DR. DAVID SPEICHER
Devotionals
Fruitful Prayer 2
So, here we go, Paul continues to start stuff in his prayers. He has the faith to believe that what He is praying for is what God wants. Why? Because he has seen it work before, just like you. He is acquainted with how God works in the life of a believer. Wisdom is...
Fruitful Prayer 1
Think with me for a moment, what is better, to stop something undesirable from happening or to start something new that will change your life for the better? Ok, you are right, both are a blessing – which one though, would have a more lasting benefit? Yes, we see...
Jesus Our Shepherd 2
As we continue on our short journey through the twenty-third Psalm this week, let’s pick up with verse number four and work our way to the end of the chapter. Remember, we are digging into the thought of Jesus being our personal shepherd. We know that he wants to...
Jesus Our Shepherd
It is true, Jesus desires to shepherd you. He does not slough off His responsibility to angels or some other heavenly team after you are His. He loves you and stays with you until the very end. And then, when you die and go to heaven, you will be with Him forever. He...
Grace and Faith 2
Grace Given Romans 12:4-8 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us,...
Grace and Faith
Grace GivenGood day to you, hope you are well. I would like to take a minute today and point all of us to an important remembrance.You see, each of us have been given some very important things from the Lord that create the landscape of expression on the world around...
Apostle 2
Five-fold Understanding As the Apostle to the church, Jesus is the wisdom of God. That means that He is the apparatus, modality, system, leader, author, however you wish to make sense of this… Jesus is the wisdom of God alive and ready to intervene. I read a book a...
Apostle
Five-fold Understanding In the next few devotionals we will delve into the various gifts given by Jesus to the church for the singular purpose of building the church. These may be challenging to you, so I pray that you would engage with an open mind the necessity, and...
Wedding Feast 2 – Garment
The garment is everything. Putting on the garment is like saying, “I belong at the wedding feast, I deeply identify with the group of people here.” Matthew 22:11–14 (NLT): “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper...
Wedding Feast 1
Matthew 22:11–14 (NLT): “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. 13 Then the king said...
Forgiveness 2
2 Corinthians 7:10 (ESV): For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. Let’s chat for a few minutes today about an aspect of forgiving others and being forgiven by others that will help further...
Forgiveness
Matthew 18:23–35 (ESV): “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. 24 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 25 And since he could not pay, his master...
Send 2
Did you know that the Holy Spirit always points us to our purpose? God pointing started in the Garden of Eden, take a look.Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the...
Send
John 20:21–22 (ESV): Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit."In review, care is a lifestyle: I am made by God...
Equip 2
The last devotional was heavy, but really important. There is a huge difference in trajectory for a person who tries to do good things to be acceptable to God, and those who have been touched by God’s grace and having been touched, experience internal transformation....
Equip
Equip - Necessary Internal TransformationOne of the most difficult to read and trepidatious verses in all of the Bible is Matthew 7:21. Some read right through and carry on as if nothing is there to raise question. Others, feel a tightening in their stomach as they...
Care
Care and the Fruit of the Holy Spirit Welcome to the new year, I pray that in this year we will find increased faith and a deepening understanding of the joy of God’s grace and mercy extended to us through Jesus our Savior and Lord. We could look around and...
Earth 2
2 Peter 3:11–12 (ESV): Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and...
Earth
2 Peter 3:11–12 (ESV): Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and...
Elisha 4
2 Kings 2:9–12 (ESV): When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.”I really like this section of verses. Here Elijah asks a...