Devotional Thoughts

Genesis 3:15     "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." I am not moving away from the subject of "People of the Bible."  I will go ahead and reveal that this verse is speaking about Jesus, but this is not the first time He is mentioned in the Scriptures. We read, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." (Genesis 1:26) Though they are not mentioned individually, we see the Trinity in this verse: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Today's subject is our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The Father was speaking of Jesus the Christ when He mentioned the "seed of the woman" in Genesis 3:15. Only Jesus, the Son of God, has the power to "bruise" the head of Satan. It is a bad mistake to think that Jesus only came into existence at His birth in Bethlehem 2000 years ago. He is the eternal Son of God and in fact we rea...

Matthew 10:1    "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease."  Matthew 10:5-8     " These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:   But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.   And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.   Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give."   Chapter ten of the book of Matthew opens with us being told who the twelve core disciples are. It also tells us that Jesus gave them the same power He had been manifesting to cast out unclean spirits and to heal. The last phrase gives us the name of the most infamous disciple, Judas Iscariot, and ends with the expression “who also betrayed him....

Matthew 9:35-38     " And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.  But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;   Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."   Perhaps, like me, you have often heard this passage described as a plea for the Lord to send men to help His people attain eternal salvation. It is often portrayed as Jesus instructing a handful of disciples to pray for additional resources to get people into heaven. Let me say here that the only “help” that exists to get people into heaven was the man speaking to His disciples. His ear has never been deaf t...

Genesis 4:25-26     "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.  (26)  And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD." Genesis 5:3-5     "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:  (4)  And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:  (5)  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." I included Genesis 5:5 for three words: "... and he died." I included Genesis 4:26 for a specific phrase: "... then began men to call upon the name of the LORD." Before the fall of Adam, we read that God came down and walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden. It was a daily privile...

Matthew 9:32-34     " As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.  And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.  But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils." Jesus had taught the multitude with authority. He had performed healing miracle after healing miracle. He had calmed a raging storm. He had raised Jairus’s daughter from her deathbed. He had cast demons out of the two Gergesenes. As Jesus and His disciples were walking publicly, they brought a man who was dumb (either unable to speak or both unable to speak and unable to hear). An evil spirit possessed the man and rendered him speechless. When Jesus healed him, the multitude was astonished and declared that this kind of power had never been seen in Israel before. This was a people whose forefathers had walked through the Red Sea on dry ground as the waters ...