Billy Graham Devotional

Topics: Religions, Soul & Spirit The Spiritual Realm By Billy Graham December 20 He was zealous for my sake . . . —Numbers 25:11 It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual. The world appreciates and understands emotion and enthusiasm, until it becomes a religious fervor—then immediately it is suspect. When you bring a …

Topics: God’s Love A God of Justice By Billy Graham December 19 What joy there is for anyone whose sins are no longer counted against him by the Lord. —Romans 4:8 (TLB) A number of years ago I was stopped for driving too fast in a speed zone, and in the courtroom I pleaded guilty. The judge was not only …

Topics: Salvation The Finished Work By Billy Graham December 18 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. —John 3:3 A person is saved by trusting in the finished work of Christ on the cross, and not by bodily sensations and religious ecstasy. But you will say, “What about feeling? Is there no place in …

Topics: Jesus Christ The Prince of Peace By Billy Graham December 17 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. —Proverbs 10:12 To hate, to discriminate against those who look different, who talk different, who have different national backgrounds, or who act differently from the dominant group, is a universal trait of human nature. I say that there is …

Topics: Suffering Why the Righteous Suffer By Billy Graham December 16 God will tenderly comfort you when you undergo these same sufferings . . . —2 Corinthians 1:7 (TLB) This question, “Why must the righteous suffer?” is as old as time. There is only one place that we can find an answer, and that is in the Bible. You do …

Topics: Death, Salvation Not Too Young By Billy Graham December 15 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers . . . —1 Timothy 4:12 Lord Chesterton once said, “I believe in bedside repentance, but I do not want to depend upon it.” During a serious illness a person’s mind does not function normally. …

Topics: Prayer He Hears You By Billy Graham December 14 If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. —1 John 5:14 God has said, “If my people . . . pray . . . then will I hear from heaven.” Before three thousand people were brought into the Church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples …

Topics: God’s Love, Sin What God Has Done By Billy Graham December 13 With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer. —Isaiah 54:8 If God is all-powerful and all-loving, it would seem inconsistent with His nature to allow anyone to be lost. Here again we rationalize because we do not understand the nature of …

Topics: Love Loving One Another By Billy Graham December 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men . . . —1 Thessalonians 3:12 One of the growing psychological problems facing people today is loneliness. One of the greatest ministries that a person can have today is just being a …

Topics: God, Lifestyle What Is Idolatry? By Billy Graham December 11 Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father . . . —Matthew 10:33 What is idolatry? Idolatry is anything that comes between us and God. Joshua told his people that their nation would be destroyed if they persisted in idolatry, and their souls …