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A Devotional for the 12th Day of the Month of December 2025 From the Pen of Dr. John A. Broadus The skeptic's "look" at God and what He has said in His Word! “Unbelief is a Grievous Sin” [1] We are in God’s world—we are bound to receive his teachings as truth, to rest upon his promises, and obey his precepts. But it is unbelief with respect to the Son of God, which is denounced in the text and elsewhere as a flagrant sin. In the text, the dignity of Christ’s c

Individuality By Oswald Chambers Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves. — Matthew 16:24 There’s a difference between individuality and personality. Individuality is the husk of the personal life; it separates and isolates and must stand alone. Personality is something that can be merged and blended. Individuality is God’s natural covering for the personal life, but individuality must go so that the personal life can emerge and be brought into fellowship with Go

John FLAVEL: Man of God and Man of Prayer [ Above: John Flavel, c. 1691—National Library of Wales / Wikimedia public domain ] John Flavel "Man of Prayer" Puritan JOHN FLAVEL was a man of prayer. On at least two occasions, his public prayers resulted in divine intervention with immediate and consequential results. Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England around 1630, he lived through the turbulent period of the English Civil War. The son of a nonconformist minister, he beca

The Offense of the Natural By Oswald Chambers Guest Devotional Blogger from History Have you been crucified with Christ? Do you have a "New Nature?" Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. — Galatians 5:24 The natural life isn’t sinful; the disposition that rules the natural life is sinful. Sin belongs to hell and the devil, while I, as a child of God, belong to heaven and God and the disposition he has put in me. I must have n

Romans 5: 5 For the Love of God is shed aborad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit . . . Love Shed Abroad GRACIOUS GOD, My heart praises thee for the wonder of thy love in Jesus; He is heaven’s darling, but is for me the incarnate, despised, rejected, crucified sin-bearer; In him thy grace has almost out-graced itself, In him thy love to rebels has reached its height; O to love thee with a love like this! My heart is stone, melt it with thy love, My heart is locked, let thy love

Isaiah sees the LORD of Glory in the TEMPLE high and lifted up and laments, "Woe is me!" The Temple of the Holy Spirit By Oswald Chambers A Daily Devotional for Advent Friday December 5th, 2025 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? — 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do I realize that God holds me accountable for how I rule my body? Am I keeping my body under his rule, drawing on his grace in order to maintain righteousness? “I do not set aside the grace of God,”

Jesus told His followers that in the world they would have trouble! But He also said "Cheer Up!" I have overcome the world! The Law of Antagonism By Oswald Chambers In this world you will have trouble. — John16:33 Life without war is impossible, either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life. The law of antagonism means that in order to stay healthy, I have to fight. Health is a kind of bal

Privileges of Heaven and Eternal Life only come from Christ's finished work! Privileges O LORD GOD, Teach me to know that grace precedes, accompanies, and follows my salvation, that it sustains the redeemed soul, that not one link of its chain can ever break. From Calvary’s cross wave upon wave of grace reaches me, deals with my sin, washes me clean, renews my heart, strengthens my will, draws out my affection, kindles a flame in my soul, rules throughout my inner man, consec

One alone before the Great White Throne Judgment of God to give account for his/her life! A Devotional Thought for November 2, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan, an Early English Baptist Who Wrote the Pilgrim's Progress There Remains No Strength in Me! “And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, ‘O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.

Moses breaking the tablets of the Ten Commandments after Israel sinned while he was on Horeb receiving the Law. The Law and the Gospel By Oswald Chambers Second Day of Advent Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. — James 2:10 The moral law doesn’t take into account the fact that we are weak human beings. It doesn’t consider our infirmities or our sinful heredity. It simply demands that we be absolutely moral. The moral

George Williams, founder of the Young Man's Christian Association. A Devotional and Historical Remembrance for June 6, 2025 Concerning: George Williams Created the YMCA to Give Young Men Clean and Useful Fun GEORGE WILLIAMS WAS APPALLED at the way London’s shocking amusements tempted unattached workmen into vice. Their employers cared nothing about them, he wrote. “They were treated as though deprived of mind . . . as though formed only to labor and sleep...without a moment f

A rendering of Charles Haddon Spurgeon preaching. The one who prayed for sinners to be saved! Today's reading is supplied to us from Dr. Michael AG Haykin's substack web page. Used by permission. And Jesus said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” (Luke 10:2). O God, we would not speak to you from a distance nor stand at a distance from the burning mountain

Justifed before God by faith in the Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ the Lord! The Riches of the Destitute By Oswald Chambers A Devotional the Friday November 28, 2025 after Thanksgiving Scripture Reference …being justified freely by His grace… — Romans 3:24 The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a cert

God All-Sufficient (A Prayer) O LORD OF GRACE, The world is before me this day, and I am weak and fearful, but I look to thee for strength; If I venture forth alone I stumble and fall, but on the Beloved’s arms I am firm as the eternal hills; If left to the treachery of my heartI shall shame thy Name ,but if enlightened, guided, upheld by thy Spirit, I shall bring thee glory. Be thou my arm to support, my strength to stand, my light to see, my feet to run, my shield to prot

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"For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" He is God of Creation and God of Redemption! God Creator and Controller Third Day of the Week/Morning: MOST HIGH GOD, The universe with all its myriad creatures is thine, made by thy word, upheld by thy power, governed by thy will. But thou art also the Father of mercies, the God of all grace, the bestower of all comfort, the protector of the saved. Thou hast been mindful of us, hast visited us, preserved us ,given us a goodly heritage

Ship Drifting.... The Direction of Aspiration By Oswald Chambers In the Public Domain Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters…so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God. — Psalm 123:2 kjv This verse is a description of what it means to rely entirely on God. Just as the eyes of servants are riveted on their masters, so our eyes are fixed on God. Spiritual drift begins when we cease to lift our eyes to him. This loss of focus comes not so much through t

Jesus cries "It is Finished" and then dismisses His Spirit! “It is Finished!” By Oswald Chambers I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. — John 17:4 The death of Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in history of the very mind and intent of God. There is no place for seeing Jesus Christ as a martyr. His death was not something that happened to Him— something that might have been prevented. His death was the very reason He came. Never build your case for forgiveness

The Mayflower where the "Compact" was ratified. Friday, November 21 - Daily Story The Mayflower Compact Blown off Course, Puritans Drew up the Mayflower Compact EARLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, James I of England’s mistreatment of Puritans and Separatists drove a number to flee their homeland. At first they went to the Netherlands, but later emigrated to America with some non-Puritans whom they called “strangers.” James granted these “Pilgrims” a charter to settle in a vast

Reconcilation by one who has forgiven another! The Forgiveness of God By Oswald Chambers In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. — Ephesians 1:7 Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God, the view that says the reason God forgives us is that he is so kind and loving. This idea has no place in the New Testament. The only ground on which God can forgive us and reinstate us in his favor is th