Prayers Devotionals

 2 Timothy 4:1–5 A research study by Arizona Christian University found that only 37 percent of American pastors hold to a biblical worldview. Many do not hold biblical beliefs on issues such as salvation and human sexuality. For example, “at least a third of senior pastors in the United States believe one can earn a place in Heaven by simply being a good person.” A similar number see reincarnation as a real possibility. The time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. 2 Timothy 4:3 Great patience is required because most people don’t really want sound doctrine (vv. 3–4). Sometimes they won’t even tolerate it. Instead, they prefer to have their ears tickled. They follow false teachers who say what they want to hear. They turn away from the truth and toward lies and deceptions. Because of sin and Satan, people don’t naturally love truth. Even believers must cultivate love of truth as a godly habit. >> There is a lot of so-called Christian teaching readily availa

DO ANIMALS GO TO HEAVEN https://answersingenesis.org/animals/animals-go-heaven-when-they-die/ https://www.christianity.com/wiki/heaven-and-hell/does-bible-say-animals-go-to-heaven.html https://billygraham.org/answer/what-does-the-bible-say-about-animals-in-heaven/ https://www.gotquestions.org/pets-heaven.html  

  Young ladies, this is for you!!! A woman arrived in a store wearing clothes that showed her body all too well. The shop owner, being a wise older man, took a good look at her, asked her to sit down, looked straight into her eyes, and said something she would never forget for the rest of her life. “Young Lady, everything that God has made valuable in this world, is covered up and hard to see or find." For example: 1. Where can you find diamonds? • In the ground, covered and protected. 2. Where are the pearls? • Deep in the ocean, covered and protected in a beautiful shell. 3. Where can you find gold? • Underground, covered with layers of rock, and to get there you have to work very hard and dig deep. He looked at her again and said, "Your body is sacred and unique to God." You are far more precious than gold, diamonds, and pearls, therefore you must be covered too. He then added: "If you keep your precious minerals like gold, diamonds, and pearls deeply covered, a

 Be a Trusted Leader  Leadership begins and ends with trust. Followers must be able to trust their leaders, and leaders must be able to trust their followers. One without the other is a lopsided relationship. Booker T. Washington said, “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”  Many people trusted the Apostle Paul as one of the prominent leaders of the early church. But his leadership was successful because he had people he could also trust. One of his most trusted companions was someone most people in the first century would not expect: a woman named Phoebe.  In that culture, women had very little say or role in leadership. Not only was there no seat at the table for women, but society knew women as little more than servants. But Paul viewed women as children of God who could and should be trusted to bring Christianity to the next generations. In Romans 16, Paul mentions Phoebe who had been a tremendous help to