Daily Devotional

My son, if your heart is wise,     my heart too will be glad.  My inmost being will exult     when your lips speak what is right. Let not your heart envy sinners,     but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. Surely there is a future,     and your hope will not be cut off. […]

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. Psalms 139:13 When you look up this verse in the Hebrew for the words ‘inward parts’, it has several meanings, first it means the ‘kidneys’ (the organ) or figuratively the seat of the emotions and affections which is essentially the soul.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought

See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. … But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you

And He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.  For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words

“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him. Psalms 103:13 God has no grandchildren. This statement has often been brought forefront to my understanding. All of us were ‘knitted’ in the womb by God. All of us have a first hand relationship and access to

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! Luke 11:13 Oh how age and life experience can change one’s perspective. I use to read this and only understand it with ‘young’ eyes.

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will