ICS Daily Devotions Break Free From Anger Through Forgiveness Anger is a natural and valid emotion. The Bible says, “In your anger do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26). Anger is not necessarily a sin, but the question is how we deal with it. We can so easily be carrying a load...

ICS Daily Devotions Seeking the Face of God in Crisis 2 Kings 19:1-2,5-7 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.  Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered...

ICS Daily Devotions Knowing God The Greeks sought after God through philosophical speculation and mystical experience. We are also influenced in this enlightenment or rationalism period which challenges the authority of the Bible or the Church but places confidence in the reason and conscience of the individual enquirer. Instead of...

ICS Daily Devotions Serve And Follow Him John 12:26. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. In the Greek version of this Scripture, the word “serves” is “diakoneo”, and “servant”...

ICS Daily Devotions Assurance of Victory PSALMS 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. King David wrote this Psalm, faced many challenges and had many enemies...

ICS Daily Devotions Responding to Crisis Crisis is inevitable in our lives, but the way we respond to it will have very different outcomes. 2 Kings 6:27,31 And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”…...

ICS Daily Devotions How To Produce Grain John 12:24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. The agricultural metaphor in this Scripture serves to emphasize the paradoxical spiritual principle...

ICS Daily Devotions Waiting For the Harvest GALATIANS 6:9 Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the PROPER TIME we will reap, if we do not give in. The Bible teaches us that we should continually sow wisely in all areas of our lives. These include...

ICS Daily Devotions The Heart Of God Luke 5:22-24 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of...

ICS Daily Devotions Faith Is An Action 2 Kings 7:3-7 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die...