HPBC Daily Blog (Page 304)
Daily Devotional – Molding You
Molding You By Billy Graham • July 31, 2016 When we suffer and die for Christ it only means that we will begin living with him in heaven. —2 Timothy 2:11 (TLB) I have a friend who during the Depression lost his job, a fortune, a wife, and a home. But he tenaciously held to his faith-the only thing he had left. One day he stopped to watch some men doing stonework on a huge church. One of them was…
Verse of the Day – 2 Peter 3:9 KJV
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Daily Devotional – A Covenant With Eyes
A Covenant With Eyes By Billy Graham • July 30, 2016 Keep thyself pure. —1 Timothy 5:22 Someone has said, “You cannot help the first look, but the second is sin.” Jesus indicated that you can engage in immorality by a look. The Bible places the “lust of the eye” right along with other major sins. Listen: “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Daily Devotional – Faith Pleases God
Faith Pleases God By Billy Graham • July 29, 2016 You can never please God without faith, without depending on him. Anyone who wants to come to God must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely look for him. —Hebrews 11:6 (TLB) Faith pleases God more than anything else. The Christian life is dependent upon faith. We stand on faith; we live on faith. Faith is loved and honored by God more than any…
Verse of the Day – Romans 1:17 KJV
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Daily Devotional – Truth and Fiction
Truth and Fiction By Billy Graham • July 28, 2016 . . . make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. —Psalm 145:12 Some years ago I heard about a clergyman who had a friend who was an actor. The actor was drawing large crowds of people, and the clergyman was preaching to a few in the church. He said to his actor friend, “Why is it that you draw great…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 33:4-5 KJV
For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. He loveth righteousness and judgement: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
Daily Devotional – Give and Take
Give and Take By Billy Graham • July 27, 2016 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. —Ephesians 6:24 Certain relationships in life require from the parties involved only moderate degrees of devotion. A certain degree of reserve and distance seems to be suitable in such relations as these. But there are other relationships in life where all this is changed when friendship becomes love. Two hearts give themselves to each other to be…
Verse of the Day – 1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared fir then that love Him.
Daily Devotional – The End of Life
The End of Life By Billy Graham • July 26, 2016 . . . willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. —2 Corinthians 5:8 A little boy was riding alone on a train on a hot day when the travelers were extremely uncomfortable; and the scenery was not too interesting as they passed through the desert of Arizona. A lady sitting beside the boy asked him, “Are you tired of the long…
Verse of the Day – 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
There hath no temptation taken you but such is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.