Verse of the Day – Ecclesiastes 7:9 KJV
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
We Must Decrease
We Must Decrease By Billy Graham • August 23, 2016 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. —Lamentations 3:40 Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 149:4 KJV
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Letters from Roscoe – The Aha! Moment
Wow! Did you read today’s Daily Devotional from Billy Graham ‘God Provides’? In it, Dr. Graham explains how we exchange our bodies (currently just a tent) for a permanent house in heaven. But the big statement that made me go ‘Wow!’ is this one: “Do you think that God, who has provided so amply for living, has made no provision for dying?” If you have ever questioned your own presence here in the world, and the presence of a God and…
God Provides
God Provides By Billy Graham • August 22, 2016 For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands. —2 Corinthians 5:1 (TLB) Death, to the Christian, is the exchanging of a tent for a building. Here we are as pilgrims or gypsies, living in a…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 16:28 KJV
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
What Heaven will be Like
What Heaven Will Be Like By Billy Graham • August 21, 2016 And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. —Revelation 22:3 The Bible indicates that heaven will be a place of great understanding and knowledge of things that we never learned down here. Sir Isaac Newton, when an old man, said to one who praised his wisdom, “I am as a…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 18:12 KJV
¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Three Kinds of Pleasure
Three Kinds of Pleasure By Billy Graham • August 20, 2016 The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. —Acts 13:52 The Bible speaks of three kinds of pleasure. There is lustful pleasure, the lust of the flesh, and Scripture says it is sinful and wrong. There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God. Then there is a third…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 11:2 KJV
²When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Be Not Anxious
Be Not Anxious By Billy Graham • August 19, 2016 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. —Colossians 3:16 Christians are to rejoice. To do that, you need only to think of the great things God has done for you. Then we are told not to be anxious, but in our prayers to make…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 3:34 KJV
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.