Posts with the category “daily-devotions”

O our God will you not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us, nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon you....the Lord says to you...do not be...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was 2 more days. Jesus refrained from going because of his divine love. It was his love alone that kept him from rushi...  Read More

Pray without ceasing...God is here. You can leave your receiver turned on to him constantly and hear the dialogue of his love, encouragement and direction. To go there with him is to set aside other v...  Read More

Blackaby Give God our first...not out leftovers. Especially the first of our days, attention, devotion, recognizing we don't possess anything that God does not own.......  Read More

Our Daily Bread Walk as children of the light...the light of God's word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. Only one step at a time though...not every step I will take...otherwise where wou...  Read More

Blackaby God is a consuming fire. He is looking for pure devotion to him alone. He wants us to desire him as first on a list of 1. Not first on a list of 100. Even over ourselves..because he knows onl...  Read More

Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, he is the one who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you. It is amazing to me how I have never ou...  Read More

Thy kingdom come...from unoffendable. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead thank God that he has intervened in it. And he is going to restore it to everything it was meant to...  Read More

Blackaby Give me this mountain...Caleb requests the mountain dwelling of the giants...to know that God is the mountain moving giant killer. If you always choose the easy way, the peaceful valleys...yo...  Read More

Now the Lord had said to Abram...get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. Abram didn't even know where this land was...just that God would ...  Read More

Blackaby The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him...the question is not...is God looking for those whose hea...  Read More

Blackaby The only power any people of faith had was the very presence of God...Moses…Joshua…Gideon…Joseph...David...they all had nothing to give, they all had the same God who were with them. If God's...  Read More

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from my father I have made known to you. We need frie...  Read More

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father with also forgive you. Forgive the big things and the small things. Don't take offense. The stuff that usually might offend us is huge opp...  Read More

See if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven...that you will not have room enough to receive...God is waiting for us to trust this promise and therefore give him opportunity to act. God's abi...  Read More

The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run to it and are safe. May the Lord make me the righteous kind that runs to the only safe place...his name. In his name there is perspective beca...  Read More

Streams in the Desert You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand. In this life we have an incomplete view if God's dealings, seeing his plans only with half vision at best. ...  Read More

Charles Spurgeon Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Faith listens neither to presumption, nor to despair, nor to cowardice, but it hears God say...stand still, and immovable as a rock. It ...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Sing to the Lord always giving thanks to God the father for all things.When an organist presses the black keys of a great organ, the notes are just as beautiful as when he presse...  Read More

Men ought to pray always and not lose heart...the more prayer...the more encouragement...the more prayer the more hope that God who hears every prayer will answer with clarity and promptness to meet t...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Let me make one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece.There are 3 kinds of faith.1. Believing only when we see some sign, or have strong emotion.2. When we believe...  Read More

Blackaby The world hates the Jewish people because they are God's people. God began all that work by the call to one man..one man that had to surrender his future to the unknown..with only the call of...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Shall I not drink from the cup the father has given me? We all need to see the cup is from the father...receive it as if from him alone...if you have surrendered yourself to Jesu...  Read More

Blackaby As I am reading this devo. I tried to find the line or 2 I wanted to share...but it is too relevant...too penetrating to edit..it is about where my hearts desire is located..is it wholly comm...  Read More

Jesus felt compassion for the crowd...because they were like sheep without a shepherd....and he began to teach them...how do you know you have compassion for people? You are moved to teach...we often ...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Because you have not withheld your son, your only son...I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky...because you have obeyed me...the moment of your greates...  Read More

I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place...having faith even if...prayers are not answered in my will, even if waiting turns into weariness, even if the fire is 7 times hotter, even...  Read More

Blackaby Yet I will not forget you...don't let difficult circumstances you are facing convince you that God has forgotten you. Don't ever assume that God is more concerned with the needs of other more...  Read More

Streams in the Desert God...calls all things that are not as though they were. That is genuine faith...believing and declaring what God has said, stepping out on what appears to be thin air and findin...  Read More

Streams in the Desert He knows the way I take, when he has tested me. I will come forth as gold. Faith grows during the storms. Faith is the God given ability to bring the unseen into plain view. Stor...  Read More

Streams in the Desert Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land...Elijah refused to let his dwindling circumstances to come between himself and his God and God's pr...  Read More

Blackaby Righteousness ensures effectiveness in praying. That means we must be declared righteous by God in salvation...but it means more than that. Living righteous each moment by following his spiri...  Read More

Those that wait upon the Lord. Only those who wait upon the moving of the Lord can mount up with wings as eagles. His spirit lifts us to the heights to soar over the mountains that will not move..to s...  Read More

Tim Tebow (Mike & Missy Wilson) When our family 1st moved there, we knew the remainder of our lives would not be easy. But we would rather be where God has called us than anywhere else. God's call is ...  Read More

Blackaby God places much of the burden or what we will become on our response to him. Much of the Christian life rests upon our desire to experience God to the fullest. May we return to God today on S...  Read More

We are hard pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. At 15 I had brain surgery to remove the tumor...started at completed chemotherapy. At...  Read More

O God you are my God, early I will seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you. In a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your p...  Read More

O God you are my God, early I will seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you. In a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your p...  Read More

But we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as by the Spirit of the Lord. We need to be transformed or God would n...  Read More

God is repulsed by empty performances, no matter how professional. He is not moved to display himself when he is not consulted. He is not impressed with man initiated programming. He leaves the gather...  Read More