22Sep
21Sep
Can You Imagine?
S. O. A. P.
Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional!
S-cripture:
Luke 4:21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”O-bservation:
Jesus had been tested by the enemy in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights. After passing that test with the help of God's written word, the devil left him. His next stop was back home in Nazareth. Upon entering the synagogue, the crowds were anxious to hear his words. After reading the passage from Isaiah 61:1,2 which had been written approximately 700 years earlier he sat down in the synagogue looked at the people assembled there and said, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”A-pplication:
“Can You Imagine,” being one of the listeners in the temple that day, when the young man Jesus said he was the answer to Isaiah’s 700-year-old prophecy? A few verses down the text, Jesus said, “No prophet is accepted in his hometown!” But I’m trying to put this passage in context, and I’m not sure if I had been sitting in that temple that day that I would have believed him either. John, the gospel writer, said, “He came to that which was HIS OWN, but his own did not receive him.” How can you be so impressed with your own neighbor that you can say, “You know I believe he is the Son of God?” Sure the people were wrong, but “Can You Imagine” being them that day? They loved him, they wanted him to win, but the Son of God? Remember these words this AM. If it was then, or it is now, it still takes FAITH to accept Jesus as the Son of God. Back to John, the gospel writer, he continued his words in the same passage I wrote earlier and closed by saying, “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12) “Can You Imagine” such a gift?P-rayer:
Dear Jesus, Many years ago I came to believe that you are the Son of the living God. That’s when I received you as my personal Lord and Savior. Indeed it is the greatest gift I have ever been given. Amen
16Oct
A Revival Of The Family
S. O. A. P.
Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional!
S-cripture:
Malachi 4:6 "He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction."O-bservation:
Malachi was the last prophet to prophesy in the Old Testament. Malachi made his prophecies somewhere around BC 460. We know his prophecies occurred just a bit after Ezra and Nehemiah had done their work for the Lord. Even though we know that Israel experienced revival to a degree during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, it wasn’t complete, and we see Malachi’s warning. He said if there isn’t “A Revival Of The Family” soon, destruction is coming.A-pplication:
In many ways, the revival Malachi was speaking about never came about. After this prophecy was made, there were 400 years of silence from God in heaven to the people on earth. I’m telling you, that sounds like complete destruction to me. The next time we hear the Lord speak in Scripture, it’s through an angel to Mary. Today, once again, the Lord is moving throughout the globe to see if young people will love their parents and if parents will love their children as they should. The more we see families breaking apart, the more one feels that destruction is waiting at the door. So join me in prayer today and never stop asking that we would see “A Revival Of The Family.”P-rayer:
Dear Jesus, This AM, I’m moved with compassion to pray and seek Your face as never before for “A Revival Of The Family.” I remember as a young man during the days of the Jesus Movement when thousands and thousands of young adults came to Christ and families were healed. Please, Lord, do it again! Amen
15Oct
Remember Me Lord
S. O. A. P.
Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional!
S-cripture:
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.O-bservation:
In this final chapter of the book by his name, Nehemiah beseeched his God in heaven, whom he believed he had served well. Then, he recounted a list of the things he had done for his Jewish people and for the Lord, and throughout the chapter, he says, “Remember Me, Lord.”A-pplication:
It’s important we don’t forget that in Nehemiah’s day, they were still living under God, based on their keeping of Moses’ Law. There was no Jesus, the Son of God, who would come to earth and sacrifice His life for the salvation of humankind. There was no understanding of the grace of God to forgive. All a man or woman could do in prayer was list their good deeds in hopes that, perchance, the Lord would give them entrance into heaven one day. The difference between you and me and Nehemiah is that we, as Followers of Jesus, never have to pray and say, “Remember Me, Lord.” Instead, we pray and say, “Remember What Jesus Did, Lord.”P-rayer:
Dear Jesus, I’m grateful this AM for the price You paid that I may have eternal life. I am Yours, and You are mine! Amen
17Jun
The Lord Of YOUR Valley
S. O. A. P.
Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional!
S-cripture:
1 Kings 20:28
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Arameans think the Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”