Category: Daily Devotion

10-16-24: To Knowledge Add Self-Control

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control…” II Peter 1:6 There are many talented people who have excellent skills and talents but fail to achieve their full potential. The major reason for failure is many do not hold themselves to a strict regiment that leads to success. They don’t devote their time and energy as… Continue reading 10-16-24: To Knowledge Add Self-Control

10-15-24: Add to your Virtue Knowledge

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge…” II Peter 1:6-8 As we come to the next ingredient in growing to spiritual maturity, we need to remind ourselves this is not a linear stacking of characteristics one upon the other, Instead Peter is giving us a… Continue reading 10-15-24: Add to your Virtue Knowledge

10-14-24: Add To Your Faith

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue…” II Peter 1:6 Once again God stuns us. We are not prepared for what Peter says is the very first characteristic produced in a believer after they come to a saving faith in Christ.Virtue Peter uses the Greek word “arete” which… Continue reading 10-14-24: Add To Your Faith

10-13-24: Christian Maturity Requires Addition

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue.…” II Peter 1:6 Peter begins his description of Christian maturity with some interesting words that are instructive and which we need to study carefully.Add to Peter tells us that our growth as believers is linked to something else. The words “add… Continue reading 10-13-24: Christian Maturity Requires Addition

10-12-24: Christian Maturity Requires Diligence

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our… Continue reading 10-12-24: Christian Maturity Requires Diligence

10-11-24: First Love or Leftovers?

“But I have this  against you,  that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4 T Some of the most troubling words in the New Testament for believers are found in chapter 2 of Revelation. There the Lord tells the believers at Ephesus that a serious problem is developing in their church. While their… Continue reading 10-11-24: First Love or Leftovers?

10-10-24: Signs of the Rapture

“Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable,and we will be changed.For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the… Continue reading 10-10-24: Signs of the Rapture

10-9-24: Very Good To Very Corrupt

“Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”       Genesis 1:31 Seven times In Genesis 1 God says that His creation is good.  The word good is “tov”. It means to be in harmony with God. The concept of good is related to one’s expectations.… Continue reading 10-9-24: Very Good To Very Corrupt

10-8-24: The Lord’s Last Words To His Church

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” Revelation 3:21 The Lord ends the letter to Laodicea the same way He ends his letters to the other six churches. He reminds them to listen to Him. Having “ears to hear” is used often by the Lord in His… Continue reading 10-8-24: The Lord’s Last Words To His Church