By the Brook
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.—1 Kings 17:6 When the Bible says that ravens brought Elijah food, it doesn’t…
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Just Our Nature
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014 Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.—James 1:14 We all know what it’s like to be tempted. But where does temptation come from? It does not come from…
The Spiritual Battlefield
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.—1 Corinthians 10:12 Someone once asked the great evangelist Charles Finney, “Do you really believe in a literal devil?” Finney responded, “You try opposing him for…
Conditional Obedience
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 They did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.—Jeremiah 7:24 My dog practices selective listening. When he doesn’t like what I…
The Master Arsonist
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.—1 Thessalonians 4:3, NLT When wildfires swept through Southern California one fall a few years ago, I noticed a photograph in the…
Against All Odds
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014 Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to…
Letting God Choose
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014 All glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.—Ephesians 3:20, NLT When my oldest son was a little boy, I…
A Work in Progress
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.—Ecclesiastes 3:11 I am an…
Prone to Wander
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014 Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.—Ephesians 6:10 When he was little, my son had a habit of wandering. One day, we were in a hotel and came to an elevator.…
