All tagged Gospel

He has Risen, and even Behind our Locked Doors Jesus Comes to Us!

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Easter, Gospel

It is Easter morning, and by government decree many of us are locked in our homes. We are much like the apostles who were sequestered in Jerusalem for fear of what might happen to them. First Jesus sent word to them to meet Him in Galilee, and then when they didn’t believe He appeared to them personally by miraculously entering the bolted room they were hiding in. Today we are locked in our homes, but not out of disbelief. This morning Jesus will come to us wherever we are at, and He will likewise send us into the world with His gospel.

Witnessing, and Transformation

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Witnessing, The Gospel

What are you prepared to endure as you deliver the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who need to hear it? In the process of placing salvation in the hearts, minds, and souls of those who are lost do you tread precariously along the precipice of hell, and risk the loss of your own salvation? Sometimes we find that it is necessary to dine with sinners before they will hear what we have to say about our faith, but we must never let go the hand of Christ, or go out before We are sent.

Baking the Bread, and Shining the Light of Faith; are we True Saints?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, The Gospel

Are we advocates for God and Jesus Christ by reflecting God’s glory, or do our words and actions turn people away from a waiting faith by presenting it in an unfavorable manner? Perhaps we cover the Lord’s light altogether in an attempt to horde it for ourselves? God and the Gospel of Jesus are meant to be like a sweet aroma to the hungry, and an enticing light that beckons every ship in peril to enter God’s safe harbor. How do we bake our bread, how do we man the lighthouse?

New Year’s Eve; Are Our Eyes Closed for a Night?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Storehouses, The Gospel, New Year

On this the last day of the year we should present the invitation to receive the living water of Jesus Christ with a renewed heart. In many places this is a night of great merry making, filled with excessive drink and lust, but where are the pastors, prophets, and saints? Why are they quiet regarding the gospel while sinners revel? Where are we the believers? Are we at the celebration too? Are our eyes closed for a night?

Fulfilling the Law, and the Gospel, or Rewriting the Equation of Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Fulfillment, Law

After Jesus had been going about the land teaching and performing miracles he returned home. When we look at this portion of His life we talk about how He was rejected by the people there in Nazareth, but for the most part we skip over the fact that when He returned home, He started doing those same things He had done while growing up... He went to synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood to read. This scripture refers to these as being His custom. What are our customs? What are we doing now in our pursuit of God, and faith that are becoming who we are?

Defeating Evil in the World; is it Our Battle to Fight?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, The Gospel, Deliverance, Evil

Do you say that you are a child of God, and yet you remain fully engaged in the world? Do you find yourself afraid, and so actively engrossed in politics, or social issues that bitterness and even hatred bubble up in you? Who is leading you? If this doesn’t describe you then most certainly you must be leading God’s Children away from the world and it’s frothing.

Sowing the Seeds of Faith Abroad without Succumbing to False gods, and Unholy Ground

Richard Forbes
Sin, Daily Devotion, Gospel, Association, Christian, Faith

We have spoken of idols, and how real they can be in our lives. We have discussed the effect they can have on us spiritually as well, but today we will look at something a bit more divisive; something about our association with others who worship false gods, because if we are not careful that influence can cause us to become separated from our special relationship with God... our righteousness.

Glorious Holy Day

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Christian, Lent, Easter

We are preparing ourselves for Lent, and during this Lenten season we will pray, deny ourselves, repent, and in quiver and contrition ask forgiveness for all our sins by God’s mercy and grace through Jesus Christ. As we ready ourselves, the story of Jesus plays out in our hearts, minds, and souls, and in remembrance of His promised return, we realize that He has never left, and will never leave us.

Wrestle for the Souls of Those who are Lost!

Richard Forbes
Christian, Healing, Sinners, Daily Devotion

Do you have an intolerance for those who are yet to accept Jesus as their savior? Do you walk a wide circle around those who still live in sin and treat them as if they were lepers; having nothing to do with them? If you have found the Love of Jesus Christ, and it has changed your life, don’t horde Him... share the love He had for you while you were yet a sinner with those around you. Even though you don’t find yourself to be a preacher... teach the gospel.

Divine Glory in the Simplest of Acts

Richard Forbes
Doing, Daily Devotion, Preaching, Christian, Teaching

What gives us the comfort and power needed to testify of Jesus Christ, and how is it that we witness to others? Some of us go into the world and deliver the gospel message verbally to those who haven’t heard it, or to those whose heart has been prepared to receive it, and then there are others of us who quietly go about preaching of Jesus simply by their day to day lives... witnessing by how they live them.

Spirituals, Tangos, Prayer; Moving the Mountains of our Desire

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Money Changers, Answer, Prayer, Fig Trees

Do we forgive others so that God can forgive us? Do we believe in God so that we open the way for his belief in us? Do we trust in God’s Word which allows Him to trust ours? So often we say “God did not answer my prayer”, but I ask you... did you believe, forgive, answer “yes” to His will, that He might respond in kind to you?

Parents, Hope, and the Children of the Covenant of Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian, Covenant, Gospel, Parenting, Belief, Daily Devotion, Circumcision

Do you think that just because your children are born into a Christian household that they are thus Christian? Sadly, that is not true. Becoming a Christian, or a believer, and follower, of Jesus Christ, requires us to make a personal choice. We like to look at the Covenant that God made with Abraham and likewise claim Jesus Christ for ourselves and children, but just as with Abraham’s seed, that promise requires a lifetime of action.