and the battle the Lord fought for him story and think about what truth God’s wants me to declare today, I am reminded that we are in a spiritual battle. As we work with these new church planting missionaries, the enemy would love […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts I have to be honest, I have been struggling with trusting God for finances. I still believe the truth in 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 where Paul said, “God will generously provide all you need… God provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide […]

Bible Reading: Devotional Thoughts: We act upon the things we are convinced of. Right or wrong, once we have convinced ourselves something is the right thing to do, that’s what we do! Why is the right thing to do? Because that’s what we think will make us happy. If you don’t think this is true, […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts Jude 1:3a Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. How often do I rejoice in that? How often do I write about rejoicing in our salvation? In 1 John, that was a big part of God’s love motivating us. Because we […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts Solomon’s prayer of dedication to the Temple was petitioning for God to keep his promise.. petitioning for God to listen and grant requests, in order that all the people of the earth will come to know and fear God, even foreigners who come will know that this Temple was built to honor […]

Bible Reading Devotional thoughts John is continuing his theme of loving one another. He makes it clear that living a life of love is evidence of God himself at work through our lives. I love 1 John 4:12. “No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and […]

Bible Reading Devotional Thoughts 1 John 3:14 if we love one another, it proves that we have passed from death into life. Only people controlled by the spirit live with love for someone else over self! 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship […]

Bible Passages Daniel 9Phil 4:6-92 Peter 2 Devotional Thoughts: Matt 5:45 Jesus reminds us that God “makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” So, when God sends judgment on the world, it is going to affect the righteous as well […]