Daily Devotional

Colossians 3:3 AMPC  For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. Those of you who are struggling to die to self need to understand that your sincere effort to accomplish that denies the fact that Jesus has already taken care of […]

Without the water of the Holy Spirit filling us, our souls quickly become a parched wilderness, and there will be no victories in the battles that we face. The armies of Israel, Judah, and Edom were wasting away in the wilderness, along with their livestock, because of the lack of water. When Elisha gave them

Luke 7:1-15 AMPC  After Jesus had finished all that He had to say in the hearing of the people [on the mountain], He entered Capernaum. [2] Now a centurion had a bondservant who was held in honor and highly valued by him, who was sick and at the point of death. [3] And when the

Jesus had two assignments to accomplish. The ultimate assignment was accomplished in the death that He died, but there was also an assignment that he accomplished by the life that He lived. John 17:4-6 NASB I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. [5] Now, Father,

The Lord doesn’t have favorites, but everyone doesn’t experience the same level of favor. There are three occasions in the gospel where Jesus takes three of the apostles, Peter, James, and John, aside from the rest. First, Matthew 5 is about the raising of Jairus’ daughter from death. Jesus had the three accompany Him into

The Bible tells us that we are to “love our neighbors as ourselves.” The truth is, we do. I’ve often heard it said in light of that admonition from the Lord to love our neighbors as ourselves, that if you don’t love yourself, you will not be able to love your neighbor. I passionately affirm

About four decades ago, in the midst of a very painful crisis, God laid the foundation of my basic theology, which has carried me through all these years since. I had been walking with the Lord for about five years, and my experiences with Jesus during those early years had been remarkable ones. Everything in

A few years ago, I was having a conversation in a casual setting with a handful of people, and someone mentioned the fact that a building, which a church had bought with the hope of restoring it and moving into it, was part of the mudslide and was destroyed. I put my two cents worth

2 Corinthians 5:21 TPT For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with him. When talking about our spiritual birth, teachers often refer to the truth that we were born

Revelation 4:1-3 AMPC  In the midst of these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard addressing me like [the calling of] a war trumpet said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place in the midst of these things.