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Prayer Brings Heaven to Earth

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Heaven and Earth

I was reading Pastor E. M. Bounds this morning and he was writing about a phenomenon that is hard to understand but is true none the less... Prayer Brings Heaven to Earth. There are certain times in worship when Heaven and Earth come into close proximity and can indeed touch one another... baptism, communion, marriage, and the burial of loved ones are a few, but in each case our prayers are the key that unlocks the door and makes this happen. We see this best when we read how Elijah saw the awesome power of God, but it wasn’t until God spoke with him in a low whisper and their conversation (prayer) began that Elijah truly came close to God and experienced Him.

Overcoming the World with Love

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Overcoming the World

Have we overcome the earth? There are men and women in this world that have so much wealth that they couldn’t possibly spend it in a dozen lifetimes, and yet they continue to be obsessed with it, protecting it, hoarding it, and focusing on making more. They feel like it gives them power, that they have overcome the world, and are its masters, but in truth their wealth has ensnared them, and owns them. Jesus came into this world born of meager parents, and walked across it with little more than the clothes on his back, yet He was free of poverty, because He had truly overcome the world. When we finally see as He saw, that what matters in this world is loving God, winning each soul’s deliverance from sin, and then returning it to our Heavenly Father, then we too will have overcome the world, and will have glorified God… Can we honestly say that we have overcome the world?

Do We Experience the Reality of God through Jesus?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Our Real God

Is the life, death, and resurrection, of Jesus Christ real to us? Do we hear Him, see Him, and actually touch Him as we live out our lives, or must we forever have absolute faith in Him as an invisible mystery? God is with us, and Jesus abides in us, but although God is Spirit, He manifests Himself to us every day through His Son Jesus. The question that we should challenge ourselves with is this… do we listen for Him, look for Him, and reach out to touch Him in the world around us, or have we narrowed our belief in Him, as the Word of Life, to the unseen, and to faith alone? Have we relegated Jesus to the ether world and banished Him from the physical world in which we live, and walk today?

Can We Straddle Heaven and Hell?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Boasting of Worldly Treasure

There is nothing in the world that we should boast of because in Christ we are no longer its citizens; we are aliens in a strange and foreign country. We are like the thief who, crucified alongside Jesus, was made new by his faith, and dined thereafter in paradise. We are new creatures in Jesus, having been crucified to the world, even as it has been crucified to us. Today we are weary travelers in a distant land who long for the familiar sight of home, and the true joy, and comfort, that awaits us there.