Promise of the Day: Being with Jesus
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 12:26 NKJV: “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” Devotion: The word “follow” here is akoloutheo in Greek. It means not just to follow, but to join. Our walk with […]
Promise of the Day: Being Pursued
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 23:6 CJB: “Goodness and grace will pursue me every day of my life; and I will live in the house of Adonai for years and years to come.” Devotion: I know the King James Version says, “follow me,” but I love the more detailed definition of “pursue.” Don’t you love the […]
Promise of the Day: Faith in Practice
Blessings! Today’s Promise is James 1:25 CJB: “But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does.” Devotion: I took piano lessons for five years, as a kid. I […]
Promise of the Day: Gifts, Gifts, Gifts!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Luke 11:13 NKJV: “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Devotion: Who doesn’t love giving their children gifts? Our Heavenly Father is no different. The Holy Spirit is […]
Promise of the Day: Eye Opening
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 5:6 CJB: “He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah — not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.” Devotion: We don’t believe in Jesus as our Messiah […]
Promise of the Day: Prison’s Key
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Galatians 3:22 CJB: “But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.” Devotion: If the Scripture is the prison, Jesus Christ is the key. No one likes to be told they […]
Promise of the Day: Persistence Pays
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 2:10 CJB: “…but glory and honor and shalom (peace) to everyone who keeps doing what is good, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile.” Devotion: The most evil person does good once in a while. But how can we keep doing good? Especially when we are tired and stressed? When […]
Promise of the Day: Eating Well
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 1:19 CJB: “If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;” Devotion: That doesn’t sound like a lot to ask. And, in fact, most Christians are willing, otherwise they wouldn’t call themselves Christians. It’s that second part that keeps us from eating the good of […]
Promise of the Day: More Like God
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 Peter 2:1-3 CJB: “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, of all deceit, hypocrisy and envy, and of all the ways there are of speaking against people; and be like newborn babies, thirsty for the pure milk of the Word; so that by it, you may grow up into deliverance. For you […]
Promise of the Day: Go Tell It!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 52:7 CJB: “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation and saying to Tziyon, ‘Your God is King!’” Devotion: The closer we draw to God, the closer He draws to us. And the deeper we […]