Devotionals

John 5:11, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full”

1 John 1:4, "These things we write to you that your joy may be full"
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Do you remember those yellow round happy-face stickers that showed up frequently on stationery and postcards? They were often accompanied by the one-word message, "Smile." They implied that you could put a smile on your face as easily as you ...

Luke 8:39, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you”
Luke 14:23, “Compel them to come in, that my house may be filled”
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Lyman Beecher was a man of powerful intellect; a brilliant scholar and preacher of his day. So great a preacher was he that his sermons were read in newspapers throughout the country. When he was on his deathbed someone said to him, "Dr. Beecher, you are a great intellect, a brilliant scholar. ...

John 8:44, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murdered from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it”

Proverbs 11:19, “As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death”
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I would like to share with you today a short story taken from a book written ...

Psalm 119:103, “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth”
James 1:22, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”
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God never wants us to become content with our knowledge of His precious Word. He wants us to reach even higher plateaus of service and Christ likeness. The apostle Paul recognized this, for even though he was a godly man and accomplished much, he admitted that he still needed to advance ...

Romans 12:6, “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them”
1 Timothy 4:14, “Do not neglect the gift that is in you”
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According to Unger’s Bible Dictionary, a spiritual gift is a phrase to denote the endowments bestowed by the Holy Spirit in the Church. A spiritual gift means any extraordinary ability, which operated for the furtherance of the welfare of the body of Christ, and which was itself produced by the ...