The Greatest Fishing Adventure of all Time

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Fishers of Men

Do you win souls to Jesus Christ, and by doing so fill the nets of heaven for God Himself? How long did it take for you to follow Jesus once you heard His voice calling you?  Did you drop whatever you were doing and follow Him, or did you look away and think about it for a while? When Jesus calls us, His presence can be so overpowering that we immediately abandon our old life and begin a new and righteous journey with Him at once, but at that moment... do we really understand the entirety of who He is?

Holy, Humble, and Removing the Five “I”s from our Eye

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Humility and Holiness

How do you view holiness? Are you a humble and holy person? Are you humble simply because you say you are, or is it because others see this in you and say “this person is humble, and holy indeed”? If you think you have achieved a certain degree of humility and holiness before God do you use it to separate yourself from those who you believe are not?  In Isaiah 65 we hear God speaking of such actions and He calls them rebellious.

Living for God, and Recycling the Garbage in Our Lives

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Focusing on God

Do we really live our lives for God? Do we order our days to please Him, and follow Jesus with everything that is within us? Or do we live our lives from one act of repentance to the next asking for forgiveness over and over again for sins that we believe are unavoidable wounds that we receive each day as we live our lives in the world? Friends, a price has been paid for us, and this wasn’t done so that we should almost accept the transaction; nor was it paid so that we would remain the property of the world.

Wine, Sea Creatures, Prayers, and Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Keep Praying

Have you given up on certain desires because you prayed for them once, twice, three times, and they were not given to you? Have you resolved yourself to the fact that God just doesn’t want you to have this thing, or that He might not hear you?  Well, if you are praying rightly in the will of God and not asking Him to go against His character, promises, and Word, then neither of these assumptions are correct. Persistent prayer leads us into the very crux of faith and answers a question posed to us in the book of Luke… “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

A Place Called Mahanaim, and Camping with God

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Mahanaim

Do you suffer, or cry in this life? Are you hungry or thirsty in your days here in this world? Do you long spiritually for fulfillment, and yearn to see the face of God? Well, take heart, for those who are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ have a heavenly existence awaiting them in which there will be no suffering, hunger, thirst, tears, nor longing to see the face of God. The blood of Jesus is preparing us for the glorious eternity of heaven, and to be encamped with God.

From Weakness to Strength God Calls Us to Serve

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Spiritual Excuses

Has God placed something on your heart, or called you to do a work for Him that you are not doing? Have you listened to his voice speaking within you and made excuses to avoid performing what He has asked? Well, we make lots of excuses when God speaks, sometimes because what He asks sounds hard, sometimes because it requires sacrifice, and sometimes because we doubt our ability. Are you in the midst of making excuses right now?

Waiting on the Coming Breeze of Answered Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Waiting in Prayer

What are we doing as we wait on God? Do we even know what we are waiting for? We have all been through times when we weren’t certain what we would like the Lord to actually do for us, or what His will was in our lives and faith, but we do know that being adrift on a sea of uncertainty is not good. So, when we find ourselves becalmed on a motionless sea, let’s not ask the Lord that we will reach our ultimate destination but simply pray for a breeze to fill our sails and how we should set our rudder, as we wait on Him. Then, as we wait for the breeze to pick up let’s go about the various tasks of living in the faith that Jesus, and God’s Word, have taught us.

Subtle the Spirit, Various the Manifestation of His Gifts

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Filled With The Spirit

There are those today that are filled with the Holy Spirit and don’t realize it because they don’t know the Holy Spirit from any other part of their faith. If he had come to them with a jolt like he did to the apostles, and licked above them with fingers of flame, and filled them with tongues, then there would be no doubt, but for many he comes gently with joy and comfort. To those who receive him in this way, it is so subtle that they have a hard time realizing he is with them because they can’t separate him from the basic movements of their faith until one day they are awakened joyfully to the reality of his presence within them.

Your Will, not Mine, Be Done

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, God in our Lives

Satan would have us think that obeying God’s will means that ours must be done away with, and that we must become some kind of automaton to God. He would have us believe that if we are within God’s will then our own has been erased. Friends, this couldn’t be further from the truth; our will is valued by our Heavenly Father. He desires that we choose to be obedient to His will and plan for us, but that it must come by our own free choice and be in concert with His own willingly. Jesus wasn’t forced to choose God’s will… He chose to set aside His own desires and to obey God’s will of His own accord.

Holiness; Removing the Rocks from the Fields of Our Faith

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotional, Preparing for Faith

How pure are our lives? Are we cleansed and holy, or still allowing something(s) to tarnish our relationship with God? Is His will paramount in our life, or are we still at the center of our universe? Where are we in the process of holiness? Perhaps we think we are basically doing well and that our faith is flourishing, and yet things keep popping up in our day-to-day lives that cause us to stumble. So, we repent, ask forgiveness, and begin again. If I am describing you today, well, you are not alone in your struggle and labor.

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