Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Today's Thought: Before confession, there should be a complete separation.
Reverend J.C. Ryle talked much about separation. He preached:
No doubt you have had many a battle, and made many...
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Today's Thought: As much as you know the Lord, you should rejoice always.
There was a fellow who was about to jump from a bridge. An alert police officer slowly and methodically moved toward him, talking with him all the time. When the officer got within...
Psalm 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Today's Thought: God searches the heart when we forget the name of our God.
The story of the nation of Israel is filled with running away from God, worshiping other...
Friday, December 29, 2017
Psalm 60:11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Today's Thought: Only the Lord Jesus Christ is trustworthy to help us.
The story of George Muller always fascinates Christians. He was a man of prayer, who always depended God for the provision and direction of the ministry God entrusted him. Muller emphasized the importance...
Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do no present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies.
Today's Thought: We pray not because of our own's sake, but because of God's nature.
Peter, as typical...
Romans 6:17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Today's Thought: The life tells the doctrine that shaped it.
John MacArthur wrote: "Nothing is more wicked than for someone to claim to speak for God to the salvation of souls when in reality...
1 Peter 5:5–7
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
2 Peter 1:3-4
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the...
Colossians 3:22-24
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Today's...
Monday, December 25, 2017
Luke 22:45-46
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Today's Thought: The people of God should be wide awake and alert all the time.
In colonial America, church services last long hours. Churches had ushers...
Saturday, December 23, 2017
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Today's Thought: Teamwork does the work; it divides the effort and multiplies the result.
Arturo Toscanini conducted for a performance at the Metropolitan Operate House in New York City. He offered...
Romans 8:35-37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Today's...
Friday, December 22, 2017
Psalm 121:1-2
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
Today's Thought: Focus on Christ and you will see the right spiritual light.
There was a woman who had difficulty with her eyes. She went to the doctor for an examination. The doctor told her that her eyes...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
John 1:1–5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not
Today's...
Matthew 15:11
What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.
Today's Thought: Let us live our doctrine - this is real Christianity. On June 22, 2002, a young pitching star for the St. Louis Cardinals was found dead in his hotel room. He was young, athletic and in good health. But...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Luke 21:29-31
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Today's Thought: The return of Christ should affect the way we...
Monday, December 18, 2017
Matthew 1:20-21
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from...
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen
Today's...
Philippians 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.
Today's Thought: Everything else is worthless when compared to the greatness of Christ.
Perhaps the greatest denial of self,...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Luke 2:49
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?
Today's Thought: The sense of purpose of a person is what drives him to do something of human meaning and spiritual impact. George Mallory was one of the best mountain climbers in the world. Together with Andrew Irvine, Mallory were...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Today's Thought: The greatness of God's love is demonstrated in the sacrifice of Christ. In Great Expectations, a book of Charles Dickens, there was a woman named Miss Havisham. She was wealthy and she was courted by a scoundrel who only wanted her money....
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Luke 24:49
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Today's Thought: It is the through the Holy Spirit that we can do something for God. There was a Welsh preacher who visited the church of Dr. A.J. Gordon. He asked for time alone before the service...
Monday, December 11, 2017
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Today's Thought: Pray and trust God for He knows what is best. In the United Nations, there are several interpreters who work for many representatives...
Sunday, December 10, 2017
1 Corinthians 2:14–16
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have...
Saturday, December 9, 2017
2 Corinthians 8:2-5
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of...
Friday, December 8, 2017
Numbers 14:7-9
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of...
Thursday, December 7, 2017
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Today's Thought: Ask wisely and the Lord will answer your prayer. With the rise of online ordering, people can easily buy things without the need to physically visit the store. However, there are instances when the ordered item does not meet the...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Today's Thought: Let us allow God's justice to work and let us live in peace. In the border of Kentucky and West Virginia lived William Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. They fought over a razorback hog in the 19th century. While both men lived long lives, they also...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Luke 24:46
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
Today's Thought: The sacrifice of Jesus is an important ingredient of our salvation. When one substitutes one thing for the original, it may work. For instannce, when one does not like to use egg in baking, a little applesauce...
Monday, December 4, 2017
Luke 21:25–26
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Today's Thought: Trust God and...
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Philippians 2:5-8
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,...
Friday, December 1, 2017
Luke 21:20-22
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which...
