Tag - Good News

The Will Of The Father

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: John 6:40 “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” O-bservation: Jesus was clear that the Father's will was for people to turn to Him (Jesus) in order to have eternal life. Earlier He had said, “I came down from heaven to make sure this would become a reality.” A-pplication: If you're reading this devo this AM as a "Follower of Jesus," then you know that our whole lives are about doing "The Will...

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Complete Authority

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Matthew 10:1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. O-bservation: Jesus had called the disciples individually to follow Him sometime earlier. But now He calls them together for something entirely different. He gives them "Complete Authority" over evil spirits, sickness, and disease. A-pplication: This, perhaps, is my favorite chapter in the Bible. It happens to be the chapter in which the disciples received their authority and marching orders to change the world. Jesus didn't give them "Complete Authority" initially, because...

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Whaaat???

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Judges 2:10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. O-bservation: Here the writer of the book of Judges says that after the death of Joshua and his generation of people, the new generation of Israelites knew nothing of God, or what He had done for them! A-pplication: My first response every time I read this passage is ... "Whaaat???" To think that after Ai, Joshua never lost another battle. To think that God provided all of those...

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It’s My Promise And Your Promise Too

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Isaiah 59:21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord. O-bservation: This was God’s promise to the people of Israel still held captive in Babylon. At a time when there appeared to be no hope whatsoever, God used his prophet to proclaim...

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Good Morning And Good News!

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Isaiah 61:1a The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. O-bservation: These were the words of Isaiah spoken in his day, long before the birth of Jesus. I’m sure Isaiah spoke them concerning himself and what God was doing in his own life as a prophet. Yet 700 years later this particular prophecy was also used by Jesus to let the people know that He (Jesus) was the fulfillment of this prophecy. A-pplication: Every real “Jesus Follower” believes that this prophecy from...

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