Christian Community Fellowship Northside Daily Word

  Today’s Devotional by Priscilla Everett Look straight ahead and fix your eyes in what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil. Proverbs 4:25-27 (NLT) The devil is constantly busy, always working on distracting us from  focusing on Jesus and the path he has set before us. There are a lot of distractions today, such as your career, social media, friends, politics, the economy, and family matters, amongst others. While these distractions are genuine and valid, the devil can still use them to shift our attention, so that we barely have time to focus on the Lord. The enemy keeps our attention on our problems and everything else happening around us. In this way we lose focus on Jesus, the maker of all things and the only one that can turn every bad situation around. As the book Proverbs advises, look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you, as what lies ahe...

  Today Devotional By Bro Samuel Lantion. And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, Deuteronomy 10:12.(NASB). After the Jews sold themselves out to the golden calf causing Moses, in anger, to break the first set of ten commandments, God took him back up the mountain. The Lord wrote the same words on another set of tablets, and Moses interceded for the people. God then ordered his servant to get up and get moving. As they journeyed again, Moses gave the people the word of today's text. God owns the heavens and everything on earth. Still He chooses to offer Himself to His people. Oh what a mighty God we serve! He presents us as objects of His love. But His graciousness is not without rules. He requires us to fear Him, walk in His ways, and love Him. Families are similar in their own ways. We tell our children, that we will ...

  Today’s Devotion by Priscilla Everett He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, the young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength, they will soar high on wings, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:29-31 (NLT)   The prophet proclaimed the word of the Lord to the children of Israel while in captivity in Babylon. God was assuring his children that he sees them and acknowledges their struggles. The prophet further declares the sovereignty of God as well as his power to save the weary and the weak and give strength to endure to the end. Why should we labor, live in anxiety, worry and exhaustion? When we can cast all our care on God and trust that God gives us the strength to run the difficult race of life, where everyone is weary, tired and cannot figure life out.  Our strength should come from the Lord alone as he is able to push us forwa...

Today's Devotional by Takiela Harris Romans 10:17 "Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ" NLT. Listening is one of the easiest things you'll ever do, and one of the hardest. In a sense listening is easy and hearing is easy but it seems to be a big problem for us to do fully. James 1:19 reads let every person, be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger. It is simple enough and nearly impossible to live. Too often we are slow to hear, quick to speak, and quick to anger so learning to listen won't happen overnight. It requires discipline, effort, and intentionality, but you'll get better with time. Becoming a better listener is a pattern you have to develop and focus on we can't listen with half of an ear. That's why God gave us two ears to hear and one mouth to speak to do more listening and understanding and comprehending. And speak when necessary, or need to speak. We're half eared because our attention is divided b...

Today’s Devotional by Samuel Lantion Remember the days of old,  Consider the years of all generations.  Ask your father and he will inform you,  Your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32:7. NASB Moses wanted the children of Israel to always remember God‘s goodness. In today's verse, he declared all they had to do to learn about God was to ask their parents and grandparents. Then they would find that He is "a faithful God, without bias, He is righteous and true"(v.4,NASB). This brings the question to mind: are we doing our job of passing down stories of God's faithfulness to the generation following us? Part of our Christian journey should be testimonies of God's goodness that we pass on to our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and anyone that will listen. We see how the Israelites shared stories about God with the younger generation. Well the same God delivered us, cares for us, and provides for us! We should always be ready to tell our s...

Today's devotional by bro Samuel Lantion The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad. Acts 15:3 NASB Some church members become upset when people who are "different" join their Church. And let's be honest some see them as a threat to the status quo. Hey there's nothing new under the sun, this is not a new problem. Some things never change. See Paul and Barnabas had started churches among the Gentiles on a recent mission trip, but they didn't require the new Gentile believers to follow Jewish law and one law most noticeable, circumcision. There were some men from Judea that said Paul and Barnabas were wrong for doing this. After debating with these men, Paul and Barnabas went up to Jerusalem to settle the issue once and for all. As they traveled to Jerusalem, they came across other Christians who were glad to hear what God was doi...

Today's devotional by bro Samuel Lantion. When He entered the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?” Matthew 21:23 (NASB) The question in today's message follow Jesus's entire public ministry. The temple was filled with people from around the world that was listening to Jesus's words as He preached the gospel. They witnessed Jesus performing miracles on the Sabbath, which was against Jewish law. The temple authorities were angered by Jesus' actions and they wanted to bring criminal charges against Him. The rulers of the Temple felt that He had no right to interfere. They thought they had trapped Him. Let's ask ourselves this question which is of the utmost importance. Are we sometimes like the priest and elders, questioning and debating God’s authority. Jesus wants us to have faith and totally submit to His omnipotent...