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John Hagee (May-22-2022) Daily Devotional: Colossians 1:19-20 - For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself … whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the Blood of His Cross.

Only the blood of Jesus – only the blood of His cross – reconciles us to the Father. Only His blood makes peace between us and God.

When the Nile River turned into blood in the first plague of Egypt, every stream ran red and the water in every vessel in every home turned to blood. That blood did not save us.

When Solomon dedicated the Temple, he sacrificed 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So much blood – but those offerings could not wash away their sins.

The Roman army surrounded Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The city was decimated, the Temple was destroyed, and over one million people, mostly Jews, were killed. Their blood could not bring us into right relationship with God.

The only blood that can remove the stain of sin from our souls is the blood of the Lamb of God slain for the redemption of many. With heaven and earth watching, Emmanuel bled His life away. From His head, His hands, His feet, His brow, and His side, His blood poured out for each one of us.

Only His blood bought our forgiveness, our hope, our future, and everlasting life.

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. Praise Him Whose blood bought your forgiveness and cleanses you from all unrighteousness. Serve Him with all of your heart, soul, mind, and body. He bled for you.

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - 2 Samuel 1:1-2:11
• New Testament - John 12:20-50
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 118:19-29, Proverbs 15:27-28

John Hagee (April-27-2022) Daily Devotional:  Colossians 3:13 - …even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

Unforgiveness and bitterness harbored in our hearts can bring us to an impasse in our faith. They are toxic to our souls. Consider the true story of Adolph Coors IV.

On February 9, 1960, Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company fortune, was kidnapped and held for ransom. His wife and four children hoped for his safe return, but seven months later, his body was found on a remote mountainside, shot in the back. Joseph Corbett, Jr., an escaped fugitive, was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

At the age of 15, Adolph Coors IV lost his father and best friend. He spent years hating Corbett. In 1975, he gave his heart to Jesus and divested himself of his interest in the family business, but he could not divest himself of the hatred.

Resentment and rage seethed within him and blighted his growth in faith, affecting every area of his life. His bitterness alienated him from God, and he began to seek His help to forgive Corbett.

His pastor later related: “Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Adolph Coors IV visited the maximum-security unit of Colorado’s Cañon City Penitentiary and tried to talk to Mr. Corbett, the man who murdered his father.”

Corbett refused to meet him, so Coors left a Bible with the following inscription: “I’m here to see you today and I’m sorry that we could not meet. As a Christian, I am summoned by the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to forgive you. I do forgive you, and I ask you to forgive me for the hatred that I have held in my heart for you.” In the same way that Christ forgave him, Adolph Coors forgave the man that murdered his father.

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. May you be liberated from any burden of bitterness. May the power of forgiveness flood you with the riches of His grace and love.

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Judges 7:1-8:16
• New Testament - Luke 23:11-43
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 97:1-98:9, Proverbs 14:7-8

John Hagee (April-09-2022) Daily Devotional: Colossians 2:14 - …having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the Cross.

Jesus Christ nailed them to the Cross – every charge that was stacked against you. Every sin, He covered with His Blood. He became the propitiation for you.

Jesus’ action at Calvary made peace between humankind and a holy God. He took our place and became the payment for a debt He did not owe. His act of obedience repaired the breach between us; He broke down the wall that separated us (Ephesians 2:14).

When you accepted His invitation and welcomed Him into your heart, every accusation against you was covered in His Blood. Satan – the accuser of all believers – points his finger at us day and night, attempting to bring up all those old allegations, to drown us in shame and condemnation.

But when you enter the throne room of His grace and approach the Righteous Judge, and He demands the charges against you, an Advocate will defend you. He will announce that all of your sins are covered with His Blood, plunged into the depths of the ocean to never be remembered again. Though your sins were as scarlet, He washed them white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). There are no longer any charges. He nailed them to the Cross.

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. Jesus has liberated you from your past. Your future is in the hands of God – full of joy and honor and reward. He has set you free!

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Deuteronomy 33:1-29
• New Testament - Luke 13:1-22
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 78:59-72, Proverbs 12:25

John Hagee (April-08-2022) Daily Devotional: Colossians 2:15 - Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

When a Roman general marched an army off to war, he was bent on triumph. He was determined to decimate the enemy.

Only when his adversaries were soundly defeated did he return to Rome. On that day, cheering citizens lined the streets as the conquering general, astride a white horse, rode into the city through the Arch of Triumph.

The city celebrated wildly as the general was preceded by wagonloads of treasure plundered from the enemy. Following the wagons, the prisoners of war paraded in shame as the citizens looked on their defeated foes – the captured soldiers who dared to defy the Roman Empire.

Behind this sad procession came the king of the vanquished land. All of Rome looked on this defeated royal, bound in chains, destined for slavery in the emperor’s palace. What a public spectacle!

For those of us whose citizenship is in heaven, we have a conquering King! He marched out to battle against Satan at Calvary. He disarmed every principality and power, stripped away their ability to steal, kill, and destroy; He publicly exposed them as powerless. Like those long-ago citizens of Rome, let us lift up our voices to wildly celebrate our conquering Lord of lords and King of kings!

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. One day soon, the Conqueror of Calvary will split the eastern sky, riding a milky-white stallion, and returning in clouds of glory! Oh, how we will celebrate His appearing! Ours is the victory through Jesus Christ, our Lord!

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Deuteronomy 32:30-52
• New Testament - Luke 12:35-59
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 78:46-58, Proverbs 12:24

John Hagee (March-04-2022) Daily Devotional: Colossians 1:27 - To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Christ inside of us brings with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come! Allow that hope to generate enthusiasm and excitement.

Hope produced a song that reverberated in the midnight hour in a Roman prison in Philippi. Paul and Silas had been stripped, beaten, and secured in stocks in an inner cell. Bruised and bleeding, they did not waste their time bemoaning the hardships of ministry. Instead, they began to pray and sing hymns as the other prisoners listened.

Suddenly, the glory of heaven invaded that space, a great earthquake shook the foundations, and all the chains were loosed. When the jailer realized that all the prisoners were inside, he shakily asked Paul and Silas, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30).

They walked out of jail with the keys in one hand and converts in the other! In their darkest hour, they reflected the hope of glory, and others were drawn to His light.

Are you facing adversity? Do you feel overwhelmed and overlooked? The Jesus in you is greater than anything in this world. He makes you more than a conqueror. He is the hope of glory.

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. Thank God that He has made known the riches of His glory to us! May Jesus fill you to overflowing with the enthusiasm and excitement of His hope so that others come to know Him too.

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Numbers 2:1-3:51
• New Testament - Mark 11:26-12:17
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 47:1-9 - Proverbs 10:24-25

John Hagee (December-03-2021) Daily Devotional: Colossians 2:6-7: As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith…

Trees are known by their fruit. Apple trees produce apples; cherry trees produce cherries. We are known by the good fruit that we produce for His kingdom.

Without a root, though, no fruit exists. If we are not vitally connected to the Root of David, we produce nothing of worth. Jesus, the True Vine, stretches from the manger all the way back to Abraham. He connects the covenant of Genesis with the cross of Golgotha. He pulls us into every promise of God.

Before the cross, we were without hope outside of the covenants of God. Because we have been grafted into the True Vine, every promise is now “Yes and Amen” to us in Christ.

Those who refuse to abide in Him, who reject the Root of David, are branches disconnected from the life-giving source. They wither and die, are gathered up, cast away, and burned in the fire.

Those abiding in the Vine live as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. We build our lives in the One from Whom all blessings flow.

Wrap your life around the Root of David. Abide in Him to be fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God, and fully pleasing Him (Colossians 1:10).

Blessing: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. May you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus. May you be filled with the fruits of righteousness for His glory.

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Daniel 11:1-34
• New Testament - 1 John 3:7-24
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

John Hagee (October-23-2021) Daily Devotional: Colossians 4:2 - Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving…

Paul encouraged us to pray without ceasing. Do it all the time without letting up! Prayer aligns our attitude with God.

Prayer may be the most overlooked and underutilized gift that God ever gave us. What power we possess when we pray! How was the New Testament church built? Prayer. What healed the sick? Prayer. What brought revival fires in the past? Prayer.

Prayer is more than a nursery rhyme that our children recite at bedtime, a monotonous chant, or a religious ritual to check off of our to-do lists. Prayer is a privilege.

In the Old Testament, the Israelites did not have immediate access to God. They could approach Him through the priest, in a particular place on a particular day in a particular way. Only then could they make their requests known.

When Jesus died on Calvary, God tore the veil in the Temple from top to bottom. He ripped apart the barrier between us. Jesus, our High Priest, became our once-and-for-all sacrifice, and He now sits at God’s right hand to intercede for us.

We need only whisper His name to be ushered into the throne room where we can meet face-to-face. Call on Him at any time – all the time – with an attitude of expectancy. Cultivate a continuous attitude of prayer.

Blessing:  May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give you His peace. May you boldly approach the throne of God to make your requests known to Him. He will supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory!

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - Jeremiah 42:1-44:23
• New Testament - 2 Timothy 2:1-21
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 92:1-93:5, Proverbs 26:3-5

Amir Tsarfati and Mike read the entire epistle of Colossians (September-10-2021). With all the legalism going on in the first century, and especially in the city of Colosse, the Apostle Paul reminds the church of Christ's superiority over human religion.

John Hagee (June-21-2022) Daily Devotional: Colossians 1:13-14 - He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins.

For all that Jesus Christ did for us at the Cross, as much as He makes possible through His sacrifice, it is only accessible to us when we cross the border from unbelief to belief. Our faith unlocks His promises in our lives.

As we travel from country to country, when we cross borders, we are given forms and asked to declare certain things. From where are we coming? Where are we going? What are we carrying with us? How long do we plan to stay? When we come to the Cross — the border of salvation — we have some declarations to make.

We declare that we believe that the Word of God is true. We recognize that we are sinners in need of a Savior, that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We come from the other side of the border of salvation. And we come just as we are. We declare our sin, our brokenness, our rejection, our shame, and our pain.

The only thing that we cross the border with is the shed Blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from all sin and washes us whiter than snow (1 John 1:7). We leave everything behind and walk through the door by His divine grace.

We are going to a land of light and liberty and a new home of happiness, wholeness, and hope. We enter a kingdom where we become new creations, where the condemnation of the past falls powerless.

Blessing:  Dear Jesus, thank You for transferring me from the kingdom of darkness into Your marvelous light! Thank You for redeeming me by Your Blood and forgiving me of my sins. Teach me to walk worthy of this calling, step by step towards You, until I finally see You face to face. In Your precious name…amen.

Today's Bible Reading: 

• Old Testament - 2 Kings 1:1-2:25
• New Testament  - Acts 13:42-14:7
• Psalms & Proverbs - Psalm 139:1-24, Proverbs 17:19-21

Colossians Bible Study - Part 8 - Joyce Meyer Ministries Online. How can you be a great representative for God? Learn how to love others well as Joyce wraps up her Bible study on the book of Colossians.