Morning Devotion: Resistance fighters

The more mature one becomes in faith, the more Kingdom-minded he or she responds when trials come along. I’ve seen this principle increasingly demonstrated in my life over the years and perhaps you have seen it in your life, too. Hebrews 2:18, I believe, calls us to resist not only immorality temptations but any temptations [...]

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Morning Devotion: Remnant of love

Those following the One-Year Bible’s journey through the Bible have been reading in Jeremiah about God’s earthly judgment against nations that made a habit of attacking the Hebrew people. It’s ominous reading that affirms God’s authority and His jealous retribution against those assaulting His Promised Land nation. Chapters 49-50 are included in today’s reading and [...]

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Morning Devotion: Never alone

Satan loves pouring salt on our wounds. Not the preservative salt of God’s truth, but instead the painful salt of abandonment by those we thought would support us. His objective, of course, is to lure us into thinking that nobody cares about us. Particularly if we’ve been doing the right things yet it seems that [...]

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Morning Devotion: Heaven-sent success

God wants you and me to be successful in life. Successful in serving Him by serving others, of course, but also in experiencing His blessings in our everyday lives. He’s a good God, a caring Creator, a perfect Abba Father. And daddies always want their kids to have good, amply supplied lives. I was reminded [...]

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Morning Devotion: Your path to greater gain

I want a settled heart and settled mind. And I read seven words this morning that provide these to each of us if we’ll take God at His Word. We could, of course, disbelieve what the Apostle Paul wrote in I Timothy 6:6. But that would be a big mistake. It’s so much better to [...]

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