All tagged Honor

Love, Honor, and teaching our Children of Secret Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Secret Prayer

When you pray is it a loud raucous prayer, or a quiet conversation? Do you ask the Lord for His help and provision in a bold and demanding prayer, or a humble and unassuming voice filled with meekness and fear? Is your place of prayer a city street, a distant mountaintop, a quiet chair in your home, or perhaps, as scripture says, a closet? However you pray, and wherever you currently do so, always remember to whom you are speaking... and that He is your God, your secret Father, and that He loves you personally with all His heart.

Who is the Real “I” in our Life of Faith?

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, God’s Glory

Do we give God honor, worship, and glory for all that is our life? The opportunities that come to us, the food on our table, the children we beget, and the loves we experience in all of their splendor? It is so easy to say “I did this!”, or to accept the glory when someone says of us “Here is a man who has done amazing things!” We do this every day, and if you listen to yourself as you speak you will be led to acknowledge that “I” is your favorite word... it is the most used word of all mankind.

Being allowed to fail, and the Love found in Discipline, and Silence.

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Honoring, Obedience

It is so ironic when we forecast, pick, our own punishment, or the path of our spiritual lesson. Have you ever been wrestling with a sin you have committed and while you did so said something like this to yourself? “If God hadn’t meant for me to do this He would/wouldn’t have _________!” Then almost immediately that very thing you said He would or wouldn’t do proves to be your undoing? Saying such things is almost always followed by a lesson, revelation, and in the midst of our ensuing suffering, a prayer for forgiveness. What word(s) did you insert? Was it “let me do it”?

Withheld Wages, Fraud, and the Coming of the Christ Child

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Goodness, Giving

In this the time of Advent when we wait expectantly for the coming of Christ, we also are in the final days of the financial year for many businesses. In faith we praise God for the birth of His Son, but as workers, and businessmen we are determining the financial success of our store, farm, or business. On the one hand is great joy and anticipation, but on the other is a temptation to increase our earnings, possibly by nefarious means... in the one hand we hold the lamb of God, but with the other we often stroke the head of our selfishness, and greed.

Aging: God’s Plan for the Elderly, and His Will for the Young.

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Aging In Faith

Are you of old age, or are you dealing with a father, mother, or someone who is? Do the issues of growing old concern you, or does death frighten you? Well take heart; though our bodies weaken, and our minds become slowed by time, the Lord God is with us in those times, and carries with Him the promises He made to us in our youth. This is the time when the fruit of one’s faith is prepared for harvest, and the glory of God is realized as we yield the juice of life to the press, and give the wine of our lives to the young.

Guarding the Honor of God with our Lives and Faith

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Honoring, Trust, Faith

Do we look to men for our help and protection when God has already promised to give it to us, and does this cause us to be embarrassed before God for our lack of faith? How too have we made the Lord appear when we do this; has it made him seem weak because of our distrust in His provision? Our faith should remain strong, and we should be careful to defend the honor of our God.

Memorial Day, Faith, and how Suddenly “Significance” Becomes an Inadequate Word

Richard Forbes
Christian, Soldiers, Daily Devotion, Faith, Remembering, Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day, and is a federal holiday in the United States; it is a day in which we remember those who have fallen in military service to our country. It is appropriate on this day for us to read or recite Psalms 91 which is known commonly as the soldier’s prayer. On this day my mind wanders to a different kind of soldier as well, the Christian soldier, and the hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”. It is hard to separate soldiers from their faith in God... it is so deeply called upon in the heat of battle... both physical, and spiritual.

Laying Down our lives for Others... How Do We Die?

Richard Forbes
Giving our Life, Christian, Daily Devotion

We read scripture and it tells us that laying our life down for another is a singularly great act of love, but how do you go about doing this? Is it a life ending experience? I am going to surprise you by saying that there may be more to it. More often we give our life not in death, but in the unselfish and complete service of another, and if we are the recipients of this kind of love how are we to honor it?