Written Devotionals

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you...For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior.”    Isaiah 43:2-3     NIV No matter how much time passes, this nation will...

15 “Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God.  16 And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe...

20” Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight,...

18 Let no person deceive himself. If anyone among you supposes that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [let him discard his worldly discernment and recognize himself as dull, stupid, and foolish, without true learning and scholarship], that he may become...

“and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), 16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and...

  2”May grace (God's unmerited favor) and spiritual peace [which means peace with God and harmony, unity, and undisturbedness] be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.      3 May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of...

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.”      Jeremiah 17:5-7  NKJV Where I live we have a creek that runs through our front yard.  Alongside that creek there is a mammoth maple tree.  It is huge and must be ancient, yet every year it...

14”Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;”    Hebrews 12:14-15   ...

“Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”     Matthew 18:17  NKJV Anytime I see that Jesus is telling someone that they are blessed, I want to know what they...

“NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. “     Hebrews 11:1   ...