All tagged Faith

Fear and the Silencing of God’s Glory

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Faith

Have you ever received divine healing, or perhaps known someone who did? When this occurred did you praise and glorify God? If not, why not? Have you heard tell of people who were miraculously healed, and yet even though you are a believer you were skeptical, or doubted they were ever sick in the first place? If so, then why? In our modern society, we are reluctant to acknowledge God when healing occurs... why is this so? It is because our faith is under attack by unbelievers and we have succumbed to their influence. It is Fear in some form.

Faith and the Pebble of Belief

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Faith and Belief

Do we fear for the souls of our children? Does the strength of their faith as it is opposed by all the sin and evil in this world worry us? No matter who we are, the love we have for our children brings us concern for their salvation. Given this, if one of our children died and Jesus miraculously healed them, what would our immediate reaction be? Wouldn’t it be to fall at His feet in gratitude, and then to tell everyone about what He had just done to make believers of them! Wouldn’t it be to shout to the world that this man Jesus Christ was a miracle worker, and to tell them that He was the Messiah? Well, what if He told us to keep that amazing miracle and revelation to ourselves… how hard would that be?

Do we walk a swaying bridge of Prayer?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Faith and Spirit , Faith and Prayer

One of the most frequent responses I receive from those who read my morning devotionals is a request for prayer. More often than not it is to join them in a specific prayer that they have been praying for some time without receiving an answer. Do you experience this from time to time in your prayer life? Well, if so, don’t be discouraged because the disciples failed to receive immediate answers to their prayers too, and Jesus taught them a powerful lesson in it.

Faith, and the Reality of our Hopes

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Faith

Faith in Christ, do you desire it, do you seek it, do you accept it? Can you recognize faith in Jesus when you see it in others? From its inception faith is ethereal in nature so we can’t hold it in our hand, but when we have a touch of it within ourselves we suddenly begin to see evidence of it all around us. When we have accepted faith it can suddenly be measured. So, I ask... do you long to hold a mustard seed of faith in your hand? Or in your heart?

The Name, the Faith, and the Courage to Heal

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Healing

Have you ever healed someone by praying over them? Perhaps not, but if you are a believer then someone certainly prayed with you as the confession and contrition for your sins were lifted up, and you were spiritually healed by the acceptance of your faith... healed of the wretched sin-filled soul you once harbored, and joined with Jesus as a joint heir of God our Father. Sickness comes in all forms, and so does healing.

Three Simple Points, as we boldly ask in Prayer.

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Praying

Are we bold enough to ask God for those things we need? Do we dare mention the trivial items that we are lacking? So often we hold back things in prayer because we feel that the timing is inopportune, or that we believe we know the mind of God, and that He will not want to deal with something so minor, or something that we can easily do for ourselves. Does this sound like you? Well friends, don’t presume to know the mind of God, and listen to his Word when it tells us to ask boldly, and faithfully in the name of Jesus, and for whatever we need.

Are we God’s spit on the floor of judgement?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Double Minded , Faith

Are we double minded, approaching our faith in one manner, while leading a different life in the world? On the Sabbath do we praise God, and say that we will put no other God before Him, then walk back into our homes and businesses placing our possessions, and gold, above all else? Do we pray fervently when desperate, but mumble mindless prayers over our meals each day when there is plenty? If we live in such a way as this we are lost indeed. 

A Hummingbird’s Lesson on the Nature of Faith, and Trust

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Faithfulness, Faith

How are we in our faith today? Are we having a good day, or a bad day? Did we open our eyes this morning with a prayer of thanksgiving on our lips, or were our first thoughts about something in our earthly lives that we were worried about? As Christians we often end our day by turning over our concerns to God in bedtime prayer, then sleep soundly through the night, only to open our eyes in the morning to take those things back again... We lean on the promises of God at one moment, and not in the next, yet God’s promises are not meant to be whimsical, but everlasting. 

Faith, Imagination, and the Holy Word of God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Faith, Word of God

There is a difference between faith, and imagination. Both dwell in our minds, but faith springs from trusting the Word of God, and the gospel of Jesus Christ, whereas imagination is founded on fantasy, and the concoctions of our own mind. Some who say “I am a Christian“ are guilty of folding the two into one way of worshiping as they seek what is easy or pleasing to them in God’s will, while imagining the hardships and suffering to be useless, and not of the Lord.

Finding Peace, and Joy, in our Faith Alone

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Contentment, Faithfulness

How content are we in our spiritual lives? Are we satisfied with what the Lord provides us, or do we approach our faith like we do our earthly labor; driven by dissatisfaction, and an unending need for more? If we climb mountains isn’t there always another peak to summit, or if we are a fisherman isn’t there one more cast of our net to make? Yet as believers, we should be happy with where God is taking us, and content with His daily provision... our lives should be lived peacefully each day in the presence of God.

God, the Source of all Truth

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Truth, Faith

When we first hear God calling us to follow Jesus Christ, or later as Christians to do His will, and we ignore Him... do we think that He just goes away and that this is the end of it? Sometimes we attempt to treat God as if He were one of our fantasies, and if we ignore Him then He will vanish, but nothing could be further from the truth. Even in our faithlessness, our disobedience, or when we turn our back on Him... He is there, and He remains God. 

Faith, Trust, and the Aching of our Soul

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Faith, Forgiveness

Just as we pray for our physical wellbeing, we should also pray for our hearts, minds, and souls. It is so easy to concentrate on the outward pains and the worldly needs of our physical selves, but the worst of all pain emanates from our heart, and our spirit; they are born of a damaged faith. They well up in us from an aching deep within our soul. We see the wounds made to our flesh, but is our soul bleeding, and suffering today? 

The World Turns, Life Changes, but God Remains Steadfast

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Change, Changed Life

Our lives are ever changing, and no matter how hard we try to control them they will always be set upon by outside forces beyond our control. Not even the sweetest times of faith go without looking up to find a looming challenge on the horizon, because as we experience life we lean on God in various new ways, and through this we come to a fresh understanding of Him in the process. How well we know God seems to depend on how fully we have lived our life. 

In Light, or Darkness, where do we Pitch our Tent?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Living God’s Word, Light

We say that Jesus abides in us, and we in Him. We also say that He abides In the Father, and the Father in Him. Believing these statements to be scripturally true, and claiming them for ourselves, then we must also believe that the scripture which says that God is light, and in Him is no darkness is truth too.  So, the first statements tell us that by abiding in Jesus we too abide in the light of God, and that He is in us as well,  but where will our continued sinning leave us? Do these jaunts into the darkness separate us from God? Are we choosing our humanity over our spiritually transformed selves; darkness over light?

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