Tag: obedience

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Malachi 3:6-12 TO CHEW ON: “'You are under a curse – the whole nation of you – because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heav...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Daniel 1:8-20 TO CHEW ON: "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way." Daniel 1:8 “Can you please change the diet of me and my friends?” Daniel asked the guard. “We’d like to ...

TODAY'S SPECIAL: Colossians 3:1-11TO CHEW ON: Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5 Our bodies are surrounded by invisible enemies. Tiny bacteria and viruses live all around us on...

TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 6:14-22 This Noah's Ark mural was once in the children's entrance of my church. TO CHEW ON: "Noah did everything just as God commanded him." (Genesis 6:22) Imagine this: you and your family are the only people who love God on the whole earth! People talk about you. The...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 John 5:1-5 TO CHEW ON: "In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world." 1 John 5:3,4Which of these people would you obey? policeman teacher doctor parent God Did you choose them all? Name on...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Proverbs 23:19-25 TO CHEW ON: "Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old." Proverbs 23:22 Have you ever had thoughts like this:- My parents are too serious. They just want me to work and not have any fun.- My parents are old fashioned. T...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 9:10-19 TO CHEW ON: "But the Lord said to Ananias, 'Go.'” Acts 9:15 Saul had a reputation. Followers of Jesus (Christians) knew him as someone who showed no mercy. Imagine Ananias’s (not the same Ananias as “Ananias and Sapphira”) surprise when God told him, in a vision, to go ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 18:1-15 TO CHEW ON: "After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 'Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.' So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab." 1 Kings 18:1,2 Obadiah had a tough job and an evil boss. His job w...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Hebrews 11:1-12TO CHEW ON: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1Think about some of the ways you show faith every day.If you jump from the third step, you have faith that you will land, not on the ceiling or against the wa...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 25:10-22 TO CHEW ON: "There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites." Exodus 25:22 The first piece of furniture God told Moses to make for the inside of the porta...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Chronicles 5:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God." 2 Chronicles 5:13b,14 At last the temple was finished. It was time to mo...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Isaiah 55:8-13 TO CHEW ON: "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,and do not return to it without watering the earthand making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return t...