Daily Devotional

Daily Devotional for Sunday, August 14 Despise Not Chastening People, in general, do not respond well to chastisement and correction. For most, the immediate and intense reaction is to bow up and resist. “Don’t tell me what to do; I do what I want.” Society today is predominantly populated by people who are going to […]

Daily Devotional for Saturday, August 13 Self-chastening In the workplace, employers expect their employees to grow and develop into workers who require little or no supervision. In fact, the ability to perform with minimal guidance is a hallmark of an employee who exceeds expectations. This does not happen accidentally; being this employee requires intentional effort.

Daily Devotional for Friday, August 12 Parental Chastening In recent generations, a huge change has occurred in philosophies concerning child-rearing. You hear terms such as, self-actualization and self-esteem tossed around a lot. In some ways, these are not inherently and totally bad things. A person should be allowed to develop into who God created him

Daily Devotional for Thursday, August 11 Blessings of Chastening It is easy to look around the world you live in, and wonder what has gone wrong, and why there is such rampant madness. Would readers believe you are not the first generation to wonder that same thing? In verse 3 of the devotional passage, the

Daily Devotional for Wednesday, August 10 The Lord Chastens You have probably seen children in public places who are behaving horribly; many times, parents just ignore such behavior, and the little children just keep it up. How many times have you wanted to intervene and deal with them yourself? Of course, you would likely never

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, August 9 Saved for His Name’s Sake We have all probably heard the phrase, “those who forget the past are likely to repeat it.” In Psalm 106, the psalmist recounts a brief summary of some of the highs and lows experienced by the Israelites over their history. You may be familiar

Daily Devotional for Monday, August 8 A Disciplined Race A good illustration can use just a few words to make an easily recognizable point; Paul was pretty good at the use of an illustration. His use of a racing illustration would have made instant sense to citizens of Corinth, as they would have seen the

Daily Devotional for Sunday, August 7 Righteousness by Faith There are only two faith systems in existence in the world. The predominant faith system is that of works of righteousness, which teaches that one must earn his way to God’s favor. There is a much smaller number that believe in the complete work of Jesus

Daily Devotional for Saturday, August 6 Faith That Works Something you see way too often on social media is this: someone posts an urgent prayer request, and immediately all the brief promises to pray and prayer emojis immediately start popping up. You must wonder how many of these are real, and how many are just

Daily Devotional for Friday, August 5 Faith of a Centurion Pride is death. Pride caused Lucifer to be ejected from God’s Heaven. He then used pride to entice Adam and Eve to commit the first sin and be ejected from the Garden of Eden. Today, pride is the thing that keeps so many from believing