Devotionals

Job 2:1

Satan Is Consistent! It doesn’t matter whether you are a saint or a sinner, a Christian or a muslim, a man or a woman, oriental or oxidental.  No matter what

Job 1:20-21

I’m Gonna Make It! It is in the worst times of our lives that we find out who we truly are.  It is in the toughest imes of our lives

Job 1:8

Press On! Yes, there are times when God will serve His children up to Satan!  Don’t be fooled, He will do it! However there are two things that have to

Acts 28:30-31

It Ain’t Over! The end is usually not the beginning!  With Paul, what we always here about is his glorious ministry traveling around the areas of Italy, Greece and Asia

Acts 27:22

Sacrifice and Suffering There is an essential but troubling reality that is typically the context of the believer’s promise and testimony.  We usually hear and tell only the good stuff,

Acts 22:7

The Divine Knockout! The testimony of Paul is a profound experience that we all should draw from to understand how God gets His servant on the right side!   First, Paul

Acts 20:7

Sunday Christians There have always been debates as to the origin and validity of Sunday being the day that Christians come together to workship God.  The Jewish day of worship

Jude 1:24-25

The Benediction This traditional benediction scripture serves as the conclusion to a chapter and book that keeps it real about who we are..sinners saved by God’s grace.  The scripture lifts

Psalm 24:7

Look Up When the Lord of Lords is governing your life, when the Gift of Glory is the key to your life and living and when the King of Kings

Psalm 23:5

Just Get Into The Storm What is always a baffling trait of the servant of God is that we flourish WITHIN the situations that are intended to take us down. 

Psalm 23:6

Favor From God!!! Favor ain’t fair!  That is a saying that became popular in the contemporary church around the early 2000s.  It is so true!  We as believers say it

Psalm 23:4

Overcoming FEAR Fear is an intimidating force that, when allowed, grips the individual and cripples them to lose all semblance of power and stability.  If you are a strong person,

Psalm 23:3

God Our ROCK!!!! People are funny.  They can claim that they want you to succeed but will show doubt in their seemingly awaiting your failure.  People will tell you that

Psalm 23:2

It’s Better Now When I gave God my life and then gave God my hand to lead and guide me, the quality of my life increased drastically!  I would have

Psalm 23:1

What Do You Want? All my life I have dealt with needing or wanting something.  Some may say that this is just a characteristic of the life of a human

Psalm 18:49

Go Get ‘Em When I see people who are so bold in their belief and faith to tell other people, I am impressed.  When I see the Jehovah’s Witnesses going

Psalm 19:1

God’s Country I am a country boy and am proud of it.  I have both an inherent and learned appreciation for nature and the sovereignty of God in His natural

Psalm 14:1

We Can Be Greater! In my life I have met many different types of people.  There have been people who differ from me by their looks, speech, personality, culture, socioeconomic

Psalm 10:4

Make Your Choice I hate it that people in our society actually believe that you can balance a life between the lust of the flesh and the Kingdom of God.

Psalm 9:1

Just Enough Relationships are often plagued with the concept of “just enough”.  What that means is that either or one of the parties are employing the mindset of doing “just

Psalm 8:9

I Got Help! Life pushes the individual through and to situations that a lot of times are far outside of the individual’s choice or recognition…but we do it.  We must

Psalm 8:4-5

Why Bother Why did God even bother with mankind?  So many times I have wondered about this fundamental question that directly impacts even my existence.  I am not afraid to

Psalm 7:10

God’s Got My Back! God’s got my back, and that is what gives me all of the comfort and confidence that I need!!!!!  First of all, I have earned the

Psalm 6:2

Imperfection The strongest person has weaknesses.  The smartest person doesn’t know everything.  The wisest person makes mistakes.  The funniest person gets depressed sometimes.  The happiest person cries sometimes.  The prettiest

Psalm 5:3

In The Morning… Being a morning person is defined as being one who prefers to accomplish things or do things in the morning.  I am definitely a morning person.  The

Psalm 2:11

Reverential Fear Soren Kierkegaard was a Russian philosopher who coined the phrase “fear and trembling”.  The context of his explication is when the creation is in the presence of its

Psalm 1:6

Know Who And Whose You Are God’s grace is amazing!  It is just incredible that God can take imperfect beings and perfect their steps in Him!  Honestly, I don’t care

Psalm 1:3

Requirements There are explicit expectations for being a man who is “in Christ” or “serving God”.  First of all or the leading factor is that he is steadfast, unmoveable and

Psalm 1:2

I ENJOY… “I love the Lord.  He heard my cry and pitied my every groan.  Long as I live and trouble rise, I’ll hasten to His throne.”  I enjoy God.

Psalm 1:1

The Man It is very interesting in the grand scheme of things how a man is more defined by what he doesn’t do that what he does.  God has created

Psalm 1:1

What Is A Man? It is very interesting in the grand scheme of things how a man is more defined by what he doesn’t do that what he does.  God

Exodus 3:14

God is a Spirit.  The Gospel According to Saint John makes that clear to us.  However, in my life and the development of my relationship with God, I see a

Genesis 11:4

I Don’t Got It It is amazing how the creation of God can convince itself that it can be God Himself.   God has created the world and the resources in

Genesis 3:15

Separation When I got myself connected or involved in something or someone that was not edifying to my life, God has always stepped in to help…of course after I asked

Genesis 3:9

Where Art Thou? As much as I may cry out for God to hear me, see me, know me and care for me, I also have just as much or

Genesis 3:4-5

Do You Hear Voices? It is amazing how many voices the believer has to deal with.  There is the voice of God that calls the creation to the Creator.  There

Genesis 2:23

My Rib In a Wiz Kalifa song it was coined that he had met “the female version of me” which told him that she was to be his “girl”. Adam

2Corinthians 7:1

I’m Not Perfect We aren’t perfect, but we are supposed to have a desire to be perfect in and for God.  That makes no sense whatsoever in the flesh because

Genesis 2:3

We Need Rest I am so guilty of not getting the proper rest.  I have been that way for a while…at least since before my daughters were born.  Growing up

1Timothy 4:12

Don’t Disrespect the Gifting of the Youth   I so thank God for the Apostle Paul!  He was so thorough, so real and so caring in his writing the letters/epistles

2Corinthians 5:1

Thank YOU, Father!!!! Thank You, Father, for your Word!  You told me that You would never leave me nor forsake me.  You told me that You would stick closer to

2Corinthians 6:14

Yoked Being “yoked” is a very strong statement.  To walk with someone is not that strong.  To be connected is not as strong although close.  To be yoked with someone

1Corinthians 13:13

1Corinthians 13:13  +  John 3:16 For God so LOVED that He GAVE!!! It is on this premise that we have the Christmas Holiday. It is not about celebrating a “birthday”.  

2Corinthians 5:17

So Glad I Am Changed!   I am so glad to be in Christ.  I am so glad that God has separated me OUT OF this world and even my

1Timothy 2:5

Three In One   Our Christian faith is very specific!  First, there is one God.  Christianity is a monotheistic religion that has a triune existence to the one God that

Matthew 16:18

Universal vs. Institutional Church What is the church?  I have studied and lived and talked and read and searched to learn and embrace what the church truly is.  It is

Psalm 19:14

Living RIGHTeous! I just want whatever it is that I do or say to be acceptable to God.  I have spent so much of my life trying to please people. 

1Thessalonians 5:26

Pucker Up!   How are we to greet all the brethren with a holy kiss?  Could this be literal?  I don’t think so.  In this day and age there is

Job 1:22

How Do YOU Bounce Back? God does not only check us on how we act, but He also checks us on how we react in life.  Our reacting pertains to

Psalm 100:5

Another Day, God! God is beyond words.  I can’t put into words how God is and how He is in my life.  I can’t say that I understand everything either. 

Acts 3:6

Selling The Greatest Product:  Salvation The power of God is not kept in a bottle so that it can be seen at our leisure.   God’s power is a wonder because

Psalm 34:1

Keep On Striving! I can’t do it and it is so frustrating.  I learn all the time and hear all the time that we should praise the Lord all the

1Corinthians 8:8

Distractions Sometimes we as Christians, believers or church folk get caught up in things that truly don’t make a difference.  First of all, we get caught up in them because

Acts 15:10

God’s Got It! The people of God oftentimes falter in the attempt to bear a burden that God has not meant for us to bear.  Judgment is not a burden

Acts 19:15

I Am Nothing!  I have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations, but I am nothing.  I have achieved a lot of things that have put my name in

Acts 13:46

Reciprocity It rough to love someone and they don’t receive your love and actually throw it back at you as malcontent.  It is really tough to care about someone and

Acts 13:30

Do You Understand? The scripture says “But God raised Him from the dead”.  In church we say this all the time but do we really realize what we are saying. 

Acts 10:34

The Only Judge Growing up in the deep south, you learn at a very early age that all people are not the same.  There are different criteria on which people

Acts 10:25-26

You Ain’t All That! The man of God is not God.  Those 7 words disassemble and discombobulate probably 60% of the Christian ministries in the United States.  I say this

Acts 8:30

It’s In The Book People READ, RECITE and RECOLLECT scripture all of the time, but do they ever understand what the scriptures say?  The most beautiful words ever…are in the

Acts 7:59

Calling On God At the greatest time of suffering and torment, who do you call?  Some call themselves.  They look to the answer that is inside their own intellect or

Acts 5:39

Let Go and Let God! Not only the world but also we as believers need to realize and respect the fact that WHAT GOD HAS DONE cannot be overthrown!!!! You

Acts 4:34-35

God Provides…But Do We? Money is a very sensitive subject in the institutional church. It is a sensitive subject for two reasons.  Firstly, money in the church comes from the

Acts 3:6

Selling The Greatest Product:  Salvation The power of God is not kept in a bottle so that it can be seen at our leisure.   God’s power is a wonder because

Acts 2:38-39

The Real Deal The sermon that embodies the call of the unbeliever to Christ is a simple sermon.  It does not take a lot of pomp and circumstance.  It does

Acts 2:36

What Do YOU Think The biggest problem with the people of God is not belief but perception.  The people of God BELIEVE that Jesus is the Son of God. Hwover,

Acts 1:8

His Spirit Abides Oftentimes when people have talked about or taught about the Holy Ghost, they describe or refer to it being basically a “possession”.  There is the perception that

Acts 1:7

An Omniscient and Omnipotent God I am so glad that God knows and I don’t have to know.  I am so glad that God understands and I don’t have to

Romans 16:20

EVENTUALLY… Eventually God will injure the head of the serpent…We need grace to abide with us til then.  Eventually the evil that the world promotes will cease…We need grace to

Romans 14:19

One Way! It is so easy to get caught up in the little things that simply obscure a situation.  What I mean is that it is so easy to complicate

Romans 14:2

No One Is Above The Law No one is above the law.  There is so much that a human being can do in this life.  Through the abilities of the

Romans 14:7

Live Life…Don’t Run Life Mankind has deluded itself since the beginning of time by thinking that it has the power to give or take life.  The biggest problem in this

Romans 13:14

Who’s Running Your Show? That is the primary problem with humanity in the context of trying to live as believers in Jesus, the Christ.  We “make provision” for the flesh. 

Romans 13:11

The Last Days Have you ever just looked around lately at the times that we are in?  Natural disasters, killings, chemical warfare, gangs, diseases, wars and rumors of wars are

Romans 13:7

Love and Justice Just because you are a believer, it does not mean that you can do whatever you want to do to and with folks and God will make

Romans 12:21

Can’t Avoid Evil The reality that the Believer must address, embrace and internalize is that we will never in this world get rid of evil.  There will always be evil. 

Romans 12:20

Revenge Is Sweet Ain’t God good!!!  God knows his creation.  Or, I must say, it may be that He specifically knows ME.  God gives us a way to GET BACK

Romans 12:18

It’s Bigger Than Just ME! “Our God is an awesome God.  He reigns from Heaven above with wisdom, power and love.  Our God is an awesome God!!!” I have always

Romans 10:17

It’s in a SOUND! I have always been amazed at how much of our faith comes from a SOUND.  I was saved from what I HEARD and not from what

Romans 12:17

Is It All A Lie? Always INJEST, DIGEST and EXPRESS Truth!!!!!!  In God it is very simple…LIVE IN AND BY TRUTH!  As simple as that is to say and to

Romans 12:16

No Earthly Good The problem with a lot of Christians is that they are either too LOW or too HIGH to be of any value to other people or to

Romans 12:8

God’s Word God’s Will God’s Way There are so many times in our lives as believers that we lose the true purpose of the instruction that God gives us.  We

Romans 12:7

Wait On The Lord! The time is not when we want to but when God ordains. If you don’t know when God ordains then wait on hearing.  If you can’t

Romans 12:6

Gifts Of God We have gifts given to us by God in our creation and development as His children.  We ALL have gifts.  No one has been left out.  The

Romans 12:5

The Organization Is An Organism Our bodies are connected and our bodies are conjoined.  We are linked together and we are built together as one.  We are many pieces and

Romans 11:29

God Will Deliver “All a man has is his word” That is the principle that my granddaddy taught us boys to live by as we grew up to become men. 

Romans 11:17

Holiness Holiness is a trait that can be passed and reflected.  This gets at the point in two ways.  If the product of the person is holy then the person

Romans 10:21

A Change Gonna Come! We always talk, pray, sing and cry out in the perspective of our own experience.  Let’s think about how God must feel.  God has stretched out

Romans 8:18

It’s Tight But It’s Right The suffering that comes along with being a child of God…Believer…Christian…IS WORTH IT!  We sometimes don’t think so while we are going through it or

Romans 8:17

Suffering With Him Being a child of God is not a metaphor or an expression of intent.  Being a child of God is a metaphysical reality that we can both explain

Romans 8:1

Don’t Condemn Me Thank You, Father, that there is no condemnation!!!!!  Before there was condemnation!  There was the knowledge and understanding that we would be condemned due to the inability

Romans 12:12

Divine Balance For the Believer It is tough as a believer for the reason that this life in Christ is a roller coaster ride.  We are up some times and

Romans 12:11

We Gotta Give The  life of the believer is not just praise and worship 24/7!  This may surprise some people who think that the life of the believer is all

2Corinthians 9:6-7

So Let Him Give! Giving is a tough subject in the institutional church.  Giving to God is not so tough.  Either you know God and will have a desire to

Romans 3:10

I Wanna Be RIGHT! Sometimes life can feel like a futile effort that just leaves us teasing and toying with failure…all the time!  We fail in relationships by hurting and

Romans 12:10

Can’t We All Just Get Along Those of us who are in the Kingdom of God and are anxiously and actively awaiting the glorious return of Jesus, the Christ, need

Romans 12:9

Acting RIGHT!!! The believer needs to be true.  True to who they are and true to who God is.  With this truth as a foundation, there are limitless possibilities to

Romans 10:13

When We Call Him Knowing that “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” gives me JOY!  If you have never had to call on the

Romans 10:12

God’s Got It It is amazing that God made all of us different…even down to our fingerprint and to our hair follicles.  We are unique beings that are wondrously and

Romans 10:3

Give In In my life I have suffered more from my own doings than those of the “enemy”.  That may be surprising to read but it is true.  So often