Below are three good devotional sites providing good guidance for each day. The fourth and final link is some audio devotions. Pick one or read all three daily. Try the audio if you like.
What Do You Want to See (Click or tap here to open)
These Devotions are intended to help you grow in the Lord. In order to grow, one must eat. Feed your spirit on the daily food provided. Read the Bible verses. Spend 15 or 20 minutes searching the scriptures to strengthen your walk with the Lord.
Note: Move your mouse over each verse to read each verse. On tablets, tap and hold the bible reference to display the verse (sometimes this can be tricky. Clicking the mouse or tapping the verse opens a new page with the referenced verse)
Bible Verses: Matthew 6:33 ; Mark 10:28-30; 1 John 5:11; 2 Corinthians 5:4
Are you sick and tired and hungering for a new life? We all have those days where we wished things were different. One can slip into a fantasy world where everything lacking comes our way. In this fantasy world we have all we could ever want, a good life, plenty of money, lots of things, and maybe a gorgeous home. Everything works out and all is well.
Ah, but that fantasy life is not real and soon we must plunge back into reality. In the here and now, we may not have all we want. We may have struggles the fantasy world did not include. So how can things get better when we cannot control things the way we want?
My big brother has everything He ever wanted. He lives in reality all the time. Never does He have to escape reality to get relief. He had His share of trouble. People lied about him spit on him slapped him and killed him in a very violent way. Ah, but that was temporary. He plunged back into this life never to leave again. Do you want to see Him?
Charles Spurgeon said this, “Jesus’ College is the only one in which God’s truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ’s alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in His blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.”
Wanting to be happy in worldly ways, brings sorrow and unhappiness. Jesus wants you to be happy in this life. Jesus told Peter in Luke 18:30 , anyone who leaves everything to follow me will be given more than they gave up in this life (now before they die) and after this life, live eternally with Him. (paraphrase)
The choice is yours. Want to your primary relationship to focus on people, places, or things, to make you happy? Those relationships are temporary. Odds are you will never find a lasting happiness. Want a lasting happiness? Focus on Jesus!
Pray for your family and friends today. Ask God to help you walk in His grace and focus on things to make God happy.
God is Good Ps 34 - Jun 12 (Click or tap here to open)
Welcome to our June 10th Study. Read the Bible verses. Spend 15 or 20 minutes searching the scriptures to strengthen your walk with the Lord. Here is how the great preacher Charles Spurgeon suggested reading Psalms. “It is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God’s Word. You will find it a holy exercise to read some psalm of David, and, as you meditate upon each verse, to ask yourself, “Can I say this? Have I felt as David felt? Has my heart ever been broken on account of sin, as his was when he penned his penitential psalms? Has my soul been full of true confidence in the hour of difficulty as his was when he sang of God’s mercies in the cave of Adullam, or in the holds of Engedi?”
Note: Move your mouse over each verse to read each verse. On tablets, tap and hold the bible reference to display the verse (sometimes this can be tricky. Clicking the mouse or tapping the verse opens a new page with the referenced verse)
Bible Verses: Psalms 34
A While back we used to have a preacher and congregation saying that went like this: The preacher would say “God is Good!” The congregation would say, “All the Time”. The preacher would then add, “All the time!” and the congregation would reply, “God is good!”.
God is truely Good! Living a godly life equates to living a very good life. Psalms 34 is chocked full of powerful encouragement for everyone. A poor man sought the Lord and the Lord not only heard him but delivered him from ALL his troubles. King David said he sought the Lord and God heard him and delivered him from ALL his troubles. These two statements include God’s ability to hear and deliver us. The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear Him. The Angel delivers them from their troubles.
David encourages us to taste and see the LORD is good. Fear the Lord. There is no want for those who fear Him. Read through this wonderful Psalm this week and every time you feel like you have been deserted by everyone. Share this Psalm with your friends. Magnify the Lord with me.
Pray for the lost. Many in my family and in your family need Jesus. Share the good news with them and pray for the Holy Spirit to draw them to Jesus. Ask yourself as you read Psalms 34. “Can I see this Psalm includes me?”
