All in Jesus Christ

Let’s Make a Deal, the Lepers, and Choosing Faith in Jesus Christ

Richard Forbes
God our Father, Christian, Daily Devotion, Confessing Faith, Jesus Christ

Today I ask you a simple question: “are you saved as a believer in Jesus Christ?” Knowing who Jesus is, acknowledging Him to have lived in the past, or that perhaps He was a great prophet, this is not what I am talking about. My question drills into the very heart of the Christian Faith... do you acknowledge Jesus as the living Messiah, the Risen Son of God, and have you placed your life in His hands by believing, and having faith in Him as such? These are not trick questions, but are easily understood. The hardest part is stepping out in your faith... from the world you know into the unseen.

The Eternal Blood Drive

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Healing, Jesus Christ, Blood

Have you ever donated blood? Have you gone down to the Red Cross and given because they said that they were running low and that people might die without it? Well, when you did this you probably did so because yes, it would help someone, and no, it wouldn’t harm you in any way to give. Likely, you didn’t think much about all those people who depend on you to share your blood with them... but Jesus did.

God’s House of many Rooms

Richard Forbes
One Faith, Christian, Daily Devotion, God, One Church, Jesus Christ

Princes and principalities, customs and countries, circumcised and uncircumcised... these, and many others, are all things we have used to separate ourselves from one another, and to secure God and Jesus Christ for ourselves alone, but that is not God’s will, nor what Jesus meant to happen; it was meant for the Holy Spirit to bring us together through the Cross... one Church.

Drawing Goodness from the Well of Pain; Faith in our Suffering

Richard Forbes
Jesus Christ, Pain, Obedience, Christian, Faith, Suffering, Daily Devotion

Are you suffering through something today and as a child of God find yourself wondering if it is because you have failed God in some way? Do you find yourself asking Him why He would allow you to feel such pain, humiliation, illness, deformity, grief, mourning, or other unpleasant form of distress? Well there is a mystery and a revelation in our suffering that brings us where happiness can’t, in it we find the reflection of Christ, and we find holiness.

Pinocchio, Geppetto, Communion, and Heavenly Things

Richard Forbes
Heaven, Daily Devotion, Communion, Christian, Jesus Christ

Are you purified as a Heavenly thing? Do you acknowledge in communion that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed you of sin, but also that it purified you in preparation for a heavenly existence? How often do we take communion and casually remember Jesus? Even worse, how many times do we take communion without thinking at all? This is the danger of repetition, but if repetition is performed with the proper preparation, it strengthens our memory, and makes an act so natural to us that we can perform it, believe it, perfectly each time.

Jesus, the Nom de Plume of our Prayers

Richard Forbes
Jesus Christ, Daily Devotion, Prayer, Christian, Name, Authority, Power

Your prayers are not powerless. When you enter into prayer you are not alone, but are joined there by the Holy Spirt, and Jesus Christ. When you don’t know how to pray the Holy Spirit will pray for you, and when we pray in the name of Jesus Christ it gives Him joint authorship with us in that prayer. Suddenly, what had been a knee shaking event as we stood alone before the throne of God, has become more than just that. I ask you... are you alone before God in prayer?

The Blood of Christ Fills the Bowl of Grace

Richard Forbes
Blood, Jesus Christ, Redemption, Christian, Grace, Sacrifice, Daily Devotion, Forgiveness

Do you have the blood of Jesus on the sides, and above the door of your life? Is your lintel smeared with the promise of eternal life? If we were to walk back in time, and down the streets of Egypt, we would see the very real blood of Passover lambs on the doorways of houses, but the Holy Spirit reveals to us the spiritual reality of that act; it shows us the power of the blood of Jesus Christ to in our lives; it makes tangible the promises of God... grace, forgiveness, and everlasting life.

Christmas Eve; the Anticipation of a Child, the Birth of a Star

Richard Forbes
Jesus Christ, Birth, Redemption, Christian, Daily Devotion, Christmas

On this day, Christmas Eve, we are in great expectation of a tiny baby’s arrival into the lineage of David... the Christ Child, Jesus, Emanuel, the Son of God. He will be born in Bethlehem, and a star will shine bright inside each of us to show the way to where He will be held to His mother’s breast. Are you ready to make the journey to where He will be born into the world; into each of us? Is the anticipation of His coming calling you even now to where Angels announce Him?