Devotionals

Read: James 5:7-11 Memory Verse: James 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. The best way to wait is to stay busy. The farmer in the field waits for the rain by preparing his field and planting the seed. The soldier on...

Read: Psalm 27:11-14 Memory Verse: Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Everyone in the military understands the phrase “hurry up and wait.” Hurry up to get somewhere and then sit around and...

Read: Philippians 4:4-9 Memory Verse: Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. I like a piece of pie and I enjoy a big piece of cake, but I want more than a piece of peace. A...

Read: Isaiah 26:1-4 Memory Verse: Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Tim LaHaye wrote a book back in the ’80s titled “The Battle for the Mind”. In the book he talked about the battle between...

Read: Galatians 5:16-26 Memory Verse: Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. “We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us.”...

Read: 1 Timothy 1:18-19 Memory Verse: I Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare. The last Japanese soldier to formally surrender after the country's...

Read: Romans 5:1, 6-10 Memory Verse: Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The Arizona Memorial is a testimony of a brutal, infamous attack by Japan on America on December 7, 1941. Japan was a bitter...

Read: Hebrews 10:32-39 Memory Verse: Ephesians 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. “Just keep swimming,” is a famous song from a childhood classic: Finding Nemo. It is Dory’s signature song, which...

Read: Hebrews 13:7, 17 Memory Verse: Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. The one...

Read: 2 Timothy 2:3-5 Memory Verse: 2 Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. I will start this devotion by freely admitting that the Air Force basic training (at least back in my day) is not anywhere near as hard as the Marines...