Bible Focus
Bible Focus started as a brief daily
devotion in mid-2012. I found I was soon sharing the thoughts the Lord was
giving me, with an increasing number of brethren via sms phone messages. The task
and number of messages became too large to pursue every day, which gave rise to
this blog of daily devotions linked to our church website: http://www.pentecostalfamilychurch.com.au
Here, all those who wanted to access
the daily portion and make it part of their personal devotional time of prayer
and study, could do so at any time it suited them.
Over the past year, 356 plus devotionals
on various parts of the Scriptures, have resulted. These offer a full year of
daily spiritual servings for contemplation and discipline in the Word. I do not
profess to have the greatest or best content, but have prayerfully tried to
offer a focus and brief look into portions of God’s Word and verses not usually
visited for devotional purposes, or in fact in some cases hardly read at all!
While providing some comments and thoughts, the brief messages contained in
each entry have been intended as primers or starting points for further
personal meditation, study and development, or maybe as seed for sharing and
discussion.
Some have suggested that an audio
version would be useful and in some cases desirable. As requested, I intend to
make this endeavour available in audio format also for those who may prefer or be
more inclined or limited to listen rather than actually read.
With God’s help I will in time
return to Bible Focus and attempt to produce a second year of brief notes on
various scripture passages, so that they may be used either as an am/pm devotional
focus in the Bible, or as a means of alternating the daily devotional from one
year to the next, so that the material offered may remain fresh to the reader.
I covet the prayers of those who
have participated by reading these simple offerings, and pray with all humility
of heart that some benefit to the soul, help in the Christian walk and
encouragement to study God’s Word further and deeper, may ensue from them. I
know I have personally benefited from the prayer, study, research and
meditation which have gone in each brief article every day for the past year.
I glorify the Lord Jesus for all He
has supplied: all inspiration, understanding, thought and word, for without Him
and the help of His Holy Spirit, there would be no spiritual understanding,
strength or growth.
May the Lord richly bless every
faithful believer who daily builds relationship with Jesus by fervent prayer,
and drinking deeply from the everlasting, fresh and restorative fountain of His
Holy Word.
