The Devotional

The Devotional Psalm 46:10 – Be Still! and KNOW that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! COMMENT:   The variations and number of times that the Lord God of the Holy Bible states that we (nationally and individually) should ‘know Him’ is two hundred fifty-three according to “Blueletterbible.com” in the NKJV. Other versions are around the same number. So, the question that pops up in my mind is “why; are so many of us who say we believe in God, fail to KNOW Him? Psa 100:3 NKJV – Know that the LORD, He [is] God; [It is] He [who] has made us, and not we ourselves; [We are] His people and the sheep of His pasture. The bracketed words are not in the original text; thus, the knowledge of God is not the result of wishful or religious thinking on the part of mankind. It is the will of God that we should know Him (see Psa 119:73 or Psa 139:13-14). Meditate on Psalm 100, make the Psalm a part of your day, be still and KNOW the Holy ...

The Devotional Colossians 3:1-17 – Take a moment or two and read this section of scripture. If you are saved by the grace of God, you have a new ‘character’ about you. You are, as a child of God to be holy, expressing the love of God by being tender, kind, humble, meek and longsuffering. But if you are abiding in carnality; you are none of the above. COMMENT:   The current trend in churches today is to worship God by celebrating His Name and preaching a sermon of works to gain favor from God. This sounds reasonable to the human flesh, but it does nothing for God. God is Spirit and those who worship Him MUST worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24. Often, we quote that verse out of context, what I mean is that we place the verse wherever we wish and make it applicable to the moment. Notice that earlier in John four, Jesus explains to the woman (at the well) that she worships what she does not KNOW. So many of us today worship God, but we do not know Him. Verses one...

The Devotional Philippians 3:1-11 – You would do well to read the first nine verses while I type out the tenth and eleventh… that I may KNOW Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, I may attain (arrive at in time) to the resurrection from the dead. COMMENT:   These eleven verses map out the new course of travel for every child of God. We live in the world (in the flesh it is the only world we know; [place of existence] or we currently have). After the fall of mankind (Genesis 3:1-24) we live in the world that is cursed; that is separated from God. We have fallen from God’s perfect image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-28) to the image and likeness of Adam as recorded in (Genesis 5:1-3), reread verse 3 so that you fully understand that our image and like with God is MARRED with the image and like of the man of sin Adam. God desires that you (personally) should know Him even though we are a...