I love this very first sentence in Jesus Today (Experience Hope Through His Presence), the devotional by Sarah Young: Gaze at Me; Glance at problems – This is the secret of living victoriously. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured…

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12-13. In our chapter, 2 Chronicles 14, we meet Asa, king of Judah. Asa did what was good and right in…

There is so much to share this morning in Scripture, in the devotionals; and I want to start with an excerpt Dallas Willard included in Hearing God: {It may help to remember these words of Thomas a Kempis in The Imitation of Christ: Of what use is it to discourse learnedly on the Trinity, if…

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God. 1 Corinthians 8:1-3. As I was reading our chapter, 2 Chronicles 12, this note at the bottom of the page: (When we…

Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long; they exult in your righteousness. Psalm 89:15-16. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood…

I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart. Psalm 40:8. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way…

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us. He has given us of his Spirit. 1 John 4:9, 13. Your word is a lamp…

All you have made will praise you, O Lord; your saints will extol you. They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might, so that all men may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. Psalm 145:10-12. And he said to them, “Is a lamp…

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” John 13:8. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord saying, “He is…

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 1:4. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. Isaiah 60:18. In our chapter, 2 Chronicles 6, is the retelling of the…