Joseph Pauls

I must apologize for the lapse in the ‘Daily Devotional’ area of my website. Our home is now going through a renovation process. And part remodel. Were losing part of a wall, and gaining a new kitchen and almost everything else will be changing and being updated. So for the last week my wife and […]

“And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.  And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are

So if you have begun to develop your self control with the help of the Holy Spirit, and working on your gentleness, while allowing the Holy Spirit to impart His faithfulness into you, and following His instructions on the acts of goodness He has given you to complete, all the while allowing Him to change

Faith is usually not what people think it is. It is not hope, yet faith gives hope. It is not trust, yet faith gives trust. It is not belief, yet faith brings belief. Faith is not something we ‘strive’ at, yet we can deny it. Many times I’ve heard statements of people that say, “If

The other power twin of goodness is kindness. One thing I’ve noticed as one progresses towards the front of the list in  Galatians 5:22-23 that each fruit takes a little more work and depth to attain from the Holy Spirit. He works deeper and deeper within us to move us towards the personality of Jesus.

Goodness. What exactly is it? It seems nebulous in this current culture where everything has been turned on it’s head. When the redefinition of language is almost a weekly issue now. What I actually enjoy is going back to the Truth (scriptures) and the baseline of how, and why things were created for a specific

I’m going to continue with the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23. Today’s topic is gentleness sometimes also translated meekness. It’s not a very well known fruit — as I don’t hear much about it these days. But throughout human history it was a wonderful trait to meet in other people. When I

In Galatians 5:22-23 the letter from Paul to the Church residing in that city, lists nine fruit of the Holy Spirit. Those nine fruit really are the evidence of the Holy Spirit in someone’s life. What does it take for those fruit to be produced in someone’s life? It takes the intimate relationship with the

What has happened to the men? Firstly when a society has issues — I first blame the local spiritual leadership. God has set leadership in place to equip the Body of Christ to know Him and follow His Voice. If the spiritual leadership is corrupt or compromised then the people will be overtaken by selfishness

I am often reminded that my “view” on reality can be hard to deal with as this world can be very depressing to look at currently. But the job / calling of a ‘watchman’ is not for the faint of heart. (Ezekiel 33) Standing on the “wall’ and looking out over the situations happening in