Daily Devotion

Many believers have been lured away from a life of faithfulness by greed and sexual temptation (v4). Paul said in Philippians 4:11-13 He had LEARNED the secret of contentment and could do all things through Christ who strengthened him. Paul describes good...

The preceding verses speak of how blessed they are to be a part of all the blessings of the new covenant and contrasts it with the Old Testament as the writer has done many times in this Book. He then says the ones who did not heed His voice in the Old Testament...

This passage speaks to the viewpoint we as Christians should have towards hardship and opposition. Unbelievers suffer because of doing wrong and all of us suffer sometimes because of the fallen state of the world. What the writer is saying here is that Christians...

This whole chapter is dedicated to the heroes of the faith. Think of this verse, he says time would fail me to tell you of all the people who were just as mighty in their faith as all of the others he names. What this means to you and me is we can be mighty in...

Hebrews 11:1 describes what faith is. It is the confidence that God will do what He said He would do. The writer then tells us in the next 5 verses that this is what was believed in the past, and we need to know that God created it all, whether it is the visible...

Hebrews 10:19 sums up the writer’s entire argument up to this point. As Christians we don’t have to go any mediator or priest but now we can go boldly and directly to the throne room of God because of Jesus’ blood sacrifice on the cross. No more sacrifice is...

In Hebrews 10:14-18 God stresses the finished work of Jesus Christ as our Great High Priest who has offered Himself as a sacrifice with His death on the cross.  He has made all of us who trust in Christ positionally perfect, in other words in the eyes of God He...

Here the writer contrasts the High Priests in the Old Testament who daily offered sacrifices for sin and the death of Christ as a one-time sacrifice which completely and finally paid for all sin with the fact that people die once and then judgement comes when they...

Understanding means the wisdom that come from trusting in God and learning from His word. It is the ability to apply that learning to life in the light of God’s word, that is wisdom. Our wisdom or lack of it determines our prospects in this life. When we have...

When you tie Hebrews 6:18 in with the two verses before it and after it you find that it says that men swear and that ends the dispute, but God has sworn by Himself that and that is really the end of all disputes because God cannot lie. What has He sworn? He has...

Have you come to the place in your life where God needs to feed you baby food from the word of God, or are you under that kind of teaching and have come to like it?  Most churches today are full of babies being taught dribble by immature pastors who care more about...

God’s uses His word to help us examine our hearts and to see if we are right with Him.  His word will cut us to pieces in order to put us back together in a way that is pleasing to Him.  If we are not reading the word regularly we cannot see the areas in our lives...