The Devotional

James 1:19-20 (CJB) The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 453a 19  Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry; 20  for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness! A thought regarding Today’s Message – Psalm 121:7-8 7  The Lord will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life. 8  The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever. Jesus Christ/Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever—Hebrews 13:8 Burdened through the day yesterday about my comments regarding a dream I had the night before I feel the need this morning to correct some thoughts we may be led to believe. There will be no opportunity to tempted or sin in heaven and dreams about heaven are simply that; Dreams! It was not my intention to lead anyone to believe that in our glorified body that we would live with temptation. In our glorified state, we will not have the ability to sin or be tempted t

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 453 James 1:19-20 (CJB) The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 453 19  Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry; 20  for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness! A thought regarding Today’s Message – Psalm 121:7-8 7  The Lord will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life. 8  The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever. Jesus Christ/Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever—Hebrews 13:8 If you are alive—you are engaged with life. The apostle James uses anger to express our emotional reactions as we relate to the circumstances of contact with others during the day. Anger is at the top of the list when it comes to expressing our emotions. Human anger is NOT righteous indignation. Note Ephesians 4:26 – B e angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. An outburst of anger or a d

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 452 James 1:12-18 (CJB) 12  How blessed is the man who perseveres through temptation! For after he has passed the test, he will receive as his crown the Life which God has promised to those who love him. 13  No one being tempted should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and God himself tempts no one. 14  Rather, each person is being tempted whenever he is being dragged off and enticed by the bait of his own desire. 15  Then, having conceived, the desire gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death. 16  Do not delude yourselves, my dear brothers. 17  Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father who made the heavenly lights; with him there is neither variation nor darkness caused by turning. 18  Having made his decision, he gave birth to us through a Word that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits o

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 451 James 1:9-11 (CJB)   9  Let the brother in humble circumstances boast about his high position. 10  But let the rich brother boast about his being humbled; since, like a wildflower, he will pass away. 11  For just as the sun rises with the sharav (heat of the day) and dries up the plant, so that its flower falls off and its beauty is destroyed, so too the rich person going about his business will wither away. A thought regarding Today’s Message – Jeremiah 23:24 (CJB) Can anyone hide in a place so secret that I won’t see him?” asks Adonai . Adonai says, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? Jesus Christ/Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever—Hebrews 13:8 Our thoughts for a day play a large part of who we are, rich or poor! To be a poor person is to have singleness of mind. The rich person does not have singleness of mind, his or her daily agenda s   full and stewardship of time is stretched. If you are a good stew

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 450 James 1 (CJB) Faith Trust versus Faith Works 2  Regard it all as joy, my brothers, when you face various kinds of temptations; 3  for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance. 4  But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing. 5  Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6  But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind. 7  Indeed that person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8  because he is double-minded, unstable in all his ways. Jesus Christ/Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever—Hebrews 13:8 There is not a day when we are not tempted to do something sinful. Evil is alive in the hearts of the children of God and the further we drift from ‘faith in God’ th