Posts with the tag “heaven”

“If you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved from the punishment of sin. When we believe in our hearts, we are made right with God. We tell with our mouth how we were saved from the punishment of sin.” - Romans 10:9-10   If you read yesterday’s devotional, you are fully aware of your need for Jesus. If we want to liv...  Read More

“This is like baptism to us. Baptism does not mean we wash our bodies clean. It means we are saved from the punishment of sin and go to God in prayer with a heart that says we are right. This can be done because Christ was raised from the dead.” - 1 Peter 3:21   Why did Jesus have John the Baptist baptize Him? John, an imperfect human like the rest of us, was going to baptize the only perfect bein...  Read More

“Set your minds on the things above, not on earthly things.”(Colossians 3:2)Have you ever heard the phrase, “they are so heavenly minded they are of no earthly good.” The idea is exactly what it says, that when you are thinking ahead to heaven, you are of no good in the present moment. But in fact, if you are heavenly minded, you’ll be of great value on this earth.See, Colossians 3:2 would say, “S...  Read More

“Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” (Revelation 19:1-2)There was a boxing match that took place in 1980 that was billed as “The Super Fight,” between Sugar Ray Leonard II and Roberto Duran. In the highly an...  Read More

“I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God” (Revelation 15:1-2)Death. It is something...  Read More

“This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keeps his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. Then I heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” (Revelation 14:12-13)Yesterday, we talked about sharing your story and sharing the gospel. And what is the gospel, exactly? Gospel means good news. We want to share the good...  Read More

“Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” - Revelation 8:5 If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’re probably familiar with the Lord’s prayer. It starts like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it i...  Read More

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.’” - Revelation 7:9-10 We have ...  Read More