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My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:2-4 Wow! What a promise to think that we can be perfect and complete, lacking nothing’! We’d [...]

WHICH OF THE MANY SCRIPTURES WOULD BE BEST? By His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 When God created YOU, He created your body, mind and soul to live in perfect harmony forever. In that original plan there was no sickness, no disease, no fear, no depression, no decay. Mankind was to be one with [...]

I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for [...]

 Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won’t need to compare himself with someone else. Galatians 6:4 (LB) Comparison. It’s something we all do, and it’s never to our benefit. Either we’re comparing ourselves with someone who is [...]

O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for [...]

Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. Daniel 6:3 This concept of becoming excellent is so important; one devotional on this topic is not enough. Because to be YOU, the authentic YOU God [...]

He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. Proverbs 28:13  No one likes to fail. No one revels in the feelings of missing the mark or of facing a mistake, big or small, public or private. But the truth is, every single one of us will [...]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 This scripture brings such hope to us because of those three little words ‘has blessed us.’ Notice it does not say ‘will bless us.’ We don’t need to [...]

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. John 14:12 Wow. What a promise Jesus gives us here. Greater works, really?? It seems too awesome to conceive. However, when [...]

And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Genesis 2:18 In the very beginning, God in his perfect wisdom knew Adam would not be his best if he remained alone. God realized man would never be complete until there were [...]