Daily Devotion
PLEASING TO GOD
In 2 Samuel Chapters 3-5 we see how David grows stronger and stronger and eventually becomes the King over all of Israel and rules for 40 years. It was not God’s plan for them to have a king, but if they were to have a king it should be a man like David who wanted...
ARE YOU READY?
In Luke 22 we see Jesus telling the disciples all that they would go through leading up to and after His death on the cross. He also says that they will deny Him. Peter says he will never do that, but will die for Jesus. We know that Jesus says Peter will deny...
ARE YOU RIGHT WITH GOD?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can sit in a church all their life if it is preaching the true Gospel and never become a true believer in Christ. Yet, here we see Judas who has been with Jesus for three years, has seen all that Jesus has done, heard all...
COMPLETELY TRUSTING IN GOD
In Luke 21 right after the woman gives in the temple, the disciples comment on the beauty of the temple and Jesus begins to tell them that the temple and all will be destroyed. He gives them the signs of what is going to happen and a way to determine it is...
GIVING GOD ALL THAT WE SHOULD
This familiar story in Luke 21 gives us a few things we should take away from it. First, it is not how much you give, it is the heart with which you give it. Secondly, did that gift you gave cost you anything? In other words, was it something that you sacrificed...
WHAT ARE YOUR EYES FIXED ON?
In Psalm 73 we see the writer has taken his eyes off of God and put them on the world and what he perceives is going on. It is easy sometimes to look around and see what the wicked are doing and it looks like everything is going their way and they are living the...
BEING FAITHFUL
In Luke 20 Jesus has upset the religious atmosphere of the temple and therefore the leaders question His authority. He then tells one of the more familiar parables about the owner of the vineyard who keeps sending people to get some of the fruit. This is a...
BEING VICTORIOUS
Here we see in 1 Samuel 17 David’s righteous anger at the defiance of Goliath and his blasphemy of God. All the rest of the Israelites were afraid of this giant who probably was at least 9’6” tall. But David trusted in God and knows how great He is and had been...
LOOKING FOR LEADERS
In chapters 1 Samuel chapters 9-10 we saw Saul looking for donkeys and Samuel the prophet had been sent by God to find the man selected by Him to be King. Who should he find but Saul who was physically impressive, tall, and handsome. At this time, he would have...
IS OUR LIFE MARKED BY PARTIAL OR COMPLETE OBEDIENCE TO GOD?
Saul was told by God to completely destroy the Amalekites, but decided that he apparently knew better than God what to do. Part of this was based on the fact that he was not really a leader, but was more concerned with what the people wanted than what God did....
ARE YOU HELPING OR HURTING THE CHURCH?
Samuel did what any good leader should do. He knew that the people had rebelled and sinned against God, but this could not be undone. Instead he encouraged the people to follow the Lord with all their heart and remember all the good things God had done for them. ...
HOW MUCH DO YOU TRUST GOD?
In the first 6 verses of chapter 10 we see Samuel anointing Saul as the king that the people wanted. Samuel spoke of three signs that would show that Samuel had been picked and anointed in accordance with God’s will. The first of these would have given Saul the...