Facing Hurricane Delta, Trusting Jesus

8am The Blue Dot is my home. Today, for the 2nd time this year a substantial hurricane will move across the parish of our home within 40 miles or so. That's relatively close to being a direct hit but without the full impact. It's also close enough to a direct hit that until it has …

Keep God’s Bread Pure

The theme of my blog is in the scripture verse in the picture, Jeremiah 33:3, mainly because I began waking up and looking at my digital bedside clock really often at 3:33. It didn't matter if I was working days or nights. One day I told my Dad about it and said, "I wonder if …

Social Distancing, God’s Offer To Get Shut In With Him

This morning a scripture from Sunday's devotional reading came to mind. In Leviticus chapter 15 it said this, Leviticus 15:19-30 ‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. 20 Everything that she lies …

The Man From Galilee

A couple days ago I got to read a passage of scripture in the MyDailyBible app that is special to me. It's found in the book of John chapter 4 about the Samaritan woman at the well. This passage is so full of prophetic nuances. After reading these scriptures an old song that played often …

He Laid Down His Life For Us

Today is an oddity of sorts, February 29, 2020, a leap year. So most but not all of the devotional readings that were for yesterday were repeated today. It was sort of a good thing though. For one app in particular I am sort of glad. I listened and read through it twice yesterday morning …

Lying Signs And Wonders

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12  (NKJV) The Great Apostasy Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ …

Being A Bondservant of Christ

This morning at church, during the worship service, the beginning scriptures from this week's Torah Portions  Mishpatim | משפטים | "Judgments" came to mind. Exodus 21:1-2, 5-6 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave,he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall …

God Took The Initiative, Follow His Lead

Today is the 3rd and last day that I will be bringing the devotional of the day from the "Love Language Minute Devotional" as it relates to today, Valentines Day 2020. Gary Chapman wrote "Love Language Minute Devotional" to help couples communicate better. "After thirty years of counseling couples, I’m convinced there are five different …

Finding Good In Complaints, Love Language Day 2

Today is the 2nd of 3 days that I will post the reading from "Love Language Minute Devotional" in anticipation of Valentines Day. Even though many things are done to express ones appreciation and love for another on this day, cupids arrow often misses it's mark because of not speaking the same "Love Language." February …

Learn God’s Love Language For Others

As a Christmas gift to my wife and myself I bought a sort of marriage improvement book. It's called "Love Language Minute Devotional." It focuses on the fact that often times a husband and wife will appreciate things done or said in a totally different light than the way it was intended. Since 3 is …

The Amazing Grace of Being “In Christ”

In today's devotional reading from MyDailyBible app, DailyPlan : one-year-tract : 2020-02-06 #Bible https://www.mydailybible.org/dp/esv/one-year-tract/2020-02-06.htm the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 9 quotes some verses from the prophet Hosea, Romans 9:23-26 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he …

2020, Seeking Clearer Vision of Our Father

I pray that ALL those who are seeking to know and understand the character and divine nature of our Dear Heavenly Father, Yeshua - The LORD Jesus Christ and the Precious Holy Spirit, find His Truth. The year 2020 and its relation to "perfect vision" is a common theme in church circles. Of ALL the …

What Do You Want For Christmas?

This morning as I read the devotional scriptures in My Daily Bible app a couple things caught my attention. DailyPlan : one-year-tract : 2019-12-20 #Bible https://www.mydailybible.org/dp/esv/one-year-tract/2019-12-20.htm In the book of 2 Chronicles 24 I read how Joash began to reign as king of Judah at 7 years of age but only reigned for 40 years. …

Where’s Dan?

This morning I woke up a little before 3am. I prayed a little while and thought to listen to some of the scriptures of this weeks torah portion, Vayishlach | וישלח | "He Sent." Torah: Genesis 32:3 - 36:43 Prophets: Joel 2:30-32; Obadiah 1:1-21 Brit Hadasha: John 1:19 - 2:12 ; Acts 3:18-26; 1 Corinthians …

Trees Speak Volumes

Maybe it's just me and maybe it's God's Spirit in me but for some reason I notice trees. I guess many people do but for me, sometimes there's a "follow up" to the things I notice about trees. Kinda like a tree that caught my attention one day as I was bringing the crew boat …

He Who Has An Ear, Let Him Hear What The Spirit Says

The desire of my heart in writing this blog is first, that the thoughts that spur the subject of them would come from the leading of the Holy Spirit of God. A close second is that what I write would cause non believers or half hearted Christians to realize that God is Very Very Real …

God’s Gift of Faith, Will You Seek It or Your Own?

Numbers 11:18-20 Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, …

He Shall Roar Like A Lion, Fearing God’s Goodness

Hosea 3:5  Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. This morning as I got ready to read my daily Bible verses and devotional, my mind was being bombarded by the normal concerns of …

222,222 And A Shooting Star???

Psalm 18:12-19  At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited …

Can A Christian or Minister of God Have A Reprobate Mind?

In Bishop Drew’s sermon yesterday titled, "The Power of Confidence," his 8th and final point, "A Clean Conscience," can be heard @ 51:30 on the linked Facebook video. Quoting Bishop Drew, “A Clean Conscience –  Got To Have It. A Clean Conscience comes from living a right life. A Clean Conscience means I don't turn off …

Promised Holy Spirit, The Last Great Day of The Feast

Today at sunset, Oct. 20, 2019 begins the 8th Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot - The Promise of the Holy Spirit To Jews, the 8th Day is known as, "Shmini Atzeret." The name refers to the eighth day, or the extra day, that brings the seven-day Sukkot period to its state of …

The Sprinkling of Blood by Our Mediator, Jesus

If you take the time to read my testimony, there are a couple things I hope you notice from the start. When I became a "Born Again with God's Spirit" Christian, He touched my heart and mind in a very profound way. Living all my 37 years up until that point of my life as …

Brides Wear White, So Do Saints

According to wikipedia, White became a popular option in 1840, after the marriage of Queen Victoria to Albert of Saxe-Coburg, when Victoria wore a white gown trimmed with Honiton lace. Illustrations of the wedding were widely published, and many brides opted for white in accordance with the Queen's choice. Prior to that, white was not …

How Long Is For Ever, Everlasting, To God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qv1DiQ_wIg Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It actually started at sunset last night. God has declared and decreed that this one day, every year, would be the Sabbath of All Sabbaths, FOREVER!!! Leviticus 16:29-34 “This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your …

The Wise Accept Constructive Criticism

Yesterday morning my alarm clock rang at 2:30 am and we did like what Peter and six of the remaining disciples did, John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they …