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In our Joy, our Sorrow, and our Loneliness, we Thank God always!

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States; a day when we corporately give thanks to God for His goodness, and many blessings throughout the past year. Years of joy make this easy, but, some years are filled with tragedy, mourning, and heartbreak... are we expected to thank God equally in those, or in the midst of our suffering too? Satan attempts to cast a veil over God’s joy, and to spotlight our sorrows and pain as a means of drawing us into his darkness... so friends, lift up your voices in thanksgiving this day, and always!

Reclaiming the Raging Flame of The Lord’s Church

Richard Forbes
Church, Communal Worship, Daily Devotion, Christian

Do you regularly go to church, and if you do, how do you worship God? More to the point is this... do you worship God together as a church body? Do you lift up your praise, worship, and prayers as one, and then wait on Him? Congregations that don’t worship together might contain specks of brilliant faith scattered within the pews, but never really meet God as He desires.

God’s Truth, and our Sanctification through His Word

Richard Forbes
Truth, Sanctification, God’s Word, Daily Devotion, Christian, Believing

Do you believe in the Word of God, and hold it up as the one truth by which you can orient your life, and find your way into eternity with God? This is our key to sanctification and to all the promises for which we long. In the Word of God we find our way towards becoming one with Jesus Christ, and God Himself... do you approach your reading of the Bible, God’s Holy Word, with this understanding?

Facing Cancer, Life, and Death, in our Relationship with God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Life, Cancer, Disease, Daily Devotion, Death

This morning’s message is unlike anything I have written previously. I had a dream last night about a woman with ovarian cancer who was fighting for her life. Then I awoke from this dream to find that I was late this morning, so I opened my devotional reading and the subject was “Waiting for God in Humble Fear and Hope.” Are you or a loved one facing death in some way this morning?

The Aroma of Sin Seems So Delicious, and Innocent, yet Tempts Us

Richard Forbes
Sinning, Innocence, Daily Devotion, Christian, Temptation

Sinning is an addiction that is impossible to get over on our own, but once we ask the Lord to pull us free, and he does, it becomes a daily, hourly, moment by moment struggle to maintain. Satan knows we can resist going into the neon signed bars of sinning, so he challenges us with a sip at a wedding, or a taste at a get together. These temptations are usually not sins, but they give us the aroma of it; the allure. Have you been there? Well, thank God for Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and our daily renewal... our strengthening.

Jesus; My High Priest, and Salvation

Richard Forbes
Jesus, Faith, High Priest, Daily Devotion, Christian

Do you follow after men, or Jesus Christ? Do you put your faith in the hands of those who appear pious and tell you about what Jesus said, or in Jesus who said these things Himself, lived this way, and has given us these commandments? Do you place your relationship in the hands of men who die, and depend, as we do, on Jesus to lift them again from the dead, or in Christ himself who laid His own life down and picked it back up again? He who lives forever at the right hand of God.

Our Self, and its Impact on the Holy Spirit

Richard Forbes
Self, Christian, Holy Spirit, Daily Devotion, Lessons

Have you sought after the blessing of Pentecost and yet it has eluded you? Have you prayed, wept, and pleaded for the Holy Spirit to reveal himself in you through tongues or other gifts... yet you feel unfulfilled? Or, maybe, you suddenly feel separated from the Spirit. When this happens it is not necessarily that you are unworthy, or no longer the child of God, but that the Lord has a lesson for you that can only come by a continued and determined seeking within yourself.

Praying with the Power of Elijah

Richard Forbes
Power, Daily Devotion, Prayer, Elijah, Christian, Waiting

Can we pray like Elijah? Do our prayers have the ability to reach up to the heavens and let not just drought come and go, but answered prayer rain down? Well, scripture tells us that Elijah’s nature is the same as ours... so how is it that his prayers are so powerful? Elijah had one more characteristic... righteousness. When we pray, do we possess that fullness of faith? How is our righteousness? How is our prayer life?

Standing as One Before a Changed Life in Christ

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Faith, Christian, Changed Life

When you gave your life to Christ, did you become a changed person? Did you join with all those who had come before you in reestablishing your life, and allowing Jesus to give you a fresh start? Did you follow Jesus into a righteous and holy life of worshipping God with a His saints? We are meant to leave behind those things that once defined us and become like Christ... Godly, righteous, Holy. Are you wandering alone?

Consuming the Holiness of Christ Jesus

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Communion, Christian, Abiding, Holiness

Jesus, is our sole path to eternity, and the bearer of God’s holiness, who, in dwelling in us brings that holiness to us. Are we ready to accept Him into ourselves? Are we prepared to allow Him to abide in us, and to take His body, and His blood as our sustenance? Many have not been, and have walked away; thus the question becomes this... “Who are we?”, and not “Who is He?”

Divine Glory in the Simplest of Acts

Richard Forbes
Doing, Daily Devotion, Preaching, Christian, Teaching

What gives us the comfort and power needed to testify of Jesus Christ, and how is it that we witness to others? Some of us go into the world and deliver the gospel message verbally to those who haven’t heard it, or to those whose heart has been prepared to receive it, and then there are others of us who quietly go about preaching of Jesus simply by their day to day lives... witnessing by how they live them.

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