by ray | Jun 30, 2010 | Devotionals
And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them. (Matthew 5:1-2) Christ sees people far differently than we do. Throughout the Gospels we see a pattern in the way Jesus...
by ray | Jun 22, 2010 | Devotionals
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.” (Amos 8:11) One way God communicates is through silence. The...
by ray | Jun 20, 2010 | Devotionals
The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends ~Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right...
by ray | Jun 11, 2010 | Devotionals
“Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) Jesus sums up common sense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will press...
by ray | Jun 2, 2010 | Devotionals
For a while now, I have been wondering about the power of the Holy Spirit that came UPON the disciples at Pentecost. Oswald Chambers provides his explanation of this “power from on high.” I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the...