The Devotional

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 406 A Bible snippet—and more Hebrews 13:8 (CJB) 8  Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance Stuck in the midst of warning regarding the world around us, the writer of Hebrews reminds all of us as well as himself that the Messiah does not change. The world says, there is a lion outside, if I go out I will be eaten in the streets. Proverbs 22:13. In Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians; Chapter 6, Paul explains that we believers do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but that all warfare is the result of spiritual forces in the heavenlies. Somehow, in our soul, we believe and recognize this as the way that Satan’s battle with God and His children, the war is intense. So why would it be doubtful in the eyes of some that Hebrews 13:2 is not applicable today? Could it be that we have forgotten Hebrews 13:1 and fail to continue to express the true brother...

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 405 A Bible snippet—and more 2 Thessalonians 2 (CJB) 1 But in connection with the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our gathering together to meet him, we ask you, brothers, 2  not to be easily shaken in your thinking or anxious because of a spirit or a spoken message or a letter supposedly from us claiming that the Day of the Lord has already come. 3  Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance The church is still, on the ground, we have not been taken out of the earth. The tribulation has not yet begun and Jesus is still seated in the Throne Room of God His Father. And The Christ is still interceding for us daily before His Father, and when we allow the Spirit of God to fulfill His Ministry in our life, He does do great and mighty things in our lives. These things that the Holy Spirit does are not to glorify Himself or you and me, note John 16:5-15(especiall...

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 404 A Bible snippet—and more 1 John 5:1-4 CSB   1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. 2  This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands. 3  For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden, 4  because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance We will be looking to the chapter of 1 John 5 for a while longer as there is much more to see, apply and be obedient too. God’s initial ministry to all of us is LOVE, (john 3:16) His daily ministry to us is LOVE, His future ministry is LOVE. (1 John 5:3) In words of and from God, we are surrounded by God’s LOVE all day long. How do we know this, how do we comprehend th...

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 403 A Bible snippet—and more 1 John 5:1-4 CSB   1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. 2  This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands. 3  For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden, 4  because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance I remember ‘boot camp’, well that time was only sixty-two years ago so some things may be a little foggy! But, I remember having to ‘field strip’ our cigarette butts and then grind the tobacco into the dirt with our shoe. This was to prevent the obvious smoking areas from becoming littered with the filth caused by the bad habits of men and women. Now I consider this ...

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 402 A Bible snippet—and more 2Timothy 4(CSB)   1 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of his appearing and his kingdom: 2  Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. 3  For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. 4  They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5  But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance One world government is just around the corner of future things, and if that were not bad enough, so is one-world religion. Think with me for...

The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 401 A Bible snippet—and more 1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4 (CJB) (The apostle Paul writes) Now, brothers, I must remind you of the Good News which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and on which you have taken your stand, For among the first things I passed on to you was what I also received, namely this: the Messiah died for our sins, in accordance with what the Tanakh (Scripture) says; and he was buried; and he was raised on the third day, in accordance with what the Tanakh (Scripture) says; 1 Peter 1:3-4 (CJB) (The apostle Peter writes) 3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4  and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.   The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance This morning, Brothers and...

A Bible snippet—and more Jonah 1 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 1 The word of Adonai came to Yonah the son of Amitai: 2  “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention.” Jonah 1: Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 3  But Yonah, in order to get away from Adonai , prepared to escape to Tarshish. He went down to Yafo, found a ship headed for Tarshish paid the fare and went aboard, intending to travel with them to Tarshish and get away from Adonai . The Christ/Messiah – Is The LORD – Call to Repentance Probably in January/February of this year we as a nation began to be aware of the world-wide biological illness that is now as well-known as our own name. CoVid-19. Coronavirus is not a subject that needs to be brought to anyone’s attention, yet there may be some remote people groups somewhere in the world who do not know. To go and inform these folks would be to physically BRING the virus to them, this is ...