Devotionals

JOHN 15:26 NKJ 26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. The Holy Spirit’s desire and purpose is to help you — not to hinder you. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of […]

JOHN 16:12-13 NKJ 12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will

MARK 11:23 NKJ 23 “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, `Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says. Jesus said that you will have whatever you

Faith is what you believe. (In the Bible, faith is the noun form and believe is the verb form of the same word.) Faith (a belief) is always a decision, based on some evidence, resulting in some action. Faith in God is a choice to believe what God says is true. It is accepting God’s

1 THESSALONIANS 5:27 HCSB 27 I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers. The Bible contains both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The New Testament contains the four Gospels (Matthew through John), the book of Acts, the Letters to the Church (Romans through Jude) and the

1 JOHN 3:1 NIV 1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Yes, you have heard it before. No, you don’t understand

EPHESIANS 3:15 AMPLIFIED 15 For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named — [that Father] from whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name. I have included these different translations, with the notes from the margin, to show that the Bible says that all fatherhood derives from God. In other

MATTHEW 4:10 ESV 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,” ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” When Jesus was tempted by the devil, He talked back to the devil by quoting the written Word of God. You should do the same thing.

Whose teaching should I listen to? It seems Christians differ on many things, although all claim to believe the same Bible. (On the main teaching that Jesus is mankind’s savior and we need to follow Him, all Christian groups agree. But on many subjects, there is not agreement.) How can I know who to believe?

ROMANS 14:17 ESV 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. A kingdom is the domain of a king. It is wherever a king governs, or is in control. A king can be in control without being physically