Posts from 2020 (Page 8)

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life Step 4: Through Prayer, Receive Jesus into Your Heart and Life There is a comedy group that I’ve seen perform at many conferences I’ve attended, called “The Skit Guys.” They have a way of making you laugh while at the same time using their skits to get across a biblically-meaningful point. One of their recurring skits is “Little Billy.” In this skit, one of the guys pretends…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life #3: Believe that Jesus Christ Died for You on the Cross Jesus Just Loves You to Death “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. My sins my own. They belong to me, me” (Patti Smith, “Gloria”). In her famous, controversial song, Patti Smith told a half-truth. Her sins were hers, but Jesus did die for those sins. Believing that Jesus Christ died for your sins is…

6 Devotionals on What Our Prayers Are To Include #2: Confession “When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!” (Psalm 119:26, ESV). This old Scottish proverb seems applicable: “Open confession is good for the soul.” Police detectives can spend hours attempting to obtain a confession from a suspect. Dad wants a confession on who scratched his car. God wants us to confess our sins daily to stay in a right relationship with Him! That’s it, folks.…

Four Things You Need to Do to Receive Jesus Christ into Your Life | Step 1: Admit Your Spiritual Need (Romans 10:9) Admit: confess to be true or to be the case, typically with reluctance.1 I have not met many people that did not recognize a spiritual need in their life. It’s very rare that a person will not recognize their need for God, and in most instances, they are on a pursuit for truth in a quest to find…

“God Is Omnipresent” Series| Heaven Can’t Contain God | October 5, 2020 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!” (1 Kings 8:27) The Mosaic Covenant The Mosaic Covenant was a promise by God to the nation of Israel that the Israeli nation agreed to. It is found in Exodus 19:3 – 8: Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD…

Hide and Seek (Jeremiah 23:23 – 24) “Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 23:23 – 24). Do you remember playing hide-and-seek as a child? Would you think before hiding or did you just run and as you were running, look for a…

Four Reasons to Trust in God | He Knows What He Is Doing Proverbs 3:5 – 6 My oldest daughter is at the stage where she loves to help me with projects. She practically jumps at any opportunity to be my assistant. The problem is that my daughter is also at the stage where she thinks she knows everything. Recently, we were putting together a bed frame and the bed frame used bolts to hold it together. My daughter knew…

God Wanted: Must Be Trustworthy “I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust’” (Psalm 91:2). “Trust me!” How often have you heard that one? What goes through your mind when someone, especially a stranger, says that to you? Your mind probably searches for some reason why that person may be worthy of your confidence. What if an invisible person whom you’ve never met or heard says, “Trust me!” — What would you think? Where would you…

Trust God because All Things Are Possible with God And Jesus said to him, “’If you can!’ All things are possible for one who believes” (Mark 9:23). This exceptional promise has some background (Mark 9:14 – 29). While Jesus was returning from the mountain of transfiguration, many of his disciples were ministering in his absence. A man with a demon-possessed son came seeking healing from Jesus’ disciples. The disciples were not able to heal the boy and this led to…

God Knows Best (John 11:40) “Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?’” (John 11:40) This may seem like a silly question: Have you ever made plans to take a trip or spend time with friends, but things didn’t turn out quite as you expected? I can think of several times in my life where I had things planned out, but God had something different for me —…