Archive for the ‘devotional’ Category

Psalm 2:7: “I will declare the decree: / The...

January 8th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In the New Testament, Acts 4 and Hebrews 1 both say that this psalm ...

Psalm 1:3: “He shall be like a tree / Planted...

January 7th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
According to the author of this psalm, there are 2 roads that can be ...

Job 42:5–6: “I have heard of You by the hearing...

January 6th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
After God answered Job, Job said that he had heard great things about God ...

Job 41:1: “Can you draw out Leviathan with...

January 5th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In chapter 41, God pointed Job to another beast He called Leviathan as an ...

Job 40:3–4: “Then Job answered the LORD and...

January 4th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In the face of God Almighty’s questions, Job couldn’t help but recognize his own ...

Job 39:26: “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,...

January 3rd, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job had wanted an audience with God, an opportunity to present his case, to ...

Job 38:1–3: “Then the LORD answered Job out...

January 2nd, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In chapter 38, God finally spoke to Job from a whirlwind. Perhaps because Job's ...

Job 37:6: “For He says to the snow, ‘Fall...

January 1st, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The Book of Job is the record of God allowing Satan to bring difficulty ...

Job 36:26: “Behold, God is great, and we do...

December 31st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
As Elihu continued his rebuke of Job, he correctly stated that "God is great, ...

Job 35:8–9: “Your wickedness affects a man...

December 30th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Because Job claimed that he had examined himself and found nothing worthy of such ...

Job 34:37: “For [Job] adds rebellion to his sin;...

December 29th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Elihu's speech against Job continued. Elihu accused Job of being in open rebellion against ...

Job 33:33: “If not, listen to me [Elihu]; hold...

December 28th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Elihu was very confident that he understood the ways of God. Without any trace ...

Job 32:6: “So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite,...

December 27th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In this chapter we discover that there were others listening to the dialogue going ...

Job 31:1: “I [Job] have made a covenant with...

December 26th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In Job 31, Job defended his righteousness, telling how he had lived his life ...

Job 30:31: “My harp is turned to mourning,...

December 25th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job had lost everything and all he could do was weep and sing the ...

Job 29:1–3: “Job further continued his discourse,...

December 24th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job was longing for the good-old days, for the days when he felt God ...

Job 28:12–13 “But where can wisdom be found?...

December 23rd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
While the human race has gained and continues to gain an ever-increasing amount of ...

Job 27:11–12: “I [Job] will teach you about...

December 22nd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job continued to assert his innocence in answer to his friends' charge that he ...

Job 26:7: “He stretches out the north over...

December 21st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job’s friends had been hammering him chapter after chapter, condemning him and telling him ...

Job 25:6: “How much less man, who is a maggot,...

December 20th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The more Job lamented, the more his counselors pointed their fingers at him, accusing ...

Job 24:25: “Now if it is not so, who will prove...

December 19th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The arguments Job's friends brought over and over again against him were simply not ...

Job 23:10: “But He knows [the path] that I...

December 18th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Eliphaz mentioned God and gold in the last chapter: "Yes, the Almighty will be ...

Job 22:8: “But the mighty man possessed the...

December 17th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Eliphaz again condemned Job; this time accusing him of oppressing the poor and needy. ...

Job 21:7–8: “Why do the wicked live and become...

December 16th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job's friends had exhausted him with their continued argument that the wicked never prospered ...

Job 20:27–29: “The heavens will reveal his...

December 15th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Zophar took up his argument against Job again, claiming that God would make a ...

Job 19:25–26: “For I [Job] know that my Redeemer...

December 14th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In the face of all his friends' condemnation, Job held on to one truth: ...

Job 18:21: “Surely such are the dwellings of...

December 13th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Bildad attacked his friend Job for the second time. His flawed theology was that ...

Job 17:9: “Yet the righteous will hold to his...

December 12th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job realized that if believers who found themselves in similar situations remained strong, remained ...

Job 16:1–2: “Then Job answered and said:...

December 11th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job informed his friends he'd heard all the miserable statements they were telling him, ...

Job 15:14: “What is man, that he could be pure?...

December 10th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job's comforters had been taking turns hurling insults at him; and in chapter 15, ...

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December 9th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job asked God a penetrating question, one that brings us face-to-face with the common ...