SENT TO BE A WITNESS

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTION FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2014

SENT TO BE A WITNESS
  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
  He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
  That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
  And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. JOHN 1: 6-16

ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2014

ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS

 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. JOHN 10:8-14

ZION HAVE I LOVED

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

ZION HAVE I LOVED

  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
  A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
  And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
  And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
  Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
  But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
  Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
  But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
MALACHI 1

 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
  As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
  And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
  Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
  For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
  And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
  Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
  As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. ROMANS 9:13-33

SPIRIT- FILLED, SPIRIT- FLOWING

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

SPIRIT- FILLED, SPIRIT- FLOWING

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. MATTHEW 26:6-13

TRUSTING IN JESUS

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

TRUSTING IN JESUS

 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
 For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.
  All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. PSALM 22

OVERSHADOW US

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014

OVERSHADOW US

  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. LUKE 1:35

While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. MATTHEW 17:5

 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud. LUKE 9:33,34

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. ZECHARIAH 4:6 

THE SONS OF GOD

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014

THE SONS OF GOD
  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. GALATIANS 4:4-7

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. ROMANS 8:19

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. I JOHN 3:9

Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. ROMANS 8:29,30

 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ROMANS 8:14

ELOHIM: I HAVE SAID YE ARE GODS

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014

ELOHIM:  I HAVE SAID YE ARE GODS

 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
 PSALM 82:6

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 

 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; JOHN 10:34,35

TIME TO GROW UP

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD

DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014

TIME TO GROW UP

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. EPHESIANS 4;11-15

THIS ROCK IS REAL!

IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014

THIS ROCK IS REAL!

 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. Deuteronomy 32;18

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Psalm 95:1

Incline Thine ear unto me, deliver me speedily; be Thou to me a rock of refuge, even a fortress of defence, to save me. Psalm31:2  

 For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me and guide me. Psalm 31:3 

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Romans 9:33 

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 

And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 

And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. I CORINTHIANS 10;1-4