Category: Devotional and Prayer

Bible Reading: From this passage, what Spiritual Gift has God given for me to thank Him and praise Him for in worship today? (Rom 1:11) Ps 93:1 The LORD is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. […]

Verse of the day: John 12:35-36 … Walk in the light while you can, so the darkness will not overtake you… Put your trust in the light while there is still time; then you will become children of the light.” Prov 9:10-11 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy […]

Bible Reading Prayer Devotional What is the cost of sanctification?  On February 8th, in Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers wrote, “It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.  It means intense concentration on God’s point of view.  It means every […]

Bible Reading Prayer / Devotional What kind of picture do you have of God?  Do you see Him more as a force, or an impersonal being, a spirit that lives in heaven?  Or do you see Him more like a person who you can sit down and have coffee with?  I sometimes struggle with seeing […]

Bible Reading Prayer Devotional I am intrigued by the concept of the bond servant in the Old Testament. A slave who would enjoy serving his master so much that he would willingly submit to being a slave to his master the rest of his life (Exodus 21:6). Of course, there was a little incentive if […]

I don’t think I have ever noticed how many times Moses told God “no.” Reading through Exodus 3-6 I count 8 verses where Moses either directly said “no” to God, or insuated that he didn’t want to obey. (Ex 3:11, 15; Exodus 4:1, 10, 13: Exodus 5:23; Exodus 6:12, 30) But God graciously persisted. He […]

Are you living as if Jesus could come back today? Jesus asked the same question in Matthew 24:36-50. In Matt 24:44-50 Jesus tells a story about a master who leaves his house in the hands of his servants, then goes away for a while. The servants don’t know when the master will return. Jesus asks […]

Bible Reading: Oswald Chambers said this morning, “Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him… Keep your life in constant contact with God… Always be in a state of expectancy for God to show up. What distracts us from living with this attitude? Being in constant contact with God, dwelling […]

Remember those early days of dating, when all you could think about was each other? You would go out of the way to spend time together. I road a bicycle like 5 miles, to the nearest pay phone, as often as I could, just to hear the sound of her voice. (This was before email, […]