Pastor Tom's Daily Devotional

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Our God is a God of comfort.  It does not matter what we are going through; He has promised us that He would be there to hold us and also to get us through it.  When we get through it, when we win this fight of faith, He then asks us to help others, to bring comfort to those that might be going through a rough time. In our lives, we are going to hit bumps in the road.  Some of the bumps can feel like your engine is going to fall out, but hold on!  Your Father will get you through.  Have you ever been on a roller coaster ride, and when you get started you kind of say, “Why did I get on this thing?”  Your knuckles are white, there is sweat pouring ou...

1 Samuel 5:2-4 (NKJV) When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the temple of Dagon and set it by Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set it in its place again. 4 And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon's torso was left of it. There is no God but our God.  When these Philistines tried to place the Ark of the Covenant next to their false god, look what happened.  Dagon, their god, fell and got chopped up.  This is a good picture of what is going to happen to all the false religions, and the false gods of this world.  They cannot stand next to Almighty God, the Creator of heaven, earth, and everything else. Almighty God spoke ...

Acts 1:14 (NKJV) These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. Acts 2:1 (NKJV) When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:46 (NKJV) So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart. This term “one accord” is found over and over in the book of Acts, and it goes to show us why they had such power in their lives and ministries. The term one accord means: to be of one heart, one mind, one aim, and to have the same purpose in what we are doing.  Now this does not mean that when they were praying together, every one of them said the exact same thing.  No, it means they had the same vision and drive, and that was to seek God to find out what He wanted them to do.  Because of that, the early church had amazing miracles hap...

2 Chronicles 5:13-14 (NKJV) Indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His mercy endures forever," that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, 14 so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God. What a scene this must have been.  Everybody was praising God with one voice and one heart, and then the Glory of the Lord filled the temple, and the priests could not even stand up because of the cloud that filled the house of the Lord.  I do not know about you, but I want to see this again in my lifetime, and I believe that we can if we get ourselves into unity. Unity does not mean that we will be doing the exact same thing.  No, God ha...

Psalms 146:5-10 (NKJV) Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever, 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners. 8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord raises those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. 9 The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down. 10 The Lord shall reign forever—Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord! Our God is a God of freedom.  He is a God of liberty.  Our Jesus came and preached liberty to the captives.  I do not know about you, but I was bound up, and then God came into my life and set me free.  He is a God that looks out for the fatherless and the widow.  He is a God who raises up those who are bowed down. As ...

Romans 8:38-39 (NLT) And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. God’s love is truly amazing.  We sometimes try to understand God’s love with our human mind, but we cannot.  His love is exceedingly and abundantly more than we can think or imagine.  That is why I believe that the Bible says that we walk by faith and not by sight. There is absolutely nothing that can separate us from His love. We, as humans, have a love that goes like this: “You do good to me and I will do good to you.  You help me and I will help you.”  But that is not how God’s love works.  His love i...

Romans 8:6-9 (NKJV) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. A carnal mind is one that is always thinking of the things of the flesh.  “What am I going to wear?”  “What am I going to eat?”  “What am I going to do with this and that?”  A spiritual mind is one that remains fixed on the things of God.  It is thinking, “How can I please God?”  “What things can I do for the kingdom?”  “Who can I be a blessing to?” You see, to be carnally mined is to be sense-ruled.  To be spiritually minded is to be Spirit-led, and we know that the scripture says that as many as are led by...