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Daily Encounter: When He Speaks for Tuesday, May 20, 2025

 True Vine Devotional: May 20th “ Even as the Father Hath Loved Me, I Also Have Loved you ” - John 15:9 Abide in My love—We speak of a man’s home as his abode. Our abode, the home of our soul, is to be the love of Christ. We are to live our life there, to be at home there all the day: this is what Christ means our life to be, and really can make it. Our continuous abiding in the Vine is to be an abiding in His love. You have probably heard or read of what is called the higher, or the deeper life, of the richer or the fuller life, of the life abundant. And you possibly know that some have told of a wonderful change, by which their life of continual failure and stumbling had been changed into a very blessed experience of being kept and strengthened and made exceeding glad. If you asked them how it was this great blessing came to them, many would tell you it was simply this, that they were led to believe that this abiding in Christ’s love was meant to be a reality, and that they were ...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional: May 20th "Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?" (John 18:11, Weymouth). God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to bring us into the form which is the highest and noblest in His sight, if only we receive His gifts of myrrh in the right spirit. But when the cup is put away, and these feelings are stifled or unheeded, a greater injury is done to the soul that can ever be amended. For no heart can conceive in what surpassing love God giveth us this myrrh; yet this which we ought to receive to our souls’ good we suffer to pass by us in our sleepy indifference, and nothing comes of it. Then we come and complain: "Alas, Lord! I am so dry, and it is so dark within me!" I tell thee, dear child, open thy heart to the pain, and it will do thee more good than if thou wert full of feeling and devou...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for May 20 “We Dare Not Doubt ” - Isaiah 45:2 This was for Cyrus; but it is evermore the heritage of all the LORD’s own spiritual servants. Only let us go forward by faith, and our way will be cleared for us. Crooks and turns of human craft and satanic subtlety shall be straightened for us; we shall not need to track their devious windings. The gates of brass shall be broken, and the iron bars which fastened them shall be cut asunder. We shall not need the battering ram nor the crowbar: the LORD Himself will do the impossible for us, and the unexpected shall be a fact. Let us not sit down in coward fear. Let us press onward in the path of duty, for the LORD hath said it: "I will go before thee." Ours not to reason why; ours but to dare and dash forward. It is the LORD’s work, and He will enable us to do it: all impediments must yield before Him. Hath He not said, "I will break in pieces the gates of bra...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for May 20 Morning “The Lord hath chosen Zion.” Psalms 132 This Psalm fitly closes the active life of David and introduces us to his last thought and care. He longed to see the temple erected upon that spot which had been consecrated by the feet of the celestial messenger when the plague was stayed. He rehearses the story of his former longing to build a house for the Lord, and then dwells upon the covenant which the Lord, in infinite mercy, made with his servant. Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: Many of these afflictions were endured for the Lord’s sake and in defence of the Lord’s worship, therefore the psalmist dwells upon them; he begs especially that God would remember David’s longing to build a temple. Psalms 132:1-6 In his earliest days, when he dwelt at Bethlehem Ephratah, he had heard of the ark and loved it, and, at last, he found it at Kirjath-jearim, the forest city. Happy are they who love t...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for May 20 “Ye are not your own” (1 Corinthians 6:19) What a privilege that we may consecrate ourselves. What a mercy that God will take us worthless worms. What rest and comfort lie hidden in those words, “Not my own.” Not responsible for my salvation, not burdened by my cares, not obliged to live for my interests, but altogether His; redeemed, owned, saved, loved, kept in the strong, unchanging arms of His everlasting love. Oh, the rest from sin and self and cankering care which true consecration brings! To be able to give Him our poor weak life, with its awful possibilities and its utter helplessness, and know that He will accept it, and take a joy and pride in making out of it the utmost possibilities of blessing, power and usefulness; to give all, and find in so doing we have gained all; to be so yielded to Him in entire self surrender, that He is bound to care for us as for Himself. We are putting ourselves in the hands of a loving Father, ...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for May 20 Tozer in the Morning A SACRED GIFT OF SEEING As God created us, we all have to some degree the power to imagine. That imagination is of great value in the service of God may be denied by some persons who have erroneously confused the word "imagination" with the word "imaginary." The gospel of Jesus Christ has no truck with things imaginary. The most realistic book in the world is the Bible. God is real. Men are real and so is sin and so are death and hell! The presence of God is not imaginary; neither is prayer the indulgence of a delightful fancy. The value of the cleansed imagination in the sphere of religion lies in its power to perceive in natural things shadows of things spiritual. A purified and Spirit-controlled imagination is the sacred gift of seeing; the ability to peer beyond the veil and gaze with astonished wonder upon the beauties and mysteries of things holy and eternal. The stodgy pedestrian ...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 20th May 2025 5/20 Acts 12:14-15 14 Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 15 They said to her, "You are out of your mind." But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, "It is his angel!" Peter had been imprisoned by the religious leaders. There were four squads of soldiers watching his cell. He slept chained to two soldiers. In the middle of the night an angel helped Peter with what I like to call a "Holy Spirit jail break." Peter thought the angel was a vision at first. He went to John Mark's mother's home, where a prayer vigil was being held for Peter's safety. A servant girl named Rhoda went to see who was at the door. When she heard Peter's voice, she was so excited she left the door locked and went to tell the others. They thought she had heard Peter's spirit. Isn't it strange how we can be...

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Worthy Brief - May 20, 2025 The freedom that sets us free! John 8:36 Therefore if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free [eleutheros] indeed. Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage. In today’s culture, freedom is often defined as doing whatever you want—living without restrictions, chasing your happiness, and controlling your destiny. But when you dig into the Greek word eleutheros, meaning "free," you discover that real freedom isn’t about cutting all ties—it’s about being connected to the right things. True freedom isn’t found in isolation, but in surrender to God. Biblical freedom doesn’t come from the absence of rules but through the mastery of them. It’s like a skilled musician who can play freely because they understand the structure of music. In the same way, living within God’s design brings real freedom. It’s not chaos or rebellion—it’s life in step with the Spiri...

 

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 Romans 15:5-6 Complete Jewish Bible 5 And may God, the source of encouragement and patience, give you the same attitude among yourselves as the Messiah Yeshua had, 6 so that with one accord and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. https://biblegateway.com

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 Worthy Brief - May 19, 2025 Understanding true freedom! John 8:31-32 Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.  We often think of freedom as the ability to do what we want, when we want, without interference. So when Yeshua says things like “Don’t worry about tomorrow,” “Forgive seventy times seven,” or “Turn the other cheek,” they strike us as anything but freeing. They sound like burdens, not blessings -- commands that restrict rather than release. But that reaction reveals a deeper misunderstanding. The problem isn’t with Yeshua’s (Jesus') words -- it’s with how we define freedom. In today’s world, people often think being free means being in charge. The world teaches that freedom means doing whatever we want, making our own choices, and not letting anyone or anything stop us. It’s about trying to get rid of anything that might stand in our wa...

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True Vine Devotional: May 19th “ Even as the Father Hath Loved Me, I Also Have Loved you ” - John 15:9 Here Christ leaves the language of parable, and speaks plainly out of the Father. Much as the parable could teach, it could not teach the lesson of love. All that the vine does for the branch, it does under the compulsion of a law of nature: there is no personal living love to the branch. We are in danger of looking to Christ as a Saviour and a supplier of every need, appointed by God, accepted and trusted by us, without any sense of the intensity of personal affection in which Christ embraces us, and our life alone can find its true happiness. Christ seeks to point us to this. And how does He do so? He leads us once again to Himself, to show us how identical His own life is with ours. Even as the Father loved Him, He loves us. His life as vine dependent on the Father was a life in the Father’s love; that love was His strength and His joy; in the power of that divine love resting on H...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional: May 19th "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking...and he said, Blessed be Jehovah?who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth" (Genesis 24:15; Genesis 24:27). Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished-- before we have "done speaking." This is because God has pledged His Word to us that whatsoever we ask in Christ’s name (that is, in oneness with Christ and His will) and in faith, shall be done. As God’s Word cannot fail, whenever we meet those simple conditions in prayer, the answer to our prayer has been granted and completed in Heaven as we pray, even though its showing forth on earth may not occur until long afterward. So it is well to close every prayer with praise to God for the answer that He has already granted; He who never forsakes His loving-kindness and His truth. (See Daniel 9:20-27; Daniel 10:12.) -- Messages for the Morning Watch When we believe for a blessing, we must t...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for May 19 Morning “Let us fall now into the hands of the Lord.” 2 Samuel 24:1-4 , 2 Samuel 24:9-15 After many trials, David again enjoyed a period of repose, but his leisure again proved a temptation to him, and he resolved to form an estimate of his own greatness that he might have whereof to glory. 2 Samuel 24:1 In the Book of Chronicles, Satan is said to have provoked David to this deed, and so indeed he did, and thus the moral evil of the action belongs to the tempter and his ready victim; but the writer of the present passage saw the hand of the Lord in it, using the sin of David as the means of punishing the sins of the people. Both statements are true, and there is no need to attempt a reconciliation, since one truth must agree with another whether we see it or not. 2 Samuel 24:2 , 2 Samuel 24:3 Joab was not only right, but courteous on this occasion. He knew that the people would judge that either a new taxat...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for May 19 “We May Speak for God ” - Jeremiah 15:19 Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his LORD. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the LORD would continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the LORD’s winnowing work upon the professors of his day, and then the LORD gave him this word: "Thou shalt be as my mouth." What an honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For God to speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their peril. Our lips shal...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for May 19 Tozer in the Morning Living by Faith in the Night To do His supreme work of grace within you He will take from your heart everything you love most. Everything you trust in will go from you. Piles of ashes will lie where your most precious treasures used to be. . . . All this God will accomplish at the expense of the common pleasures that have up to that time supported your life and made it zestful. Now under the careful treatment of the Holy Spirit your life may become dry, tasteless and to some degree a burden to you. While in this state you will exist by a kind of blind will to live; you will find none of the inward sweetness you had enjoyed before. The smile of God will be for the time withdrawn, or at least hidden from your eyes. Then you will learn what faith is; you will find out the hard way, but the only way open to you, that true faith lies in the will, that the joy unspeakable of which the apostle speaks is not it...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for May 19 “He purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit” (John 15:2) Recently we passed a garden. The gardener had just finished his pruning, and the wounds of the knife and saw were just beginning to heal, while the warm April sun was gently nourishing the stricken plant into fresh life and energy. We thought as we looked at that plant how cruel it would be to begin next week and cut it down. Now, the gardener’s business is to revive and nourish it into life. Its business is not to die, but to live. So, we thought, it is with the discipline of the soul. It, too, has its dying hour; but it must not be always dying: Rather reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death is but a moment. Live, then, ye children of the resurrection, on His glorious life more and more abundantly, and the fulness of your life will repel the intrusion of self and sin, and overcome evil with good, and your existe...

Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 19th May 2025 5/19 Acts 10:19-20 19 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you. 20 Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them." Peter had just seen a vision of a great sheet filled with unclean animals let down from heaven. A voice from heaven had told him to kill and eat them. Peter replied that he would not eat the unclean. The voice told him that what God had cleansed Peter should not call common. It happened three times. The disciples had only brought the gospel to the Jews and Samaritans. God was showing Peter that the gospel was for the whole world. At the same time, a Roman centurion had been praying and seeking the truth. God sent an angel to tell him to invite Peter to come to his home. The centurion sent the three men mentioned in our verse for today to find Peter. The Spirit told Peter to not hesitate to go with them. The result was that a...

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"Stay Alert!" — 1 Peter 5:8-9 (Together in Christ)

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"More than a Prophet" — Matthew 11:9 (What Jesus Did!)

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 True Vine Devotional: May 18th “ Herein is My Father Glorified, that Ye Bear Much Fruit: So Shall Ye Be My Disciples ” - John 15:8 And are those who do not bear much fruit not disciples? They may be, but in a backward and immature stage. Of those who bear much fruit, Christ says: “These are My disciples, such as I would have them be—these are true disciples.” Just as we say of someone in whom the idea of manliness is realized: That is a man! So our Lord tells who are disciples after His heart, worthy of the name: Those who bear much fruit. We find this double sense of the word disciple in the Gospel. Sometimes it is applied to all who accepted Christ’s teaching. At other times it includes only the inner circle of those who followed Christ wholly, and gave themselves to His training for service. The difference has existed throughout all ages. There have always been a smaller number of God’s people who have sought to serve Him with their whole heart, while the majority have been con...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional: May 18th "I was crushed...so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead" (2 Corinthians 1:8-9). "Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; Pressed so intensely it seems, beyond strength; Pressed in the body and pressed in the soul, Pressed in the mind till the dark surges roll. Pressure by foes, and a pressure from friends. Pressure on pressure, till life nearly ends. "Pressed into knowing no helper but God; Pressed into loving the staff and the rod. Pressed into liberty where nothing clings; Pressed into faith for impossible things. Pressed into living a life in the Lord, Pressed into living a Christ-life outpoured." The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning, and we learn better how much it is worth, and make more of it for God and man. The pressure hel...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for May 18 Morning “He shall sustain thee.” Psalms 55 This Psalm most clearly describes David’s condition when he had fled far away into the wilderness to escape from his son. He bitterly bewails the treachery of Ahithophel, and prophesies his doom; but his Psalm ends with most faithful and cheerful advice, which we shall all do well to follow. Psalms 55:1-23 Let us dwell a moment upon the twenty-second verse, “Thy burden,” or what thy God lays upon thee, lay thou it “upon the Lord.” His wisdom casts it on thee, it is thy wisdom to cast it on him. He gives thee thy portion of suffering, accept it with cheerful resignation, and then take it back to him with assured confidence. “He shall sustain thee.” He who ordains the burden will also ordain strength. Thy bread shall be given thee, thy waters shall be sure. Abundant nourishment shall fit thee to bear all thy labours and trials. “As thy days so shall thy strength be.”...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for May 18 “Losses Overcome ” - Joel 2:25 Yes, those wasted years over which we sigh shall be restored to us. God can give us such plentiful grace that we shall crowd into the remainder of our days as much of service as will be some recompense for those years of unregeneracy over which we mourn in humble penitence. The locusts of backsliding, worldliness, lukewarmness, are now viewed by us as a terrible plague. Oh, that they had never come near us! The LORD in mercy has now taken them away, and we are full of zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His name, we can raise such harvests of spiritual graces as shall make our former barrenness to disappear. Through rich grace we can turn to account our bitter experience and use it to warn others. We can become the more rooted in humility, childlike dependence, and penitent spirituality by reason of our former shortcomings. If we are the more watchful, zealous, and tender, we shall ...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for May 18 “For ye are dead” (Colossians 3:3) Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. The church is full of half dead people who have been trying, like poor Nero, to slay themselves for years, and have not had the courage to strike the fatal blow. Oh, if they would just put themselves at Jesus’ feet, and let Him do it, there would be accomplishment and rest. On that cross He has provided for our death as well as our life, and our part is just to let His death be applied to our nature just as it has been to our old sins, and then leave it with Him, think no more about it, and count it dead, not recognizing it any longer as ourselves, but another, refusing to listen or fear it, to be identified with it, or even try to cleanse it, but countin...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for May 18 Tozer in the Morning Being Still in God's Presence In coming to God we should place ourselves in His presence with the confidence that He is the aggressor, not we. He has been waiting to manifest Himself to us till such time as our noise and activity have subsided enough for Him to make Himself heard and felt by us. Then we should focus our soul?s powers of attention upon the Triune Godhead. Whether One Person or Another claims our present interest is not important. We can trust the Spirit to bring before our minds the Person that we at the moment need most to behold. One thing more. Do not try to imagine God, or you will have an imaginary God; and certainly do not, as some have done, ?set a chair for Him.? God is Spirit. He dwells in your heart, not your house. Brood on the Scriptures and let faith show you God as He is revealed there. Nothing else can equal this glorious sight. Tozer in the Evening The Power of Godly Livi...

Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 18th May 2025 5/18 Acts 9:31 31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied. There are seasons in our individual lives and in the church as well. Jesus' parting words were to take the gospel into all the world, starting with Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria (Acts 1:8). The first three areas had received the message and sprouted churches in the midst of persecution. Now Saul, the leader of the persecution, had miraculously converted to faith in Jesus as the Messiah. The church was experiencing a time of peace. It was time to build up the believers. They needed to mature in their knowledge of the Lord and find their individual callings to serve, each with his or her gifts. Persecution would come again and scatter the believers to the rest of the world, but first they needed a time of being strengthened. The believers wa...

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 True Vine Devotional: May 17th “ Herein is My Father Glorified, that Ye Bear Much Fruit ” - John 15:8 How can we glorify God? Not by adding to His glory or bringing Him any new glory that He has not. But simply by allowing His glory to shine out through us, by yielding ourselves to Him, that His glory may manifest itself in us and through us to the world. In a vineyard or a vine bearing much fruit, the owner is glorified, as it tells of his skill and care. In the disciple who bears much fruit, the Father is glorified. Before men and angels, proof is given of the glory of God’s grace and power; God’s glory shines out through him. This is what Peter means when he writes: “He that ministers, let him minister as of the ability that God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ.” As a man works and serves in a power which comes from God alone, God gets all the glory. When we confess that the ability came from God alone, he that does the work, and they who see...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional: May 17th "And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness?an angel of the Lord...saying....now come, I will send thee into Egypt" (Acts 7:30-34). Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go forth again to minister. There is no time lost in such waiting hours. Fleeing from his enemies, the ancient knight found that his horse needed to be re-shod. Prudence seemed to urge him on without delay, but higher wisdom taught him to halt a few minutes at the blacksmith’s forge by the way, to have the shoe replaced; and although he heard the feet of his pursuers galloping hard behind, yet he waited those minutes until his charger was refitted for his flight. And then, leaping into his saddle just as they appeared a hundred yards away, he dashed away from them with the fleetness of the wind, and knew that his halting had hastened his escape. So often God bids us tarry ere w...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for May 17 “To him that overcometh, will I give” (Revelation 2:17) A precious secret of Christian life is to have Jesus dwelling within the heart and conquering things that we never could overcome. It is the only secret of power in your life and mine, beloved. Men cannot understand it, nor will the world believe it; but it is true, that God will come to dwell within us, and be the power, and the purity, and the victory, and the joy of our life. It is no longer now, “What is the best that I can do?” but the question is, “What is the best that Christ can do?” It enables us to say, with Paul, in that beautiful passage in Philippians, “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound, everywhere and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.” With this knowledge I go forth to meet my testings, and the secret stands me good. It ke...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for May 17 Tozer in the Morning Religious Elitism The question of numbers and their relation to success or failure in the work of the Lord is one that disturbs most Christians more than a little. On the question there are two opposing schools of thought. There are Christians, for instance, who dismiss the whole matter as being beneath them. These correspond to the lovers of high-brow music who firmly refuse to admit that there is anything of any real value other than that composed by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. They know they are in the minority and glory in the fact, for in their opinion it is a very, very superior minority and they look down their noses at all who enjoy anything less complicated than a symphony. Of course this is cultural snobbery and tells us a lot more about such persons than they would care to have us know. They remind one of the unco-learned of whom Colton wrote, "So much they scorn the crowd that if the throng...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for May 17 Morning “My groaning is not hid from The.” Psalms 38 In theses sad times the psalmist probably wrote Psalms 38. which is entitled He feared that he was forgotten by his God, and therefore pleaded to be remembered. Psalms 38:1 Rebuked I must be, but Lord deal gently with me; chastening I richly deserve, but do not smite me too heavily lest I utterly perish. Psalms 38:3 Spiritual distress is painful to the last degree. However sweet sin may have been in David’s mouth, it was bitter enough when it had once reached his inward parts. Psalms 38:4 , Psalms 38:5 Conscience laid on stripe after stripe till his soul was wounded in a thousand places, and the wounds became loathsome as well as painful. No ulcers and putrefying sores can match the unutterable vileness and pollution of iniquity. Psalms 38:8 Thus the penitent are made to feel the smart of sin. The reprobate feel nothing of this, but go singing merrily dow...

  Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for May 17 “No Need to Stint ” Proverbs 28:10 The book of Proverbs is also a book of promises. Promises ought to be proverbs among the people of God. This is a very remarkable one. We are accustomed to think of our good things as in reversion, but here we are told that we shall have them in possession. Not all the malice and cunning of our enemies can work our destruction: they shall fall into the pit which they have digged. Our inheritance is so entailed upon us that we shall not be kept out of it, nor so turned out of the way as to miss it. But what have we now? We have a quiet conscience through the precious blood of Jesus. We have the love of God set upon us beyond all change. We have power with God in prayer in all time of need. We have the providence of God to watch over us, the angels of God to minister to us, and, above all, the Spirit of God to dwell in us. In fact, all things are ours. "Whether things ...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 17th May 2025 5/17 Acts 8:35 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. The Ethiopian eunuch was returning to his country from worshiping in Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit sent Philip from a revival among the Samaritans to meet this single person on the road south. The eunuch was reading Isaiah 53. Philip asked if he understood what he was reading. The eunuch invited him onto his chariot to explain the passage. Philip explained that it was about Jesus. Jews today and in the recent past have been taught by later rabbis that Isaiah 53 is about the Jewish people. So let us take a look at some of the things that are written and see if that is the case. In Exodus 4:22, God calls Israel His firstborn son and says they have been abused. However, a passage in Isaiah 52:13 describes a single male who was raised, lifted up, and highly exalted, but was marred beyond human resemblance. That certainly so...

'God's Faithfulness and Unfailing Love' — Proverbs 16:6-7 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

"The Danger of Violent People" — Proverbs 16:29 (Together in Christ)

Proverbs 10:29 — Today's Verse for Saturday, May 17, 2025

"Don't Stumble" — Matthew 11:6 (What Jesus Did!)

'A God of Deliverance' — 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 (Praying with Paul)

'Lying to the Holy Spirit' — Acts 5:3 MESSAGE (God's Holy Fire)

Proverbs 14:13 — Daily Wisdom for Saturday, May 17, 2025

Quotemeal for Saturday, May 17, 2025

'Proclaim His Greatness!' (Passion for Praise)

Don't Let Your Heart Be Troubled

Don’t Swallow the Jesus Cocktail

Constant, Conscious Communion with Christ

 Romans 11:33 Complete Jewish Bible 33 O the depth of the riches     and the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments!     How unsearchable are his ways! https://biblegateway.com

 Worthy Brief - May 16, 2025 Rest for the weary! Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Jeremiah 6:16-17  Thus says the LORD: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ 17  I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not pay attention.’ Life wears us down. We live in a world of relentless motion, pressure, and performance. Yeshua (Jesus) doesn’t deny this. Instead, He speaks directly to those who are “weary and heavy-laden.” The Greek for “weary” (kopiao) means utterly worn out—soul-tired, not just physically fatigued. The burdens He mentions aren’t only external tasks but...