1 Corinthian 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Today's Thought: Never give on occasion for the devil to take over your life.
Bobby Leach...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Today's Thought: Let us be ready to be separated for the Lord.
Robert McCheyne is a Scottish pastor who only had eight years of full service to the Lord....
Sunday, July 15, 2018
1 Thessalonian 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Today's Thought: Let us live accordingly that we would not be ashamed when Christ returns.
The coming of the Lord has been looked forward to by believers....
Friday, July 13, 2018
Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.Today's Thought: Even if you don't understand the plan of the Lord, just follow Him. Peter and company were already tired for all night of labor and toil. The most sensible thing...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.Today's Thought: We fail when we do it alone. Simon was an experienced fisherman. He knew all the tricks and ways to catch schools of fishes. But he was instructed by someone younger...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Luke 5:3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.Today's Thought: Unless we allow God to take possession of everything we are and we have, He can never real King of our lives. Whatever we give to the...
Monday, July 9, 2018
Luke 8:1-3And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward,...
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Galatians 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Today's Thought: Use the liberty you receive from Christ to lovingly serve Him.
On 1876, the people of France sent the sculpture "Liberty Enlightening the World" or the Statue of Liberty to...
Hebrews 13:5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that they may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Today's Thought: You are never alone in facing struggles in life for God is with...
Thursday, July 5, 2018
1 Kings Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
Today's Thought: Miracles come in difficult times.
All of us have needs in our lives, though they differ in nature and category. But basically, each person has a yearning for God to intervene...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
1 Timothy 1:19
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Today's Thought: You drift away from God because you do not take much attention not to.
People drift away from God for several reasons. When one does like the church or anything that pertains to God, that person...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.Today's Thought: Let us pray for Christ's compassion to reign in our hearts. I have seen social experiments done to show how hard hearted people are. In these experiments we...
Monday, July 2, 2018
Nehemiah 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
Today's Thought: When we pray, we worry less.
James tells us that we don't have what we need because we don't pray or we are pray improperly. There are four things...
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Ephesians 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.Today's Thought: God gets glory through His church. There are people who won't go to church as they would reasoned of people's imperfections. These people only see the mistakes and failures of people in the church without knowing...
Friday, June 29, 2018
2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,Today's Thought: When you commit your life to Christ, you allow God to shape your life. There is one thing in which I am dead earnest and that is the Communist cause. It is my life, my...
Friday, May 25, 2018
Acts 15:26
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today's Thought: Let us be willing to sacrifice for Christ - this is real discipleship.Bob Simmons had just led the Oklahoma State football team to their first victory in ten years. However, a serious kidney problem put his career at stake. To save his life, his...
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Today's Thought: Just live the Bible, the very Word of God.
Sir Walter Scott understood...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Exodus 35:21
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
Today's Thought: You should give and not lose it. A chaplain visited soldiers seriously wounded...
Friday, May 18, 2018
2 Corinthians 5:5-8
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from...
James 1:2-4
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Today's Thought: If are grounded on the promise of Heaven, we can rejoice when trials come. The Decian Persecution...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint
Today's Thought: Let us be on our tour of duty. When the Darius invaded Greece to expand his empire in 490 BC, Athenian army successfully routed the invaders. To...
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Philippians 2:17
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Today's Thought: God deserves every sacrifice we make for Him. Missionary Hudson Taylor had been monumental in reaching China to the Lord. But a woman spent her time with the missionary - his wife. Maria taught, wrote, witnessed...
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Today's Thought: God's Word and grace can only grow in our hearts if we are willing and ready for its nourishment.
One
of the basics in farming is breaking the ground and preparing it for
the sowing of seeds. A...
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Philippians 4:17
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Today's Thought: Our financial investments in the work of the Lord speaks of our heart for Him. The primary reason Paul wrote to the church at Philippi was to thank them for their generosity...
Lamentations 1:18
The
Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I
pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men
are gone into captivity.
Today's Thought: Do not dig up a grave for your fall.
You
are digging your own grave. These are words to describe how a person is
destroying himself...
Friday, May 4, 2018
1 Timothy 1: 12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry
Today's Thought: Let us consider it a privilege to be part of the Lord's ministry and be counted faithful. Dr. Lee Roberson gave his life for God. He could have had a good recording contract, but he chose to preach...
1 Chronicles 29:3
Moreover,
because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine
own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of
my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.
Today's Thought: The way you look at the house of God reflects the way you look at God Himself.
Title
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Thursday, May 3, 2018
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Today's Thought: The glory of God is our priority and nothing else. People around us want to be at the top. There are thousands of tips on how to gain attention or how to stand out in a ground. In fact, our culture dictates how we treat those who had accomplish more in life than those who don't. There...
Deuteronomy 29:18
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Today's Thought: Turning away from the Lord costs too much more than one...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
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 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...
Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Today's Thought: As much as we sinned against the Lord, let us be ready for the spanking.
The
greatest problem of most Christians is the inability to know when God
sends His trials and when He punishes us for our sins. Even if we are
already...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
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...
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...
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,...
Sunday, April 29, 2018
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...
Thursday, April 26, 2018
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...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
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...
Monday, April 23, 2018
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...
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.
Today's Thought: A trial faced is an opportunity to trust God.
The first Scholastic Aptitude Test was done among more than eight thousand young students on June 23, 1926. The test was designed to test...
Friday, April 20, 2018
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...
1 Timothy 1:2-4
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Today's Thought: Those who trust in God will never be disappointed.
William Carey, a shoemaker, hung a worldmap in his shop. He began to pray that God would ignite hearts of men to reach the lost. Afterwhich, he went to India himself...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
Today's Thought: The decisions we make reflect the results we will achieve.
Harlan Sanders had seen much in life. During World War II, he fed thousands of workers at the Oak Ridge nuclear...
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Romans 4:20
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Today's Thought: Keep the flames of faith burning until the day of Christ's coming.
Brendan Schweighart fought in the war in Iraq. One day he and his platoon retreived a tank when Brendan was hit by a spiner's bullet that could...
Friday, April 13, 2018
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....
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...
