In the world, men seek position, they seek to be acknowledged by others. But Jesus says the greatest in the kingdom of heaven are those that serve. Gods kingdom doesn’t work as the world does. Gods kingdom is different and…
Category: Devotions
This Came About From The Lord
Jesus overturns the tables of the money changers in the temple courts saying in Matthew 21:13 “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a cave of robbers!” then he goes…
Behold Your King Is Coming To You
On the road to Jerusalem, Jesus tells his disciples he will be crucified and will rise again. Two of them ask for a position with him and he corrects them all in Matthew 20:26 “It will not be like this…
From the Beginning It Was Not Like This
How close is our life experience to the way God created it to be? Men came to Jesus asking about divorce and Jesus responded in Matthew 19:8 “from the beginning it was not like this”. Why is divorce so prevalent?…
This Is My Beloved Son Listen to Him!
Jesus had begun in Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised…
You Are the Christ the Son of the Living God
Jesus came to bring a message, and it still resounds today. The message begins with a simple statement in Matthew 15:18 “But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person”. We…
From Where Did This Man Get This Wisdom
Jesus was born like every other person on earth is. He grew and matured as everyone else so when he came to his home town teaching about the kingdom of God, they said in Matthew 13:54–55 “From where did this…
That They Would Turn and I Would Heal Them
Jesus came preaching in Matthew 4:17 “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is near.” and crowds of people gathered to hear him but not everyone understood the message. His natural family, Mary, his mother, and his brothers were concerned for…
They Repented At the Proclamation
Time and again the religious came with accusations, with questions to trap Jesus and somehow catch him breaking the law of Moses. But Jesus was operating under the unction of the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that crafted that law.…
The One Who Has Ears Let Him Hear!
Jesus sends his disciples and commissions them to preach the gospel of the kingdom and do the same works he himself has done, but he also warns them in Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in…
As You Are Going Preach
As Jesus went in Matthew 9:35 “And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness.” people came to him…
Your Sins Are Forgiven
A career Roman soldier, a centurion, came to Jesus asking for help for his slave who was sick and Jesus responded immediately to go with him. Yet, this man judged himself unworthy and said to Jesus in Matthew 8:8 “only…
Everyone Who Asks Receives
Jesus told the crowd of people that had gathered to hear what we call the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 7:7–8 “Ask and it will be given to you … everyone who asks receives …”. And we are to…
Seek First His Kingdom
Jesus teaches about the kingdom of God. God sees everything and God will reward those that receive what Jesus Christ has done for us and turn their lives to do righteousness and justice. In this world though, there is “the…