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Pride, and the Danger in Intercession

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, God’s Glory

Have you ever asked others for healing prayer and received relief from your illness as a result? When this happened did you elevate those who prayed in intercession for you to a lofty position of faith? Has someone sick ever come to you for prayer, and as a result of your praying for them they were healed? Did you have a feeling of accomplishment as if your praying had done this for them, or felt in some small part to be responsible for the miracle? If either of these is true, then you have misappropriated God’s glory.

Waiting on God, and Waiting Expectantly for Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, The Second Coming

We wait on God for those things we ask of Him in our prayers, the healing, the provision, the protection, and sundry other requests, but even more than those, are we waiting on Him to reveal and return His Son Jesus Christ to claim us? Do we pray every day, throughout the day, for the return of Christ, or are we perfectly satisfied in this earthly life? Certainly, we have daily needs in this world to pray for, but none greater than the homecoming of our Lord Jesus.

Joining Our Will with God’s

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, God’s Will

Are you in sync with God’s will? Do you ever hear His voice giving you something to do, and then ask Him if He is certain that you should be doing whatever it is? On occasion the Lord can ask us to do things that seem so bizarre, and as a matter of fact appear to defy logic. Why was Jesus asked to tarry until Lazarus had died before He went to Him? Wouldn’t it have been much easier and made more sense to heal Him before he died? God has a purpose and a plan for us, and although it might appear impossible to us, or even unwise, in the end it makes perfect sense.

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.

Removing the Dimmer Switch from our Prayers

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Fullness of God

08/16/2026

 

Do we realize that the fullness of God is available to us? Has anyone ever prayed for us and asked that we be granted spiritual power? Have they asked in prayer that Jesus dwell within us and that we be filled with the fullness of God? Well, if we are to follow the example set by the Apostle Paul then we should be praying and receiving that prayer, because this is precisely what he prayed for all those at the church in Ephesus. Fellow Saints, Pastors, Priests, Reverends, and Deacons, you should pray in this way for your fellow believers, parishioners, members, and churches today! Let’s listen to the apostle Paul…

The Great Vigneron, and the Eternal Vine

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Jesus the Vine

How great is our dependence on Jesus Christ? Is He the source of everything in our life; spiritual and physical sustenance, a firm foundation amidst the storms, the basis of emotional and mental wellbeing, and our guide to eternity with God? We should look to God for all things, and to Jesus, His Son and our intercessor, to bring us, and each of our prayers, before the Father. Do we do that in every aspect of our lives, or do we envision ourselves to be like a self-sufficient plant that is growing alongside Him?

Answers, and our Stifled Prayers

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Answered Prayers

What is it about praying that we value the most? Is it the time spent with God? The comfort that it brings us? Knowing that we are being heard? Realizing that we are never alone? Or perhaps in the way we find joy in praying for others? The list goes on and on doesn’t it... but the one thing that will stifle our spiritual lives more than any other is making the answer to our prayers paramount as we gauge their success according to how they meet OUR expectations. What if I were to tell you that success in prayer is not just receiving the expected results we have dictated to God while praying OUR will as we direct Him in exactly how to answer us?

In the Kitchen with God, perfecting the Recipe of Relationship

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Relationship with God

Before we come to the point in our faith at which we understand that our relationship with God and Jesus Christ is what is of paramount importance, we seek the ancillary things pertaining to the promises in God’s Word. We search for such mysterious ingredients as knowledge, wisdom, eternal life, power, joy, and peace, but in doing so we are like any child who prefers eating the icing over enjoying the cake. We see those things that are the fruits of an intimate relationship and mistake them for its purpose.

Our imperfect lives, and God’s perfect plan for us

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, God’s Plan

We get married, and if we are so blessed we have children. From the moment we decide to bring each of these new lives into the world we begin to make plans for them; we want the best for them. It is the same with God, and He has a plan for each of our lives; a plan made long before we were born... or even conceived. These plans, both ours and God’s, can only be accomplished if the child gives all their effort as they strive to know and do their parent’s will. Are you a fully engaged participant in God’s plan for you?

Who, or What, Have We Placed on the Throne of our Lives?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Our Throne

Is there something in your life that keeps getting in the way of your faith in God? Is there something that distracts you during your day when you are trying to pray without ceasing, or which keeps you from studying God’s Word? Does your love for money stop you from donating to a food pantry, or perhaps occupies all of your time and prohibits you from burying the dead, or visiting the sick? Jesus asks us to identify these distractions that are coming before God, and remove them, just as he did when He advised the wealthy young ruler.

Wresting the Church from the Hands of Man

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, God and His Word

What do we do when we recognize that we have been wrong in a biblical practice or belief? Perhaps we find that we have made a liturgical practice out of something we have considered to be the Word of God that was actually of man, and not of God after all. What should we do? How should we face this and admit our failure or address something we find to be a material heresy? Are we brave enough to face our mistake before God and man or are we doomed to a life of spiritual suffering in false worship? Friends, in such cases we must gather bravely in contrition as a church and pray for God’s forgiveness.

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