Tag - Healing

I Am Willing!

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Mark 1:41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” O-bservation: Jesus was responding to a man with leprosy who had asked the Lord if he would be willing to heal him. Jesus simply said, "I Am Willing!" And then he healed him. A-pplication: The power of this passage is the power of the Gospel. It's the fact that disciples of Jesus follow their Savior's response to this hurting man with leprosy. I was trained by men and women who always said, "I Am Willing!"...

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DON’T….Just, Walk On By

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: John 9:1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. O-bservation: If you continue to read this story, you will see that Jesus didn't just see the problem; he stopped and healed the blind man. A-pplication: I can't tell you the number of times I've observed a problem and thought, "Man I wish I could do something about that," but just kept on walking. Perhaps you've experienced a similar situation. We all mean well, but oftentimes our concern is short on action. Certainly, the response from all of us guilty ones is something...

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Your Peace May Scare Them

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Mark 5:15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. O-bservation: Since 2012 I have been writing a daily S.O.A.P. devotional like this one. I always choose just one verse from four different chapters I read, and I write my thoughts about that ONE VERSE. I believe this ONE verse brings me as much or more pleasure in writing about as any verse in the Bible. The man in question had been...

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Jesus Has All You Will Ever Need

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. O-bservation: This, of course, is the famous story of Peter and John one day walking up to the temple at the gate called ‘Beautiful’ to pray. As they approached the gate, a man crippled from birth begged money from them. Peter said to him, “I don’t have any silver or gold, but what I’ve got is all you need.” At that moment, Peter commanded him,...

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Who Did They Think They Were?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Luke 6:11 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law or furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus. O-bservation: This passage of scripture took place at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. He hadn’t even anointed his disciples in an official capacity yet. As the story goes, Jesus healed a man with a withered hand in front of the very eyes of the Pharisees and religious teachers of the law. Yet, he accomplished this feat on the sabbath, which was unlawful in the eyes of these religious...

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