Promise of the Day: Delight in God’s Truth
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 1:1-3 CJB: How blessed are thosewho reject the advice of the wicked,don’t stand on the way of sinnersor sit where scoffers sit!Their delightis in Adonai’s Torah;on his Torah they meditateday and night.They are like trees planted by streams —they bear their fruit in season,their leaves never wither,everything they do succeeds. Devotion Many believers equate […]
Promise of the Day: You Are My Beloved
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 5:5 CJB: “And this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh [Holy Spirit] who has been given to us.” Devotion: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of God as my Dad. […]
Promise of the Day: An Expression of Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 5:3 CJB: “For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome.” Devotion: As a child, I was convinced I was going to hell. God’s commandments were very burdensome indeed, being held over my head as a means of making me behave. A means that failed […]
Promise of the Day: Embrace the Fire
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 5:9 NKJV: “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” Devotion: Our God is a consuming fire. No sin can stand in the presence of His goodness. But He is also merciful, a refining fire that removes impurities by testing, […]
Promise of the Day: Free Indeed
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 8:36 NKJV: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” Devotion: This should be a life-changing statement. Freedom from the bondage of sin. Yet, knowing this truth, I continued living in bondage to certain sin, and destructive behaviors. Some I didn’t even realize until the Holy […]
Promise of the Day: Power to Prosper
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Deuteronomy 28:8 NKJV: “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” Devotion: How are your storehouses looking? Are you prospering in the works […]
Promise of the Day: Contagious Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 5:1 NKJV: “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” Devotion: I wish I could convey adequately the tangible, living, dynamic love that comes with the presence of Jesus Christ. It […]
Promise of the Day: Be Not Discouraged
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 2 Samuel 22:21 NKJV: “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.” Devotion: Do you ever grow weary of doing the right thing? Sometimes when we look around at the evil that seems to abound in the world, it can […]
Promise of the Day: Speak Life
Blessings! Today’s promise is Proverbs 18:21 NKJV: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.” Devotion: The church as a whole seems to have forgotten that we are commanded to love one another. This command carries no ifs, ands, or buts. In fact even […]
Promise of the Day: Regrowth
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Job 14:7 NKJV: “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease.” Devotion: My yard is a living testimony to this verse. No matter how many times I cut saplings down, they always come back […]