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 […]
Promise of the Day: Deliverance
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Galatians 1:3, 4 NKJV: “Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.” Devotion: This is the truth the enemy is […]
Promise of the Day: Nothing Boring Here
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 37:37 NKJV: “Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace.” Devotion: For some reason, people tend to equate goodness with “boring.” They like the thrill and adventure of action heroes breaking all the rules, rebels living for number one, and ambitious power […]