Daily Devotional

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. 1 Chronicles 12:32 This phrase “understanding of the times” is only used once in the scriptures. Many commentaries speculate as to the meaning, some say it was knowledge of the […]

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. Daniel 12:4 From loadstarsolutions.com… “From an article on Industry Tap written by David Schilling, the host went on to say that not only is human knowledge, on average,

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.” Romans 11:7-8 The coming of the lawless one will be

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. Proverbs 27:21 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by

And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s. Deuteronomy 5:21 Heard the phrase “the grass is always greener”? This seems to be a problem all the

And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Deuteronomy 5:20 Strictly Hebrew translation: False witness against your neighbor not you shall bear.  This could be taken and interpreted several ways. Lying that puts your neighbor in trouble is a form of being a ‘false witness’. This would be especially egregious in anytime of

And you shall not steal. Deuteronomy 5:19 From the Benson Commentary… “Hast thou seriously considered that these houses, lands, money, or goods, which thou hast been used to call thy own, are not thy own, but belong to another, even God? Hast thou ever considered that God is the sole proprietor of heaven and earth;