HPBC Daily Blog (Page 316)
Daily Devotional – The Way to Permanent Faith
The Way to Permanent Faith – From Utmost.org April 4, 2016 Indeed the hour is coming…that you will be scattered… —John 16:32 Jesus was not rebuking the disciples in this passage. Their faith was real, but it was disordered and unfocused, and was not at work in the important realities of life. The disciples were scattered to their own concerns and they had interests apart from Jesus Christ. After we have the perfect relationship with God, through the sanctifying work…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 119:93 KJV
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Daily Devotional – ” If You Had Known!”
“If You Had Known!” April 3, 2016 If you had known…in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. —Luke 19:42 Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very foundations, but a strange god was there– the pride of the Pharisees. It was a god that seemed religious and upright, but Jesus compared it to “whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 84:10 KJV
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my god, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Daily Devotional – The Glory that’s Unsurpassed
The Glory That’s Unsurpassed – From Utmost.org April 2, 2016 …the Lord Jesus…has sent me that you may receive your sight… —Acts 9:17 When Paul received his sight, he also received spiritual insight into the Person of Jesus Christ. His entire life and preaching from that point on were totally consumed with nothing but Jesus Christ— “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). Paul never again allowed anything to…
Verse of the Day – John 1:9 KJV
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Daily Devotional – Helpful or Heartless Toward Others?
Helpful or Heartless Toward Others? – From Utmost.org April 1, 2016 It is Christ…who also makes intercession for us….the Spirit…makes intercession for the saints… —Romans 8:34, 27 Do we need any more arguments than these to become intercessors– that Christ “always lives to make intercession” (Hebrews 7:25), and that the Holy Spirit “makes intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a relationship with others that we do the work of intercession as a result of being the children…
Verse of the Day – Ephesians 6:11 KJV
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Church Pew ~ Bar Stool
Put your thick skin on before you watch this and listen to the real message before you take offense. This message is for all of us…
Daily Devotional – Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves?
Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves? – From Utmost.org March 31, 2016 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. —1 John 5:16 If we are not heedful and pay no attention to the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other people are failing, and then we…
Verse of the Day – Revelation 3:20 KJV
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Daily Devotional – Holiness or Hardness toward God?
Holiness or Hardness Toward God? – From Utmost.org March 30, 2016 He…wondered that there was no intercessor… —Isaiah 59:16 The reason many of us stop praying and become hard toward God is that we only have an emotional interest in prayer. It sounds good to say that we pray, and we read books on prayer which tell us that prayer is beneficial— that our minds are quieted and our souls are uplifted when we pray. But Isaiah implied in this…