Devotions

Strip off and throw aside every weight and everything that hinders you and the sin which clings to and entangles you and run the race set before you. Do this looking away from all that will distract with your eyes focused on Jesus. Awake and put on who you really are. Arise and shake yourself […]

Proverbs 3:5-6 (Amplified) – Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. Message – Trust God from

Luke 19:13 (KJV) – And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13 (NASB) – And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’ Occupy (pragmateuomai) – occupy,

I keep feeding on the truths of the over and over. They gradually become more and more deeply ingrained deep within my heart. They become a part of my actual being, part of me. They take over my entire life. In the spiritual as well as the natural, you become what you eat. It isn’t

This morning I read Psalm 23 from the Passion Translation. It is so beautiful. At the end I personalized it into declarations. The Lord is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis

Matthew 11:27-30 (Message) – Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything

Matthew 6:25-33 (Amplified Bible) Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? Look

I have been reading lately in the Passion Translation.  today I looked at my favorites prayers in Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 3. Below is the scripture and then some things to pray  out. I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the

What does it mean to put your trust in the Lord. Putting is an action word.  It is something that I do. Putting is picking up something from one place and placing it somewhere else. Putting my trust in the Lord is picking up my cares and concerns and placing them on Him and letting them rest