Devotionals

Tried and Proven “Even today I live every moment with the Bible.  It is my constant companion.  As a believer for fifty-six years, I have tested God’s Word and found it true.  In more than five decades I have not encountered one situation on which I have not been able to turn to God’s Word for comfort, wisdom, guidance, joy and blessing.  At eighty-one years of age, I would rather have the Bible on my shelf and in my heart than...

Shutting the Door of Our Minds A man approached a speaker and said, “You Christians are all brainwashed.”  The speaker replied, “I think we are all brainwashed to a degree.  The important thing is that we Christians choose what we want to wash our brains with.” INTRODUCTION:  G.  K.  Chesterton observed that an open mind, like an open mouth, does have a purpose:  and that it is, to close upon something solid.  Otherwise, it could end up like a sewer, rejecting nothing.  The...

Life is Hard.  God is Good. “By faith the believer triumphs over the world’s enticements:  he sees that all that is in the world, suited to gratify the desires of the flesh or the eye, is not only to be avoided as sinful, but as incompatible with his best pleasures.” — John Newton INTRODUCTION:  The apostle Paul described his life like this, “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:9-10).  In the service of Jesus he never knew when or where the next...

The Man Who Sings One Note Open my eyes that I may see the wonderful things in Your law.  Psalm 119:18 “I find him always singing one note.” — Stephen Vaughn on William Tyndale INTRODUCTION:  William Tyndale had to flee England.  His crime?  He was committed to translating the Bible into the English language so that the common people could have the joy of reading God’s Word for themselves.  The Catholic Church and the King were set against it.  So, he fled to...

The Clarity of God’s Word “I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning.  But faith did not seem to come.  One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ.’  I had up to this time closed my Bible and prayed for faith.  I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.”  —...

Sweet Words of Truth “Even today I live every moment with the Bible.  It is my constant companion.  As a believer for fifty-six years, I have tested God’s Word and found it true.  In more than five decades I have not encountered one situation in which I have not been able to turn to God’s Word for comfort, wisdom, guidance, joy, and blessing.  At eighty-one years of age, I would rather have the Bible on my shelf and in my heart...

The Eternal Rock INTRODUCTION:  We have passed the midpoint of Psalm 119 and the darkest moment in the psalmist’s life.  In our last stanza, the psalmist was in the midst of his darkness.  He was “fainting,” his eyes were failing, and he was like a “wineskin in the smoke.”  He was still waiting and looking and hoping for the deliverance that he knew would come because he had put his hope in God’s Word. Now, he has been delivered.  He is out...

Oh God, May I Please You! “What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance; and this the Christian has, in a way that no other man has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?” J. I. Packer Introduction: Our God is a speaking God. He desires to be known and enjoyed. He speaks in creation through the work of his hands...

“Open my eyes that I may see the wonderful things in Your law.” Psalm 119:18 “My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.” Psalm 119:81 “Even today I live every moment with the Bible. It is my constant companion. As a believer for fifty-six years, I have tested God’s Word and found it true. In more than five decades I have not encountered one situation in which I have not been able to...

The Man Everybody Wants to See  “Open my eyes that I may see the wonderful things in Your law.”  Psalm 119:18 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.  2 Corinthians 1:3-4 INTRODUCTION:  The tenth stanza of Psalm 119 is the Hebrew letter yodh.  It is...