Posts by HPBC (Page 296)
Verse of the Day – Psalms 68:19 KJV
“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”
Daily Devotional – Have You Come to “When” Yet?
Have You Come to “When” Yet? – From Utmost.org June 20, 2016 The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. —Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is actually a sign that I am rebelling against the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I…
Verse of the Day – 1 Chronicles 16:34 KJV
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.
Daily Devotional – Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder By Billy Graham • June 19, 2016 . . . set your sights on the rich treasures and joys of heaven . . . —Colossians 3:1 (TLB) Have you ever been separated from someone you love? A boyfriend or girlfriend whom you have not seen in three or four months? Wait until you see each other! My wife and I have said goodbyes to each other; but when we met again, it was a…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 119:114 KJV
“Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”
Daily Devotional – Keep Recognizing Jesus
Keep Recognizing Jesus – From Utmost.org June 18, 2016 …Peter…walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid… —Matthew 14:29-30 The wind really was boisterous and the waves really were high, but Peter didn’t see them at first. He didn’t consider them at all; he simply recognized his Lord, stepped out in recognition of Him, and “walked on the water.” Then he began to take those things around him…
Verse of the Day – 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Daily Devotional – Fully Surrender
Fully Surrender By Billy Graham June 17, 2016 Those who still reject me are like the restless sea. . . . There is no peace, says my God, for them! —Isaiah 57:20,21 (TLB) Faith has legs . . . I heard about a man some years ago who was rolling a wheelbarrow back and forth on a tightrope across Niagara River. Thousands of people were shouting him on. He put a 200-pound sack of dirt in the wheelbarrow and…
Verse of the Day – Romans 8:31 KJV
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Daily Devotional –
Look Deeply By Billy Graham June 16 , 2016 Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your Word. —Psalm 119:18 (TLB) Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve. If you have any uncertainty about the inspiration of the Bible, go back and look at it again. Look at it in the light of a person who has been staring…
Verse of the Day – Romans 15:5-6 KJV
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Practice Good Stewardship By Billy Graham • June 15, 2016 Redeeming the time . . . —Ephesians 5:16 We are stewards of our time. God has given each one of us a little “chunk of eternity” called time. These golden moments of opportunity are doled out to us for our benefit and for God’s glory. If we use them wisely, they are woven by God’s omnipotent hand into the fabric of eternity. Henry Thoreau cautioned, “You cannot kill time without…