The Devotional

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 582 Today’s Kick Start! (CSB) James 4 13  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” 14  Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.   The power of Humility – James 4:1-6 (CSB) 1 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you? 2  You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. 3  You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4  You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God. 5  Or do you think...

  The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 581 Today’s Kick Start! (NKJV) Psalm 115 9  O Israel, trust in the Lord ; He is their help and their shield. 10  O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord ; He is their help and their shield. 11  You who fear the Lord , trust in the Lord ; He is their help and their shield. Psalm 115:3-8 – God is Trustworthy 12  The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. 13  He will bless those who fear the Lord , Both small and great. JESUS CHRIST: He IS the same Yesterday, He IS the same Today, He Forever, IS God! The psalmist pleads with Israel and the house of Aaron to trust in the LORD, Messiah is the ONLY source of help for the nation and the only help for Israel’s godly leaders. It is as if all hope for the nation is lost to idolatry. At this time in Israel; the nation is deeply involved in pagan worship and it does seem that God has ...

  Today’s Kick Start! (NKJV) Psalm 115 1 Not unto us, O Lord , not unto us, but to Your name give glory, Because of Your mercy, Because of Your truth. 2  Why should the Gentiles say, “So where is their God? Be serious, be watchful, and rejoice as you wait for Messiah’s Return! Psalm 115:3-8 – God is Trustworthy, Idolatry is futile 3  But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. 4  Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. 5  They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see; 6  They have ears, but they do not hear; Noses they have, but they do not smell; 7  They have hands, but they do not handle; Feet they have, but they do not walk; Nor do they mutter through their throat.   Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them. JESUS CHRIST: He IS the same Yesterday, He IS the same Today, He Forever, IS God! The days are soon coming when the Messiah will t...

  The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 579   Today’s Kick Start! (NKJV) John 3 16  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Psalm 127 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Be serious, be watchful, and rejoice as you wait for Messiah’s Return! John 5 (NKJV) Simeon’s prophesy of the Christ – Simeon Sees God’s Salvation 39  You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40  But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 41  “I do not receive honor from men. 42  But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. 43  I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44  How can yo...