Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another – showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 The Message. You, O Lord, keep my…

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. It is I; don’t be afraid. John 6:20. Reading this chapter, 2 Chronicles 21,…

I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father. I have…

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:20. For in God we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.” Acts 17:28. Have you ever stopped to consider…

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Psalm 43:3. I read the above verse in Hearing God by Dallas Willard after reading our chapter, 2 Chronicles 18, and yet, that verse is what my heart was shouting…

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:6. Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to…

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8. Do you ever wonder why this world is the way it is? We live lives and experience so many things good and bad. Multiply that by everyone who has ever lived and will yet live and…

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…