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Secret Sins that Break our Stride of Faith

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Peace, Christian, Separation, Sin

Are you having a hard time touching God with your prayers? Do you pray only to find an empty feeling, and conclude by wondering if God has heard you at all? If this is so, then it is time to look not at God, but inward into yourself. Upon introspection you will find something in you that is standing between the Lord, and you... a sin you cherish more than the Peace of Christ, and your heavenly relationship; a sin that needs to be severed from you before you can reinvigorate your conversation with God.

VMI, and Answering the Call of the Gospel

Richard Forbes
Denial, Christian, The Godpel, Belief, Daily Devotion

Hearing the gospel, and having it fall on that fertile spot within you creates a need for it that is unquenchable. Are you one of those in whom the gospel of Jesus Christ has found a slight furrow inside you into which its seed has fallen and taken root? If so then despite the season you you are in, you will be called to tend it... time and time again, day after day, until it bears sweet fruit. For all others there is darkness and a withering. 

Wrestling, Swimming, and the Armor of God

Richard Forbes
Debating Scripture, Supplication, God’s Will, Prayer, Daily Devotion, Christian

Are you completely dressed and ready for the day, or have you professed your belief in God and Jesus Christ, but not clothed yourself in those things they provide you that will protect you against the world? On top of that, are you ready to wrestle with the issues pertaining to God’s will for your life that require you to be more than an unthinking creature? 

Choosing Next Year’s Devotional; Joining in a Journey

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Truth, Discernment

Do you read a simple devotional each morning? Is it one that speaks the truth to you in an interesting new way, or one that takes what is comfortable for you and bends the truth to fit it? Finding the right author who doesn’t caudal our humanity at the peril of our spirituality is the struggle... for both the author, who might be doing harm to God’s Word, and ourselves, as we accept a possibly false premise and feel comfortable in its fallacy. 

Do I Intercede or Counsel? Lord Hear My Prayer.

Richard Forbes
Prayer, Christian, Daily Devotion, Intercession

How do you pray in intercession? Do you give your own instruction to the person for whom you pray, or do you place their suffering or other need before God and ask His will be communicated, and done, for them? One of the greatest snares in intercession is to allow our sympathy to step between the person requesting prayer, and God. When this happens we attempt to fill the void that only God is qualified to fill.

Blind Men, and Our View of God’s Glory

Richard Forbes
Diversity, Daily Devotion, Fear, God’s Will, Christian, Faith

Are you an individual? Do you see yourself as distinctly and physically individual? How about your personality? In fact, the one is what you are, and the other is who you are. As individuals we are referring to our physical selves, and although alike in many ways, God has made each of us unique. Our personalities, on the other hand are experienced more than seen, and so boundless in their nature that only God can truly understand them. When Jesus speaks in John 17:22-23, which of these is he referring to?

Beneath These Clothes I Pray Naked Before Thee

Richard Forbes
Forgiveness, Christian, Denial, Daily Devotion, Our Body, Sin, Prayer

Do you attempt to hide who you are from God by covering yourself in some fashion? Do you pretend to be spiritually in control when in fact you are anything but? Are your sins hidden within you where you feel they are safe from God’s eyes? Who do you fool, but yourself? Lay your iniquities before you and seek God’s help in dealing with them, because He has known them all along... even in the recesses of your heart. 

The Eaglet Who Falls From the Nest

Richard Forbes
Salvation, Daily Devotion, Choice, Christian, Eternity

We are creatures of both natural and spiritual construction. It is God’s desire that our natural selves be disciplined, and come under the authority of the spiritual, but that wild and unschooled nature is not a passive student in this transition. Have you gained control over your natural self? are you waiting for God to make this choice for you? Well He has His desire, but the choice remains yours. 

Removing the Stumbling Blocks to Achieve God’s Will for Us

Richard Forbes
Obedience, Daily Devotion, Sacrifice, Christian, Faith

Have you given up everything you are to Jesus Christ? It is easy to lay down the sin, and bad things in our lives, but have you also laid down the good? Abandoning those things that we naturally identify as good is the most profound test of our faith. Being able to leave behind anything that is contrary in order to immerse ourselves in God’s will for us is the epitome of faithfulness and obedience. 

Eternal Life and the Covenant of Grace

Richard Forbes
Forgiveness, Daily Devotion, Grace, Faith, Christian, Covenant

We don’t enter into heaven to live an eternal life because we deserve it. That kind of thinking is based upon our own vanity and arrogance. Our salvation and ever lasting life is sealed by covenant, and that covenant comes by God’s acceptance of the death of Jesus Christ as our blood sacrifice. Only through Him can we be redeemed, perfected, and sanctified. Only through Him can we claim the covenant of grace. 

Coffee Stains and the New Covenant Through Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian, Blood, Covenant, Daily Devotion, Christ

Are you in a covenant relationship with God? Have you accepted the blood of Jesus Christ as the inauguration of that covenant? Has God’s grace and forgiveness of sin through the sacrifice of Jesus become your blood offering that has sealed this covenant? We see the cross and say “this is the covenant”, but it is only a sign. We see the rending of the temple curtain and say “this is the covenant”, but it is only a sign. We see the empty tomb and say “this is the covenant”, but it too is only a sign. The covenant is forgiveness, and the blood of Jesus is the offering that seals it. Is His blood upon you? 

Our Body: An Ugly Place Made Glorious and Holy

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Ownership, Temple, Our Body, Holiness

Do you have your body under control? Have you let yourself separate your spirituality of nature from the physical manifestation of that faith within your body itself? By this I am not asking if you treat yourself as a narcissist, but do you do those things that are godly and good with yourself, and treat your body as a temple of God? Our spiritual and physical beings walk hand in hand in our faith, and in our bodies we find the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

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