Today's Good News

Category - Devotionals

APRIL 4 – MARK 16:11-16, 19-20

04/04 Mark 16:11-16; 19-20
11 But when she told them that Jesus was alive and she had seen him, they didn’t believe her. 12 Afterward he appeared in a different form to two of his followers who were walking from Jerusalem into the country. 13 They rushed back to tell the others, but no one believed them. 14 Still later he appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating together. He rebuked them for their stubborn unbelief because they refused to believe those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead. 15 And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. 19 When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 20 And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.
CHOICE
Do we choose Jesus or do we ignore Him. There is no fence sitting in the family of God. He is Lord and He is in charge.

APRIL 3 – MATTHEW 28:1-6

04/03 Matthew 28:1-6
1 Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb. 2 Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it. 3 His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint. 5 Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
PAID
He paid the price for our salvation. He died that we might live and was raised by the power of God. He is seated in Heaven with the Father and is always interceding for us. His prayers towards you are greater in number that the sands on the seashores. Jesus loves you.

APRIL 2 – ROMANS 8:34

04/02 Romans 8:34
34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
NO ONE
No one, nothing can condemn us. Jesus has all power over life and has destroyed death. He is Lord. We serve Him.

APRIL 1 – ROMANS 6:9

04/01 Romans 6:9
9 We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.
POWER
Jesus has real power. The kind of power that impacts our lives daily. To live is Christ. To die is gain. Jesus is Lord.

MARCH 31 – PHILIPPIANS 2:8-10

03/31          Philippians 2:8-10

8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. 9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 

CROSS

Birthed into our world.  

God willing came to show us what He is like.  

He did that by dying on the Cross for us.  

The sinless One for the sinner.  Each and every one of us.  

Ignominy, pain, sacrifice and perfection all reside in Jesus.  

He knew the sin of ever person ever born.  

He sweat drops of blood.  He did it for us.  He loves us. 

One day He is coming back to get all of us.  

He will come back in judgment.  Everything will end on this Earth.  

His name is above all names.  He is wonderful.

Every knee will bow.  God the Father will honor the Son.  Jesus. 

MARCH 30 – PHILIPPIANS 3:10

03/30          Philippians 3:10

10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,

EXPERIENCE

There is a war raging in the heavenlies.  Just out of our sight.  

God in His wonderful grace and mercy bestows life in Christ,

On us who believe in Jesus.

When we live with Him and experience His life,

We will experience His suffering.  

Evil is always evil.  Just because we don’t want it to be evil,

Does not exempt it from being evil.  

Because of evil, when we walk with Jesus we will experience His pain.  

Evil creates great suffering.  It is pointed at Jesus and His people. 

Walk with Jesus and bear His pain with Him.  Jesus is Lord.  

MARCH 29 – 1 PETER 1:3

03/29          1 Peter 1:3

3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation

MERCY

Thank you Lord for your great mercy.  

Your mercies are new each morning.  
I need mercy every minute of every day.  

Thank you Lord for new life in Christ.  

You are a merciful loving God and I love you. 

Thank you Jesus for saving me.  

MARCH 28 – JOHN 3:16-18

03/28          John 3:16-18

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. 

JUDGED

Do you believe in Jesus?

If you don’t you are already judged.  Not by me but by the Word of God.  

Believe in Jesus and your existence will no longer be at war with God. 

Believe in Jesus and He will give you life.

MARCH 27 – JOHN 14:6

03/27          John 14:6

6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. 

ONLY

Jesus is the only way. 

We don’t have a say in that. 

He is the Creator, Sustainer, Son of God.  

He is God, always with God and is everlasting.  

When you come to Jesus you are coming to the Father.  

Trust in Christ and He will give you life.  

MARCH 26 – ACTS 4:12

03/26          Acts 4:12

12 There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” 

HIS

God has declared “this is my way, walk therein.”

If you pick and choose what you will believe, you are in error.  

God has defined the truth.  Jesus is the truth.  He is the way.  He is life. 

Follow Jesus.  If you question that you are in trouble.  Follow Jesus.