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...
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD
As Christians we ought to obey the laws of the land because the Bible tells us to unless it violates Christian principles that are specifically spelled out, or our conscience based on Biblical guidelines. We are free in Christ in the sense that we have been set...
DEVELOPING AN APPETITE FOR THE WORD
1 Peter 2:2-3 Peter urges those who are Christians to desire the milk of the word which can either be Christ or the word of God itself. Either way we are to long for and develop an appetite for the things of God, especially for Christ and His word which teaches us...
THE WORD OF GOD
1 Peter 1:24 is a quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 that expresses the passing of everything away except the Word of God. All eventually goes away and disappears but not His living and abiding word. It not only will not pass away but neither do those to whom it gives...
OUR HEART AND OUR MOTIVES
Here we are told to carefully examine our motives and reasons for all we do because the Lord sure does. Our natural tendency is to justify all we do, but often we are wrong for doing this. David prayed in Psalm 139:23-24 that God would examine His heart and show...
THE WISDOM GOD GIVES
This wisdom from above comes from a heart desiring to please God, not man. The wisdom God gives has several characteristics. It is pure, meaning free of the defilements mentioned. It is peaceable, namely, peace loving, peace-practicing, and peace-yielding. It is...
THE “ROYAL LAW”
The “royal law” was given in Leviticus 19:18 and affirmed by Christ (Matt. 22:39): Love your neighbor as yourself. The law is royal or regal because it is decreed by the King of kings, is fit for a king, and is considered the king of laws. The phrase reflects the...
CRITICAL BELIEFS
James was the half-brother of Jesus, he was known as James the Just. He wrote this book to the Jews and is a practical book that addresses many hard issues. James says that faith is not inactive, but evidenced by a life of action, in other words faith changes the...
