Reveration: First Cause Weekly Devotional

Have you ever felt any of the following: “I can’t wait to get my point across!” “I wish they would quit talking so I could speak!” “I know what to do, why won’t they listen?” “Why is it so hard to get them to understand?” “It’s not worth the effort trying to share.” “I have no idea what to say or even how to say it.” “Please, just make your point, I’m busy.” One of the biggest builders of strong r...

Honesty requires the truthfulness to admit the attachment and addictions that control our attention, dominate our consciousness, and function as false gods . . . When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry.  Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day . —Brennan Manning in  The Ragamuffin Gospel Visit us at www.firstcause.org

Oswald Chambers once wrote in the classic My Utmost For His Highest , "Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God." Visit us at www.firstcause.org

Monday, I received a message from my antivirus program telling me that a Microsoft Word App was trying to access my protected files.  I checked the block to prevent that access.  The next day all my Word documents were Read Only which meant I could not edit them and anything I copied and pasted also reverted to a Read Only status.  In essence I was shut down from working . . . ...

It is ingrained in our thinking that competition and rivalry are essential to the carrying on of civilized life; that is why Jesus Christ’s statements seem wild and ridiculous.—Oswald Chambers in  Not Knowing Where Visit us at www.firstcause.org 

Started in 1994, the No Regrets Men’s Conference is an annual event whose purpose is to challenge men in their relationship with God at home, at work and in their ministry.  Hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the organizers seek to create an environment over about a four-hour period that ministers in a great variety of host sites around the world.  Spiritual growth is set in motio...

Have you ever considered that during some of the worst, most difficult times of your life that God may have actually been right in front of you, standing on the rock? Visit us at www.firstcause.org

Fellowship is a rich concept much deeper in meaning than we probably realize.   Visit us at www.firstcause.org

The post-apostolic fathers took the realm of the demonic so seriously that they automatically took new converts from paganism through rites of deliverance from evil supernaturalism, a practice we have lost to our detriment.—Dr. Ed Murphy in  The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare Visit us at www.firstcause.org

It might seem strange to start the year with a devotional on 1 & 2 Kings but it actually is quite appropriate.  In this new year a president-elect is soon to be inaugurated. Somewhere around 1010 B.C., David, arguably the nation of Israel’s greatest king, just before he died passed great wisdom to his son Solomon. His words if heeded by any newly elected leader or monarch in modern t...

Tragedies do not destroy the body of Christ when followers of Jesus stand together in unity. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

12/26/2020 0 Comments Preserving Unity Where there is unity there is always victory.--Publilius Syrus Visit us at www.firstcause.org

Right now, in this age of dissension, the body of Christ must put its eyes on the Father, set aside debilitating differences and walk in obedience to its calling. Much is at stake—let us come together! Visit us at www.firstcause.org

Did you know that there are approximately 80 million landmines that are lying around the world active and unexploded?[1]  Did you know that in Tanzania APOPO is a charity that trains rats so that they can detect landmines?  Meet Magawa.  This African Giant Pouched Rat is larger than the average rat but light enough to walk over a mine without setting it off. &nbs...

The test of a thankful heart is not when times are good. It’s easy to raise a hallelujah when life is full of cake and ice cream. It is when times are filled with angst, pain and uncertainty that we look deep inside to find if thanksgiving is still possible. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

I am reminded of a story that I found in his journal. On, December 4, 1987 while in Sibu, Malaysia, Dad dreamed about a silver dollar. When he woke up he remembered he had promised Johnny Ting, a Malaysian he had met a year earlier in Bintulu, Malaysia, that he would bring him a silver dollar the next time he saw him. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

"People think the White House is where the power is.  It’s not. I saw in prison, where people were powerless, that the only power that really mattered was the kind that changes a human heart.  And that can only happen through Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God."—Chuck Colson in “True Power and Security,” in  The Transparent Leader  by Dwight L. Johnson Visit us a...

Godly men and women do not bring attention to themselves, take advantage of people for personal gain, or teach what is contrary to God’s Word.  They faithfully bring Him glory. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

King Cyrus reigned over Persia from 559–530 B.C. He was a pagan king and yet he credited God with giving him the idea to issue a proclamation. What Cyrus did not know was that he was fulfilling what God had already said would happen through the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah focused much of his prophecy on the destruction of Jerusalem and deportation of the people from Judah; something he experie...

Jonah was in trouble!  He was running from God’s assignment but his Father in heaven could not be outrun and sent a storm to swamp the boat he had boarded as a passenger.  The boat handlers knew by the severity of the storm that something supernatural was happening.  When they confronted Jonah at least he admitted his responsibility.  Then, he let them know...

Barbara Jo was born on January 14, 1929 in Kellogg, Idaho. Trapped in a nursing home by Covid-19, depressed and unable to leave her room for months, she wasted away to a mere 75 pounds before finally reaching earth’s finish line at the age of 91.  Fortunately, her life was not defined by her death. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

On November 18, 1952, LT E. Royce Williams from his ship the USS Oriskany, off the coast of Korea, was given a bombing mission against North Korean targets as part of a strike group.  The pilots flew near a river that bordered the Soviet Union. Upon completing their mission, they received information that 7 MIGs were scrambled to intercept them. Williams was ordered to return and provide...

​Imagine authorities breaking into your home in the middle of the day and hauling you off to jail because you “ belonged to the church .”  James, one of the twelve disciples was killed precisely for that reason. Visit us at www.firstcause.org

At the age of 88, my dad is walking the final chapters of his life on earth still on fire to share the gospel with any and every person he can.   Mark Cahill wrote the book  One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven  and that one thing is evangelism.  Dad is making sure he maximizes now what he won’t be able to do once he is home.   I’m working on writing a biog...

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a speech given in 1988 said: We are a nation whose ideals were founded on the Bible.  Also it is quite impossible to understand our literature without grasping this fact. That is the strong practical case for ensuring that children at school are given adequate instruction in the part which the Judaeo-Christian tradition has played in moulding o...