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Know Your Desires and Prayers

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Knowing our Prayers

Today we are contemplating praying "Specific Prayers" in a certain manner. In my morning devotional reading today, E.M. Bounds wrote that to get the things we desire, we needed to be specific and particular with our prayers and that we should include thanksgiving in our petition. I agree that we should clearly ask God for what we want of Him, and to demonstrate our confidence in His provision through thanksgiving, but this isn't to be confused with being a legal contract. Our Father already knows our desires before we voice them, but He expects us to demonstrate that we understand them as well, and are appreciative of His provision.

Do We Recognize Christ in our Lives?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Recognizing Jesus

Would you recognize the voice of Jesus if you heard it? If He called your name would you know it was Him who was speaking to you? Sometimes there is no doubt, but many times we do not recognize Him. What if He came to you without your knowing, and in an instant He revealed all the moments in which He had previously come to you in your life, then you would most certainly recognize His voice, and know who was speaking to you.

Knowing God, Knowing Jesus, and Understanding the Faith we profess

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Knowing Jesus

If we had two choices and each one would lead us to the same place, that being our resurrection from the dead, followed by joy, peace, love, and eternal life in the presence of God, which of these would we choose? Would we choose to live a life of happiness, and plenty, then to be lifted in song to Heaven, or would we choose to suffer through our days in pain interspersed with periods of happiness, and then gasp our last breath before ascending to Heaven? I dare say that we would all select the first option and want the life of happiness. However these are not our choices and we experience many trials as we are transformed into the image of Christ, learning what it means to be righteous, then holy, and finally perfected in His blood. Our choice is between eternal life or death… or in other words, between the hope of eternity in heavenly love and joy with God, or the present tangible earthly pleasures of the carnal. Knowing this, and the suffering that lies ahead if we choose to walk with Jesus… what will we choose, or what have we already chosen?

Recognizing the Voice of God.

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Knowing God’s Voice

When we hear the Lord speaking to us what does that sound like? What is it about His voice that convinces us that we are actually speaking with Him, and later, when He speaks again how is it that we recognize His voice as being the same? We read in scripture of God speaking, we imagine Him speaking before He talks to us the first time, and we know somehow that we will knowHim when he does, but how is that? Do I hear Him as you hear Him, as someone else hears Him? If He whispers, shouts, or speaks in a normal tone how do we recognize that it is the same person; is it just like how we know our earthly father’s voice? The voice of God… so mysterious… so indescribable, and yet so distinct and certain. How does our Father sound to us?

The Holy Bible, more than simply the Words we Read

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Understanding God’s Word

We find the Word of God, and the words of Jesus to be perfect and truthful, but there is much more to them than our minds can understand through simple reasoning; there is something we must experience that cannot be seen with the eye, it is like a sweetness in our mouth, the touch of a baby’s soft flesh against our cheek, the groan of prayer, or a warm breeze in our hair, no words can reveal the fullness of these things. This is how the Holy Spirit helps us, revealing God to us as we search the scripture, and this is how we come to know Jesus as we read the words He spoke to us on the mount, and from the cross.

The Bridge that Leads to Knowing our Unfathomable God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional , Knowing God

Do you know God and Jesus Christ? You have heard their names, and may even claim to know them, because you have prayed to them, but do you really know them? There are people we know by sight because we see them on television, or a movie screen but we really don’t know them. There are some whose voice we recognize because we hear them on the radio, recordings, or the telephone, but we really don’t know them either. Then there are those people we say we know because we have read their biographies, and become familiar with their lives, but alas, we don’t know them either. Do you really know God or Jesus Christ?

Prepare Ye to know the Child of God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional , Knowing Christ

The day of the year is approaching when we will celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, but without the sin that Adam brought into the world, and imparted to us, Christ’s arrival would not have been necessary, and His home would have remained in heaven. We honor this month the birth of our Redeemer by feasting and with great joy, not because He is paid the earth a visit, but because He defeated sin, death, and saved our souls.