Healing as we Walk Away from Regret

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Blessed Forgiveness

Have the things of the world died to you? Are you a different person today than you were the day before you first believed? Have you asked the Lord to forgive you for your sins today and then taken a deep and refreshing breath of relief once they were lifted from you? Or do you ask for and receive His forgiveness only to neglect the fruit of that redemption, which is the peace, joy, and rest He means for you to be blessed with? Let’s look at this dastardly ploy of Satan who attempts to steal the heavenly peace and joy of God away from us by keeping us spiritually bound to sin and our continued focus on another one of his lies… which is the need for our ongoing spiritual regret and conviction for previously forgiven sins long after the Lord our God and Savior Jesus Christ have cleansed us of them

Answering the Call of Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Living Faith

Are you struggling with whether you will give yourself to Jesus, and fully believe in God? Have you been reasoning and reading scripture without moving an inch closer to actually believing? If so, then quit listening to your own intellect, and still your mind... then open your ears to the still small voice of God that has been calling you to “Come” and which now asks you to determine what has brought you to this place. Hearing God isn’t a matter of intellectual reasoning on your part; it is being inexplicably drawn by His voice alone. So… what are you doing here, and will you come to Him?

Praise Him Every Minute, Day, and Week

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Days of Praise

The world is five sunrises away from Christmas morning, and the day we celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Thank God Almighty we aren’t still awaiting His birth but find ourselves celebrating that which has already come! As I do on the birthdays of my own children, I find myself reminiscing and thinking back to that day when Jesus was born and I hope that it brings the same tears to you that is does to my eyes. Jesus is with us always, every minute, day, and week... so I invite you to listen as I praise Him in verse, and to join with me by reading and praying these words of joyous praise...

Secret Sins that Break our Stride of Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Separation From God

As we move towards a godly state of righteousness we shed one sin after another until at last we are down to our pet sins... those that give us personal pleasure or reduce the pain of living in some way. When we reach this point, and we refuse to let these sins go, then our relationship with God stalls, and we feel a growing separation from Jesus. This can happen early on in our walk of faith, but usually it occurs once all the low hanging sinful fruit has been plucked from us. These deeply rooted personal sins require a specialized spiritual surgery to extract them.

VMI, Hard Places, and Answering the Call of the Gospel

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Hard Lives and Faith

Hearing the gospel and having it fall on fertile ground within us creates a need for its peace and joy deep inside that is unquenchable. Is this how you are feeling inside? Are you one of those souls in which the gospel of Jesus Christ has found a slight furrow into which its seed has fallen and taken root? If so then despite the season of life you find yourself in, you will be irresistibly called to tend it... time and time again, day after day, you will water and admire it until it begins to bear the sweet fruit of Christ. For all the others of us there will be only darkness and a withering spirit.

Wrestling, Swimming, and the Armor of God

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, God’s Armor

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 stand tall and be more than a weak and unthinking creature?

Choosing Next Year’s Devotional; Joining in a Journey

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Selecting Good Thoughts

Do you read a simple devotional each morning? Is it one that speaks the truth to you in an interesting new way, or, heaven forbid, one that takes what is comfortable for you and bends God’s 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.

Are We Intercessors? Then Let the Lord Hear Our Prayers

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Praying In God’s Will

How do we pray in intercession? Do we give our own instruction to the person for whom we are praying, or do we place their suffering and other need before God as we ask His will be communicated to us, and done for them? One of the greatest snares in intercession is to allow our own sympathy to step between the person requesting prayer, and God. When this happens we are attempting to fill a void that only God is meant and qualified to fill. Our role as an intercessor is to pray for God’s will to be done, and not to lose heart as we do.

Blind Men, and Our View of God’s Glory

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, How We See God, How We See God

Are you an individual? Do you see your spiritual and physical selves as being unique and independent of one another? How about your personality? In fact, our physical being is what we are, and our spiritual self is who we are. So it is that as physical individuals we are referring to our bodies, and although they are alike in many ways, God has made them unique. Our personalities, on the other hand, are experienced more than seen, and are boundless in their nature such 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
Christian , Daily Devotional, Our Nakedness

Do we attempt to hide who we really are from God by covering ourselves in some fashion? Do we pretend to be spiritually in control when in fact we are anything but? Do we tuck our sins away within us where we feel they are safely hidden from God’s eyes? Who are we fooling except ourselves when we believe that God doesn’t know our deepest secrets and see us for who we are? He is God, and knows our every thought and sin, so we shouldn’t be reluctant to bare ourselves openly before him and seek His help in dealing with our nakedness and imperfections; He has known them all along... even those we have tried to hide away in the furthest recesses of our hearts.

Our Inner Struggle and The Eaglet Who Falls from the Nest

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, The Battle Within

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 in the matter, but the choice remains yours.

Whether in Rags or Riches Do We Obey God’s Will?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Giving our Lives

Have we given up everything we are to Jesus Christ? It is easy to lay down the sinful, and evil things in our lives, but have we also laid down those we have always considered to be good? Abandoning those things to God that we naturally identify as being good and wholesome is the most profound test of our faith. Even though being able to leave behind those things that are sinful and contrary to God’s commandments and desire for us remains the foundation of our faithfulness and obedience.

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