Today’s 333 Devotional: “Time to Shut Up!” Who are we to tell God what to do? Given what Paul said about how God in His foreknowledge predestined those who would be saved and justified, he tells the church in Rome to stop blaming God for what was beyond their ability to understand. In chapter nine, … Read more

Today’s 333 Devotional: “Saved But Still Wretched” “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” (Romans 7:24) Notice, Paul didn’t say, “What a wretched man I was,” but “What a wretched man I am.” Paul never said that is how he used to be, but … Read more

Today’s 333 Devotional: “Empty Handed” We often spiritualize God’s word making it fit our need rather than allowing it to change our thoughts and behaviors. We change the practical teaching of God’s word so we can use it in whatever way to fit our need. This is the case regarding our verse today as it … Read more

Today’s 333 Devotional: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” There’s an old adage saying, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” Just because we don’t like what the messenger is saying is no reason to hate the messenger. This is especially true in the Apostle Paul’s case. “Have I, therefore, become your enemy because I tell you the truth?” (Galatians … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: “The Peace God Gives” Peace With God “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27) The peace of the world is the cessation of war, that … Read more

Friday’s Devotional: “Biblical Worship” Biblical worship is our heartfelt response God. The word “worship” means to bow down before a king or one in authority, showing respect, honor, and homage. Worship is about God, not about the one worshiping. We may never sense the presence of God, and still worship. We may feel the presence … Read more

Wednesday’s 333 Devotional: “Being Rightly Zealous” There is good and bad zeal. What are we zealous for, and is it good or bad? What is zeal? The word zeal means to be filled with intense enthusiasm. It’s being enthusiastically devoted to and diligently furthering a cause, ideal, or goal. But are we enthusiastic about the … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: “Divulging Deception” God knew our propensity to go after the miracle. We are ever on the hunt for the new thing, the new experience that we leave behind the truth. And so, God tells us not to get carried away with the experience to follow after what is false. “If there arises … Read more

Friday’s 333 Devotional: “Out and In” Basic Truth: God brings us out of so He can bring us into. “Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.” (Deuteronomy 6:23) Moses said God brought them out of their Egyptian … Read more

Wednesday’s 333 Devotional: “Refuse to Quit” Paul was someone who could have easily been depressed. He was whipped, beaten, stoned, and left for dead. He was imprisoned, shipwrecked, and was in constant in peril from both the Jews and Gentiles. He could have easily fallen into despair, but He knew God’s plan and purpose and … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: Prayers for God’s Breakthrough Many are living in bondage, bound to sin and all that holds them back from becoming everything that God has called for us to be. When thinking about his, these Scriptures came to mind. Psalm 121:1-2 Start by looking to the Lord God, and to Him alone, and … Read more

Friday’s 333 Devotional: “Find A New Rhythm” To help conquer depression we have to find a new rhythm. Finding a new rhythm is something I’ve been advising those who have experienced a loss of a loved one, although in different terms. I tell them they need to find a new normal. One of the things … Read more

Wednesday 333 Devotional: “Don’t Lose Heart” “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” (Galatians 6:9) In the Greek language this phrase, “don’t lose heart,” means to unstring a bow. We often get depressed and lose heart because we aren’t seeing … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: “What’s Wrong With Us?” How can we be so deluded? Here we are saved by God’s grace through faith, and we go back and do the things we use to do when we were in the world. These things didn’t save us; in fact, they were the very things Satan used to … Read more

Friday’s 333 Devotional: “Touching Jesus” Out of the hundreds that pressed and crowded around Jesus, only one reached out by faith and touched Him. “When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak … Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in … Read more

Wednesday’s 333 Devotional: “A Call To Encourage” An encourager is a person who accepts people as they are, letting the past be the past, and will help someone get to where God needs for them to be. Barnabas was such an encourager. “And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: “Measured” You cannot give a teaspoon of time and expect a gallon of God’s glorious presence in return. There’s a universal law that says you’ll reap what you sow. If you sow a little time and energy in your relationship with God, then you’ll only reap a little of God’s presence, but … Read more

Friday’s 333 Devotional: “Rooted and Built Up” “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.” (Colossians 2:6-7a) Living in the desert I’m used to seeing tumbleweeds. They grow fast and get really big, but when the summer heat comes, … Read more

Wednesday’s 333 Devotional: “Growing Deep; Growing Strong” The word, “sanctification” is one of those 10-cent theological terms that is often preached about, but rarely understood. In general, to sanctify means to set a person or thing apart for a specific use as intended by its designer. When something or someone is sanctified, they are set … Read more

Monday’s 333 Devotional: “There’s Something Greater” I can’t explain why some believers suffer more than others. What I do know is that this is a reality and something Jesus Himself knew full well. The prophet Isaiah said He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. (Isaiah 53:3) And Jesus tells us to expect … Read more