The Morning Portion

Jesus names His disciples before He warns them. Salt is not a personality to put on; it is an identity meant to touch the life around it. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-07-ye-are-the-salt-of-the-earth Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Paul prays for God to fulfill the work of faith with power. Divine strength does not erase our obedience; it makes faithful action possible and fruitful. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-09-the-work-of-faith-with-power Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The promise of sending went to a man on his knees asking Jesus to leave. Between that shore and the mountain, Luke records nothing but following. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-04-thou-shalt-catch-men Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Said to them all, not to an inner circle — and one word in the sentence keeps the cost from ever being settled in a single day. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-03-take-up-his-cross-daily Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The choosing of the twelve takes half a sentence. Luke gives the night before it a whole verse, and the last name on the list its own hard note. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-02-continued-all-night-in-prayer Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Two words at a tax booth, and a man stood up out of his whole livelihood. Then he threw a feast and seated his old crowd next to Jesus. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-09-01-he-left-all-and-followed-him Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Jesus told a professional fisherman how to fish - wrong hour, water he had just proven empty. Simon's answer keeps the objection and obeys anyway. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-31-nevertheless-at-thy-wordListen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

A promise made on a hillside outside Jerusalem and the last sentence of the Bible are answering each other. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-28-even-so-come-lord-jesus Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The last invitation in the Bible names four voices and one condition, and the condition is thirst. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-27-whosoever-will Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Genesis puts the tree of life in the middle of a garden. Revelation puts it in the middle of a street, and there is no sword anywhere in the account. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-26-for-the-healing-of-the-nations Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Ancient cities shut their gates at dark. John's city never shuts them, and the reason he gives has nothing to do with braver guards. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-25-there-shall-be-no-night-there Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

John stops describing what he is shown and starts describing which way it is moving. The city comes down, and earth is in the sentence. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-24-the-tabernacle-of-god-is-with-men Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

John writes the throne room in the present tense. The singing did not start when you woke up, and the room is fuller and stranger than any you would have assembled. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-21-they-rest-not-day-and-night Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The song starts with twenty-eight voices and keeps widening until nothing is left outside it. That everything will say the words is not the same as saying everything is saved. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-20-thousands-of-thousands Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

John is told to look at a Lion. What stands at the center of the throne room is a Lamb, still carrying the marks of the death that qualified Him. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-19-a-lamb-as-it-had-been-slain Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

A question goes out across creation and nothing answers. John weeps, and the chapter never tells us what the book says. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-18-no-man-was-found-worthy Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Jasper, thunder, wings, a sea of glass — John locates every one of them by the same fixed point. Even the crowns in that room come off. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-17-one-sat-on-the-throne Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Paul stacks the word “all” four times in one verse, then asks the Ephesians to pray for him. Psalm 91 answers with a covering that belongs to God. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-14-for-all-saints Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-14-for-all-saints Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Romans 13 says the hour has moved on, and Paul's conclusion is about clothing. Casting off comes before putting on, and it is the half we skip. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-13-the-armour-of-light Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-13-the-armour-of-light Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.c...

Peter promised a gift with a future tense in it. Go back through the armour Paul lists and ask one question of every piece: whose is it? Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-12-the-gift-of-the-holy-ghost Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-12-the-gift-of-the-holy-ghost Listen or subscribe: https://morningportio...

Paul hands over six pieces in a particular order and a particular grammar. Three you are already wearing. Three you reach for once something is in the air. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-11-girt-about-with-truth Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-11-girt-about-with-truth Listen or subscribe: https://morn...

Paul gives the order at verse ten and names the enemy at verse twelve. The person who frustrated you this morning is not on the list. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-10-not-flesh-and-blood Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-10-not-flesh-and-blood Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Paul names the owner before he names the act, and the act is one believers perform. They crucified the flesh, appetites and all. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-07-they-that-are-christs Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Who the "I" of Romans 7 describes has been argued for centuries. The cry at the center of it is not in dispute, and neither is the answer Paul gives. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-06-who-shall-deliver-me Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

On the third day God spoke once and the ground answered. What the earth brought forth was already inside the seed, and Paul builds the Christian life on the same order. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-08-05-whose-seed-is-in-itself Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listenn the third day God spoke once and the ground answered. What the earth brought forth was already...