Posts made in June, 2024

Adversity Is Not An Enemy “………We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but never destroyed”, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, NKJV It might seem strange to agree with the title of today’s devotional. So often we look at adversity as a great enemy that has come to destroy us. I have even preached that idea on numerous occasions. However, the...

Don’t Go Looking For Trouble! “Jesus said, ‘Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.'” —  Matthew 6:34, NKJV “Sufficient for the day is its own trouble”. In several translations, those last words are translated; “Each day has enough trouble of its own”. In other words, don’t go looking for trouble today because...

He Never Said It Would Be Easy! “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23, NKJV To seriously follow Christ is not easy.  It’s not difficult to pray the prayer of salvation and be baptized but it’s something totally different to follow Christ on a daily basis. That’s not too easy. In fact, that can be the challenge of our life. In our scripture for the day,...

The Anchor That Holds! “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast…” Hebrews 6:19, NKJV. If you have ever been out in the ocean on a ship, you know the importance of the anchor of the ship. If the ship loses its power, the anchor can hold the ship from drifting. There are times in our life when we might lose our spiritual power because of problems that we are dealing with. In those times, we need an anchor to...

Day by Day, and by Faith! “For in it (God’s Word) the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” — Romans 1:17 There are many times in our lives when all we can do is walk by faith! We may face something in our life we don’t like, we don’t agree with, and we don’t understand. Those times demand us to walk by faith if we are going to get through those difficult times....