Needs or Wants? ICS Daily Devotions Matthew 6:32 (NKJV) For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. Have you honestly asked yourself, “Am I in need, or do I simply have too many wants in life?” The “Gentiles” in...

Reflections on Bird Watching ICS Daily Devotions Matthew 6:25-26 (NKJV) “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than...

God is Good All the Time ICS Daily Devotions ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭(Amplified)‬‬ Above all, lift up the [protective] shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word...

Only Those Who Sit Can Stand ICS Daily Devotions Ephesians 6:14-15 (Amplified) So stand firm and hold your ground, having tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness (an upright heart), and having strapped on your feet...

Hold Your Ground ICS Daily Devotions Ephesians 6:11 (Amplified) Put on the full armour of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armour of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the...

Enforce The Victory of Christ ICS Daily Devotions Ephesians 1:20-21,2:6 (NKJV) Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named,...

Know Your Enemies ICS Daily Devotions Ephesians 6:11-12 (Amplified) Put on the whole armour of God, so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only...

Don’t be Fooled! ICS Daily Devotions Ephesians 6:10-11 (Amplified) In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [draw your strength from Him and be empowered through your union with Him] and in the power of His [boundless] might. Put on the full armour of God [for His precepts are like the...

Not My Will But Yours ICS Daily Devotions Luke 2:49, 51 (NKJV) And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”…Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His...

Knowledge and Humility ICS Daily Devotions Luke 2:46-47, 49 (NKJV) Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers…,...