Daily Devotion
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...
THE NEED FOR A REDEEMER
In this last chapter of Ruth, we see Boaz is a picture or type of Jesus Christ. This reminds us that to be a redeemer He had to become related to us before He could redeem us. He became flesh and blood so He could die for us on the cross (Heb. 2:14–15). In order to...
3 FATAL MISTAKES
In these first few verses of the book of Ruth we see 3 fatal mistakes. Elimelech had a family to take care of and yet he walked by faith instead of sight, then he focused on the physical not the spiritual, and lastly he should have known that it was better to be...
THE LOVE OF A HEAVENLY FATHER
Here is one of the most famous parables of Jesus in Luke 15. We see the story that is commonly called the prodigal son, but is really the story of the loving father. We see this young man asking for his inheritance before the father is dead and then living for...
