Daily Devotional

What do you see? How much of what you see is through other’s lenses? Have your icons, heroes, idols, and even friends and family skewed how you see things? Many times our disillusionment and depression comes from us losing those who we’ve placed ‘in front’ of the Holy Spirit in our lives and love. This […]

We are in a time where real hope will become more precious than gold.  Hope that God gives is not the definition of hope we’ve been taught. Having a proper understanding of the hope that the scriptures talk about is important. Hope has become seen as something that should almost be negated, or shunned. “Don’t

Is the joy of the Lord really your strength? (Neh 8:10) Is joy happiness? Is happiness your goal? Should it be? What exactly is joy in this ever declining art of language in this time and culture? ‘Calm delight’ is the Strong’s definition for ‘chara’ the Greek word for joy. Gladness could be a synonym

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