Trusting in the Lord, even when our Trust is crumbling into Doubt

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Trust and Doubt

How many times has Jesus blessed you by pouring the grace of God over you as He interceded on your behalf? Sometimes though we have to wait, and on such occasions it becomes easy for us to wrongly reach the conclusion that God’s blessings are not eminent, are uncertain at best, or perhaps that He is granting them sparingly, one drop at a time. In truth His blessings flow like a gushing spring if we will only believe, and have faith in His promise to provide for us. The Lord sent his own Son to redeem us by His suffering and death so why would he not give us the relatively small things we ask for in life?

Are we Living out our relationship of Faith, or watching from a distance?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Divine Relationships

Do we study the Word, becoming believers in God and Jesus Christ, only to stop there, and go no further in fostering the relationship that they desire to have with us? Believing is not an event; it is not an academic exercise, no, it is like an ever growing vine... it is like love which isn’t completed in a moment, or by ceremony, but grows forever stronger in our hearts. Our fellowship is meant to be eternal with both the Father, and Son, and with one another as believers. It is further meant to be shared with those around us so that they too can experience firsthand the wonder that resides in Him.

Jesus, God’s Greatest Covenant with Man

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Covenant of Christ

If you are living without Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, do you believe your life is the best that it can possibly be? Well my friend, the covenant that is made with us through Jesus Christ far exceeds any that we might concoct for ourselves, and is even better than God’s previous covenant made with Moses. Jesus was sent to redeem us because we are unable to live righteously on our own, even with the guidance of the law given to Moses we fall short.

Hope, Courage, and our Bold Love for God.

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotional , Bold Love of God

What better day to discuss being bold in our love for Jesus than on Valentine’s Day, and what more appropriate way to begin but with a poem...

Love

By Rich Forbes

Hope gives birth to courage,

courage allows us to be bold,

bold is the heart that loves;

Jesus is the hope of the world.

So, are we bold in the way we reveal our love for God, Jesus, and for one another, or are we timid, and let an earthborn fear throw a bushel over our love, and how we show it?

Do we procrastinate in doing God’s will, or answering His call?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Walking the Walk of Faith

We all begin our conversion into believers in Christ through our contrition, by the confession of our sins, and in asking Jesus for forgiveness, and to be our Lord and Savior. In this way we become children of God, and receive the gift of eternal life, but until we begin living, and behaving as Christ has taught us to do, we remain little children... members of the family, but nonetheless we are forever immature. Do you long to be more?

Loving God, and Christ... does it leave us exhausted?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Loving God

When we say that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, our love should be more than just the recitation of these words. Loving God requires much more than simple emotion, words, or some superficial faint at faithfulness, it takes bold action, and every ounce of might we can muster to accomplish it. Love is not a proclamation, it is action born from truth. God expects nothing less.

Loving Jesus, and keeping his commandments

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Loving and Obeying

Do we love Jesus? This appears to be a very straight forward question, but people view love in different ways. To some it is incredibly complex as they try to hold a relationship together by performing a long list of deeds, or expressions of emotion. To others, like the saying in the movie ‘The Love Story’, it is boiled down to one simple thought, like “Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” But Jesus tells us how we determine if we love Him... we reveal our love by keeping His commandments.

Helping all, and loving all... even our enemies

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Helping Others

When you are in a bad place in your life, or are frightened because you find yourself experiencing dire straits, where do you turn for help? If you are a believer you naturally call out to Jesus, and turn towards God to catch you as you are falling, but the interesting thing is that even those who might have denied God previously will call on Him in times of exceptional fear or hardship... and by His catching them they will come to witness His goodness and power, and It will change them.

Do we eat meat, or suckle at the Breast of our Faith?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Mature Faith

Are we maturing each day in our faith, or are we remaining babies in Christ? Paul found that many of the Corinthians had not advanced in their faith, and I look at the church today, and see that we have fallen into that same trap in our modern faith... we don’t open ourselves up fully to the Spirit. We remain convinced that we can fix our own problems without leaning on God, and thus we are trapped in a form of spiritual infancy.

Rivers of Living Water

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Living Water

You are a Christian, but do you feel rivers of living water flowing from your heart? If you have opened yourself up to the Holy Spirit, and are being led by Him, then you are most certainly a spring from which living water bubbles up to cover the earth, and will quench the thirst of many who are parched by walking through the world’s unrighteous desert that surrounds them.

Opening our Hearts, Minds, and Souls, to the Holy Spirit

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Accepting the Holy Spirit

As post ascension Christians we have received a gift from God that the world can never have. Jesus told his disciples that He would ask God to give us a helper, and God responded. Our gift is the Holy Spirit, and He resides in us us from the moment we first believe, and will abide in us forever. So abiding within us we have God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit... but do we open ourselves up equally to their presence each day? Do we invite each of them to come to the forefront in power, love, help, and comfort? Have we accepted the Holy Spirit within us just as we have accepted God, and Jesus Christ, or have we relegated Him to some minor role in our faith?

The Sweet and Wise Words of Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Kind Words

How do we go about speaking to those who don’t know Jesus, or to one another in times of disagreement? What tone is set by our words as we reveal heavenly truths, or attempt to open the eyes of others to our way of thinking, or to faith in Christ? Gracious words reveal the divine grace within us; they are mighty indeed, and bear witness to the health and love within us. The grace in our words wins souls, and refreshes our own soul as we worship.

Jesus, and the life I now live

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Living the Life of Christ

Our proclamation of faith, no matter what form we deliver it in, could not be any stronger than the Apostle Paul’s. In the first sentence of Galatians 2:20 he gives a powerful testimony as to his faith, and the gospel. Can we make the same set of claims he did; saying that we have been crucified with Christ, that we no longer live as we once did, and that we now live again in Jesus Christ? I hope so because This is the gospel message in short... but there is more!

The great lie of Satan, and the ultimate truth in Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , A Sin too Great

Many who would otherwise come to know the Lord are made by Satan to believe a lie; they are convinced that their sins are too great to be forgiven. Then, in the clutches of that falsehood they hide from God, and refuse the mercy and grace He offers them through Jesus Christ. They may have lived a life of ever increasing sin, but that can all be undone in a moment’s encounter with Jesus... a single occurrence of faith... the instant when we realize, and trust in the fact, that the increase of God’s grace knows no bounds, and conquers all sin.

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