Daily Devotional

"These things saith he that is holy, he that is true…"

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Sameness with the world is a big tragedy. Something is wrong everywhere the world and the church look alike. When we can no longer distinguish the difference between the church and the world, then the glory has departed from us and the power of our witness is gone. We cannot win the world looking like it.

"But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall BE WITNESSES UNTO ME both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

"And Joseph was the governor over the land…"

"And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay."

"In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world."

There's more to this world than what we can see. The world looks beautiful on the surface, but beneath the surface is something sinister and dangerous. The Greek word for 'world' is kosmos, and that is a noun. The verb is kosmeo, and it is from this verb that our word cosmetics is derived. There's something cosmetic, plastic, artificial or...

"But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her."

The Scripture tells us that there is time for everything, but one thing that is not conditioned by time is trusting God. Trusting God is for all times. There is no time that trusting God is not required or needed. Trusting God is not seasonal; it is eternal. Trusting God is fundamental and essential to our existence in this world....