Pastor Tom's Daily Devotional

Mark 11:23 (NKJV) For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. There are times in our lives when situations will not change until we speak to them.  We cannot just speak anything; we need to speak the Word of God.  You see, it is God’s Word that has power in it to change things.  God’s Word has the breath of God within it.  His Word is alive!  It is living and powerful. In Hebrews 4:12 it says , "For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Think about that today.  God’s Word is living, powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword.  When we lift up God’s Word and speak it through our lips in faith...

Isaiah 55:10-11 (NKJV)   For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11   So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. When God’s Word is released in our hearts, it has to produce.  His Word never returns to Him void, but it always does what it is sent out to do.  If His Word is sent out in faith for salvation, look out!  That person that you are praying for is going to have an encounter with God.  If His Word is sent out in faith for healing, then healing will manifest itself! You might say, “How can you be so sure?”   Because it is God’s very Word , and His Word is His bond!   God is not a man that He should lie.  He gave us His Word so we can have ass...

Psalms 107:20 (NKJV) He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. When God, our Father, gave us His Word, it was to provide for all of our needs as we live our lives.  His Word provides for our spiritual needs, mental needs, and physical needs. Our God is a good God who loves His children, and He wants us to have a blessed life here on earth. Jesus said in John 16:33,   “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” While we are in this world , we will have things come against us and attack us.  That is why He has given us His Word: to overcome the enemy and the attacks of life.  The armor of God is for our protection , and the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God to defeat the enemy.  God has given us an amazing arsenal of weapons to keep the devil in his place until Jesus returns.  Too many t...

John 10:10 (NKJV) The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am always amazed at how society wants to pin all of the bad that happens on our Heavenly Father, when this scripture is so clear on who brings the evil into the world and into people's lives.  Here it states that the thief comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.  Well, if there is one thing that I know, it is that God is not a thief. Our Father in heaven is the giver of life.  He is the One who walks with us and talks with us and guides us along life's ways.  He is the One who protects us and brings life, and that more abundantly.  Our Father wants the best for us, just as any good earthly father would want the best for his children. The enemy, the devil, is the one who wants to destroy your life.  He’s the one that wants to destroy your marriage, home, health, and...

Isaiah 30:21 (NKJV) Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left. The sweetest sound in the entire world is the sound of our Father’s voice.  When God, our Father, spoke in days past, things happened!  The world and the universe were created.  All of the life that crawls on the earth, under the earth, in the sky, and in the water, was created by His Word. Hebrews 11:3 says, "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”  What an amazing statement!  The Creator made all that is visible by a Word!  The reason I bring this out is that He who has all this power in His voice and in His Words speaks to us!  He wants to speak with us!  He wants to share His heart, and help and guide us each and every day of our lives.  What assuranc...

Proverbs 28:1 (NKJV) The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Righteousness is a gift that has been given to us from God, our Heavenly Father, through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord.  No one can stand before God as righteous, unless he has received this free gift.  Righteousness gives us the ability to stand in the presence of a holy God with no sense of guilt or condemnation, not because of how good we are, but because of His free gift to us.   This verse tells us that the righteous are as bold as lions.  In Christ Jesus we are bold, because we know our place of authority.  We understand that in ourselves, we do not have boldness, but when we stand in His garment of righteousness, it is not us standing there, but Christ in us, the hope of glory.  When we stand against the attacks of the wicked one, and know who we are in Him (in Jesus), it gives us the assurance and confidence that we will be more then con...