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 Worthy Brief - January 6, 2025 Escape doubting castle! Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. In John Bunyan’s best-selling book, Pilgrim’s Progress, the central character, Christian, begins his journey leaving the city of Destruction and ventures on his way toward the Celestial City. Early on his journey, Christian decides to depart from the narrow path onto an easier one which leads him to the territory of Despair and its stronghold, Doubting Castle. There, Christian is captured, overwhelmed, and locked in a dungeon until his faithful companion, Hope, arrives to remind him of previous victories. As the saint prays throughout the night, he remembers a key in his possession called "Promise", which will open any lock! At this moment, believers may be tempted to stray from the narrow path and onto an easier one shaped by worldly hopes and expectations. Doubts and uncertainties could lead to being trapped in ...

Today's Daily Encounter Monday, January 6, 2025 Defending Ourselves from Temptation Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.1  When we're struggling with temptation, understanding how it works can be helpful. All sin originates as a thought (James 1:14-15). If we hold on to the thought, it becomes a fantasy, the opportunity to imagine what that idea would look like, without actually doing it. Fantasies can easily become entangled with our emotions. This creates a desire, which brings...

 This Day's Verse 6th January 2025 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom. Proverbs 11:2 The New King James Version https://thisdaysthought.org/

This Day's Thought 6th December 2025 God has a plan for every life surrendered to Him. Rowland Bingham https://thisdaysthought.org/

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 True Vine Devotional for January 6 “ And Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Cleanseth, That it May Bear More Fruit ” - John 15:2 There are two remarkable things about the vine. There is not a plant of which the fruit has so much spirit in it, of which spirit can be so abundantly distilled as the vine. And there is not a plantnwhich so soon runs into wild wood, that hinders its fruit, and therefore needs the most mercilessnpruning. I look out of my window here on large vineyards: the chief care of the vinedresser is then pruning. You may have a trellis vine rooting so deep in good soil that it needs neither digging, nornmanuring, nor watering: pruning it cannot dispense with, if it is to bear good fruit. Some tree needsnoccasional pruning; others bear perfect fruit without any: the vine must have it. And so our Lordntells us, here at the very outset of the parable, that the one work the Father does to the branch thatnbears fruit is: He cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Co...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for January 6 "When thou passest through the waters...they shall not overflow thee" (Isaiah 43:2). God does not open paths for us in advance of our coming. He does not promise help before help is needed. He does not remove obstacles out of our way before we reach them. Yet when we are on the edge of our need, God’s hand is stretched out. Many people forget this, and are forever worrying about difficulties which they foresee in the future. They expect that God is going to make the way plain and open before them, miles and miles ahead; whereas He has promised to do it only step by step as they may need. You must get to the waters and into their floods before you can claim the promise. Many people dread death, and lament that they have not "dying grace." Of course, they will not have dying grace when they are in good health, in the midst of life’s duties, with death far in advance. Why should they have it then? Grace for duty is what t...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 6th January 2025 1/6 Matthew 24:44 44 "Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." Jesus warned the disciples to always be ready for His return. He emphasized the fact that we would not know when that moment would come. During the last two thousand years, the church has expected Christ's return. As history unfolds, we can see prophecy fulfilled to a greater extent and continue to anticipate the Second Coming. Jesus used an analogy that we often misunderstand. He taught that if the master of the house would have known the hour of the night a thief would attempt to break into his house, he would have stayed up to keep his house safe (Matthew 24:43). Certainly, Jesus is not saying He is a thief. We know from John's Gospel that Jesus referred to Satan as a thief (John 10:10). The expectation of Jesus' return keeps us on guard against the enemy robbing us of that hope by lulling us to sl...

"This Word Shines through the Darkness!" — John 1:1, 4-5 (Together in Christ)

'God Is a Mighty Protector Who Saves' — Isaiah 33:21-22 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

Psalm 104:33-34 — Today's Verse for Monday, January 6, 2025

'Men's Dishonor' — Romans 1:24-25 (Praying with Paul)

'Power, Love and Self-Discipline' — 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV (God's Holy Fire)

Revelation 7:16-17 — Daily Wisdom for Monday, January 6, 2025

"The Gifts" — Matthew 1:20-21 (What Jesus Did!)

'Because He is Just' (Passion for Praise)

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 1 Peter 1:13 Complete Jewish Bible 13 Therefore, get your minds ready for work, keep yourselves under control, and fix your hopes fully on the gift you will receive when Yeshua the Messiah is revealed. https://biblegateway.com

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The Promise is True

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 True Vine Devotional for January 5 “ And Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Cleanseth, That it May Bear More Fruit ”  - John 15:2 The thought of fruit is so prominent in the eye of Him who sees things as they are, fruit is so truly the one thing God has set His heart upon, that our Lord, after having said that the branch that bears no fruit is taken away, at once adds: and where there is fruit, the one desire of the Husbandman is more fruit. As the gift of His grace, as the token of spiritual vigor, as the showing forth of the glory of God and of Christ, as the only way for satisfying the need of the world, God longs and fits for, more fruit.  More Fruit—This is a very searching word. As churches and individuals we are in danger of nothing so much as self-contentment. The secret spirit of Laodicea—we are rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing—may prevail where it is not suspected. The divine warning—poor and wretched and miserable—finds little response ju...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for January 5 "Lord, there is none beside thee to help." (2 Chronicles 14:11, RV). Remind God of His entire responsibility. "There is none beside thee to help." The odds against Asa were enormous. There was a million of men in arms against him, besides three hundred chariots. It seemed impossible to hold his own against that vast multitude. There were no allies who would come to his help; his only hope, therefore, was in God. It may be that your difficulties have been allowed to come to so alarming a pitch that you may be compelled to renounce all creature aid, to which in lesser trials you have had recourse, and cast yourself back on your Almighty Friend. Put God between yourself and the foe. To Asa’s faith, Jehovah seemed to stand between the might of Zerah and himself, as one who had no strength. Nor was he mistaken. We are told that the Ethiopians were destroyed before the Lord and before His host, as though celestial combatants...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for January 5 “I know him that he will do the law” (Genesis 18:19). God wants people that He can depend upon. He could say of Abraham, “I know him, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that He hath spoken.” God can be depended upon; He wants us to be just as decided, as reliable, as stable. This is just what faith means. God is looking for men on whom He can put the weight of all His love, and power, and faithful promises. When God finds such a soul there is nothing He will not do for him. God’s engines are strong enough to draw any weight we attach to them. Unfortunately the cable which we fasten to the engine is often too weak to hold the weight of our prayer, therefore God is drilling us, disciplining us, and training us to stability and certainty in the life of faith. Let us learn our lessons, and let us stand fast. God has His best things for the few Who dare to stand the test; God has his second choice for those Who will not have His be...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for January 5 Morning  “Lord, save me.”  Romans 3:9-26  Having by our last reading been taught our own connection with Adam’s fall, we will now attentively consider a passage of Scripture which shows the consequent corruption of human nature in all times and places. Let us read  In this portion Paul quotes the words of several Old Testament authors, puts them all together, and presents them to us as a terrible, but truthful, description of fallen man. Of the boastful Jews the apostle asks the question  Romans 3:9  As an old divine puts it, “whole evil is in man, and whole man in evil.”  Romans 3:10  What the prophet said of one is here applied to the whole race, for the nature of man is in all cases the same. Note how strong are the three negatives here, how they quench all hope of finding a natural righteousness in man.  Romans 3:11-18  See how in character and nature, without ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for January 5 “ A Wonderful Guarantee ”  - Isaiah 41:10 When called to serve or to suffer, we take stock of our strength, and we find it to be less than we thought and less than we need. But let not our heart sink within us while we have such a word as this to fall back upon, for it guarantees us all that we can possibly need. God has strength omnipotent; that strength He can communicate to us; and His promise is that He will do so. He will be the food of our souls and the health of our hearts; and thus He will give us strength. There is no telling how much power God can put into a man. When divine strength comes, human weakness is no more a hindrance.  Do we not remember seasons of labor and trial in which we received such special strength that we wondered at ourselves? In the midst of danger we were calm, under bereavement we were resigned, in slander we were self-contained, and in sickness we were patient. The fact...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for January 5 Tozer in the Morning A FACT The resurrection of Christ and the fact of the empty tomb are not a part of this world's complex and continuing mythologies. This is not a Santa Claus tale-it is history and it is a reality! The true church of Jesus Christ is necessarily founded upon the belief and the truth that there was a real death, a real tomb and a real stone! But, thank God, there was a sovereign Father in heaven, an angel sent to roll the stone away and a living Savior in a resurrected and glorified body, able to proclaim to His disciples, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth!" Brethren, He died for us, but ever since the hour of the resurrection, He has been the mighty Jesus, the mighty Christ, the mighty Lord! Our business is to thank God with tearful reverence for the Cross, but to go on to a right understanding of what the resurrection meant both to God and to men. We understand and acknowle...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 5th January 2025 1/5 Matthew 24:34 34 "Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." This verse has troubled people who believe in the inspiration of Scripture. It has caused some to believe in a view that declares end-time prophecy was fulfilled during the conquest of Jerusalem in AD 70. Other people have decided Jesus was just wrong. I believe if we look carefully at the question and this partial answer from Jesus, we will see the inspiration of Scripture is amazing. First, we must understand that the disciples asked two questions. When will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming (Matthew 24:3)? Jesus had just spoken of the destruction of the temple. The answer to when that would be was before that generation passed away. Forty years after Jesus gave the prediction of those magnificent stones being overturned, it came to pass. But Jesus also spoke of "all these things...

'Everything Comes from Him!' (Passion for Praise)

"Miraculous Scandal" — Matthew 1:18-19 (What Jesus Did!)

'God's Honor' — Romans 1:18-23 (Praying with Paul)

Psalm 19:1 — Daily Wisdom for Sunday, January 5, 2025

'Grace Even in the Asking' — Romans 8:26-27 NIV (God's Holy Fire)

Isaiah 26:9 — Today's Verse for Sunday, January 5, 2025

'God Rescues Those Who Share Their Faith' — 2 Timothy 4:17-18 NCV (Spiritual Warfare)

"Rooted in Relationship" — John 1:1, 4 (Together in Christ)

Turn Then, and Live

Do you Seek a Deeper Life with God?

 Isaiah 1:16-17 Complete Jewish Bible 16 “Wash yourselves clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing evil, 17 learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend orphans, plead for the widow. https://biblegateway.com

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 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for January 4 “Blessed is the man that walketh not” (Psalms 1:1) Three things are notable about this man: 1. His company. “He walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” 2. His reading and thinking. “His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.” 3. His fruitfulness. “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” The river is the Holy Ghost; the planting, the deep, abiding life in which, not occasionally, but habitually, we absorb the Holy Spirit; and the fruit is not occasional, but continual, and appropriate to each changing season. His life is also prosperous, and his spirit fresh, like the unfading leaf. Such a life must be happy. Indeed, happiness is a matter of spiritual conditions. Put a sunbeam ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for January 4 Morning  “The wages of sin is death.”  Genesis 3:1-19  The present portion of Scripture contains the sad record of the Fall, in which through our first parents we all fell  Genesis 3:1  The devil often begins as if he were an enquirer.  Genesis 3:3  She should have been more precise. God did not say, “lest ye die,” but “ye shall surely die.” Error commences in little departures from truth.  Genesis 3:5  He cruelly slanders God. He hints that God was afraid that man would grow too great.  Genesis 3:6  See the progress of sin, she listened, she saw, she took, she gave to Adam. She had been wiser if she had turned away at first.  Genesis 3:12  He throws the blame on God for giving him a wife. Alas! what wretched ingratitude.  Genesis 3:13  Sinners are ready with excuses, and yet they have never a good one. Open confession of our wrongdoing is ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for January 4 “ In Calm Repose ”  - Hosea 2:18 Yes, the saints are to have peace. The passage from which this gracious word is taken speaks of peace "with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground." This is peace with earthly enemies, with mysterious evils, and with little annoyances! Any of these might keep us from lying down, but none of them shall do so. The LORD will quite destroy those things which threaten His people: "I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the earth." Peace will be profound indeed when all the instruments of disquiet are broken to pieces.  With this pace will come rest, "So he giveth his beloved sleep." Fully supplied and divinely quieted, believers lie down in calm repose. This rest will be a safe one. It is one thing to lie down but quite another "to lie down safely." We are brou...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for January 4 "Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way" (John 4:50). "When ye pray, believe" (Mark 11:24). When there is a matter that requires definite prayer, pray till you believe God, until with unfeigned lips you can thank Him for the answer. If the answer still tarries outwardly, do not pray for it in such a way that it is evident that you are not definitely believing for it. Such a prayer in place of being a help will be a hindrance; and when you are finished praying, you will find that your faith has weakened or has entirely gone. The urgency that you felt to offer this kind of prayer is clearly from self and Satan. It may not be wrong to mention the matter in question to the Lord again, if He is keeping you waiting, but be sure you do so in such a way that it implies faith. Do not pray yourself out of faith. You may tell Him that you...

 True Vine Devotional for January 4 “ Every Branch in me that Beareth Not Fruit, He taketh It away ”  - John 15:2 Fruit.—This is the next great word we have: the Vine, the Husbandman, the branch, the fruit. What has our Lord to say to us of fruit? Simply this—that fruit is the one thing the branch is for, and that if it bear not fruit, the husbandman takes it away. The vine is the glory of the husbandman; the branch is the glory of the vine; the fruit is the glory of the branch; if the branch bring not forth fruit, there is no glory or worth in it; it is an offense and a hindrance; the husbandman takes it away. The one reason for the existence of a branch, the one mark of being a true branch of the heavenly Vine, the one condition of being allowed by the divine Husbandman to share the life the Vine is—bearing fruit.  And what is fruit? Something that the branch bears, not for itself, but for its owner; something that is to be gathered, and taken away. The branch does inde...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for January 4 Tozer in the Morning Let Us Draw Near Today Today is our day. No one at any time has ever had any spiritual graces that we at this time cannot enjoy if we will meet the terms on which they are given. If these times are morally darker, they but provide a background against which we can shine the brighter. Our God is the God of today as well as of yesterday, and we may be sure that wherever our tomorrows may carry us, our faithful God will be with us as He was with Abraham and David and Paul. Those great men did not need us then, and we cannot have them with us now. Amen. So be it. And God be praised. We cannot have them, but we can have that which is infinitely better--we can have their God and Father, and we can have their Savior, and we can have the same blessed Holy Spirit that made them great. Tozer in the Evening Three Degrees of Knowledge In a recent letter a man from Jamestown, NY, quoted a statement from an editor...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 4th January 2025 1/4 Matthew 24:27 27 "For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." Many believe that the kingdom of God comes in quietly as the world slowly converts to Jesus. They believe that once the world is full of people filled with the Spirit of God then the world will know the invisible reign of Christ. That may be true in an individual's life, but certainly it is not what the prophets predicted, nor is it what Christ taught. Jesus is not coming back in secret. He won't come again in the humble state of a baby. He is coming in glory and every eye will see Him (Revelation 1:7). He is coming in power to execute judgment on the earth (Matthew 16:27). Though the world's armies gather to resist Him (Revelation 19:19), they will be consumed by the breath of His mouth (Isaiah 11:4). Many will come to Christ before His return, but many more will reject Him (Matth...

'He Has Heard My Cry' (Passion for Praise)

"The People Lost in the Credits" — Matthew 1:11-17 (What Jesus Did!)

"The People Lost in the Credits" — Matthew 1:11-17 (What Jesus Did!)

'Mutual Faith' — Romans 1:16-17 (Praying with Paul)

Deuteronomy 5:33 — Daily Wisdom for Saturday, January 4, 2025

'Out of Formless Emptiness' — Genesis 1:2 NLT (God's Holy Fire)

Ephesians 4:24 — Today's Verse for Saturday, January 4, 2025

'Humility & Fasting Get God’s Attention' — Ezra 8:21 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

"Creative Power" — John 1:1-3 (Together in Christ)

The Inner Witness

But Wait, There’s More

Are You a Saint?

 Micah 6:8 Complete Jewish Bible 8 Human being, you have already been told what is good, what Adonai demands of you — no more than to act justly, love grace and walk in purity with your God. https://biblegateway.com

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 Worthy Brief - January 3, 2025 Stay on guard! Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Anyone who has traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland has probably seen the Edinburgh castle. It is a tower of seemingly insurmountable strength. However, long ago that castle was attacked and seized. One place in the fortress was protected by its steepness and impregnability, they thought, so no guards were posted there. But at an obvious weak spot was where the most guards were stationed. Wouldn't you know that at an opportune time, the attacking army sent a small band up that unguarded slope and surprised the garrison into surrender. Where the castle was strong, there it was weak. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin wrote: "There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should prob...

 Today's Daily Encounter Friday, January 3, 2025 God is Faithful to His Promises Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.1 God made many promises in the Bible, but there is confusion among Christians about which verses we can make ours. Three questions are helpful in determining whether God's promises apply to our personal situation: 1. Does this promise refer to a specific person or circumstance, or is it a promise to all believers? For example, the promise made to Abraham and Sarah about the bir...

 This Day's Verse 3rd January 2025 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16:11 The New International Version https://thisdaysthought.org/

 This Day's Thought 3rd January 2025 As believers, we need to reaffirm our commitment to moral purity and to private lives that are absolutely free of secret sins. Charles Swindoll https://thisdaysthought.org/

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Faithful and Unfailing Love - Holy Land Moments Devotional

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for January 3 "I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure" (Genesis 33:14). What a beautiful picture of Jacob’s thoughtfulness for the cattle and the children! He would not allow them to be overdriven even for one day. He would not lead on according to what a strong man like Esau could do and expected them to do, but only according to what they were able to endure. He knew exactly how far they could go in a day; and he made that his only consideration in arranging the marches. He had gone the same wilderness journey years before, and knew all about its roughness and heat and length, by personal experience. And so he said, "I will lead on softly." "For ye have not passed this way heretofore" (Joshua 3:4.). We have not passed this way heretofore, but the Lord Jesus has. It is all untrodden and unknown ground to us, but He knows it all by personal experience. The ste...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for January 3 “Watch and pray” (Matthew 26:41) We need to watch for prayers as well as for the answers to our prayers. It needs as much wisdom to pray rightly as it does faith to receive the answers to our prayers. We met a friend the other day, who had been in years of darkness because God had failed to answer certain prayers, and the result had been a state bordering on infidelity. A very few moments were sufficient to convince this friend that these prayers had been entirely unauthorized, and that God had never promised to answer such prayers, and they were for things which this friend should have accomplished himself, in the exercise of ordinary wisdom. The result was deliverance from a cloud of unbelief which was almost wrecking a Christian life. There are some things about which we do not need to pray, as much as to take the light which God has already given. Many persons are asking God to give them peculiar signs, tokens and supernatural i...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for January 3 Morning “Jesus Christ is Lord.” Psalms 8 Our last reading showed us man fresh from the hand of his Maker. It will be well to pause and consider the Lord’s goodness to our race. We cannot find a fitter assistance for our meditation than David’s joyful vintage hymn. Psalms 8:2 It is a part of the excellence and glory of God that he magnifies himself by means of insignificant creatures. Though his name is excellent in all the earth yet babes may praise it, and though his glory be above the heavens sucklings may proclaim it. It needs a great orator to win men’s admiration for a doubtful character; but so surpassingly glorious is the Lord, that even a child’s tongue suffices to baffle his foes, and charm his friends. Psalms 8:4 The heavens are so vast and he so small; the moon so bright and he so mean; the stars so glorious and he so grovelling; Lord, how canst thou stoop from the sublimities of heaven to vis...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for January 3 “ Rest on a Promise ” - Genesis 28:13 No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where Jacob "lighted" and tarried and rested, there he took possession. Stretching his weary length upon the ground, with the stones of that place for his pillows, he little fancied that he was thus entering into ownership of the land; yet so it was. He saw in his dream that wondrous ladder which for all true believers unites earth and heaven, and surely where the foot of the ladder stood he must have a right to the soil, for other wise he could not reach the divine stair- way. All the promises of God are "Yea" and "Amen" in Christ Jesus, and as He is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon it in restful faith. Come, weary one, use t...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for January 3 Tozer in the Morning Christ Precedence . . ?If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple? (14:26-27).  What Christ is saying here is that faith in Him immediately introduces another and a higher loyalty into the life. He demands and must have first place. For the true disciple it is Christ before family, Christ before country, Christ before life itself. The flesh must always be sacrificed to the spirit and the heavenly placed ahead of the earthly, and that at any cost. When we take up the cross, we become expendable, along with all natural friendships and all previous loyalties, and Christ becomes all in all.  In these days of sweet and easy Christianity, it requires inward illumination to see this truth and real faith to...

 True Vine Devotional for January 3 “ Every Branch in me that Beareth Not Fruit, He taketh It away ”  - John 15:2 Here we have one of the chief words of the parable—branch. A vine needs branches: without branches it can do nothing, can bear no fruit. As important as it is to know about the Vine, and the Husbandman, it is to realize what the branch is. Before we listen to what Christ has to say about it, let us first of all take in what a branch is, and what it teaches us of our life in Christ. A branch is simply a bit of wood, brought forth by the vine for the one purpose of serving it in bearing its fruit. It is of the very same nature as the vine, and has one life and one spirit with it. Just think a moment of the lessons this suggests.  There is the lesson of entire consecration. The branch has but one object for which it exists, one purpose to which it is entirely given up. That is, to bear the fruit the vine wishes to bring forth. And so the believer has but one reas...

Jesus Goes Public | John 2:5 - Daily Devotions From Greg Laurie - Omny.fm

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 3rd January 2025 1/3 Matthew 24:5 5 "For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray." Jesus answered the disciples' question about the sign of His coming by warning them multiple times about false christs and false prophets. The multitude of false spiritual leaders along with the gospel being proclaimed in all the world were the two signs he emphasized, and they go hand in hand. Satan will try to counter them with the proclamation of a lie. Jesus warned that these false teachers would even perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect (Matthew 24:24). I live in a town where we see this fulfilled on a daily basis. Signs for the New Age healers and psychic readers are on every corner. These false teachers claim to heal, talk to the dead, and see into our future. Most are simply frauds, accepting credit cards or travelers checks but preferring cash. Others are...

"All Together in the Beginning" — Genesis 1:1-2 (Together in Christ)

'God Can Use Angels to Protect You' — Matthew 26:52-53 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

Ephesians 4:23 — Today's Verse for Friday, January 3, 2025

"No Hidden Skeletons" — Matthew 1:6-10 (What Jesus Did!)

Matthew 18:20 — Daily Wisdom for Friday, January 3, 2025

'Mutual Sharing' — Romans 1:8-15 (Praying with Paul)

Quotemeal for Friday, January 3, 2025

'Are We Asking?' — Luke 11:13 NIV (God's Holy Fire)

'Because He is Just' (Passion for Praise)

The Message Of The New Testament

Power from On High

Always in Abundant Supply

 Titus 2:11-12 Complete Jewish Bible 11 For God’s grace, which brings deliverance, has appeared to all people. 12 It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age; https://biblegateway.com

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 Worthy Brief - January 2, 2025 Learn what this means! Matthew 24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), As we conclude the celebration of Chanukah tonight, I want to highlight the prophetic significance of this feast. Yeshua (Jesus) gave a remarkable parenthetic instruction in the middle of His Olivet discourse on the time of His coming and the end of the age. While it is unlikely that He himself said this, He certainly inspired Matthew to insert, "..let the reader understand", concerning this critical event prophesied by Daniel, the Abomination of Desolation. His exhortation intended us (the readers of Matthew's gospel) to learn what this means. Many people have approached me over the years and asked, why do you believe we are in the last days? My response is to point to Yeshua's words, “When you see ALL of these things" … [Matthew 24:33] Many of the signs He poi...

 Today's Daily Encounter Thursday, January 2, 2025 Attitude Is Everything May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.1 There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I’ll braid my hair today." So, she did, and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. "H-m-m, " she said, "I think I’ll part my hair down the middle today." So, she did, and she had a grand day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head. "Well," she said, "today I’m going to wear my hair in a ponytail." So, she did, and she had a fun, fun day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn’t a single hair on her head. "YEA...