Clean, Inside And Out

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Luke 11:41 But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you. O-bservation: Jesus had just finished a discourse on how the Pharisees clean the outside of the way things are, but on the inside they're full of greed and wickedness. Jesus said if you will just give to the poor you'll clean up on the inside and the outside. A-pplication: I don't know what it is about snobs that makes them change the moment they begin to GIVE. And, I'm not just talking about giving to...

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A Heart For HIS House

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Haggai 1:9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.” O-bservation: Through the Prophet Haggai, the Almighty brings a righteous accusation. He tells the people of Israel that they've taken care of their own houses, but left His House in shambles. A-pplication: The house of the Lord, wherever we find it, is a meeting place with God. That's what altars were before there...

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Just Keep Praising

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Psalm 113:2 Let the name of the Lord be praised, both now and forevermore. O-bservation: The Psalmist was all about praising the Lord. In fact, immediately after this statement he says that from when the sun comes up until it goes down we should all,  "Just Keep Praising." A-pplication: What would you do if in one day you lost your whole family, your entire business, your animals, your employees, and your wealth? Well ... that's what happened to the Old Testament man of means named Job. After it all happened Job said, "Though he slay me,...

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Leaders Go First

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Ezra 2:68 When they arrived at the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site. O-bservation: When King Cyrus took over Babylon he felt led of the Lord, though not a Jew, to have a number of the Israelite people return to Jerusalem. When the group arrived back, the leaders first gave an offering of over 300 thousand dollars to put the temple back together. A-pplication: "Leaders Go First." That's what needs to be acknowledged here and...

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Please Lord

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Psalm 85:6 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? O-bservation: This plea from the Psalmist to our wonderful Lord is for Revival. His desperate cry is that if God would only revive His people, they themselves could know what real joy is. A-pplication: The thing that holds a marriage together many times is raw, loving emotion, where you just can't seem to get enough of each other. There is so much strife and turmoil. If that's not happening, real boredom is. But when loving emotion is there, it's like the...

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