So happy you’ve decided to visit daily devos! This is where short reads are added for today’s hungry, and often harried souls! Breeze through quickly if your time is limited. Saunter with solace if you are leisurely browsing. Whether you have only a few minutes or time to linger, be sure to reflect on the thought-provoking questions and challenges included to encourage your spiritual awareness and growth.
In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem. He gave them these orders: “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the Lord. 2 Chronicles 19:8-9 NIV
Let today’s leaders serve faithfully in the fear of the Lord. #faith #warrior #words #fear #Bible #believers #Jesus #SoulSnack
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!“
When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
“Yes, Lord,” they replied.
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.” Matthew 9:27-29 NIV 1984
As we follow Jesus, if Jesus asked if we believe He is able to do _______ (you fill in the blank), what you would ask Him to do? Should Jesus tell us according to our faith it would be done – what would be the result? In essence, how strong is our faith? Need to strengthen your faith? Here’s how:
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NIV 1984
Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery. 2 Chronicles 19:7 NIV Judgments rendered in the fear of God lead to justice. #faith #warrior #words #bible #believers #jesus #SoulSnack
Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. John 5:25 NIV
Prayer for today: Abba God, please help us learn to hear and heed Your voice now so that when the time comes that you call us out of the grave, we will hear Your voice. Amen.
The fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, so that they did not go to war … 2 Chronicles 17:10 NIV
The fear of God can prevent war. #faith #warrior #words #fear #bible #believers #jesus #SoulSnack
Paul, Silas and Timothy wrote to the church of the Thessalonians:
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV 1984
Could the same honestly be said of us? Is our faith growing more and more? Is the love we have for each other increasing?
Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’” 2 Chronicles 12:5 NIV Let us not abandon God.
