Category: Devotionals

“But you, he asked, who do you say I am? Kefa (Peter) answered, You are the Mashiach (Messiah).”
Mark 8:29 CJB

Good question for us today, who do we say the LORD is? Is He our genie in a bottle who serves us or is He our LORD and King who we serve?

“Serve Adonai with gladness. Enter His presence with joyful songs.”
Psalm 100:2 CJB

When we serve the LORD, no matter how hard things get, we will have joy in Him! We will never lose when we serve the LORD!

“Indeed, what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life?”
Mark 8:36 CJB

We need to be careful of serving ourselves, trying to get rich and gaining worldly wealth. Remember, we can’t take it with us, but we can send it ahead by serving the LORD! Today, if you want real riches, serve the LORD!
Have a blessed day!
Shabbat Shalom.

“For from within, out of a person’s heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness…. All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean.”
Mark 7:21-23 CJB

We hear and see these things everywhere. The problem we need to ask ourselves is do we have some of these same issues? We also need to be careful of pointing fingers because, we are guilty of some of these things too!

“Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.”
Psalm 51:12 CJB

We really need to be asking the LORD to reveal the ugliness that can be found in our heart and then we need to repent and watch the LORD clean us!

“Therefore, repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be erased.”
Acts 3:19 CJB

Remember, no matter how bad we think we blow it, the LORD will always hear us when we repent and then He will clean up our hearts!
Have a blessed day in Him!

“Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place; and if the people of some place will not welcome you, and they refuse to hear you, then, as you leave, shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them.”
Mar 6:10-11 CJB

Great instruction here when you enter a place to minister, then minister until the LORD moves you on! Don’t look for a new place until you are finished! Also if you’re not being received then just move on!

“For I will proclaim the name of Adonai. Come, declare the greatness of our God.”
Deuteronomy 32:3 CJB

This is what we are all called to do, proclaim the name of the LORD, sharing His good news! What we are not to be doing is arguing and debating!

“You will guide me with Your advice; and afterwards, You will receive me with honor.”
Psalm 73:24 CJB

Today, let the LORD guide and direct us and don’t allow the world to dictate our paths!
Have a blessed day in the LORD!

“Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of Him and screamed at the top of his voice, what do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha`Elyon? I implore you in God’s name! Don’t torture me!”
Mark 5:6-7 CJB

Even this demon-possessed man knows who Yeshua is! We need to ask ourselves the same thing! Sometimes we, too, can have a spiritual schizophrenia. One minute we can be on our knees and the next acting just like worldly fools!

“How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don’t stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!”
Psalm 1:1 CJB

We all need to be careful of falling into worldliness. Listening to social media, talk shows and election controversy! We need to just keep our eyes on the LORD!

“How blessed is the man who trusts in Adonia and does not look to the arrogant or those who rely on things that are false.”
Psalm 40:4 CJB

Today, let’s be careful of worldly traps, but let’s be fixed and focused on the LORD!
Have a blessed day.

“Indeed, nothing is hidden, except to be disclosed; and nothing is covered up, except to come out into the open.”
Mark 4:22 CJB

The LORD doesn’t want us to be in the dark, He wants us to be informed and have understanding. He does want us to be in His light!

“Those who have ears to hear with, let them hear!”
Mark 4:23 CJB

Not only does the LORD want us to see and understand, He desires us to hear and know! Unfortunately we think we know without a lot of hearing!
We can’t just take in His word, read a devotion or listen to a sermon and do nothing! We really need to take in His word and do what He says!

“Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says, but do it!”
James 1:22 CJB

The LORD gives us plenty of information on what to do and what not to do in His word! We just need to take it in and do what He says!

“Your word is a lamp for my foot and light on my path.”
Psalm 119:105 CJB

Today, we may not know all the details on everything, but the LORD gives us light to know and to do what He desires us to do!
Have a blessed day being directed by the LORD!