Daily Devotion
WORDS WRITTEN DOWN FOR US TO LIVE BY
The phrase "For assuredly, I say to you”, "truly I say to you", "I tell you the truth" or “Amen, Amen” depending on your translation means what Jesus is about to say is very important. Jesus says that even the smallest letter or piece of the Old Testament writings...
HEARING AND OBEYING GOD’S WORD
Satan attacked Jesus at His most vulnerable time. The way it is written assumes that the devil knew that Jesus was the Son of God, it could have been written since you are the Son of God. The devil wanted Jesus to do something that would be sin and cause Him to...
THE FORERUNNER OF CHRIST
In Matthew 3:1-3 the forerunner of Christ came preaching repentance. Repentance is not just being sorry, but it is a complete change of attitude, spiritual and moral towards God. It really means to turn to God and be saved. (1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they...
THE PROPHECY IN GENESIS 3:15
Matthew 2 is full of amazing things done by God to bring the Messiah (Jesus) to earth. There have been described in the Old Testament 300 prophecies of the first coming of the Messiah and 500 of the second coming, all of them made hundreds of years before the birth...
THE ROYAL RIGHT TO THE THRONE
Matthew 1:11 Here in the middle of this family line, this kingly line, this royal right to the throne is a king born by the name of Jeconiah. Jeconiah was an evil man, also called Coniah. And in Jeremiah's prophecy chapter 22:30, the Word of the Lord says this...
BEING FAITHFUL
Paul exhorts Timothy to watch his personal life closely and his teaching carefully. Timothy is not only to watch over others as a pastor, but to make sure his life continues to be faithful in all areas. Pastors and all of us fail at times in this. We are better at...
GOD’S QUALIFICATIONS
Here Paul gives us the God ordained qualifications for a pastor and it is one who is to be a man whose character is without reproach. This is the main qualification, does he have character that cannot be a discredit to the name of Christ and the Church. He also...
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY
Many want to ignore or change these verses which teach that a woman is not to be a pastor, the teacher of a mixed bible study class, or in any position of authority in teaching the bible to men. You cannot ignore the bible or change the bible. Paul gives two...
WHAT DO WE NEED?
Unfortunately, Eliphaz was accusing Job of sin when He spoke these words to Job and telling him to repent and get right with God. Fortunately for us we can take these words as an admonition to us to listen to God and let His word be our guide in all areas of life....
A DEEPER WALK
God did write Job's words down forever in His Word for those of us who know Christ and need a deeper walk with the Him and secondly it gives hope to those of us who are going through tough times and don’t always know why. We need to remember no matter what we are...
HOW TO PRAY
Between Paul’s teaching in 2:1-12 and his encouragements in 3:1-15 he prays for the Thessalonians. He prays for their encouragement and strength. He prays to the first two persons of the trinity and thereby shows their equality. Paul prays for God to comfort and...
KNOWING THE WORD
Paul is giving a series of commands as he ends 1 Thessalonians and here he tells them not to stop the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, that is quenching the Spirit. It is the picture of throwing water on a fire. Apparently during this time when the word of...
