DR. DAVID SPEICHER
Devotionals
John 20 Part 2
Do you realize that when Jesus appeared to the disciples in the upper room, they received the Holy Spirit, at that moment they became the first people on earth to be saved through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. His precious Disciples are the ones...
John 20 Part 1
Good morning my friends, I am sitting in Merida, Yucatán (Mexico) this morning. I have been ministering to a small group of pastors and their congregations for several days. We also came down to walk the streets of Merida and pray as I have felt that there needs to be...
Nehemiah 9 Part 4
James 5:15-16 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a...
Nehemiah 9 Part 3
James 5:15-16 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a...
Nehemiah 9 Part 2
We are continuing our trek toward and into confession. As I began the study for this series a while back, some words that jumped off the page at me when I reread them were these:Nehemiah 1:6 I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants,...
Nehemiah 9 Part 1
Yes, we did make a huge jump from the earlier part of Nehemiah to chapter nine. A tremendous amount of astonishing God moments occurred between chapters four and nine. Actually, we have spent three weeks studying chapter eight on Sunday mornings.Chapter nine is a...
Nehemiah 4 Part 2
Opposition is mounting – the enemy is pictured as devious and conniving. As we have already discussed, the bad guys are losing ground. God wins – and when we are on His side, we win too.It is tough when the enemy attacks. No doubt about it. You may feel that you are...
Nehemiah 4 Part 1
So, when God puts on your heart to do something…anything…expect opposition.There are two kingdoms at war whether you realize it or not. The kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and the kingdom of the jealous one. The one who would want to take the place of Jesus. The...
Nehemiah 1 Part 2
Also, what I find remarkable about the life of Nehemiah and this whole book is how God works. Consider this, Nehemiah was doing his normal thing, protecting the life of King Artaxerxes with his own life, this was his job as a cupbearer. And then on an ordinary day, a...
Nehemiah 1 Part 1
If you wouldn’t mind reading this short chapter, I have a few thoughts for our devotion today. Even if you wanted to read the passage and then let it soak in you, and then tomorrow read the devotional, that’s even better. Verses 1-4 tell us some things about...
True Love 8
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. So, why doesn’t everyone simply have this kind of love? Why didn’t God simply make us to exude this love from the get-go? The short answer is…He did. Frankly, you were made...
True Love 7
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Alright, let’s review. 1. True love begins with care. You can’t have love without care, makes sense. What stands in the way of true love is unresolved hurt and anger. This...
True Love 6
How exciting that God invites us in. How exciting that we get to participate with God in His great ventures. He invites us into personal adventures through care and trust. There are things that God has planned for you and Him. He has plans for you – good plans. What...
True Love 5
So far, we have journeyed through care and trust. Care being the foundation and trust being a byproduct of care. I would like to note that each of these steppingstones to true love are specifically demonstrated by Jesus. Care is certainly seen by Jesus when He picked...
True Love 4
John 15:14-15 Jesus says, “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” Did you know that there is something that stands...
True Love 3
So, we take a step forward to understand what the natural byproduct is when people truly care for each other. You see, when authentic care happens between two people, when I say authentic, I mean care without strings or agendas, care that has another’s best interest...
True Love 2
John 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet. Alright, so we are on a journey to understand and express true love. And we are looking into what Jesus did with the disciples in John thirteen, as a way to understand this special...
True Love 1
John 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet. Recently, I was part of a group of pastors who gathered to prepare spiritually for a city-wide unity service on a Sunday morning. I didn’t know the agenda for the meeting; however, I...
Grace 2
Revelation 1:4-5 Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. Sometimes people...
Grace 1
Revelation 1:4-5 Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. This is such a...