Devotionals

1 Corinthians 11:1, “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ”
1 Timothy 4:12, “Be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity”
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Leslie Stobel became a Christian in 1979 and modeled her faith in such a way that it influenced her atheist husband Lee to begin his own search for God. In his book “The Case for Christ”, he tells of his two years of intensive research that finally led him to receive Jesus Christ ...

Psalm 56:4, “In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me?”
Matthew 6:34, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things”
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Today, there are so many believers in Christ who are anxious and troubled. Although they are experiencing the “rest” of salvation that accompanies the forgiveness of sins and are looking forward to the eternal “rest” of heaven, their souls are still in turmoil. Fearful and doubting, ...

Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints”
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Do you like continued stories? Let’s say you’re reading a magazine article or even watching a television program for half an hour, and you come to the place where the hero plunges into the water to rescue his drowning sweetheart. Then you’re left hanging in the air with the words, “To be continued.” Oh, how disappointing! There would be a different response to the inscription on the ...

Psalm 46:1-3, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.”

Habakkuk 3:18, “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation”
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Let’s see. What is the crisis of the day? It could be terrorism and its random ...

2 Corinthians 5:7, “We walk by faith, not by sight”
John 4:50, “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live. The man took Jesus at his word and departed”
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We perceive our world through sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch and we respond according to the information gained by these five senses. Our Father in Heaven commands us to walk by faith, not according to what we see. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence ...