by David Keesling | Jan 9, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Acts 24:25 “When I find it convenient, I will send for you.” (NIV) Observation: Paul had been arrested and sent to the provincial capital of Caesarea to defend himself against false charges of initiating a temple riot. The high priest and his lawyer came to testify...
by David Keesling | Jan 8, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Leviticus 26:5, 10 “Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will be eating all the food you want … You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you have to move it out to make room for the new”...
by David Keesling | Jan 7, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Leviticus 25:23 “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants” (NIV). Observation: God here reiterated His ownership of everything. Knowing that a Year of Jubilee would occur on a fixed, fifty-year schedule...
by David Keesling | Jan 6, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Romans 8:17 “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory” (NIV). Observation: Life lived by the Spirit is our only gateway to assured resurrection...
by David Keesling | Jan 5, 2024 | Daily Devotional
2 Chronicles 9:12 “Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country” (NIV). Observation: This verse concludes the chronicle of the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon. Extensive trade was consummated and a warm personal relationship established before she...
by David Keesling | Jan 4, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Romans 5:12 “Therefore just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin … ” (NIV). Observation: Romans 5 is a robust passage uniquely used in the development and defense of the Christian faith. It opens with Paul’s declaration of justification by...
