Who Can Praise Him
March 13, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Psalm 66:8
O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    I have heard people who do not claim to be saved say, “Well praise God,” following times when it seemed trouble had been averted. Whether they even realize it or not, they are actually taking the name of the Lord our God in vain. You see to praise God, or as it is stated in today’s verse “bless our God,” is saying you believe that there is a God and that the blessings you just received came from that God. However, those who do not truly know God as their Saviour are acknowledging God as the source of their blessing, all the while living a life that rejects Him, His Son, His authority, and His salvation.

 

    When we received Jesus Christ as our salvation, the veil of sin was lifted, and true worship and praise were directed toward God. Until someone has accepted Him as their Saviour, it is vain to praise a God in whom someone has not placed their faith. So, I would ask, how can a person who denies God, denies His Son Jesus, denies His free salvation, denies His power, denies His authority, and denies His grace, turn around and truly praise Him?

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    

    John 4:22a & 23-24 “Ye worship ye know not what: … But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

    Thank God today that you can worship and praise Him because the veil of sin has been done away with by our Saviour Jesus Christ. He is our Lord and worthy of all praise.

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How might you praise Him today?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  March 13, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Numbers 15, 16 – Psalm 66
Proverbs 13 – John 10

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Numbers 28-29 – Mark 13

Best Amusement Ride In The World

March 10, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 10:25
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    Have you ever gone to the carnival or town fair and found one ride that tickles your fancy? I’m talking about the one that, if you could, you would build in your backyard and ride it every day. You get on, get all situated, and then it begins. Nothing else seems to matter for those few minutes. All you can think about is how you feel on the ride at that moment. Then, right in the middle of all this fun, the ride begins to slow down, then stops, and you are ushered off to the side. It is all over.

 

    Although they may not realize it, that is what life is like for lost people in this world. Satan has given them something that distracts them from the reality of life. All they have in mind is the fun for the moment. However, just as the ride at the fair has an end, so does every person’s life. Someday it will all stop, and they will be ushered off into eternity.

 

    Just like a whirlwind that passes, and everyone is talking about it for a while, so is our life. Then, before we know it, it is over, and our life has gone the way of the passing whirlwind. For the lost without Christ, it will be an eternity in hell. However, for the Saved, those who are made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ, it is an eternity in Heaven. Our Eternity has changed because of the “everlasting foundation” of our life, Jesus.

  

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

     Do you know someone who is living on the roller coaster of life? The ride seems to have captivated all their attention. Pray today that you or someone else might get their attention and get them off the ride before it comes to its end. Help set their feet on the solid rock. This rock is Jesus.

 

Do you remember life on that Roller coaster of life?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  March 10, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(O.T.-1,   N.T. & PS.-2,   Prov. – Monthly)}
Numbers 10, 11 – Psalm 63
Proverbs 9-10 – John 6-7

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Numbers 21-22 – Mark 1

 

God’s New Living Space

March 8 & 9, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Numbers 7:89
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    More amazing than all that God has done for us and all He has prepared for us is the fact that He would even communicate with us at all. After everything we have done, and yes, continue to do, He still desires to speak with us. How amazing is that?

    When Moses had done his best, as God had commanded him to do, his real reward was that God spoke to him. What peace and a sense of satisfaction it had to have been for a man who endeavored to do God’s will. For him to know at the end of the day, God was pleased with him. God spoke with him in that special Holy Place.

    It probably should be amazing to us as well that God would ever desire to speak to us, or even hear from us at all. Just think about it for a moment. Please think of how we treat people around us who have done some silly little insignificant thing that has made us mad. We either yell at them or often will just shut them out completely from our lives. Now consider how in the past we have treated the loving Holy God. It is humbling to imagine God, in Holy perfection, would have a real desire to speak with us, to comfort us, to hold us up, and to love us. Yet, after all we have done to Him, He still loves us. How much? Well in Romans 5:8 it says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

 

  

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

    Today, that special Holy Place where God meets with us is in our hearts. No longer does God dwell in the tabernacle built with hands, nor on the lid of an ark. He, through the Holy Spirit, dwells in each one of us who know Him as Saviour. And guess what? He still wants to talk with us today. He does this through His Word and His Spirit. Will you spend a special time with Him today? He is waiting.

Will you spend a special time with Him today?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and today’s Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  March 8, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1,/NT & PS-2,/Prov-Monthly)}
Numbers 7-9 – Psalm 61-62
Proverbs 8 – John 5

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Numbers 19-20 – Mark 10:32-52

WHAT TO DO ON SUNDAY:

    There will not be a Daily Devotion sent out on Sundays. Instead, we encourage you to attend your church and listen intently to what God has prepared in the heart of your Pastor. Write down all the scriptures he uses in that message, then when you get home re-read those passages for today’s reading. God has given to your Pastor exactly what He desires for you on that day.  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  March 9, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1,/NT & PS-2,/Prov-Monthly)}
NO READINGS ON SUNDAY

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
NO READINGS ON SUNDAY