by David Keesling | Dec 18, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Mark 3:2 “And they were watching Him to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.” Observation: Mark here related a time when Christ entered the synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand. To this, the leaders responded by leaving the...
by David Keesling | Dec 17, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Job 19:21–22 “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me. Why do you persecute me as God does?” Observation: Job’s friends repeatedly sought to convince him that his painful circumstances were due to some failure or sin on Job’s part. Seeing...
by David Keesling | Dec 16, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Acts 27:13 “When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing.” Observation: Paul was prisoner on a ship sailing for Rome under difficult circumstances. Never one to ignore an audience, Paul,...
by David Keesling | Dec 15, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Acts 25:25–27 “‘I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him. Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before...
by David Keesling | Dec 14, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Acts 21:10–11 “A prophet named Agabus…took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says: “In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.”’...
by David Keesling | Dec 13, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Job 9:3, 16 “If one wished to dispute with Him, he could not answer Him once in a thousand times … If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.” Observation: I am astounded as I read these verses at how good a handle Job had...
