Devotions from Pastor RJ

“But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else.” Mark 10:43-44 NLT The world defines success as one who has the resources, the position, or...

"Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise Him again— my Savior and my God! But each day the Lord pours His unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing His songs, praying to God who gives me life.” Psalms 42:5, 8...

“For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 NLT We being human are often torn by the battle within us to do what we feel or what we are called to do. Jesus in Matthew spent several chapters instructing us on how we should live our...

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” Philippians 1:6 NLT Most people I know love the feeling of completion. When a labor is done, a task completed, or...

“Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.” Proverbs 13:4 NLT Ever hear the advertising phrase, so many easy payments? Ad campaigns often use the tack that buying something is easy to do. I believe most people like easy things, rather...

“But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.” 1 John 4:4 NLT We have on many days spoken of our walk of faith, our fight in the spirit...

“Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.” Ephesians 3:20 NLT Ever been told that prayer for certain things was a waste of time, God doesn’t really listen to us? Wrong, He...

“Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.” Proverbs 20:4 NLT We have all faced a problem and we decided to wait to address it, we procrastinated. The Bible tells us there is a cost to putting off the effort to address your issue...

“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus...

“I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalms 27:13 NIV This short verse conveys to us who may be walking in difficult times a simple but powerful truth of our God, He is good. And being good, He will show us that...