“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you” (John 15:15 KJVSD). “When at the altarContinue reading “Friends: No Longer Enemies”
Category Archives: Barb’s Devotionals
Mercy: For Enemies Only
“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7 KJVSD). “God’s throne is a seat, or throne, of mercy – a mercy seat. ‘Mercy is compassionate treatment of an enemy, with a disposition to forgive,’ says Webster. Whose seat then did the mercy seat represent? The only answer is that it represented theContinue reading “Mercy: For Enemies Only”
Angry Without Cause
“But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment” (Matthew 5:22 KJV). I had been so excited to watch one particular episode of a Christian series. Because of that, my disappointment was comparatively intense when I realized a key phrase was leftContinue reading “Angry Without Cause”
Godliness, Contentment: Great Gain, True Education
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:8 KJVSD). “The Holy Scriptures are the perfect standard of truth, and as such should be given the highest place in education. To obtain an educationContinue reading “Godliness, Contentment: Great Gain, True Education”
Being Filled: The Fulness of God
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness ofContinue reading “Being Filled: The Fulness of God”
True Power of Choice
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in theContinue reading “True Power of Choice”
Trials Build Faith, Patience
“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James 1:3, 4 KJVSD). “God has always tried His people in the furnace of affliction. It is in the heat of the furnace that the dross is separated fromContinue reading “Trials Build Faith, Patience”